“He’s no good to me dead…”
On the other hand, this would be perfectly satisfactory.
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purple hatorade · Live from the Uncanny Valley
My nondiscriminating love of animatronics causes me to forgive many tawdry things I would otherwise regard with revulsion. I love the simulated “natural” movements, the whirring and clacking of the mobile armatures, and the herky jerky motions. The less convincing, the better. I would love to get close enough to Disneyland’s animatronic (not “robotic,” mind you) Abraham Lincoln to hear his eyelids grinding as he fake blinks.
So even overpriced, soulless corporate chain restaurants serving nutritionless, nigh-toxic food to children while exploiting their wide-eyed, innocent wonder for money…if they feature creepy animatronic characters, they get a pass. Such is the case of Showbiz Pizza, and I’m clearly not the only person captivated by the not-live band. Rock-afire Explosion is a documentary about the animatronic band at Showbiz, animatronics in general and this guy Chris Thrash who has, it appears, reassembled the band in some context of his own. I am deeply intrigued.
Patrioticklish
Here’s a joke I made up for the holiday, but I forgot to post it. You can tell it at the watercooler to illustrate your respect for the founding fathers.
Q: Why is the senior citizens prom held on July 4?
A: Because it’s In Depends Dance Day.
Boba Breakdown
Bruno and Jaru, eat your heart out…
chesterfly · Sporelebrity
I’ve been looking forward to the game Spore for…10 years? I dunno. Seems like the news on it has been around longer than the news on Chinese Democracy. It finally comes out in September and EA is holding a celebrity spore creature contest. It’s not too exciting, but any contest between David Lynch, Curt Schilling, MC Hammer and Adam West is pretty cool in my book.
Here’s Curt Schilling’s “Munch and gang”
wall*e review
good. theatre was almost full and I was the only person there between the ages of 15-45. The most ironic disney movie of all time and proof that they have no script or editorial approval of what pixar does.
The Last Crusade
Apparently, revenge is a dish best served corny:
It’s like a corpse from within a pissed-upon grave kicking his way through the coffin and pee-mud in order to piss on the grave himself before lying back down in it. “My turn!”
I will never stop talking about this.
You’re Doing it Wrong
Carlin RIP
My grandpa was VP of Ozark Airlines til the mid-70’s. Never heard of it? I don’t blame you, but one of my grandpa’s claims to fame was that he fired George Carlin. Skip to the 5 minute mark of the video and you’ll see a pre-obscene Carlin ad for Ozark. Carlin started gettin’ dirty so grandpa told him to clean up his act or he’d get canned. Carlin made the stupid mistake of sticking to his guns and ended up with a career that culminated in his posthumously receiving the Kennedy Center’s Mark Twain award for humor this November. Dumbass.
Post a day
I’ve been MIA for awhile as I adjust to the 30601 zip code. Feel like I should post something especially dorky. So here it is. My plan is a post a day til I return to the 93110. Smoke it.
“How to Ruin Millions of Childhoods in 2 Hours”
An uncoy distillation of the latest Indy movie that, for all its bitterness, has much more integrity than the real thing:
Stan Winston died
Whenever I heard that Stan Winston was attached to a film, I knew the make-up and physical effect work was going to be the best it could possibly be.
zenzer ·