Set to premiere Halloween night, based on the acclaimed comic series by Robert Kirkman, involving Frank Darabont creatively, and airing on AMC who are already knocking it out of the park with Mad Men, Breaking Bad, and Rubicon, and featuring hordes of zombies…I can’t imagine how this will be anything but awesome.
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Pretty catchy tune.
Netflix announced a deal Tuesday that will allow the online subscription service to stream movies from Paramount Pictures, Lionsgate, and MGM, according to The New York Times. In a deal that Wall Street analysts estimate will cost Netflix $900 million over the course of five years, the company purchased the streaming rights to the three studios’ output from the premium TV network Epix. The deal, which begins Sept. 1, will allow Netflix to add such movies as Iron Man and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button to its “Watch Instantly” library of online titles.
I was listening to some of the Feynman lectures recently on my (mostly) trusty iPod, which is the sort of thing I do to keep my brain from atrophying while working my mundane job, when a quote of his, totally unrelated to the lecture, popped into my (hopefully) mostly un-atrophied brain:
“It doesn’t seem to me that this fantastically marvelous universe, this tremendous range of time and space and different kinds of animals, and all the different planets, and all these atoms with all their motions, and so on, all this complicated thing can merely be a stage so that God can watch human beings struggle for good and evil — which is the view that religion has. The stage is too big for the drama.”
And I got to wondering if the producers of LOST had that quote in mind when they were crafting their little show and thought “yeah, you’re right, Feynman…so we’ll set it on an island instead and throw in a polar bear for good measure.”
Just food for thought.
You should probably read the works of Joe R. Lansdale. His books are dark, funny, compelling, prolific, imaginative… but most importantly, intelligent and fucking fun.
I’m not sure if he’s more well known for his series of dark mysteries featuring a couple of East Texas pals named Hap and Leonard, or for his short story “Bubba Ho-Tep”, which was the basis of the now classic film. Either way, he’s got the storytelling skills to keep any fan of horror or mystery fiction entertained, along with the stylistic chops required to keep most lit snobs sticking around.
If you can find it, I recommend staring with his collection of short stories (which includes the aforementioned “Bubba Ho-Tep”), Writer of the Purple Rage. You won’t be disappointed.
As I told the friend who turned me onto him, his books make me want to buy a house in East Texas, sit on the front porch with a cooler full of cold beer and wait for the weird shit to happen.
A certain genius from Wisconsin, of all places, posted a hilarious and spot on review of Star Wars Episode I : The Phantom Menace some months back to much acclaim. Now he’s back with an even more epic evisceration of Attack of the Clones. Both of these videos are much more worthwhile than either of the films they meticulously and hilariously deconstruct.
Enjoy part one of the latest below.
Breaktime will soon be over.
Yet another release from Hard Case Crime, Branded Woman
Christian Bale went completely nuts after hapless DP Shane Hurlbut walked into his sightline while Bale was shooting a scene on the set of the new Terminator movie. Audio of Hurlbut’s emasculation below.
“Are you on Facebook? Myspace?” is a question I am often asked by co-workers and friends. I just stare at them in disbelief. I’ve long been of a mind that social networking is making our nation’s youth even more stupid than they already are. Gawker backs me up on this (although the subjects may have been retarded to begin with).
