Yes. The results are in.
The baby within April’s womb is of the female variety. I’m so stoked. And scared to death. My life is about to turn into pink, roses, ponies, ballet, and all sorts other girlish delights. I feel the testosterone leaving my body already.
Can’t wait for you to get here, Flannery!
Ever heard of The Davy Grolton Band? You have now!!
This truly is fantastic. As you might recall, Long Road To Ruin is the most recent single from el Foo Fighters. It was a return to their hysterical music videos of the past…”Low,” “Learn To Fly,” “Big Me,” etc. Well, I just happened to be poking around today, looking at various videos and I found Kanye West’s clip for “Two Words” on Purple Cow Post. Apparently it’s the company/personal site of Brian Kushner, a film editor based in NYC (the Kanye video is pretty sweet, by the way…anything with Mos Def is awesome).
I starting looking around the site at his portfolio and I came across this performance, live at Glenndale Mall. Amazing. A-MAZ-ZA-ZING. A full band performance, shot to look like it was taped in the 70’s. For those of you who recognize the bits of this that were featured in the final cut of the video, there’s a lot more hilarity to be seen here. Dave Grohl dances and prances, Chris Shiflett and his muttonchops…the whole thing is a riot. I had no idea this even existed. But now that I do, I’m sharing it with you. Go check out the rest of Brian’s site. He’s worked on some sweet videos and it’s cool to see a site done from a film editor’s standpoint (as opposed to most of the directors’ website out there).
Merry Christmas.
I recently picked up Alan Moore’s graphic novel series, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (a terrific storyline by the way), and something about the cover of the first volume gave me pause. It’s similar to the image above, yet it boldly proclaims “Now A Major Motion Picture!”
Now, film adaptation arguments aside, (hint: the movie version sucked. hard.) I realized that you never see a book or graphic novel or comic with a promo button that announces “Now a Minor Motion Picture!” No one ever supposes that their adaptation will be a bad one. Or that it will somehow fall short in the cinematic realm. No, the one possible option for adapting a literary creation for film is “MAJOR!” How bizarre. Especially in today’s environment of ever-increasing specialization and splintering, one would think that someone in the white towers of marketing would start tapping into this veritable goldmine.
Consider this…Say you’re a Dave Eggers fan. Granted, Eggers is perhaps not the most obscure of examples, but I’d wager that the general population isn’t too familiar with him. At any rate, let’s say Magnolia Pictures is going to adapt his book, A Heartbreaking Work Of Staggering Genius. Rather than saying “Now A Major Motion Picture!” on all future printings of …Genius, why not announce “Now An Elite Indie Motion Picture!”
How about depictions of Jesus? For The Last Temptation Of Christ, the novel could have said “Now A Controversial Motion Picture Featuring Yet Another Jesus Who Doesn’t Look The Least Bit Middle Eastern!” I think that would work well.
Or in the case of Wanted, a graphic novel by one of my favorites, Mark Millar, if the ensuing movie looks nothing like the source material, you could say “Now An Extremely Loosely Adapted Version Which Only Takes The Name Of The Original To Dupe Longtime Fans!” Granted, the button would be a little bit bigger than normal, but that’s okay. The cover art doesn’t really matter anyway.
Truth in advertising. That’s all I’m asking for people. And for the record, the abominable film version of League…, also known as LXG (due to the wisdom of some suit who thought that it needed to be X-TREME for the kiddies), was a total mess. It bore little resemblance to the graphic novel upon which it was “based” (more like freebased). In this instance, the publisher would have been better off with this text on the cover : “Screw the Movie. Read the Book.”
Wow. I’ve only made two posts during December (not counting this one). I suck at life. You have my apologies, The Internets.
During this time of the year, our thoughts usually turn to the stories of the Birth of Jesus, and rightly so…despite the fact that He probably wasn’t born in December, we don’t really know how many wise men there were, etc., etc. No matter. It’s enough to celebrate His debut on earth and to pause and reflect on his physical presence with us.
This post is not about that.
This post is about the most badass verses in the Bible. Specifically, the 9 Most Badass Bible Verses. This article is fantastic. And awesome. And awetastic. There are a few swears, so if your virgin eyes can’t handle it, you can simply go read the verses about lying down in green pastures, yada, yada, yada.
And as a final note, I’m thrilled that Mark Salomon’s favorite verse (#8 on the list and the one featured in the above picture) is included. Anything with bears devouring arrogant youth is definitely badass. Well played Cracked. Well played.
