Ever wonder what it would be like if singers just sang about what was happening in their music videos?  Wonder no more.

There's a good number of these "Literal Videos" out there, but these two are my personal favorites.  The first has seen a lot of publicity in the past few weeks, but the second's just as hilarious.

Current Mood: amused

Star Trek was awesome!

Terminator:Salvation was pretty good!

Up was possibly the best movie I've seen in years!

Silent Hill: Homecoming felt like it was made by people who only know the Silent Hill series from reading gaming magazine articles!  Possibly ones translated from Swedish!

Fall Out Boy in concert has a lot more screaming 14-year old girls in attendance than I would have first imagined!

I have a liver sonogram and a cardiac MRI tomorrow at 6:30 in the horrible, evil morning!

!!!!!

"Exclamation points are the the most irritating of all.  Look! they say, look at what I just said!  How amazing is my thought!  It's like being forced to watch someone else's small child jumping up and down crazily in the center of the living room shouting to attract attention.  If a sentence really has something important to say, something quite remarkable, it doesn't need a mark to point it out.  And if it is really, after all, a banal sentence needing more zing, the exclamation point simply emphasizes its banality!"
Yay!

Current Mood: Exclama-riffic!

Motherfuckers piss me right the fuck off. . . .

Yeah, I saw Wolverine.  Yeah, the first half or two-thirds was awesome, for the most part.  A couple of weak CG effects, but nothing too glaring.  Just kind of fun and action-packed and b-rate comic-booky.  No Iron Man or Hulk, not even close to The Dark Knight, but decent popcorn fare.  Not a bad way to start the summer movie season.

Then they did this fucking shit:

( Yeah, yeah, spoiler if you give a shit. )

Tags: deadpool, wolverine
Current Mood: pissed off

Sooo, yeah.  I went and saw Dragonball:Evolution last weekend.  It was surprisingly better than I had expected, except for the end which was really, really hokey.  But the characters were mostly what they were supposed to be like, which went against everything I had previously read about the film and left me feeling more positive about it than I probably should have been.  Goku was a really nice dumbass, Bulma was full of her self (if a little intense), Yamcha was useless, Piccolo was generically evil, and Roshi was a silly pervert who could kick your ass into next week.  The only character that was really screwed up beyond belief was Chi-Chi, but I can understand the change from shrieking harpy to more likable person.  It can be a little hard to get behind a romance when one of the characters needs a good backhand every two minutes.

( So, yeah, apparently I just talk about movies now. . . . )

Tags: deadpool, dragonball, movies, wolverine
Current Mood: dorky

Some sad, sick part of me really wants to go see Dragonball: Evolution.  This is the same part that regularly enjoys inflicting pain upon myself by way of bad-movie watching, and a part of me I listen to probably way too often.  Let's see if I can hold off long enough for the movie to come out on Blu-Ray before I'm eaten by my love of crap.

A less sad, sick part of me that really just enjoys watching Jason Statham shoot a lot of people is looking forward to Crank: High Voltage coming out this weekend.  This is what I call the "Totally Kick-Ass" part of my brain, and I try to follow its directives as often as possible.

I haven't been writing much lately, as I've been distracted by building a nWoD Hunter game that I'll start running sometime in the next couple of months. . . .  Do I need to even call it "n"WoD anymore?  It's been around for a few years now, even if HtV hasn't been.  Probably not, but it's a hard habit to break.

Anyway, yeah, I'll be running a game.  We'll see how that goes.

Current Mood: exanimate

It's funny, but since I saw Watchmen on Friday, I have found myself without much desire to talk about it with anyone.  And I think I've finally realized why:

It's too accurate.

Seriously, there isn't enough to complain about as far as the film staying true to the source material, which is the usual topic when weighing the merits of an adapted work.  Don't get me wrong, there are changes--in a number cases, blindingly glaring ones--but they don't impact the plot enough to make a difference as far as the overall point of the story is concerned.  I can discuss all of these differences, obviously, but there are only so many--and again, I can understand the decision behind them or discount them altogether as irrelevant to any lengthy, meaningful discussion.  At least, beyond a "they changed this and this and this" conversation that could be entertaining but not, I feel, accomplish much on a critical level.

Which means that any discussion about the movie Watchmen that I would engage in would merely become a discussion of either:

1) how the film was made while disregarding any referential points to the cinematography, story, or characterization. . . which would mean I may as well be discussing any film and why a director makes any of the choices they make and would not be particularly specific to this movie,

or

2) the plot, art, story, and characterization of the movie, which would actually be a discussion of such in the graphic novel as well--which  then defeats the point of talking about the movie as its own entity.

In the end, yes, I really liked the movie, and while I understand some of the critics' complaints, I also think that the home video release (that's going to probably add another hour onto the film, if not more) might help clear some of that up. . . at least those critics who aren't just missing the boat entirely and don't get what Watchmen (either film or graphic novel) was originally meant to accomplish.  And that's pretty much most of what I can say about it.

Oh, and one more thing.  Jackie Earle Haley deserves a goddamn Oscar.

Current Mood: thoughtful

Holy crap, it's my birthday.

Twenty-nine years now on this planet, as of 10:35 CST this morning.

My six-word memoir?

"No, really--I'm not done yet."

Current Mood: cheerful

So earlier in the week, Rod Blagojevich, my state's governor, was arrested for various fraud-related activities--not the least of which was essentially attempting to auction off President-Elect Obama's former US Senate seat.  While this should be treated as the travesty it is, it also greatly amuses me.

You see, Illinois has a history of corrupt politicians--no less than seventy-six in the last thirty-six years have been convicted of such.  As a prime example our last governor, George Ryan, is currently spending a nice prison sentence for various crimes he committed while in office.

So it should be said that where others see a perversion of all that should be held dear by those who serve the common weal in office, I see opportunity. . . because I totally think we should redo The Odd Couple.

Hear me out.  It's perfect.  Ryan is a Republican.  Blagojevich is a Democrat.  Rod actually succeeded George, who had stepped down before the race in 2002 due to the (later proven) allegations surrounding his one term in the governor's office as well as his eight years as our Secretary of State.  Blagojevich even ran on a platform of ending the "business-as-usual" corruption that had gone on under Ryan's administration.  Who's to say that once Rod's likely conviction occurs, he's not sent to the same Indiana prison as ol' George?  Ahhh, the beautiful irony!

Just imagine it:

Doo-doo-doo-do-dooooo. . . Doo-do-dooooo-dooo. . . .
Rod arrives at the facility in handcuffs.
DOO-doo-DOO-do-dooooo. . . Doo-do-DOOOO-do-do-DOOOO-doo. . . .
He's hosed down, given his jumpsuit, and is escorted to his cell.
DOOOO-do-dooo-do-DOOOO. . .
The cell door is opened, George looks up with surprise and disdain.   Rod's face is shocked as he's shoved into the cell.

The rest of the opening would show them hanging out in the prison yard; fighting off a group of white supremacists who are attempting to rape them; George switching out the horrible cardboard-like pizza for Rod's fruit cup in the cafeteria while Rod's distracted by a shivving; and so forth.

Honestly, I see Emmy.

Current Mood: creative
Current Music: Neal Hefti - Theme from The Odd Couple

Yayyyy alcohol!

I love you, Long Island ice teas!

You are my bestest friends in the whole wide world!

You know what else is awesome?

You are!

I don't know who's reading this, but regardless, you're awesome just by default!

Yayyyyyyy, you win!  I bow to your awesomeness, and the awesomeness of liquor in the right hands.  Specifically, mine!

Current Mood: drunk

In other news, unsurprisingly, I ate too much.

Current Mood: full