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A Reference 11 Years in the Making

So my friend Nick and I have been having Sci-Fi movie nights lately, because he's my only friend who is into sci-fi. We recently watched Tron and it made me aware of a cultural reference that I have been exposed to for 11 years and have only now understood. I speak, of course, of South Park's modeling of their Moses character after the Master Control Program in the motion picture Tron. (comparative below)

Tron - Master Control Program

South Park - Moses

Not all that important. Just found it interesting that this cultural reference eluded me for so many years. I wouldn't be surprised if you haven't seen Tron.

C-Fuck Movie Review: Red

I'll start off with saying that I haven't seen a good, fun movie in a while. Seriously, movies are shit nowadays. That withstanding, I really enjoyed Red. It started off slowly, but had great comedic moments and decent action spread throughout.

The story starts off with Frank Moses (Bruce Willis) "enjoying" his retirement by doing the same routine he does everyday...for some reason, in Ohio. He wakes up without an alarm, he eats quietly, and he fakes not getting a social security check just so he can talk to Sarah (Mary-Louise Parker), whom he has a crush on. Soon after a few moments into his retired life, a squad attacks his house in the middle of the night. The destroy his house with a hail of gunfire. Well, since its the beginning of the movie, I think you can figure out how it turns out for those soldiers. He then meets up with Sarah and the chase is on.

The first time Moses meets William Cooper (Karl Urban), the agent fixated on bringing Moses down, we are treated with one of the best displays of bad-assery Bruce Willis has ever shown. And then he gets away with some clever trickery. Their fight later in the movie is also rather brutal, which is nice for a PG-13 movie.

The supporting characters all fill out their roles very well. Morgan Freeman is as cool and collected as ever, never really stealing the show, just adding to it. I thought Helen Mirren was going to ruin the movie by being an old hag, but she actually was one of the better parts in the movie. She was fun to watch and deadly throughout. Brian Cox is also in it, which I was unaware of. He was another character who didn't do anything other than produce a few chuckles and offer help, all with a Russian accent.

The real breakout star of the movie was John Malkovich. He played a character that was given "daily doses of LSD for 11 years" so you know he's going to be bat-shit insane. That is exactly what he was, and he did it perfectly. He was highly suspicious of everyone, which produced laughs in pretty much every scene he was in.

As with most movies, everything was pretty far-fetched, but the way everything unfolds is just kind of too convenient for the plot. Also, Sarah's character never seems to care that at any point she could be put in prison for life or killed. Women don't act like that. She is really attractive in the flick though, which is good, because everyone else is old. Even with those little gripes, I had a great time watching Red. I recommend it to everyone, especially if you like any of the actors in this movie.

I do believe that this is the first movie ever that Bruce Willis doesn't use his yelling voice at all. Crazy, I know.

I don't remember my old system, so here is an arbitrary number of my satisfaction
4.5 out of 5

Here's the trailer

New Show Review: ABC Owns Marvel...sorry...No Ordinary Family

Earlier tonight I watched the new ABC show, No Ordinary Family, and was met with mixed results. I thought I was going to sit down and watch a family drama, or maybe even a comedy...but it was neither. It was just...a show. It seems like it is genre-less. I mean, there was "drama" per se, but it wasn't anything all that eventful. No one gets kidnapped, hurt, molested, donkey-punched, or anything that would produce this thing called "drama." Ok, the daughter breaks up with her boyfriend. DRAMA! Oh, and the wife has to cancel dinner plans, but the Thing is happy about it so he can continue to have bullet catching time with the black guy from The 40 Year Old Virgin. Does this show have emotions?

The show starts off with Jim Powell (Michael Chiklis) trying to get his family to go on a vacation to Brazil, because they don't spend any time together anymore. Flash immediately to the airplane in a storm. Well, the plane goes down, the pilot is killed, and the family is trapped in the jungle in the middle of Brazil. Then they are captured by rebels and are subject to crazy medical experiments that give them superpowers...oh wait. They swim through what appears to be semen-filled water and wash up on shore. But they struggle to get home, right? Nope. They are fucking home in the next shot. No explanation on how they got out of the fucking jungle.

Well Jim is a police sketch artist, amazingly able to get access to a gun and police radios. Convenient. So he finds out that he's The Thing and the Incredible Hulk mixed together. The station attorney (Romany Malco) helps him do things, even though he's reluctant at first.

Jim's unbelievably hot wife, Stephanie (Julie Benz), is a scientist. Sorry, don't believe it, she's too hot. Oh, and she doesn't have enough time in her life to get everything done...yet she's never doing any work...except for the presentation she did. Well, guess what. She's the fucking Flash now. Convenient.

The son, JJ (Jimmy Bennett), is a dumb-ass. He is recommended for remedial classes. Well guess what, fucking teachers, he's super smart now. Convenient.

The daughter, Daphne (Kay Panabaker), is a total bitch. She thinks she's awesome. She can now read minds. She finds out no one likes her. Suck it, bitch! Sidenote: she's 20, so I can have bad thoughts of her butt.

The other people on it are the dad from 7th Heaven (Stephen Collins) and the girl who played Lizzie Grant from the later seasons of Entourage (Autumn Reeser). She's a super nerd in this show. It's kinda hot, but she's not good at being nerdy.

Spoiler Alert: Well, the big conflict near the end of the episode culminates with Jim fighting Nightcrawler. So you know that there are other mutants. It was actually a pretty cool fight too. Nightcrawler was a white guy in the show, but literally disappeared like Nightcrawler did in X2: X-Men United. Oh, it's probably because Disney (ABC) owns Marvel. So I expect to see Magneto as the main villian, and someone will probably have metal claws/bones in season 4...if this show makes it that far.
End Spoiler

Based on the first episode, this show is shit. I'll have to wait for a couple more to make a better judgment. I want it to be good, but it is ABC.

My Triumphant Return: An Open Letter to James Cameron

Dear Mr. Cameron,

I really like you as a director. You have built your career around some of my favorite movies, like Alien, Terminator 2, True Lies, among others. You were a king among men. So why did you have to be the one to unleash upon us the horror of 3D filmmaking? I commend you for devoting your precious time to redefining cinema, but seriously, why did it have to be 3D? Ever since Avatar came out, 3D has been all the rage. The overly fake looking, shiny turd of the cinematic style that 3D brings is being used by every god damn filmmaker looking to be all in-the-now.

But why?

I know one reason is that 3D movie tickets are like $14 a pop and the entertainment industry is a gigantic whore for the money. But that's not my main gripe (right now at least), because I don't pay for movies at the theater (yay connections!). My main gripe with this shit is that the filmmakers are using this technology as a gimmick. Things still pop out at the screen like in the times when you had the red and blue glasses. All playing into the gimmick. No one expands on the technology and makes it a worthwhile experience. So far (if I remember correctly), I have seen Alice In Wonderland, The Last Airbender, Step Up 3D, Piranha 3D, and Resident Evil: Afterlife all in 3D, and the only thing I can say about these movies (besides all of them sucking) is that the 3D hurts the film more than it helps, or adds to it. It makes everything look like its filmed in front of a green screen...which most of it probably is. On top of the crappy gloss that the movie exudes, you have to wear those awful glasses that only hurt my nose.

The ONLY type of movies that should use 3D is animated movies. YOU HEAR THAT HOLLYWOOD??! Whenever I see an animated movie in 3D, it actually looks good. It adds a field of depth and doesn't look overly fake, BECAUSE IT'S FUCKING ANIMATED! I've seen Bolt, How to Train Your Dragon, Toy Story 3, and probably some others and the 3D makes the visuals pop. In a good way.

So Mr. Cameron, please use your clout in Hollywood to donkey-punch this technology into submission. It's fucking useless. Maybe you're just trying to cover up the fact that no one has an original idea anymore. Let's have another remake...in 3D!!!! Fuck yourself, sir. You have ruined cinema after you spent decades making it fun. Congrats.

Now give me a job making Hollywood better.

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...because I can't let the Daily Clusterfuck die when it is so close to reaching 1500 posts.

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St. Valentine's Humour

I don't know why it is turning it sideways, sorry.

Valentine's Day Math Humour...anybody? anybody?




And not really a joke, but I think it is cute.



Love you guys.

A Little Culture for the New Decade

"we've all lost our way trying to feel good" by Simon Birch


Just liked this a lot

Xmas Break

So in light of my pending completion of my degree, and the fact that I go to court on January 12 and will subsequently be on probation, I have decided to come home for a few weeks over break and really do it right. So I will be in Rochester from a few days before Christmas until sometime between the 9th and 12th of January. I'm not able to drive until the end of January, so if you want to see me (hint hint) you're going to have to visit me. This may be the closest I get to home for a while so I hope I get to spend a bunch of time with all of you. I took a plea bargain so I'll have the standard faire - year probation, classes, 50 hours community service, 90 license suspension, etc. Once again I don't know if people will check this, but it's at least a little bit more personal than Facebook.
See you in a few weeks! :)

Nothing Worthwhile, but...

lol

Why is it that every new guy

looks just fucking like me?

Update

Allow me to join the ranks of those before me with criminal records. I got an OWI last Wednesday night (DUI to you guys, whatever, you get it) and spent a miserable 11 hours surrounded by people puking and pissing all over the drunk tank. So just so you all know, I'll be on probation starting probably in a few weeks, but this is just about the least of my concerns in my life, besides the amount of money I don't have that it's going to cost me. I don't think anyone even comes on here anymore but if you do there's your update.

Oh Nickelback, You Suck

This is a wikipedia tribute to how much they suck. Thanks, CollegeHumor.com

Every Nickelback Wikipedia Page Vandalism Ever


Also, here's a picture of their album art for All The Right Reasons. Oh yeah, they totally stole that. Way to be original, douchebags

Cant wait

for the waiting to end

Worst of the Worst

Rotten Tomatoes put together this movie list of the worst of the worst movies of all time based upon their user ratings. Some I have never heard of, so not sure how bad they really are, but some you will find definitely deserve to be on here. Enjoy!

FUCK COMCAST

So I get a letter from comcast explaining how my rate for JUST INTERNET is jumping from 30/month to 60/month on my next bill. And I was aware of this. But I can't wait to call them tomorrow and fucking yell at someone until they keep me on the lower price because comcast internet is truly the worst pile of shit I've ever seen. Our internet tends to cut in and out just about half the time I'm online - in fact it is now. This internet service is NOT worth 60 dollars. It's not even worth 30 frankly. so by raising enough of a fuss I'll give them two options:
1) Keep me at 30 dollars/month or
2) Lose me as a customer

FUCK YOU COMCAST. FUCK YOU IN YOUR GODDAMN BLEEDING CUNT

also I found out today that a class (my independent study) MAGICALLY disappeared from my schedule over the summer so now in order to graduate I have to enroll in it - which seems intelligent to me, but of course this now means I'm paying $3500 out of pocket. i.e. my approximate net worth
fml

NPH

Yes, I'm talking about Neil Patrick Harris. He's fucking awesome. I watched part of Harold & Kumar 2 earlier today and just reaffirmed how awesome the guy really is. He brings fun and entertaining to every performance he does. He's a drugged up, revved up, oversexed ball of hilarity in Harold & Kumar. I honestly don't really remember his roll on Doogie Howser, because I was really young, but everything else I've seen him in has been gold. Starship Troopers was a greatly underapprieciated film. NPH didn't have a huge part in the movie, but it was great when he was on screen. In the show How I Met Your Mother, NPH plays a hilarious womanizer with amazing "wisdom" to unload on the other character. Again, his part in both Harold & Kumar movies were top notch. He is probably the funniest gay guy in Hollywood. Cottonmouth, he's all yours. The reason I bring this up is twofold: 1) This blog is super boring and 2) I wanted to show you this video. It's over 40 minutes long, but its good nonetheless.

The Resistance

Here's my official review.
I couldn't agree more with what's been said: meh...
This is an example of a band getting too crazy in the studio and ending up producing something that sounds overwrought and, at times, dare I say a little ridiculous.
It starts out good - Uprising is a good classic style Muse song, with a good hook, and Resistance is a decent song as well (even though the beginning of it is literally the EXACT same as the middle of Citizen Erased off of OoS- come on Matt Bellamy). Two decent tracks, but the beginning of this album has NOTHING on their previous albums. The first time I heard the beginning of Absolution, I knew right then I had to buy the cd just based on one track - and the other albums have similarly explosive beginnings... not so here. If Uprising was the only Muse track I'd ever heard, I don't think I'd give them a chance.
Undisclosed Desires could have caught my attention if it was fleshed out a little better, but I like the chorus, so I'll let it slide as just being a little bit of a throwaway - it'd probably be sweet live though. I like the 80s synth-pop Culture Club kinda sound to it.
Now here is where things get weird. Eurasia just tries to be too epic and ends up coming across as sounding pretty stupid in my opinion. Yeah, we get it, you're channelling Queen... but that was a different time and they created that sound for themselves. Unlike the nods to Queen in BHaR (Soldiers Poem and Knights of Cydonia), Eurasia's "Queen" moments sound out of place and weird. And yeah, we get it you're using the model of the United States for some dystopian future supercountry. But where the political messages were at the exact right time in BHaR, now it just seems like a tired cliche. And Collateral Damage - which is actually just an unnecessarily long quotation of Chopin's famous Eb major nocturne... only with a bunch of wrong notes - is totally unnecessary.
Guiding Light? Boring. Boring. Boring. I've only made it through this track once. It's repetitive, tacky, boring, easily the worst track they have ever written in my opinion. Now looking back on the first couple tracks of this album, you can see its biggest flaw: Muse kinda forgot they were a kickass rock band. No sweet guitar solos, or memorable bass lines, or furious piano/synthesizer arpeggios. It's just all kinda blah. Besides a few nice moments in the first few tracks, there is really no substance here. But then...
THANK FUCKING GOD WE ACTUALLY HAVE A ROCK SONG. Unnatural Selection rocks. Easily one of my favorite tracks on the album. Lightning fast transitions and a good riff. This reminds me of some of their older tracks. Not much to talk about besides that.
MK Ultra is my favorite track. I think it's the most unique and clever track of the album. It's beautiful and rocks at the same time, and it never gets old. This is the one track I've been listening to with great regularity
I Belong to You starts out promising (besides the ridiculously badly conceived "woo!" at the beginning. wtf) Nice funky riff, and the squelchy acid-y bass sound that I always love. But then again with the extensive classical quotations! This time it's from Samson and Delilah. In interviews, Matt Bellamy discussed his experiences seeing the Vienna Opera, and how moving it was. Which is fine, but again - you're a rock band. It almost feels like Muse is pushing to see just how "anti-rock" they can get before they complete alienate their audience. And then when the fast part comes back we're greeted with a rockin... bass clarinet solo. Read those words again. Bass clarinet solo. This is another example of this pushing the envelope too far. And honestly, it could have worked, but whoever's playing is doing it SO unmusically that it may as well be a midi file.
And now we reach the Exogenesis symphony. Which is ok. I like the first "movement" the best out of the three - probably the first time they've successfully created the epic sound they've been trying to create for the whole album. The second and third parts are fine, but it's more of that slow, meandering, unmemorable music. Kind of like the beginning of Invincible before the sweet guitar solo in it.
There are certainly some great moments in The Resistance, but it's like Muse is just yelling "we're a great band! we'll be one of the best! we're going to change music forever!". What were intended to be nods to great musicians and composers end up sounding like self-righteous bullshit, and coming from a classically trained musician, usually end up making Matt Bellamy seem less talented than he actually is - the Chopin Nocturne, in particular, just reeks to me of people I'd always meet who really weren't that great of pianists but would learn to play the same 5 songs in a really half assed way to show off to people, even if their memorization wasn't quite right or even if it was a little sloppy - it's classical music for idiots (no offense meant by that comment, I know it's really elitist of me to say). When Black Holes and Revelations came out I couldn't stop listening to it. Literally. for months. I was finding new things in each track with every listen, and I loved it. I have only listened to The Resistance once all the way through. And I had to check with myself to make sure it wasn't just because my music tastes have changed (because admittedly, I didn't listen to Uplifter or Mantis nearly as much as I should have - the latter I'm listening to more again now :) ). But it's just that The Resistance isn't that strong of an album.
Muse tried to write their Magnum Opus, their Rock Opera. And it just didn't work. Too much strings, too little shredding, too much classical, not enough rock, too much quoting others, not enough coming up with something interesting to say. Well at least we got a couple good tracks out of it...
-Cottonmouth Out

Hahaha, I Hate the iPhone

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By Now You Probably Know What Kanye Did

This is my review of the MTV Music Awards. Yes, 3 days later. Yes, it's MTV, who gives a shit?

Did anyone watch it? The intro with Madonna talking about Michael Jackson was done with class. The dance tribute after that was awesome, with some screw ups here and there. But I'll allow it...they aren't MJ. Janet singing and dancing to "Scream" was awesome, even if her voice sounded off and she missed a spin. Still an amazing opener.

Russel Brand is alright as a host. He's able to bring the mood up, even with the whole Kanye thing. You know, the thing everyone is talking about. Where, at the beginning of the show, Taylor Swift beat out Beyonce for Best Female Video and (unprovoked) Kayne runs on stage, takes the mic and says that Beyonce should have won. Leaving Taylor standing there dumbfounded. She's like 17 (not sure, don't care). That is just a disrespectful display of shit that Kanye is known for. He's such a douchebag. Glad he got booed off and didn't win anything. The horrible part is that they didn't let her finish. The producers forced her off the stage. Glad to see that they care for anyone. Luckily for Taylor, Beyonce has enough class to bring her back out to finish her speech.

The skits with Eminem and Tracy Morgan were alright.

Taylor Swift had a nice lip-syncing performance. Lady Gaga is fucking nuts. Beyonce had a good performance. Green Day I fast forwarded. Muse was alright, wished for more. Didn't watch Pink but she did some trapeze work.

The worst part of the show for me was the Rock Video of the Year award (I think that what its called). It showed me the horrendously decrepit state of rock and roll nowadays. The songs nominated for Best Rock Video (maybe that's the name of the award) are THE WORST FUCKING DEPICTIONS OF ROCK I'VE EVER SEEN IN MY LIFE!!! They might as well have put Kayne in that race. I wanted to cry. This is why I don't listen to much new music. Because it sucks. I weep for future generations.

Well, something MTV did is garnering buzz around the country. These awards are jokes. Still fun to watch the show. Even if the shit winning is terrible

In Brief

From the LA times review of "The Resistance":

You don't have to make it all the way through "Exogenesis," the three-part symphony that closes the new album, before you start hankering for a Nickelback-style chorus.

WTF??? If there's one thing I NEVER have a hankering for, it's a nickelback style ANYTHING

I'm only on track 3 so far (I've been out and about) but so far it's good - I don't know if it's grabbing me quite as much as Black Holes and Revelations, but I also haven't been smoking when I listen to it and it's still too early to tell... I'll post my full review later

Good News for a Fucking Change

So I got great news today in the form of the fact that I got cast as the character I wanted in the Magic Flute down here (the character is Papageno, the bird catcher). I was up against like 10 other guys and was one of two selected for it - it's a pretty huge deal - he's not the LEAD per se, but I have 3 solo arias, which is more than anyone else in the show, and I'm the comic relief which means I'm gonna be everyone's favorite character. As long as I don't suck at it haha. But yeah, the shows are November 13,14,20,21, the singing is in German and the dialogue is in English (it's about half and half). I would love as many of you as possible to come down here - it's a brand new production so it's liable to be just as impressive as the production for La Boheme when I did it. if you can't make it, it's gonna be streamed in high definition online with subtitles. But yeah... I've been waiting for a week and a half for the casting results and I almost started laughing and crying hysterically when I found out because it's been stressing me out so much. Not only that - but there's probably two songs you'll actually recognize from the show! One of them is used in the red bull commercial where the cat eats the bird (bird catcher- get it?) and the other one is also in a bunch of commercials and such.
So I know I'm rambling but this is like the first exciting thing to happen in my life in weeks besides getting really drunk all the time.
So much love to you all, I will remind you about this when it gets closer, but a road trip down here around that time would be awesome. I'll try to get up there before then, but if not, don't forget I'm not in school anymore next semester... i.e. trip to FL anyone?
-Cottonmouth out

Mushrooms for Christmas

I didn't read this whole thing (I might eventually) but this is a LONG article discussing the relationship of magic mushrooms to Christmas and Christianity in general. Pretty interesting stuff. Ya know, if you're like me and enjoy mushrooms.

www.bibliotecapleyades.net/sociopolitica/atlantean_conspiracy/atlantean_conspiracy45.htm

my favorite quote:
"If you have mischief, wickedness, or secrecy in you, then entheogens [e.g. natural psychedelics, used for the intention of a religious experience] will take you down into the depths of your own hell. But if you have kindness, love, and truth within you, entheogens will raise you up into the heights of that heaven. When people of a poor disposition or in a negative mood eat magic mushrooms they usually have a “bad trip” and experience frightening or depressing hallucinations."

So what this tells me is I have kindness, love and truth in me :) EDIT: oh, and also mushrooms

Slap Chop Rap

So some guy made this video, and it's pretty amusing.

The hilarious part is that Slap Chop now uses this video for a commercial selling the product. They edited it for time, but they left in the "You're gonna love my nuts" part!