New Years Collected Thoughts Blow-Out Sale

It's enormous. Take the whole week to read it.

This New Zeland artist reads my blog. He sent me an email. He's coming to LA next year. Maybe some of you want to comission him with art this year? He's pretty talented...

Lolololololol:




Raver killed by bass.

More End of Year Lists:
Amateur Chemist Year in Review Pt 1
A Decade In Music Hype (MUST READ)
Buzz Bands Top 103 LA Local Songs of '09
Buzz Bands: Popular With Me, The Decade
Gorilla vs. Bear Top EPs and Singles of '09
Rolling Stone Top 100 Albums of the Decade
Said the Gramophone Best Songs of '09
Stereogum "Celebrity Ballots" (I know, ugh.)
Surfing on Steam Top 50 Albums of the Decade
Surfing on Steam Top 10 LA Releases of '09
Web In Front Best Albums of the Decade
Web In Front Best Albums of '09
Web In Front Best LA Local Albums of '09
Web In Front Best LA Local EPs of '09
You Set the Scene Top 10 Records '09


Scriptshadow thinks the Black List scripts are the only good ones out there. I wouldn't know, but that wouldn't surprise me. The problem with most writers is that they don't read literature, historical nonfiction, or biographies.

Heh.

I loved this old New Yorker article on Alec Baldwin.

I loved the Avatar IMAX 3D experience. I thought the story was a great story... that did not execute well. It was virtually absent of tension. When the Earth people want unobtanium for selfish financial reasons, when the colonel of the army is colonel of a private army, when that guy and his corporate boss are assholes... well, why would Jake Sully do anything other than keep his Thundersmurf body and chase after hotass Thundersmurf poon?

Jake Sully's central choice should have been between two irreconcilable goods, not good vs. evil. If we'd seen Sully's family back on Earth, if Earth needed unobtanium for its own survival, if the colonel's army was a national army... well then, all of a sudden Jake Sully is forced with a tough, significantly more compelling decision. Boing Boing had some further thoughts on how to improve the story.

All that being said, Cameron made me a True Believer in the 3D medium.

Sam Worthington (Terminator 4, Avatar, the upcomming Clash of the Titans remake) would be a great Flash Gordon.

Here's the pitch: "Apocalypto with Vikings". I'M IN.

Here's a 70-minute takedown of The Phantom Menace. I've yet to watch it, though I actually feel that TPM is the most defensible of the three prequel films.

In a similar vein, David Lynch pwns The Goiter:



Lols:



Printer ink is a racket:
Villain Source, for all your supervillain needs.

TNC had an interesting post on politics and pro-wrestling.

How Victoria's Secret photoshops its images. (I will continue to willfully believe that Adriana Lima exists as she is portrayed.)

Maybe there is no death.

And maybe dust can live.

We'll be rewriting memories before I die. Cyberpunkarific.

If you're like me then you love creepy scientology videos.

Badass drug tunnel under the US-Mexico border.

...which is almost as creepy as the arial drones that will patrol our California border.

HORROR OF HORRORS.

Octopuses are shifty fucks.

So are tiny jellyfish. Ugh, the ocean should be set on fire.

Lol, butterflies don't do too well in space:



Ahhhhh! CREEPY:



I can get behind this kind of childcare:


The New England Patriots' mascot was involved in a prostitution ring. Of course he was!

Retirement Home Murder Mystery. Yeesh.

Ukranian student killed by explosive chewing gum. Yeesh.

The founder of Blackwater was a CIA spy. The corrupt private security firm that we used to do terrible things in Iraq and Afghanistan that the public government could not do was run by a guy who worked for the public government. There is no end to the amount of terrible, terrible things we are learning about how Bush and Cheney waged war.

Maureen Dowd joins the "Obama is too Spock-like!" chorus. I sigh, loudly. When scary things like attempted terrorist attacks happen, when the far political left and right are acting like children, when the Fourth Estate spends more time talking about Taylor Swift than a secret US-waged war in Somalia, I want my president to be Spock-like. I don't want the leader of the free world to be some emotional buffoon! One of Obama's best traits is his emotional objectivity.

Dear God, please confirm what I believe.

As ya'll know, I hold a lot of leftist views... but I am also oft irritated by the far left community. This guy helps me understand why.