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Live Blogging The 2010 Oscars

NOTE: These posts were twittered live during the Oscars. These are the better selections out of a massive flood of tweets I sent out. Enjoy :)

Cannot wait to see Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin pretend to hate each other for three hours. Its been the only good parts of SNL in a decade

i know nph is gay but that suits a little on the nose isnt it?

lots of Nazi referances this year. wow.

how is penelopes accent so damn thick? ive heard her talk sort of normal in a lot of movies. cant she just fake it.dont get me wrong its hot

plummer talking about anti government manifestos is creepy in light of recent events.

obviously waltz was going to win. you can see how much better he was just from the clips. my god.

its weird to see someone really good like Steve carell next to someone who cant barely talk like cameran diaz.

ed asner is a god among old men.

i hope randy Newman splits the yearly randy Newman vote and doesnt win. family guy got it right with him.

really? the hurt locker had a better script than basterds?? thats fucktarded.

does Sam Jackson have a product placement deal with kangol?

i saw logorama at Sundance and it totally deserved to win. it was incredible. im amazed it hasnt been sued into non-existance.

Ben stiller is actuallly really good tonight. i like awkward tention. also i like painted face hair.

star trek deserves best makeup just for how fucking hot they made that green alien whore. i mean green alien slut. sorry.

if there was any justice in the world at all In The Loop would win. funniest movie of 09 next to black dynamite.

wow, robin Williams going blue with the comedy. good job. ball holding is not usually a Oscar ceremony topic.

Ana Kendrick deserves to win. she took a regular character and made it fascinating. thats a difficult challenge.

i stand by my opinion that anyone who was in soul plane should not be allowed to win an Oscar.

“okay guys moniqe won. cut to random shots of any black actors or people in the audience. get me blacks!!”

avatar gets art direction? did it even have any real sets? wtf?

really costume lady? you already have two you say? go fuck yourself. see if you win anymore after thiss one.

im a little late on this but i think its funny that they called Sarah Parker a clothes horse. given how she is already a regular horse.

they would respect horror more if they still made ammazing horror movies. almost every example was from 20+ years ago.

im glad they are doing a piece on sound design. no one ever notices sound. im glad its kind of getting its due.

feel sick that people can now say ‘academy award nominated film transformers: revenge of the fallen.”

i think its awesome that John Travolta wouldnt have any career without tarantino.

how can it be considered cinematography when 90% wasnt even shot, just made on a computer. thats crap.

if avatar hadnt won best special effects, everyone would have combusted instantaneously.

im glad the cove won. we might get the chance to screen it at CSULA. no promises though.

wow the hurt locker is cleaning up. i wonder whose going to win director. gee, who could it possibly be?

boo!!! a prophet should have won! it was a gritty french goodfellas! screw this Oscar crap.

almodovars ‘broken embraces’ should have been nominated for best foreign film. :(

for the first time ever Julian Moore looks fucktastically hot.

thank god Jeff won that. he has deserved it for every damn movie hes ever been in even iron man. he is the worlds best.

i think Jeff bridges just stayed in the dude character for the rest of his life. or maybe he just smokes truckloads of weed.

i dont care what anyone says, Helen mirren is a total GILF.

wow carey mulligan can really pull off the short hair look. my god. id like to give her some sex education if you know what i mean. oh wait, thats the whole point of ‘an education’? so its a bad metaphore? goddamn it.

two things: Penn always dresses like a poor private detective. and also wtf is he rambling about?

where does Sandra Bullock buy her clown/whore lipstick?

Bullock gave a great acceptance speech. it was beautiful. its just too bad she didnt deserve to win. thats all.

im not a huge hurt locker fan but good job for breaking down that door. mary haron should have won for American psycho but im happy for her

almost no real surprises this year. basterds should have won. she should have gotten director but basterds was better.

even tho avatar didnt win any of the big ones it still made 600 million billion dollars. its still the year of avatar.

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“Celebrity” Deaths You Didn’t Hear About In The 1st Half Of 2009

JAN. 2 – Maria de Jesus

Oldest living woman (well, I mean until… you know). Notable for being the only verified person who lived from 1893 to 2009, and winner of the ‘most insanely-religious name’ award. (This was a bit of a surprise as everyone thought the award would go to the German-born God Von Jesus-Moses.)

JAN. 4 – India

The black cat belonging to George W. Bush. This is notable because the wikipedia article on the cat is almost 400 words. On a fucking cat. World famous British Historian Jon Latimer (who died that same day) had a wikipedia page that was 220 words like. India was a cat, I would like to remind you. Also, 2 pictures of it. No pictures of Latimer. To be fair, a 21-year-old female Trinidadian boxer named Giselle Salandy’s wikipage was almost 2000 words, but she died tragically in a car accident. Also: SHE WAS A FUCKING HUMAN!

JAN. 6 – Alan Geisler

One hell of a contribution to the world

This man invented red onion sauce, one of the most popular condiments used on hotdogs by New York pushcart hotdog vendors. Which means he will now be eaten as meat for rats instead of making a condiment that is eaten on top of rat meat. Subtle difference.

JAN. 11 – Freddie Mack

Sure he was a British boxer, but his death is an amazing metaphor for the quickly crashing economy and devastation recession that will inevitably lead to a cannibal-strewn hellscape known as the Cursed Earth, formerly New York and Los Angeles.

JAN. 27 – John Updike

Aww. He looks like my grandpa. That made me sad for a second.

Finally! Someone anyone has ever heard of. Updike was a widely respected author of a prolific number of books with a wide variety of themes and concepts that he explored with beauty and honesty. And to us, he will most famously be known for his brief cameo on the Simpsons when Krusty the Clown yells at him, “Shut up, Updike.” Which, when we were young made us laugh because it sounds funny, and has the word dike. HAHAHA! That’s still funny.

FEB. 3 – Ben Blank

No, thats Brian Williams. Ben Blank is responsible for what’s over his shoulder.

The name might not sound familiar, but the shit-snowball he created can be seen any time you turn on a news program. Blank was the innovator of the “news graphic” such as the news logo displayed on screen and the graphic displayed over a news anchor’s shoulder. Now we have nothing but swoops and noises and CGI and absolutely no fucking news whatsofucking ever. I know it wasn’t your fault, Ben, that you ruined news reporting forever, but fuck you very much.

FEB. 4 – David Snow

That must be a… bird ruler?

Famed Ornithologist. As so you don’t have to hop on Google, that’s “bird fucker.” Well, bird enthusiast technically, but that’s only because they can fly and thus are difficult to catch. But the guy really loved birds. Loved them enough to write over 50 goddamn articles on them. And not just on his blog, but in respected bird fucking journals, so they had to be peer reviewed. If things on the Internet had to be peer reviewed for accuracy and bias, there wouldn’t be a single goddamn thing on the Internet.

FEB. 16 – Travis

I have no idea if this chimp is Travis the chimp. I couldn’t possibly care less.

Again with the animals having giant ass wiki pages. Travis the chimp who was a famous actor-chimp killed his trainers friend, and because of it got a goddamn 1500 word + wiki page. I too would kill for a 1500 word wiki page.

MAR. 7 – Tullio Pinelli

Screenwriter and practicing Nosferatu

The surreal works of Frederico Fellini wouldn’t have been what they were without Pinelli. He was the screenwriter behind such bizarre Italian classics as I Vitelloni, La Strada, La Dolce Vita, and 81/2. But don’t worry, you don’t need to have heard of any of those unless you’re a cocky know-it-all film student. And even then, you still probably wouldn’t have seen any of them.

MAR. 7 – Jimmy Boyd

That is actually the smile of pain and deep, deep sorrow.

When Jimmy was 12, he recorded “I saw Mommy Kissing Santa Clause.” What most people didn’t know was that it was a true story, and the song was not some cute, semi-romantic Christmas jingle but in fact a form of therapy that Jimmy was undergoing to deal with the mental anguished cause by discovering that his mother was a cheating whore at such a young age. The session was then sold to a record label by his unscrupulous psychiatrist.

MAR. 22 – Abismo Negro

It’s like if Mr. Universe, a Power Ranger and Death from Bill and Ted melded together.

While his real name is the almost-painfully boring Andres Alejandro Gonzales, his Luchador name was Abismo Negro, which is so pants-shittingly awesome and terrifying I would never go by anything else if I were him. In English, it means Black Abyss, which is creepy enough as it is, but in Spanish, I think it automatically makes him some sort of vampire lord.

APR. 2 – John King

When I think I instruments that you could be proud of being know for playing, Ukulele ranks right down thåere with Theremin and Washboard, but John King said “who cares that it’s embarrassing, I want to be just like Tiny Tim.” And then he said, “except not horrifying” and then decided to play classical music on the ukulele.

APR. 12 – Marilyn Chambers

Will always be remembered for breaking barriers. Hot, sweaty interracial barriers.

The star of one of the world’s first widely-distributed porn films, Behind The Green Door, Chamber’s accomplishments can be boiled down to two things, both of which were seen in BTGD. First of all, she was a civil rights proponent by desegregating porn with the very first interracial sex scene. So, one might call her a hero. Also, she was in a surreal cum-shot scene that showed semen flying through the air over and over again for seven minutes and landing on her face. Yup, she was an American hero.

APR. 25 – Beatrice Arthur

While she may not be “little known” (after all, she was known inaccurately as ‘That One Golden Girl who was Actually a Man*’), you probably didn’t remember she was dead. I mean, not to be cruel, but I kinda thought she died years ago, so when I learned she died this year, I had already prematurely dealt with that pain. [* This is incorrect. She wasn’t the one golden girl who was actually a man. Estelle Getty was also a man.]

APR. 26 – Hans Holzer

Anyone who picked up a book on the paranormal when they were a kid is going “that name sounds familiar.” Well that’s because Hans Holzer is the fucking man! A ghost hunter, a demon investigator, and a prolific author about both hobbies, Hans Holzer made every kid want to study the supernatural long before the X-Files even existed.

MAY 1 – Danny Gans

Its like an M.C. Escher painting but… weirder.

Remember that time you went to Vegas, and wanted to go to a magic show, but Siegfried and Roy had already been mauled into a coma and not only was David Copperfield a sex offender but also cost $10,000 per ticket? And so you then got Danny Gans tickets? And when it was over you were like, “oh… okay… I guess. Huh. Whatever.” Anyway, he ODed.

JUN. 9 – Michael Roof

Do you remember XXX with Vin Diesel and XXX: State Of The Union? Well, in those movies, do you remember the nerdy sidekick character? Sure he was unnecessary and dorky, but he was fun, and seemed like he could have been pretty funny with some good material. Yeah, he hung himself at age 32. That… that really sucks. What’s weird? 6 days after David Carradine died from hanging, although the circumstances were far different. I think Roof’s death was less hookers and masturbation related.

JUN. 25 – Michael Jackson


We were unable to find any photos of Mr. Jackson. 

Yeah, THAT Michael Jackson. He’s dead. Weird huh? It seems like that would have been covered by at least the local press. Hmm. Well whatever.

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ANGER #16: The Beatles: Christian Band?

So, as it turns out, the Beatles were a Christian band. Apparently, a long-lost interview was discovered, in which some Canadian Journalist was interviewing John Lennon, and Lennon explained that his infamous “were bigger than Jesus” comment was misunderstood.
According to the interview, the comment was taken out of context and he was saying that the fact the Beatles were bigger than Jesus was a bad thing, and he was actually trying to spread the word of Christ with his music.

Before I get the how this is total bullshit, I would just like to point out this: He didn’t deny that he thought the Beatles were bigger than Jesus. In fact, he confirms this belief and then condemns it.

To repeat, John Lennon thought the Beatles were wider known and more popular than the belief in God’s son and his infinite wisdom that has existed for thousands of years, and in whose name millions of people have died. Yeah, THAT Jesus. Not like, some illegal gardener, JESUS FUCKING CHRIST. I’m an atheist, and I know from a historical standpoint that John Lennon’s head was shoved violently up his own hippie ass.

Okay, now, to the Christian band thing. That’s bullshit. John Lennon wrote a little song called “Imagine.” If you don’t mind, let me show you the lyrics, incase you are one of the 8 people on Earth who haven’t heard it.

Imagine there’s no Heaven
It’s easy if you try
No hell below us
Above us only sky
Imagine all the people
Living for today

Imagine there’s no countries
It isn’t hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion too
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace

You may say that I’m a dreamer
But I’m not the only one
I hope someday you’ll join us
And the world will be as one

Breaking this down, bit by bit, lets examine the first verse. HOLY SHIT THAT IS SO NOT PRO-CHRISTIAN! He literally says that people would live better lives if they didn’t believe in this religion mumbo jumbo.

In the second verse, he is dreaming about not killing and no religion. So, the only way this song could be pro-Christian is if it’s bad to dream about these ideas. Essentially meaning that killing people is a good thing. Thanks a lot dick! John Lennon is a violent, sociopathic dick!

Then in the third verse, he negates everything I just talked about, in relation to being pro-killing, and also negates his retarded claim that he is pro-religion because HE CLEARLY SAYS IT IS BAD FOR PEOPLE AND THE WORLD!

The interview apparently took place during Lennon and Yoko’s Bed-In (which I still argue is the laziest goddamn form of activism and protest, second only to the hour-long Jacuzzi-In of 1982. It was really just a long rest in a Jacuzzi which media and press showed up to). Anyway, by “I’m one of Christ’s biggest fan” he must of meant, “I really love LSD and crazy-ass old Asian women,” and then the rest was just drug-addled rambling.

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