Happy Birthday George Carlin!!

May 12, 1937-June 22, 2008

It's First Friday...

some of the city footage was shot on a couple first fridays... (wish the image quality could be better but oh well)

Bride of Mondegreens

a MONDEGREEN is the mishearing or interpretation of a statement or a song lyric

*the real lyrics are in ITALICS

Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough (Michael Jackson)

"C'mon with the porn stores (or stars)

Don't stop 'til you get enough"

"Keep on with the force, don't stop

Don't stop 'til you get enough"

Working My Back To You Babe" (The Four Seasons)

"I'm working my way back to Yubei"

"I'm working my way back to you, babe"

Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic (The Police)

"I resolve to call her up a thousand times a day

Ask her if she'll marry me and say no fucking way"

"I resolve to call her up a thousand times a day

Ask her is she'll marry me in some old fashion way"

I Love It Loud (Kiss)

"Sweet boy, love it like a cookie pain

You better believe it"

"Street boy, no I never could be tamed

You better believe it"

"Tune it up, guilty proven innocent"

"Turn it up, hungry for my medicine"

"Because I love it... How I wanna hear it now"

"Because I love it... Loud, I wanna hear it loud"

Dancing Queen (Abba)

"You can dance You can die" (or dive)

"You can dance You can jive"

"Where they play the rap (or white) music"

"Where they play the right music"

"Minorities in the maternity ward"

"You're a teaser You turn 'em on"

HAPPY 60th BIRTHDAY JESSICA LANGE!!!

Things You Shouldn't Laugh At....

Pick Your Five...

 This was collected from my facebook page, namely "PICK YOUR FIVE..." from the living social app, so what better way to kill the boredom? Any who, as far as numbering goes, none are in order.

FAVORITE MOVIES

1. Day of the Dead (1985, dur)

2. Angel Dust

3. Godzilla (1954)

4. Robocop

5. A Hard Day's Night*

*NOTE: If the living social search bar had Toho's banned 1974 masterpiece, "Prophecies of Nostradamus" I would have definitely added that.

MOVIES I GREW UP WITH

1. Godzilla 1985 (nowadays I of course prefer the original non-bastardized version)

2. Dawn of the Dead (1979)

3. The Black Hole

4. Jaws

5. Legend of Dinosaurs and Monster Birds

BOOKS I LOVE

1. World War Z

2. Haunted

3. The Lost (Jack Ketchum)

4. The Phantom of the Opera

5. Acts of Worship

BEST TV SHOWS

1. The Simpsons 

2. South Park

3. Mystery Science Theater 3000

4. Kids in the Hall

5. Ultraman

FAVORITE ALBUMS

1. Weezer [Blue Album] (Weezer)

2. Turn On The Bright Lights (Interpol)

3. All Things Must Pass (George Freakin' Harrison)

4. Bargainville (Moxy Fruvous)

5. The Beatles [The White Album] (The Beatles)

FAVORITE ALBUMS DURING MY COLLEGE YEARS

1. Turn On The Bright Lights (Interpol)

2. You WIll Go To The Moon (Moxy Fruvous)

3. Loud And Clear (Moods For Moderns)

4. Dark Side Of The Moon (Pink Floyd)

5. Some Cities (Doves)

FILMS I REGRET PAYING MONEY TO SEE

1. Scary Movie 2

2. Vanilla Sky

3. Transformers

4. Hancock

5. Wolf Creek

DISNEY FILMS

1. The Black Hole

2. Tron

3. Toy Story 2

4. Pinocchio 

5. Sleeping Beauty

FIVE FAVORITE REMAKES

1. King Kong (1976, yes 1976)

2. Night of the Living Dead (1990)

3. The Thing

4. A Fistful of Dollars

5. The Fly

FAVORITE ACTORS\ACTRESSES

1. Peter Cushing

2. Asia Argento

3. Jessica Lange

4. Peter Sellers

5. Jeff Bridges

FIVE WORST MOVIES I HAVE EVER SEEN

1. Spider-man 3

2. Mighty Peking Man (not even Evelyn Kraft can redeem this one)

3. Rob Zombie's Halloween

4. Swim Fan

5. Carnosaur*

*NOTE: When making that list, I forgot to add The Black Circle Boys

BEST SUPER HERO MOVIES

1. Superman

2. Batman 

3. The Dark Knight

4. Superman II (The Richard Donner cut)

5. Iron Man

FAVORITE DIRECTORS

1. George Romero

2. Sogo Ishii

3. Lloyd Kaufman

4. Terrence Fisher

5. Takeshi Kitano

DOG BREEDS I LOVE AND OWNED OR WANT TO OWN

1. Golden Retriever

2. German Shepherd 

3. Beagle

4. Pug

5. Rottweiler

CELEBRITY CRUSHES

1. Asia Argento

2. Jessica Lange

3. Edwige Fenech

4. Christina Ricci

5. Drew Barrymore*

*NOTE: How awesome is it that Jessica Lange and Drew Barrymore have a show together on HBO? Too bad I don't have any of those commercial free movie channels lol)

CARS I WANT TO DRIVE ONE DAY

1. Batmobile (from Batman '89)

2. KITT (from the original Knight Rider)

3. Mach 5 (from the cartoon and not the movie)

4. Herbie!!

5. Honda Accord 1994

GREATEST STAND-UP COMEDIANS OF ALL TIME

1. George Carlin

2. Demitri Martin

3. Dave Chappelle 

4. Eddie Izzard

5. Mitch Hedburg

BEST GAME EVER*

1. Super Mario World 

2. Dêjavû (NES version)

3. Maniac Mansion (NES version)

4. River City Ransom (NES version)

5. Grand Theft Auto: Vice City

*NOTE: This list was the toughest. 

FAVE ALCOHOLIC DRINKS

1. El Presidente Margarita

2. Sakê

3. Gin and Tonic

4. Irish Car Bomb

5. Corona Beer

The Ronettes know what COOL is...

The Ronettes - Be My Baby (live)
Video sent by skinandbones

so yeah... Catwoman.

 I LOVE comic books but haven't read any in a long while. I haven't even read any of the trade paperbacks, collections and graphic novels I bought a few years and months back. Not that I am ignorant of what's been going on with the big companies like DC and Marvel, it's just of the horror stories I've been hearing about. DC's Final Crisis sounds like one big mess. Ditto to what they did to Batman and a good friend told me Superman cries every chance he gets. Marvel isn't any better either. All the crap they have done to their flagship character Spider-Man disgusts me (ie, "The Other", "Civil War", "One More Day", "Brand New Day" storylines). Actually, Spider-Man has been unreadable since the Clone Saga B.S. from the early to mid 90s. I've only been keeping up with my favorite characters thru blogs and news articles than reading any actual issues.

 Any who, with keeping tabs on the industry Adam Hughes artwork for Catwoman has really jumped off the page and caught my eye. He's the first comic book artist to do so in quite some time (the last were horror artists\writers, Junji Ito and Suehiro Maruo). I should make it clear I've never read a single issue of Catwoman in my entire life, but Hughes artwork for JUST the front covers alone makes me want to now even if only does the cover for the book. Just the way he draws the title character is eye catching would certainly be an understatement. I loved the way he made her sexy rather than slutty. Doing some research, he said he modeled Catwoman\Selina Kyle after his favorite actress- Audrey Hepburn. 

 I was wondering that when I first saw the cover for issue #74 and my jaw dropped. That's right, my jaw dropped over a fictional character made up by pencil, ink and paint. Pin-up art for geeks. I still can't get over how unbelievably GORGEOUS Ms. Hepburn was (on the inside as well). You know, the kind of beauty that makes you want to lift your heavy sofa way over your head and rip it in half like in some Ren and Stimpy cartoon while delivering one intense primal scream? The only other women I can think of at the moment who share such a beauty are Asia Argento, Jessica Lange, Edwige Fenech and French singer Alizeê. Come to think of it, I think Asia Argento would make a pretty friggin' awesome Catwoman\Selina Kyle.

 So, without further ado, here is some artwork from Adam Hughes' work on Catwoman.

Mondegreens

a MONDEGREEN is the mishearing or misinterpretation of a statement or a song lyric (from http://grammar.about.com/od/mo/g/mondegreenterm.htm)

here are only a few of my own misinterpretations from my childhood on up.

(and don't you hate it when the lyrics in your head sound better than the actual ones?)

*the real lyrics are in ITALICS 

She Loves You (The Beatles)

"The shoes she's thinking of"

"It's you she's thinking of"

Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds (The Beatles)

"Pissing in the sky with diamonds"

"Lucy in the sky with diamonds"

Obstacle 1 (Interpol)

"I wish I could eat the salt off your left favorite lip"

"I wish I could eat the salt off your lost faded lips"

"She fucks me" (repeat 6 times)

"She packs it away" (repeat 6 times)

A Time To Be So Small (Interpol)

"Re-horsing an erection he wasn't even there"

"Rehearsing interaction he wasn't even there"

I Want You To Want Me (Cheap Trick)

"Shinin' up the both my shoes, give 'em a brand new shine"

"Shinin' up the both my shoes, put on a brand new shirt"

"I'll put out a beautiful word if you say that you love me"

(OR: "Oh, it'd be a beautiful world if you say that you love me")

"I'll get off early from work if you say that you love me"

Heart of Glass (Blondie)

"Don't you mistrust what's far behind"

"Mucho mistrust, love's far behind"

"Your cheatin' eyes (or lies) have been loved"

"You teasing like you do"

"Lost in time, I double all illusion and I get a high (or along) (or a lot)"

"Lost inside, adorable illusion and I cannot hide"

"And I run and hide although it's just a drewish (or foolish) lie (or line)"

"And I run and hide yeah, riding on love's true bluish light"

"Seemed like the real thing, Oh Mormons are fine (or though moments aside)"

"Seemed like the real thing only to find..."

more to come...

25 Facts About American Cheese

Ehhhhhh, I think for my first blog entry I'll just post some random facts about myself...

1.) I LOVE the woodlands and thick forests. It's like I'm on another planet and the feeling is AMAZING. 

2.) When I was a little kid, I wanted to be the guy in the Godzilla suit (a dream shared with Tim Burton)

3.) My favorite directors include: 

George Romero 

Sogo Ishii 

Terrence Fisher 

Ishirô Honda 

Tim Burton

Lloyd Kaufman 

Takeshi Kitano 

Trey Parker

Jun Fukuda 

Wes Anderson 

Teruo Ishii

John Carpenter 

Takashi Miike 

Steven Spielberg 

4.) The foreign languages I would love to learn the most are: 

Japanese* ("Kaijû mite nandesuka?")

Italian ("Il tuo vizio è una stanza chiusa e solo io ne ho la chiave")

French ("Ce soir on sort et on oublie tout")

Russian ("I must break you")

*I took two semesters of Japanese in college, but with time I'm afraid my Japanese became a little rusty.

5.) I have phobias of:

Drag Queens (not that there's anything wrong with that)

Swimming in deep bodies of water

Zombies (Thriller gave me my nightmares as a three year old)

6.) My five biggest "celebrity" crushes are:

Asia Argento

Jessica Lange

Edwige Fenech

Christina Ricci

Kaoru Yumi

7.) Some of my favorite actors include:

Peter Cushing

Jeff Bridges

Peter Sellers

Michael Keaton

Roy Scheider

Tetsuro Tamba

Christopher Lee

Buster Keaton

8.) The platypus and beaver are my favorite animals. They're just so damn weird looking and knee slapping hilarious to watch and observe.

9.) I share a birthday with my good friend Lorene, Peter Weller (the guy who played Robocop) and Nancy Allen (the lady who played Robocop's partner, Lewis)

10.) My favorite color is green. To me, its the color of life, nature, peace, relaxation and comfort

11.) I think Looney Tunes is America's finest achievement in animation. My absolute favorites are all the ones done by Chuck Jones.

12.) If I had tons of money, I'd buy acres of land and just adopt unwanted pets.

13.) From age fifteen to age twenty-three, I took my camcorder everywhere with me.

14.) I can only work on creative projects when alone. If someone comes up from behind to watch I freeze up completely. I don't even have to turn my heard, I know when someone's looking over my shoulder. 

15.) I'm a hopeless romantic and I hate it.

16.) I've always wanted to sing Bruce Springteen's "Dancing In The Dark" at karaoke and invite a girl up to the stage and dance. (although I would need a few drinks in me first) http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x232sk_bruce-springsteen-dancing-in-the-da_music

17.) I live in the desert, so any animal larger than a jackrabbit is like seeing Bigfoot or the Loch Ness Monster. I freaked and froze up in awe when I saw my first coyote.

18.) Some of my favorite songs in the world:

Rain (The Beatles)

Leif Erikson (Interpol)

Young Folks (Peter Bjorn and John)

Heart Of Glass (Blondie)

My Little Town (Simon and Garfunkle)

Dancing In The Dark (Bruce Springsteen)

My Sweet Lord (George Harrison)

My Name Is Jonas (Weezer)

Bettie Davis Eyes (Kim Carnes)

Cantaloop [Flip Fantasia] (US3)

Just Like Heaven (The Cure)

Black And White Town (Doves)

19.) My favorite film composers include:

Akira Ifukube

John Barry

Basil Poledouris

James Horner (pretty much JUST for Krull)

Goblin

Masaru Satô

Isao Tomita

Danny Elfman (up to Men In Black)

John Williams (up to Jurassic Park)

20.) My dream project would include:

zombies

razor wielding killer apes

giant monsters

naked go-go dancers in body paint

21.) When I was four or five I:

broke my arm

had eye surgery

impaled my foot with a rusty nail (which was attached to a piece of broken fence)

22.) The food that never fails to make me vomit is tuna fish. It tastes bad, it smells bad, it looks bad and sounds bad. A close second would be mushrooms.

23.) When I was really little, I though everything in the world before 1965 was all in black and white. I also thought people started saying the really nasty bad language after 1967.

24.) The WORST movies I have ever seen include...

Spider-man 3

Swim Fan

Mighty Peking Man

Carnosaur

Rob Zombie's Halloween

...to name only a few (I'm talking movies so bad they make you want to take the dvd out of the player and stomp the ever loving shit out of it)

25.) I'm a contradiction. I love modern architecture, but I hate urban growth. I abhor violence, but can't get enough of it on any medium. I love sleaze, trash, the eru-guro in book and film, but I'm a feminist and sort of innocent. I'm a dog person, but only see myself getting a cat. I'm all about love, peace, equality, fairness, justice, animal rights, freedom, liberty, all that good stuff; but I hate hippies and the REALLY far left (just as much as I hate the REALLY far right).