So Scarlett literally JUST turned me on to "Girl Talk", a musician whose entire catalog is unauthorized samples/ mash-ups. It sick, I thought I'd share this video... anyone who can throw Ying Yang twins over The Verve's "Bitter Sweet Symphony" is a genius in my book. Check out GIRL TALK for more.
Saturday, August 30, 2008
Friday, August 29, 2008
Friday, August 22, 2008
Wednesday, August 20, 2008
Leven Thumps
I like this...New cover art for the next book in the series, "Leven Thumps and the Wrath of Ezra". Yes Ezra is a toothpick, and yes he does look like a badass toothpick ninja. Sweet! Book hits shelves September 30th. I can't wait. If you are looking for a fun read in the vein of Harry Potter hit up LevenThumps.com and check out the series.
More Star Trek Posters!
VegasCon just ended, and Paramount has shown another ace up their sleeve in terms of gimmicks. 4 new cast posters that yet again create the starfleet delta symbol. These are the posters I would have killed to get my hands on...John Cho ('Harold & Kumar') as Sulu
Simon Pegg ('Sean of the Dead') as Scotty
Karl Urban ('Doom') as McCoy
Anton Yelchin ('Charlie Bartlett') as Checkov
I am the biggest Karl Urban (my future baby daddy), Anton Yelchin, and Simon Pegg fan... I am so happy they are going to show their chops in this movie. I have to get these posters on ebay or something!
Here are the individual posters:
Also if you wanna check out nice hi res versions of the photos head over to Star Trek Movie and check out the downloads section they just updated it with the 4 new characters desktop wallpapers and buddy icons
Pineapple Express &Tropic Thunder
FANTASTIC! Both of these movies are absolutely HILARIOUS! "Pineapple Express" catering to the Judd Apatow fans and "Tropic Thunder" to Ben Stiller's following. Granted they are both action comedies but Thunder will have a more main stream appeal, if you dig "Zoolander" and "Mystery Men" then you will laugh tirelessly. If you are more of a "Superbad" fan you'll love Pineapple. Me personally, I liked "Tropic Thunder" a little bit more, BUT they are both movies that I highly recommend. If you wanna laugh your ass of before Summer's end, just close your eyes and pick one at the theater. Plus, they both have Danny McBride in them, so you can't go wrong!
PS Keep your eyes peeled for Tom Cruise in "Tropic Thunder", its basically his best role to date.
Tuesday, August 19, 2008
Friday, August 15, 2008
I Was Walking With A Ghost
Do you love mashups as much as I do? Then you wanna follow this blog Indian Giver.It is the brain child of Sean Douglas and Austin Schumacher, basically crushing all their favorite types of music with hip hop. And its not just mashups, sometimes its original, sometimes its them over a sample. Either way, I'm already feeling the concept. So far they only have 6 songs up, but I'm LOVING the newest one; which is a mashup of Tegan & Sara with Ghostface Killah. It's SICK.
If that sounds like something you might wanna tap your toes to, then check it out.
Thursday, July 31, 2008
Tuesday, July 29, 2008
Milky Way & The Galaxy Girls
I am such a nerd for animation, its not even funny. So this past week at Comic-Con I kept walking past a booth featuring these vaguely familiar characters called "Milky Way & The Galaxy Girls". Finally it hit me, they looked similar to "The Powerpuff Girls". I started to talk with the creator Lauren Faust, turns out she is married to Craig McCracken, the creator of "Powerpuff Girls" and "Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends" & the art director on "Dexter's Laboratory". Lauren is an Emmy nominated animator for her work on her husband's shows and the character "Frankie" on Foster's is based on her. I'm a superfan of PPG and Foster's so I basically tripped out when I realized who her and her husband were. Anyways, the point is that she's got these characters that are pretty adorable, and she is currently turning them into a line of dolls. I don't know if they characters are aimed to become a show or any other project. Right now it seems the focus is get them manufactured as dolls. To see some of Lauren's hand made dolls (that are like nearly $300 on an 8 month waiting list) click here.Lauren's also got a blog that updates what she's doing with the characters here.
& you can check out her great artwork on deviantart.
Friday, July 25, 2008
"I didn't know there were people in the world who talked like that"
Want to meet possibly the world's biggest douchebag? Chances are he's already entered your home on several occasions. To most he's the faithful Captain of the Serenity Firefly. To others, the handsome and heroic Captain Hammer. But to me, he is simply the ungrateful, somewhat decent, dramatic artist known as Nathan Fillion.
I don't want to go over the details of the incident because I become overwhelmed with embarassment for even caring what some stranger thinks of me. But I will say this, when you are in the entertainment industry your job not only entails executing your talent but it is also to maintain the fans of your work. If that means posing for a picture, signing an autograph, or simply shooting a smile, it is the least you can do. Your fans watch your shows, sit thru your movies in theaters, and buy your records, they pay for your iphone, suv, and child support.
I want to make that point very clear.
Basically, the bold captain is being accused of EgoMania and Narcisism.
After meeting Nathan out by the parking lot, I was beside myself with shame for even bothering. I wanted to pull my still sealed "Firefly" DVD set from my bag and chuck them at his head. I was depressed, feeling I had made some wrong move. Thankfully for me, I know a slew of nerds who have all run into him at one point or another. Let me share some of the words used to describe him; "Diva", "Asshole", "Prima Donna", "Jerk".
;] tee hee
I didn't feel so bad after that.
Finally I talked to Robyn. She was like "oh yeah, have you seen his myspace? Its his dick-ness put down into text"
This is basically the most fascinating myspace I've ever come across: www.myspace.com/nathanfillion
He is in awe of his own blogs which include such entertaining topics as "Airplane Ettiquette", The awesome gizmos he can afford (that you can not), and the proper way to greet him when he's in public (it involves thanking him for something he hasn't done, it's a trip man).
All in all I found his page incredibly entertaining because of its lack of self awareness, which led me to pity the 37 year old nearly famous actor rather than myself for what had occured.
I'm still returning "Firefly", and getting my 40 bucks back, but now I can do it confidently knowing I am not to blame for his lack of respect to a fan and that it is he who should be brushing up on his ettiquette.
I don't want to go over the details of the incident because I become overwhelmed with embarassment for even caring what some stranger thinks of me. But I will say this, when you are in the entertainment industry your job not only entails executing your talent but it is also to maintain the fans of your work. If that means posing for a picture, signing an autograph, or simply shooting a smile, it is the least you can do. Your fans watch your shows, sit thru your movies in theaters, and buy your records, they pay for your iphone, suv, and child support.
I want to make that point very clear.
Basically, the bold captain is being accused of EgoMania and Narcisism.
After meeting Nathan out by the parking lot, I was beside myself with shame for even bothering. I wanted to pull my still sealed "Firefly" DVD set from my bag and chuck them at his head. I was depressed, feeling I had made some wrong move. Thankfully for me, I know a slew of nerds who have all run into him at one point or another. Let me share some of the words used to describe him; "Diva", "Asshole", "Prima Donna", "Jerk".
;] tee hee
I didn't feel so bad after that.
Finally I talked to Robyn. She was like "oh yeah, have you seen his myspace? Its his dick-ness put down into text"
This is basically the most fascinating myspace I've ever come across: www.myspace.com/nathanfillion
He is in awe of his own blogs which include such entertaining topics as "Airplane Ettiquette", The awesome gizmos he can afford (that you can not), and the proper way to greet him when he's in public (it involves thanking him for something he hasn't done, it's a trip man).
All in all I found his page incredibly entertaining because of its lack of self awareness, which led me to pity the 37 year old nearly famous actor rather than myself for what had occured.
I'm still returning "Firefly", and getting my 40 bucks back, but now I can do it confidently knowing I am not to blame for his lack of respect to a fan and that it is he who should be brushing up on his ettiquette.
Sunday, July 20, 2008
The Dark Knight
If you haven't seen it by now what the hell are you waiting for. The Dark Knight is absolutely brilliant. As everyone's been saying, Heath Ledger as the joker is basically the best performance ever given by an actor ever. Aaron Eckhart as Harvey Dent/ Two-Face is also fantastic. The plot just rolls along perfectly and you are strapped to the back of your chair. It is just flat out good fun. BUT I love to talk shit, so lets. WHAT THE HELL was the studio thinking casting Maggie Gyllenhal to pick up the character of Rachel Dawes where Katie Holmes left it. Granted Maggie has a similar look to Katie, but that is all the similarity. She played the character practically dead. She had ZERO emotion in her voice or face the entire time. She exits the film and I don't feel the emotions I'm supposed to feel for her. AND Who told Christian Bale he could use that weird ass voice when he was in the Bat Suit. It was like "Hold on Now Im Batman, So I have a creepy ass throat irritation". Didn't make an inch of sense to me. and the credits looked like they ran out of money and typed it up quick on Microsoft Word. Those were the big problems I had with it, I hate to get sucked out of a movie and those two decisions were very good at doing it. So basically big ups to Heath for basically owning this picture, all the Oscar Buzz is definitely justified. Aaron Eckhart was bomb (he's also great in this movie just hitting DVD called "Meet Bill"). I loved the cameo from Cillian Murphy as the Scarecrow. Maggie Gyllenhal should retire, and Christian Bale should maybe rethink his acting choices. All in all badass movie.
Star Trek
Eric Bana as Nero (Romulan)Zoe Saldana as Uhura
Zachary Quinto as Spock
Chris Pine as Kirk
found this cool poster for the new Star Trek online this week, turns out they are 4 posters that will be given away at the Paramount booth this upcoming weekend at Comic-Con. You can only get one, but if you do manage to get a hold of the other 3 and put em together they become one badass super poster.
According to this weeks Entertainment Weekly, the comic con edition, this will be the only Star Trek presence at the con. JJ Abrams is doing what he does best by keeping as much about the film under wraps.
I'm excited none the less, I'll be there all 5 days, so I'm gonna try and get them all. I'm obsessed w the whole cast of this movie, I can not simply pick one ;D
Nerdy fact, the background colors are the colors of their original uniforms... tee hee
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