BTW, to you assholes who insist on using your cell phones and Blackberries, iPad Touches, and whatever the hell else it is you're dragging around with you, the light from those screens is goddamned irritating to those of us who are trying to watch the movie. So please, keep them in your pockets, turned off. There's nothing so urgent it can't wait 90 minutes.
Its' one thing for Anthony 'Hey, wanna see me Twitter my crotch around the world?' Weiner to try to somehow blame his wife for his indiscretions and low character--the guy has shown himself to be a dishonest, dimwitted cretin, an empty suit of a politician worthy of the Age of Obama--but shouldn't a journalist like Matthews be just a tiny bit smarter?
Is there something I'm missing? Is Matthews retarded, does he go on the air drunk, or is there some other malfunction coming into play here?
Is that his knee, or is Anthony Weiner just happy to be here?
Here's a music video from German hardrock group Rammstein that just keeps getting weirder and weirder:
The song is titled "Keine Lust" ("No Desire" or "Don't Feel Like It"). Here are the lyrics translated into English:
I do not feel like it x4
I'm not in the mood not to hate me I don't want to touch myself I would like to jack off but I don't want to try it
I would like to take my clothes off but I don't want to see myself naked
Ref: I would like to do it with big animals I don't want to risk it I don't feel like going away of the snow I don't feel like freezing
I don't feel like chewing something cause I don't want to digest it I don't want to weigh myself I hate to lie in fat
Ref: I will simply lie here and I will count once again the flies I touch myself without any desire and I soon notice that I have been cold since long so cold
I am cold, so cold
The video dates from 2005, and it was released in support of the band's "Reisen, Reisen" album.
By the way, here's what Rammstein looks like without the fat suits and lesbian nurses in school uniforms:
And here they are getting ready to fake the moon landing:
Just posting a link to the feel-good news of the day; another al-Qaeda scumbag has been sent to Hell in pieces, together with nine other of his closest psychotic friends.
Good job, American military and intelligence services!
(Once again... there will be Muslims around the world tearing their hair out and threatening death and destruction to American for the dispatching of this killer. Once again, there will be Muslims around the world showing us the TRUE face of the "religion of peace," because it was the face worn openly by Kashmiri and his al-Qaeda butt-buddies. And that's too bad. It would be nice if Islam really was what its PR flacks like to portray.)
Firehair (Source: Showcase #85 - #87, Sept - Dec, 1969; and Son of Tomahawk #131-132, 134, 136, March - November 1971) Writer and Illustrator: Joe Kubert (Series co-created with Carmine Infantino)
For roughly a decade--from the mid-Sixties to the mid-Seventies--one of the greatest talents to ever work in the comic book field was at the height of his creative powers. During this period, Joe Kubert illustrated "Enemy Ace" and "Sgt. Rock of Easy Company", two of the best war series every published; and he drew some of the very best "Tarzan" comics, producing adaptations of Burroughs' novels that equal and exceed the more well-known efforts by Russ Manning and Burne Hogarth. Kubert also created and illustrated some very excellent, lesser-known series, such as "Firehair", the subject of this Forgotten Comics review.
"Firehair" was a short-lived western series that appeared in three issues of "Showcase" and as a backup in a handful of issues of "Son of Tomahawk". It was set in the early 19th century, and it focused on a teenaged white boy with red hair who had been raised by Native Americans after a chieftan adopted him as an infant. It chronicles his wanderings--and details the racism he experiences from both Indians and Whites, as he is a man with truly no place to belong--and it was a surprisingly well-done and heartfelt series for when it was published.
All of the "Firehair" stories are superior examples of what may be created when someone with great talent treats comic books like an artistic story-telling medium on par with movies and novels.
Not only did Kubert produce stories of such depth that they can stand as equals in this day and age when critics and readers heap praise on even the most feeble attempts at producing comics that are "literature", but the look of the characters and the world they exist in have an authentic look that I don't think any other artist has captured, save Jean Giraud in the celebrated "Blueberry" graphic novels. Even the coloring on "Firehair" is far beyond what was typical in the 1960s--the use of shading and highlights is of a nature that didn't come fully into vogue until computer aided coloring was pioneered at Malibu Graphics in the 1990s.
If DC Comics ever decides to release a "Best of Showcase" or maybe "A Best of Joe Kubert" book in their hardcover "Archives" format--or even as part of the "DC Showcase Presents" black-and-white reprint series--"Firehair" should most definately be included. It's a shame that run-of-the-mill comics like "Uncanny X-Men" is kept before the public in a variety of book formats while true masterpieces like "Firehair" fade from public view and memory.
This 1992 video certainly represents those days. It also reflects the glory days of the music video. The song itself isn't exactly my favorite kind of pop, but the video certainly is fantastic. And with an all-star cast, to boot.
Remember the Time (1992) Starring: Michael Jackson, Iman, Eddie Murphy, and Magic Johnson Director: John Singleton Rating: Nine of Ten Stars
And if you click here, you can see a bit of clever recycling by a YouTube user. He (or she) took the Bangles hit "Walk Like An Egyptian" and set parts of the "Remember the Time" video to it. The dance sequence might even work better this way. (For some reason, I can't embed the video, but the link will open a new window and the video will play.)
About an hour ago, I remarked to a fellow aficionado of horror and trashy movies that it had been a while since I'd noticed Parker Brothers getting free advertising for their spirit-channeling Ouija Board via a horror movie.
And, in a coincidence that rivals a spirit telling me what I had to breakfast via a planchette and a strip of letters, I opened my email box to find a note from a staffer at Toronto-based Dark House Films letting me know about the premiere of their latest movie, "The Unleashed".
Check out this preview:
It looks like not only will Parker Bros. see a bump in Quija Board sales, but the movie-viewing audience will be treated to a classic creep-fest full of the ghosts and demonic possession.
"The Unleashed" is set for release in August, but there will be a special premiere on June 25 at The Queen Elizabeth Theater in Toronto. If you live in that area, go check it out and report back what what you see! (It's a little too far for me to drive....)
For more information on the movie and the premiere, click here.
A scene from "Unleashed" (Where a pair of horror characters once again show that you should NEVER play with the Quija Board you find in the attic of an old house. The five minutes of fun are followed by mayhem and madness!)
