Public service announcement

I’ve rented season 1 of Battlestar Galactica, Cashback, Eternal Sunshine and Dr Strangelove. I have time to watch all these shows and I still earn enough money to pay for them.

And the job is great.

Excuse me while I gloat

the kills

oh, I think you’re going to like these guys

Get me Heath-Baby

When Watchmen comes out, I am going to watch it. I am going to enjoy it because it looks awesome. And then afterwards I am going to go home, find a quiet spot, and cry myself to sleep.

What is wrong with studio execs. Why does having pictures in a story automatically make it an action-movie

This is how I imagine it went down:

PITCHMAN: ‘I’m telling you sir, this shit, it’s deep. It’s hardcore. It’s like we’ve got the Cold War and vigilantism and the Bush years and we need to find some way to bring it together, maybe we could start with like a long pan-out shot of the city and there’s a voiceover narrating the political events post-45′ and…

EXEC: We need some of that slow-mo shit.

PITCHMAN: What

EXEC: Some of that slow-mo shit, y’know, KA-PSHEW SCHWING, with the spears and all that. Like that shit with the Romans in it

PITCHMAN: You mean Spartans. And there aren’t really any spe…

EXEC: Whatever. That guy who did the Romans. Get him on board. Tell the effects guys to go crazy with the slow-mo. I want a close-up of a gun, y’know BAMBAMBAM and all the shells are flying out the kids who read this will love it they’ll shit bricks

PITCHMAN: Sir, I read this and I’m thirty seven years old. And Watchmen isn’t really like that it’s comp…

EXEC: You know what. You know what we could do. That movie they made about that guy who thinks he’s a rat or whatever, the one with Heath on board? We should do that.

PITCHMAN: Oh, you mean Batm…

EXEC: Don’t interrupt. They’re still shitting bricks from that show, alright. So we can do that. We can do this complex emotion stuff. You like complex right? So we’ll dial the lighting waaaaay down, make this thing so goth even the goth kids’ll want to cry it’ll be awesome, see if you can get Heath-baby on board.

PITCHMAN: That’s not really what ‘complex’ means…and anyway I don’t think we can get He…

EXEC: Don’t interrupt me. And I want anger, right? I want visceral anger coming off that screen. It should feel like you’re sucking on sharp bits of metal spikes laced with ground glass is what it should feel like. And I want raw, young talent. Just oozing sex. And angry. They all have to be angry.

PITCHMAN: *commits ritual suicide*

V for Vendetta, League and now Watchmen.

Chekov

y’gotta love chekov. The man knows how to abuse his characters. I know where Murakami got his love for immobility from. act/react/act it’s all so pretty

Guitar Hero at my cousin’s. I go crazy on the drums on notes that aren’t there, my brother does ambulance noises into the mic for the vocals, my cousin’s approach to her guitar is ‘zen and the accident of hitting the right notes’

we make good team

Hobo blues

Allow me to introduce Seasick Steve. Think I’ve linked to him before. He’s literally a hobo a music exec picked up off the street

His instruments are a box he stomps on that he calls ‘The Mississippi Drum Machine’ and a 3-string guitar he calls ‘The 3 String Trance Wonder’. How awesome is that

Now most guitars have six strings. This’ one only got three strings..we gonna get down…on a li’l three string trance boogie

Love the audience reaction shot at 0:46

Lost in Translation

Verdict: hell yes.

It’s slow moving, but worth it. I loved how nothing happened for Bill Murray and Scarlett Johansson for so much of the show, and at the same time they’re washed in all this colour and action swirling around Tokyo that is right in front of them but somehow impenetrable, there’s this invisible barrier that neither of them can understand or breach.

What a great metaphor. Touring Tokyo felt alot like that. cultureshock/dislocation/alienation/being lost

Bill Murray has such a good ‘what the hell’ bewildered expression.

I loved the ambiguous ending.

Scarlett Johansson did a mean, mean nymphette back when she was younger.

Really enjoyed this one

Hell, I’d go back to Tokyo just for this movie

trashtalk

“man, you gon’ be like inner city kids after the education vouchers program”

“you gon’ get schooled”

I promise to promise something in the future

A little disappointed by Obama’s speech. Not his best, no call-to-arms, no nice phrases besides ‘force of our example’. It makes sense though, that he can’t commit to anything even vaguely concrete given the deficit.

Dawn of War 2’s coming out soon. I like how space orks somehow have australian accents.

SPEECH SPEECH SPEECH