Nip/Tuck Season 2, Disc 3
- Nip/Tuck Season 2, Disc 3
- Everything is out in the open in this emotionally devastating middle chunk of season 2. First mention of The Carver too.
Most TV Dads seem to fall into either the good-hearted buffoon role or the holier than thou, never made a mistake voice of reason. See most every sitcom for the former (my own dad asked once why they don’t change the category from “sitcom” to “stupid dads”). The fathers on the WB are good examples of the latter. Shows like 7th Heaven try to create these modern day Atticus Finch archetypes that ultimately ring false.
But if I had to choose our generation’s Atticus Finch, it would be Nip/Tuck’s Sean McNamara. Yes, our generation’s Atticus has tied meat to a mobster’s corpse in order to lure alligators, but would you expect any less? The real Atticus had a tough court case, but the morality was pretty easy to discern. He didn’t have to deal with Latino gangs, a midlife crisis, or separating two conjoined twins….and he definitely didn’t have a partner that fucked half his clientele.
‘The Superficial’ readers are puritanical jackoffs
Yesterday I was cruising around ytmnd, and came across one site with Emma Watson, who plays Hermione in the Harry Potter movies posing as if she were drinking a bottle of Corona. Colin Devroe over at The Uber Geeks suggested that I write something about it, so I checked Google for the originating source or at least some more information. I came up empty-handed after a whole 30 seconds of searching, so I decided to just forget about it. Besides, the only thing that made it all that interesting was the fact that it was in the ytmnd site.
So then this morning I checked The Superficial, because I like laughing at those more fortunate than I am. I rarely read the comments on sites like that, mostly because I don’t have the patience to dig through 90 of them, and also because I figure the average celebrity-gawker probably can’t add much insight beyond “J00 SUX PARIS!” For some reason, I decided to read a bit. Apparently the morality police like to read about how fat Britney has become because the comments thread on the post about Emma Watson and this picture is full of comments like “Thats awesome… more corrupted hollywood youth” and “I NEVER saw so much alcohol abuse by young adults as I did in Europe. Not to mention the smoking too.”
OK, so they’re not all that bad, and I’m about to get into the pros and cons of drinking for 15-year-olds, but honestly, what a bunch of self-righteous jackasses. My absolute favorite would have to be this gem…
Blech, Corona. She could choose a better drink—courvoisier or Hennessey, anyone?
Self-righteous jackasses, indeed.
Crispin Glover is batshit crazy
We report. You decide.
Sent to me by Nate Kushner via AIM.
Spirit filled hardcore
- The Recovery
- Enlow's return after an indefinite hiatus proves that they are back and here to stay, with a powerful sound that can capture the ears of metalheads, hardcore kids, and punkers alike. Well worth a listen (even if you don't fit into any of those categories)!
- Buy it on Amazon
- But it on ITunes
After a hiatus and an indefinite future, Enlow has returned with their follow up to 2003’s “The Desperate Letters”. Their new release, “The Recovery”, was recorded with the infamous Stephen Egerton of Blasting Room Studios (perhaps you know him better as one of The Descendents). Not only is this a solid release, but it already seems to be getting a lot of press and drumming up attention from the scenesters, drawing comparisons to Underoath, Dead Poetic, and even This Day Forward.
Personally, I am not Mr. Hardcore Aficionado, so comparisons are hard to draw for me when I listen to albums like this one. Most people who listen to hardcore would scoff or laugh at the comparisons that I could make here because my ears are less trained to the sound, but I did dabble in the hardcore scene in my teenage years and so, I’ll give it a shot… their sound is a mix of the ever-popular metalcore trend and an early hardcore/post-hardcore sound. Translation: I think of Stretch ArmStrong and old-school punk/hardcore like early H2O, but can hear influences of modern metalcore like some of Zao’s stuff and perhaps something a bit more chaotic like Norma Jean. Continues after the jump »
The greatest or worst video game ever made
I can’t decide if Penn & Teller are avant garde geniuses or just really clueless about how to make a good video game.
At any rate, all six owners of the Sega CD almost found out at some point in the mid-’90s, but unfortunately “Penn & Teller’s Smoke and Mirrors” was cancelled sometime between the time the video game magazines got to review it and its release date.
Luckily, now even those of us who have never bought this piece of shit console add-on can get a taste of Penn & Teller’s bizarre near-foray into the world of video games. If you’ve ever wanted to drive a bus across the state of Nevada in real time (with no artistic embellishments added) or shoot a tiger in the face with a nail gun given to you by a carnie, this game is for you.
Check it. And check the gloriously pixelated screenshots.
Via Boing Boing, Daring Fireball and about a billion other sites.
Lost Season 2, Episode 15 in-depth review
- Episode 15: Maternity Leave
- In a very Claire-centric episode, we find out that there may be more to The Others than meets the eye.
Hey readers, say hello to new contributor Wes Bain!
Massive spoliers follow, so if you haven’t seen the episode yet, you might want to come back later once you’ve seen it. Unless, of course, that’s why you’re reading.
— Chris
After a somewhat slow start to the first half of Season 2, the powers-that-be who govern Lost have finally given us something to cheer about. Continues after the jump »
Murphy…It’s You!
Yesterday I stumbled upon an interesting factoid. I was watching the History Channel’s “Rome: Engineering an Empire”. I was happily learning about Roman roadwork and aqueducts, when something strange happened. One of the experts was talking about wealthy Romans having running water in their homes. I saw onscreen that this expert was from Syracuse University. “Go Orange!”, I thought. Great to see faculty from my alma mater on TV, right? Then I realized something. This professor looked and sounded a hell of a lot like Peter Weller, the actor we all know and love as the original Robocop. Funny thing is that that is exactly the name they had onscreen. I sat up in my chair. Could it be that this man who so thoroughly “was” Buckaroo Banzai is now some Roman history expert?
It seemed too good to be true, but after some online investigating, it turns out to be cold hard fact. Robocop has been teaching the young people of our country! Who wouldn’t want to take his class? In reading some online message boards, it seems he is known for being a tough professor. But what would we expect, after watching him shoot a criminal in the crotch? I just wish he had been there when I was a student. I don’t know if I’d be able to resist asking him to twirl a pistol, a la “T.J. Lazer”.
Mellow fellows
- In Praise of Folly - The Present Age
- Release Date: 04/20/2004
- Let the rains keep falling in Seattle if it helps bands like IPOF maintain their angst.
- Buy the album or vic a few free MP3s here!
Is it the rain in Seattle that makes all the music that comes out of it so dank and murky?
From Jimi Hendrix and the sisters Ann and Nancy Wilson (Heart), to the Nirvana-led grunge movement of the early ‘90s and thereafter, nothing musical reverberating from this Pacific Northwest city ever seems to come across as uplifting or inspiring, and I’m apt to wonder if, indeed, gloomy skies are really to blame.
Latest evidence: In Praise of Folly, the most recent addition to my musical library.
Melodious Mistake
Last night’s Oscar telecast introduced a new twist to the evening, one that was not welcome by most. This year, music was played in the background, while the winners provided their acceptance speeches. The Hollywood Reporter’s Ray Richmond commented today, “not only was this monumentally distracting, it was also supremely disrespectful – rather akin to being played offstage from the moment you get there.” Richmond has a point, although it seemed strange to me that the cue to exit the stage would be music, when music is already playing. According to a source I spoke to at Capitol Studios, the music was only for the home television audience, and not played in the Kodak Theater. Either way, this is one feature that future telecasts should do without. This should join the other departed “innovations” of years past that have been abandoned, like the “Matrix” style camera movements used for pro football, or unbiased truth in Fox News reporting.
Where the Truth Lies
- Where the Truth Lies
- Some highbrow trash to get the bad Crash taste out of your mouth...
I’ve never really meant this column to be about real DVD/film reviewing. Honestly, I don’t think I’d be able to handle that responsibility. I’m just writing about my Netflix queue, trying to inform you lovely readers on whether or not to add a particular DVD to your personal queue. Sometimes I feel like I need to go deep to provide this service (see my Crash piece). Other times, I feel like I can make my point a little easier. For example, my column for Where the Truth Lies could just say this:
“Girl in Alice in Wonderland dress goes down on Alison Lohman, naked.”
or this:
“See the girl from Clueless (the TV show, not the movie) in a threesome”
Not to be presumptuous, but I feel that a good part of this site’s readership would toss this in their queue after reading that. If you care for any more discussion about the movie, make the jump.
