Cloud Atlas. The Wachowskis, who can really favourably be described as decent action directors, are making Cloud Atlas, one of the most narratively complex novels I've ever encountered, into a fucking movie. The directors of the Matrix trilogy and Speed Racer...making THAT into a movie.

DO

NOT

WANT.

Yeah, I know I'm putting off writing my vacation post...but this is just too damned funny.

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Big, informative post later. Right now? Unhappy tummy and serious case of jet lag = bed time. Oof.

So, I was going to write this long ranty mcranterson post about how utterly vomit-inducingly bad and sexist and stupid and bad the latest Metroid game is, but...well, I'll just let Abbie Heppe of G4 TV explain.Nice job guys. Turn the shining beacon of unsexualized female badassery in videogames into a fucking whiny, mopey little insecure girl with ( Read more... )

So, in about 36 hours, I will be landing in Beirut. City of my father's birth. A place he hasn't visited for fourty years, and that Maral and I only know of through old photos and news reports. I've been dreaming of this for about twenty years, finally seeing the place my dad grew up. And yet it still hasn't really hit me that it's happening ( Read more... )

Because it's what the cool kids are doing...

"The rules: Don't take too long to think about it. Fifteen albums you've heard that will always stick with you. List the first fifteen you can recall in no more than fifteen minutes. Why? Because it's interesting to see what albums a person will think of, and what that may or may not say about the ( Read more... )

As many of you already know, last week we lost one of the greatest animated film directors of all time when Satoshi Kon died of pancreatic cancer. That...was deeply saddening news. What I found yesterday was that since he pretty much knew he was down to his last hours he wrote one last blog post as a thank you and farewell to his friends, family ( Read more... )

So, it's that time again. I've gone through the list and the just released schedule, and here's what I've picked this year:

Legend of the Fist: Return of Chen Zen on the 9th at 9:30 pm
Super on the 10th at midnight
Bunraku on the 11th at midnight
Vanishing on 7th Street on the 12th at midnight
The Trip on the 13th at 12 pm ( Read more... )

I hope yours was far, far less physically and mentally exhausting as mine was.

On the plus side, yay two days pay in one! *FLOP.*

What the fucking fuck is fucking wrong with people. CAPITALISM BAD! ME SET FIRE TO STARBUCKS AND POLICE CARS! DURR!!

I hate people. I cannot fucking WAIT for this utterly moronic bullshit waste of time and money to get the fuck out of my city, so we can begin to have some semblance of normalcy again.