Watchmen Soundtrack

::raises whiskey glass::

here to hoping the movie lives up the the depth showcased by its soundtrack which seems to have as much character as a classic rock radio station. I enjoy Leonard Cohen and it seems that they dug deep into the vaults to pull out his most recognizable song. Wont it be entertaining to hear Jimi Hendrix and Bob Dylan while thinking about the movie?

Desolation Row My Chemical Romance

Unforgettable Nat King Cole

The Times They Are A-Changin' Bob Dylan

The Sound Of Silence Simon and Garfunkel

Me & Bobby McGee Janis Joplin

I'm Your Boogie Man KC & The Sunshine Band

You're My Thrill Billie Holiday

Pruit Igoe & Prophecies The Philip Glass Ensemble

Hallelujah Leonard Cohen

All Along The Watchtower Jimi Hendrix

Ride of the Valkyries Budapest Symphony Orchestra

Pirate Jenny Nina Simone

goodbye assholes #2

Im on my way to spain...

Dear: Sir/Madam,

My name is Barrister PERE A DANIS, an Attorney (Lawyer) to late Mr.Yaroslav Zojniuk.

I am writing to notify you of the TESTAMENT of my late client Mr.Yaroslav Zojniuk, a Ukrainian who unfortunately lost his life in the Madrid Bomb Blast on March 11, 2004, in Madrid-Spain.

My late client (Mr.Yaroslav Zojniuk) was a prominent business man who travelled to Spain on business survey/holiday with his wife and their only daughter when they met their tragic death.

My client before his death made a deposit of Thirty Seven Million, Three Hundred Thousand United States Dollars (US$37,300,000.00) in his effort to set up a business in Europe .

However, I am searching for a trust worthy person or the relatives of the deceased regarding his deposit, as the holding financial institution wants him to come forward for the endorsement of the re-investment documents, hence I am seeking your assistance to provide you as the next of kin to my late client, since he died with his wife and their only daughter without making a WILL in all his deposit paper works.

This transaction is very confidential as I can re-draft his LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT to bear your name as the TRUSTEE & EXECUTOR. This transaction shall be executed under legitimate and legal procedures that will protect you from any breach of the Law.

It is in this regard that I decided to solicit your assistance, by presenting you as the Executor and Trustee (Next of Kin) to my late client. Although, I have agreed on the following sharing ratios: 35% for your assistance and 65% for me but this is still open for negotiation.

Kindly revert back to me urgently on your kind interest to lay claim of the deposit. You are to send me your complete Names, Telephone and Fax numbers, Present contact address, and Occupation for more information on how to release the inheritance sum via this email address: peredanischambers@gmail.com OR danipereabogados@aim.com

Regards,
Pere A Danis (Barrister).
Attorney At Law.

goodbye assholes...

I am on my way to China...


Though seems unsolicited, this email is a business proposal to you. I
appreciate the fact that you have every reason to be suspension, please note
this proposal is very real. I will employ you to read it with open mind and
act in the best way as directed by your mind and instinct.

My name is Lin Yong, operations manager of the Bank of China (Hong Kong).
It is understandable that you might be a little bit apprehensive because you
do not know me but I have a lucrative business proposal of mutual benefits
to share with you.

In June, 2001, a late client of mine, a Crude oil merchant from your
country whom we presumed (rightly or wrongly) to be a relative of yours made
a numbered fixed deposit of Twenty-one million Five Hundred Thousand United
State Dollars (US$21,500,000.00) only in my branch. Upon maturity several
notice was sent to him Five years ago (2003) with out response. We later
found out that he and his family had been killed in a plane crash.

After further investigation it was also discovered that he did not declare
any next of kin in his official papers including the paper work of his bank
deposit and he also confided in me the last time he was in my office that no
one except me knew of his deposit in my bank. So, Twenty-one million five
Hundred Thousand United State Dollars is still lying in my bank and no one
will ever come forward to claim it. What bothers me most is that according
to the laws of my country at the expiration of seven {7} years the funds
will revert to the ownership of the Hong Kong Government if nobody applies
to claim the funds.

Against this backdrop, my suggestion to you is that I will like you as a
foreigner to stand as the next of kin so that you will be able to receive
the funds.

I want you to know that I have had everything planned out so that we shall
come out successful. I have an attorney that will prepare the necessary
document that will back you up as the next of kin (AT NO COST OF YOURS), all
that is required from you is to provide me with your Full Names and Address
so that the attorney can commence his job. After you have been made the next
of kin, the attorney will also file in for claims on your behalf and secure
the necessary approval and letter of probate in your favor for the movement
of the funds to an account that will be provided by you. We are going to
adopt a legalized method and the attorney will prepare all the necessary
documents in your favor.

There is a reward for this project and it is a task worth undertaking.
There is no risk involved at all in this transaction, I have evaluated the
risks and the only risk I have here is for you refusing to work with me and
alerting my bank. I am the only one who knows of this situation, good
fortune has blessed you with a name that has planted you into the center of
relevance in my life. Please endeavor to observe utmost discretion in all
matters concerning this issue. Once the funds have been transferred to your
nominated bank account we shall share in the ratio of 50% for me, 10% for
legal and other miscellaneous expenses and 40% for you but this can be
subjected to further negotiations. I send you this mail not without a
measure of fear as to the consequences, but I know within me that nothing
ventured is nothing gained and that success and riches never come easy or on
a platter of gold. Please observe this instruction religiously.

Should you be interested please send me your,

1, Full names,
2, Current contact address,

And I will prefer you reach me on my private email address:
llinyong@yahoo.cn and finally after that I shall furnish you with more
information's about this operation. Your earliest response to this letter
will be appreciated.

Kind Regards,

Lin Yong

Outlander (2009)

Alien vs Viking

Crank 2 (2009)

And doesn't it look amazing...Lets hope Crank 2 is better than Transporter 3.

Crystal Method's "Name of The Game" movie count: 8

Academy awards

Since the abrupt hiatus of the greatest movie podcast ever created, I have found myself falling away from movie news despite my best efforts. Am I disenchanted? Maybe. Am I jaded to the constant grime I am exposed to when reviewing cinema? Perhaps. Have I thrown my arms up at current cinema? Not yet. This is why I am almost a week late on reporting the Academy Awards for 2008. Why do I feel the need to report? Simply because I paid very close attention to 2008 and now have a vested interest in the awards season despite how frivolous and unimportant it is. Grab your seat mark your horses folks, its going to be a long race.

Performance by an actor in a leading role

• Richard Jenkins in “The Visitor” (Overture Films)
• Frank Langella in “Frost/Nixon” (Universal)
• Sean Penn in “Milk” (Focus Features)
• Brad Pitt in “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” (Paramount and Warner Bros.)
• Mickey Rourke in “The Wrestler” (Fox Searchlight)

Performance by an actor in a supporting role

• Josh Brolin in “Milk” (Focus Features)
• Robert Downey Jr. in “Tropic Thunder” (DreamWorks, Distributed by DreamWorks/Paramount)
• Philip Seymour Hoffman in “Doubt” (Miramax)
• Heath Ledger in “The Dark Knight” (Warner Bros.)
• Michael Shannon in “Revolutionary Road” (DreamWorks, Distributed by Paramount Vantage)

Performance by an actress in a leading role

• Anne Hathaway in “Rachel Getting Married” (Sony Pictures Classics)
• Angelina Jolie in “Changeling” (Universal)
• Melissa Leo in “Frozen River” (Sony Pictures Classics)
• Meryl Streep in “Doubt” (Miramax)
• Kate Winslet in “The Reader” (The Weinstein Company)

Performance by an actress in a supporting role

• Amy Adams in “Doubt” (Miramax)
• Penélope Cruz in “Vicky Cristina Barcelona” (The Weinstein Company)
• Viola Davis in “Doubt” (Miramax)
• Taraji P. Henson in “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” (Paramount and Warner Bros.)
• Marisa Tomei in “The Wrestler” (Fox Searchlight)

Best animated feature film of the year

• “Bolt” (Walt Disney), Chris Williams and Byron Howard
• “Kung Fu Panda” (DreamWorks Animation, Distributed by Paramount), John Stevenson and Mark Osborne
• “WALL-E” (Walt Disney), Andrew Stanton

Achievement in art direction

• “Changeling” (Universal), Art Direction: James J. Murakami, Set Decoration: Gary Fettis
• “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” (Paramount and Warner Bros.), Art Direction: Donald Graham Burt, Set Decoration: Victor J. Zolfo
• “The Dark Knight” (Warner Bros.), Art Direction: Nathan Crowley, Set Decoration: Peter Lando
• “The Duchess” (Paramount Vantage, Pathé and BBC Films), Art Direction: Michael Carlin, Set Decoration: Rebecca Alleway
• “Revolutionary Road” (DreamWorks, Distributed by Paramount Vantage), Art Direction: Kristi Zea, Set Decoration: Debra Schutt

Achievement in cinematography

• “Changeling” (Universal), Tom Stern
• “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” (Paramount and Warner Bros.), Claudio Miranda
• “The Dark Knight” (Warner Bros.), Wally Pfister
• “The Reader” (The Weinstein Company), Chris Menges and Roger Deakins
• “Slumdog Millionaire” (Fox Searchlight), Anthony Dod Mantle

Achievement in costume design

• “Australia” (20th Century Fox), Catherine Martin
• “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” (Paramount and Warner Bros.), Jacqueline West
• “The Duchess” (Paramount Vantage, Pathé and BBC Films), Michael O’Connor
• “Milk” (Focus Features), Danny Glicker
• “Revolutionary Road” (DreamWorks, Distributed by Paramount Vantage), Albert Wolsky

Achievement in directing

• “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” (Paramount and Warner Bros.), David Fincher
• “Frost/Nixon” (Universal), Ron Howard
• “Milk” (Focus Features), Gus Van Sant
• “The Reader” (The Weinstein Company), Stephen Daldry
• “Slumdog Millionaire” (Fox Searchlight), Danny Boyle

Best documentary feature

• “The Betrayal (Nerakhoon)” (Cinema Guild), A Pandinlao Films Production, Ellen Kuras and Thavisouk Phrasavath
• “Encounters at the End of the World” (THINKFilm and Image Entertainment), A Creative Differences Production, Werner Herzog and Henry Kaiser
• “The Garden” A Black Valley Films Production, Scott Hamilton Kennedy
• “Man on Wire” (Magnolia Pictures), A Wall to Wall in association with Red Box Films Production, James Marsh and Simon Chinn
• “Trouble the Water” (Zeitgeist Films), An Elsewhere Films Production, Tia Lessin and Carl Deal

Best documentary short subject

• “The Conscience of Nhem En” A Farallon Films Production, Steven Okazaki
• “The Final Inch” A Vermilion Films Production, Irene Taylor Brodsky and Tom Grant
• “Smile Pinki” A Principe Production, Megan Mylan
• “The Witness - From the Balcony of Room 306” A Rock Paper Scissors Production, Adam Pertofsky and Margaret Hyde

Achievement in film editing

• “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” (Paramount and Warner Bros.), Kirk Baxter and Angus Wall
• “The Dark Knight” (Warner Bros.), Lee Smith
• “Frost/Nixon” (Universal), Mike Hill and Dan Hanley
• “Milk” (Focus Features), Elliot Graham
• “Slumdog Millionaire” (Fox Searchlight), Chris Dickens

Best foreign language film of the year

• “The Baader Meinhof Complex” A Constantin Film Production, Germany
• “The Class” (Sony Pictures Classics), A Haut et Court Production, France
• “Departures” (Regent Releasing), A Departures Film Partners Production, Japan
• “Revanche” (Janus Films), A Prisma Film/Fernseh Production, Austria
• “Waltz with Bashir” (Sony Pictures Classics), A Bridgit Folman Film Gang Production, Israel

Achievement in makeup

• “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” (Paramount and Warner Bros.), Greg Cannom
• “The Dark Knight” (Warner Bros.), John Caglione, Jr. and Conor O’Sullivan
• “Hellboy II: The Golden Army” (Universal), Mike Elizalde and Thom Floutz

Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original score)

• “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” (Paramount and Warner Bros.), Alexandre Desplat
• “Defiance” (Paramount Vantage), James Newton Howard
• “Milk” (Focus Features), Danny Elfman
• “Slumdog Millionaire” (Fox Searchlight), A.R. Rahman
• “WALL-E” (Walt Disney), Thomas Newman

Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original song)

• “Down to Earth” from “WALL-E” (Walt Disney), Music by Peter Gabriel and Thomas Newman, Lyric by Peter Gabriel
• “Jai Ho” from “Slumdog Millionaire” (Fox Searchlight), Music by A.R. Rahman, Lyric by Gulzar
• “O Saya” from “Slumdog Millionaire” (Fox Searchlight), Music and Lyric by A.R. Rahman and Maya Arulpragasam
  

Best motion picture of the year

• “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” (Paramount and Warner Bros.), A Kennedy/Marshall Production, Kathleen Kennedy, Frank Marshall and Ceán Chaffin, Producers
• “Frost/Nixon” (Universal), A Universal Pictures, Imagine Entertainment and Working Title Production, Brian Grazer, Ron Howard and Eric Fellner, Producers
• “Milk” (Focus Features), A Groundswell and Jinks/Cohen Company Production, Dan Jinks and Bruce Cohen, Producers
• “The Reader” (The Weinstein Company), A Mirage Enterprises and Neunte Babelsberg Film GmbH Production, Anthony Minghella, Sydney Pollack, Donna Gigliotti and Redmond Morris, Producers
• “Slumdog Millionaire” (Fox Searchlight), A Celador Films Production, Christian Colson, Producer

Best animated short film

• “La Maison en Petits Cubes” A Robot Communications Production, Kunio Kato
• “Lavatory - Lovestory” A Melnitsa Animation Studio and CTB Film Company Production, Konstantin Bronzit
• “Oktapodi” (Talantis Films), A Gobelins, L’école de l’image Production, Emud Mokhberi and Thierry Marchand
• “Presto” (Walt Disney), A Pixar Animation Studios Production, Doug Sweetland
• “This Way Up” A Nexus Production, Alan Smith and Adam Foulkes

Best live action short film

• “Auf der Strecke (On the Line)” (Hamburg Shortfilmagency), An Academy of Media Arts Cologne Production, Reto Caffi
• “Manon on the Asphalt” (La Luna Productions), A La Luna Production, Elizabeth Marre and Olivier Pont
• “New Boy” (Network Ireland Television), A Zanzibar Films Production, Steph Green and Tamara Anghie
• “The Pig” An M & M Production, Tivi Magnusson and Dorte Høgh
• “Spielzeugland (Toyland)” A Mephisto Film Production, Jochen Alexander Freydank

Achievement in sound editing

• “The Dark Knight” (Warner Bros.), Richard King
• “Iron Man” (Paramount and Marvel Entertainment), Frank Eulner and Christopher Boyes
• “Slumdog Millionaire” (Fox Searchlight), Glenn Freemantle and Tom Sayers
• “WALL-E” (Walt Disney), Ben Burtt and Matthew Wood
• “Wanted” (Universal), Wylie Stateman

Achievement in sound mixing

• “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” (Paramount and Warner Bros.), David Parker, Michael Semanick, Ren Klyce and Mark Weingarten
• “The Dark Knight” (Warner Bros.), Lora Hirschberg, Gary Rizzo and Ed Novick
• “Slumdog Millionaire” (Fox Searchlight), Ian Tapp, Richard Pryke and Resul Pookutty
• “WALL-E” (Walt Disney), Tom Myers, Michael Semanick and Ben Burtt
• “Wanted” (Universal), Chris Jenkins, Frank A. Montaño and Petr Forejt

Achievement in visual effects

• “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” (Paramount and Warner Bros.), Eric Barba, Steve Preeg, Burt Dalton and Craig Barron
• “The Dark Knight” (Warner Bros.), Nick Davis, Chris Corbould, Tim Webber and Paul Franklin
• “Iron Man” (Paramount and Marvel Entertainment), John Nelson, Ben Snow, Dan Sudick and Shane Mahan

Adapted screenplay

• “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” (Paramount and Warner Bros.), Screenplay by Eric Roth, Screen story by Eric Roth and Robin Swicord
• “Doubt” (Miramax), Written by John Patrick Shanley
• “Frost/Nixon” (Universal), Screenplay by Peter Morgan
• “The Reader” (The Weinstein Company), Screenplay by David Hare
• “Slumdog Millionaire” (Fox Searchlight), Screenplay by Simon Beaufoy

Original screenplay

• “Frozen River” (Sony Pictures Classics), Written by Courtney Hunt
• “Happy-Go-Lucky” (Miramax), Written by Mike Leigh
• “In Bruges” (Focus Features), Written by Martin McDonagh
• “Milk” (Focus Features), Written by Dustin Lance Black
• “WALL-E” (Walt Disney), Screenplay by Andrew Stanton, Jim Reardon, Original story by Andrew Stanton, Pete Docter

Leaked Batman 3 Script

Really? Already? Oh wait...its just an internet rumor. Did I actually believe it? Maybe for a second. I wonder what we did to hype a movie before the internet.

Wolves in the Throne Room - Malevolent Grain EP

Well it is my first official snow day of the winter. I can remember snow days at my old apartment. Early in the morning, I would wake up gleeful and walk through the blustery winter landscape to 7-11. I would buy three large energy drinks along with various assortments of microwavable food. If my roomate would be home, we would open both of our doors and play black metal all day until we could hear it out in the living room. There is something so obvious about Black Metal and frigid landscapes. I would battle roaches in my kitchen to eat hot pockets combined with cool ranch Doritos and mountain dew. After two Monsters, I would be ready to take on the world. This would usually degenerate into auspicious projects marked by a critical failure rate as soon as the sugar crashed my system. I would end up on the couch around 12 and watch six hours of a Law and Order Marathon. Snow days were special to me even though I accomplished nothing. Becasue I no longer drink energy drinks or eat food which requires a microwave, I still celebrate snow days with loud unapologetic black metal. Recently released to 2009 is a limited vinyl EP from organic farming demons; Wolves in the Throne Room. Jamie Meyers (hammers of Misfortune), who lent her voice on other WitTR releases can also be heard on opening track. This release is a warm up to their spring 2009 LP Black Cascade and is also the first to feature a new guitarist .In the scope of black metal there are those who stay close to tradition and those who swan dive into experimentation. WitTR pay tribute to early 90's black metal with records in the vein of Darkthrone, early Emperor and Gorogoth. However the themes and lyrics deviate from pagan and misanthropic lore to a more earth based devotion. This green mythos could be viewed as an extension to black metals already established abandonment of western values. Nothing feels forced in their records as some new black metal. This is black metal for green anarchist who ruins your parties by picking fights with guests.






"I will lay my bones down among the rocks and roots" from Two Hunters (2007)

The wood is filled with the sounds of wildness
The songs of birds fill the forest on this new morning
This will be my new home
Deep within the most sacred grove
the sun god is born anew

I will lay down my bones among the rocks and roots of the deepest
hollow next to the streambed
The quiet hum of the earth's dreaming is my new song

When I awake, the world will be born anew

2009 update

In my absolute abandonment of 2009; I find it hard to shut out every album which happens to be made this year. Sopecifically albums from bands I have already come to enjoy. So my abandoment of 2009 is not absolute. It was more dramatic than absolute.

Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion

Animal Collectives ninth record has come with much fanfare and praise by..well...everyone. Some people are saying it is the best record of the decade. Really? Perhaps I am jumping on with everyone else because I missed out on the Kid-A train when it passed me sleeping in 2001. I do not even like Kid-A all that much but I would like to feel the way everyone else feels when they talk about the sheer brilliance of an album during the time It . I wonder if people felt this way when SGT. Pepper was released. Do people understand the magnitude of albums during the time or is it aquired over years of hindsight?I have always enjoyed animal collective and MPP returns to the underwater reverb of their earlier albums with traces of pop salvaged from Strawberry Jam. Best album of the decade? I would hate to miss out on an oppurtunity like this; so I agree.


Beruit - March of the Zapotec EP
Realpeople - Holland EP

The one man wonder, Zack Condon has released a double EP filled with 5-6 shorts songs each. The March of the Zapotec is Condon's Beruit combined with a funeral band from the remote villages of Mexico. The sound is very appropriate for Condon if not an unsuprising choice. I was always under the impression Beruit was backed by a mysterious band from an indegenous land. The Holland EP is ten times more suprising as it presents Beruits style of song in upbeat electronica. The electronica side is credited to "realpeople," a moniker used by Condon before the Beruit style took over. The EP's played back to back ends up being close to a short LP; which would constitue an album if it were not so experimental and light. These two EP's are the visual equivlent to intresting sketches; which sometime are more intriguing than finished products.


Various Artists - Dark Was The Night
A 44 track collection of exclusive tracks from venerable and popular indie rock artists benefiting Aids research. This album features some of the indie rock titans which have graced Pitchfork and other hip zines for the past 5 years. Long are the days of We are The World. 4ad will release a triple vinyl sometime in spring. So until the vinlyl is released and the official download is announced some of us will feel slightly bad for stealing a benift album.

The 2009 Razzie Nominations

Every year, the Golden Raspberry Foundation rolls out their nominations for worst movie. In this wild and crazy night which is award season; the Razzies represent the lighthearted moments to alleviate tension and seriousness. They also allow comeuppance to be reached for thousands of frustrated movie goers when it comes to blatant middle-American bullshit. When Mike Meyers eventually receives his worst actor award for "The Love Guru," it should be noted that "worst" does not imply without talent. Myers successfully created and implemented the role of a Hindu stereotype. There are actors in the field who couldn't scare a five year old. Last night, I was watching SS Doomtrooper and enjoyed some of the world's worst acting. However, B-movies rarely make the list despite the quality of their movies being far below Razzie's standard selections. Only popular A-list movies and other movies which gained some noterity during the year are included on this list. While the Razzies are far from stopping the eventual Hollywood implosion; it does allow us to feel redeemed after a year of cursing during the credits.

And the nominees are...

Worst Picture
Disaster Movie
In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale
Meet the Spartans
The Happening
The Hottie & the Nottie

Worst Actor
Mike Myers - The Love Guru
Eddie Murphy - Meet Dave
Al Pacino - 88 Minutes and Righteous Kill
Mark Wahlberg - The Happening and Max Payne
Larry the Cable Guy - Witless Protection

Worst Actress
Jessica Alba - The Love Guru and The Eye
Cameron Diaz - What Happens in Vegas
Paris Hilton - The Hottie & the Nottie
Kate Hudson - Fool's Gold and My Best Friend's Girl
The Entire Cast of "The Women" - Annette Bening, Eva Mendes, Debra Messing, Jada Pinkett-Smith and Meg Ryan.

Worst Supporting Actor
Uwe Boll, Postal
Pierce Brosnan - Mamma Mia!
Ben Kingsley, The Love Guru, War, Inc., The Wackness
Burt Reynolds, Deal and In The Name Of The King: A Dungeon Siege Tale
Verne Troyer, The Love Guru and Postal.

Worst Supporting Actress
Carmen Electra - Disaster Movie, Meet The Spartans
Paris Hilton - Repo! The Genetic Opera;
Kim Kardashian - Disaster Movie
Jenny Mccarthy, Witless Protection;
Leelee Sobieski - 88 Minutes, In The Name Of The King: A Dungeon Siege Tale

Worst Screen Couple
Uwe Boll and Any Actor, Camera and Screenplay
Cameron Diaz and Ashton Kutcher, What Happens In Vegas
Paris Hilton and either Christine Lakin or Jorel David Moore, The Hottie And The Nottie
Larry The Cable Guy and Jenny Mccarthy, Witless Protection;
Eddie Murphy In Eddie Murphy, Meet Dave.

Worst Prequel, Sequel, Remake Or Rip-Off
The Day The Earth Stood Still
Disaster Movie
Meet The Spartans
Indiana Jones And The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull
Speed Racer
Star Wars: The Clone Wars

Worst Director
Uwe Boll - Tunnel Rats, In The Name Of The King: A Dungeon Siege Tale And Postal
Jason Friedberg And Aaron Seltzer - Disaster Movie And Meet The Spartans
Tom Putnam - The Hottie And The Nottie
Marco Schnabel - The Love Guru
M. Night Shyamalan, The Happening.

Worst Screenplay
Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer - Disaster Movie And Meet The Spartans
M. Night Shyamalan - The Happening
Heidi Ferrer - The Hottie And The Nottie
Doug Taylor - In The Name Of The King: A Dungeon Siege Tale
Mike Myers and Graham Gordy, The Love Guru

Worst Career Achievement
Uwe Boll - "Germany's answer to Ed Wood".

OCDJ - What's Good (TI remix)

3 days of Magfest

During the next three days, I am going through my 400 pictures of the Music And Gaming Festival and posting them, in sections, on my site:
www.caspianisdead.com/photography

enjoy some extensive time with the obsessed and socially awkward.

Murder by Death

During the month of Novemeber, dark country outlaws, Murder by Death had a design contest for their next album split with ghostly americana revivalists; O Death. I submitted my design, and much to my protest, it was discarded for another design. So to you, my loyal readers I submit what could have been the greatest album design ever made.

Street Fighter (2009)

Alright. Movie news. At this year's Magfest I spent a considerable amount of time checking on updates on the Nibbler World Championship and the long line of people who sat around a projected game of Street Fighter IV. While I was enthralled in the updated graphics and the tease of a few new characters, I completely forgot they were making an updated version of the classic fighting game. Lets quick run through the list of new faces for some trusted characters.

The girl from Smallville as Chun-li
Some guy who was in 88 minutes as M Bison
The nice guy jock from American Pie as Charlie Nash
Michael Clarke Duncan as Balrog
Some dbag from the Black Eyed Peas as Vega
The guy who played Liu Kang as Gen
And the girl from Pathfinder as Maya

Besides MCD being born for the role of Balrog, I am extremely disappointed by the casting of this movie. Some people may be upset that I am dismissing the movie already, but I think we all know how it is going to turn out. There is only one street Fighter movie in my mind and no mix of flash and CGI can replace that.

Beyond 1990

I do not know what it was. It probably had something to do with the 100 albums reviews. I hate to say it, but 2009 means nothing to me. At least for now. I care little about what is about to happen and finding more interest in what I've missed. The first quarter of 2009 can wait while I revisit a special time. A time which I remember but have yet to experience. I have decided to only concern my attention to albums that were made from the period of 1985-1995. Specifically, amazing records which I missed becasue I was in my early teenage years, still watching MTV and scrambled late night soft core movies. This was a special time for music, or at least I have come to believe. Extreme optimism blanketed the end of the century, or at least I have come to believe. The economy was on the rise, or so we have learned. My current interest is focused on the early 90's but the scope has been expanded to include the late 80's. This inclusion is based on the assumption that what was created in the early 1990s was predicated and envisioned in the late 80's. So why albums from the early 90s? I have realize that as aesthetics mature, earlier points of interest may look very different. Living in a different body. Much of my experience with the early 90's is through fragmented memories and retrospective television programing. What of all the genuinely good things to come out, which have been somehow clouded by ridiculous fashions and classic movies. I wonder If things will be different this time around. Revisiting time periods is much like RPGs when a hero returns to an earlier dungeons with upgraded weapons. These albums are ones which I would appreciate If I was 19 during 1990 instead of 9, if I bought into the marketing existence of Generation X. 2009 can wait and any glorious achievement can be talked about during the spring. Maybe I long for things which have passed, or things which I couldn't possibly experience.

Cocteau Twins - heaven or las vegas
Pulp - different class
Girls against boys - venus luxury
Ministry - psalm 69
Nas - illimatic
Negativland - dispepsi
Orbital - green album / brown album
Pet shop boys - behavior
Sabres of paradise - haunted dancehall
The Smiths - meta is murder / queen is dead
Spiritualized - lazer guided melodies
Talk Talk - laughing stock
Teenage Fanclub - bandwagonesque.