8 posts tagged “bees”
This is now officially a Movie I'd Be Willing to See. It has the potential to be both hacky and stabby (durf!). But seriously, I would.
The post below this one, or after the 'next page' click after this one, was supposed to include this link to a similar, awesome live set from SebastiAn. This isn't him doing a show, pe se, but more like djing a party. I have not gotten through the whole thing, as it is an hour and a half, but i'll do it soon, I am sure. (of note, but not really: I've been trying to learn french for the passed year or so, via a traveling french lesson on my ipod, and I'm not so good, because it's kind of hard to study in public, which is when i would be doing it, and so i just don't bother studying. but it's there when i'm ready [Next time we sidenote, we promise to use proper punctuation]) Whatever, DANCE!
I'm kind of lazy. I'm working on so muc at once, that my pet project (this) gets neglected, since it's only a pet, and shits in a box and licks itself clean, I think it doesn't ever really need me, but it does. Movie things.
The aforementioned Kick-Ass, based on the comic series, picks up more cast, as, according to Cinematical:
[...] they've cast the lead: it'll be 18 year-old Aaron Johnson, whom you may remember as little Ed Norton in The Illusionist. Joining him will be Nicolas Cage and TV vet Lyndsy Fonseca. Fonseca will play the love interest, while Cage will play the father of Elizabeth Rappe's future daughter, "a vicious, foul-mouthed 11-year-old who chops down criminals with a katana." Apparently he's trained her to do that as part of his quest to take down a druglord.
I've seen Matthew Vaughn's (the director's) Layer Cake, and it wasn't bad--it was stylish, and I hope he can make a half-decent superhero movie that isn't living in the Dark Knight's shadow. This is a pretty low-profile character, so he should be aight.Next!
Another movie that I have on notice (I'll drizzle in info on some more of them as time goes on) is Inglorious Bastards. In the last few weeks, casting rumors have had actors coming and going--at one point Simon Pegg, soon to be of Star Trek fame, was attached, but he's apparently out. Here's what IMDB is offically saying the cast looks like, as of today:
Cast
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Brad Pitt | ... | Aldo Raine |
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Mike Myers | ... | General Ed Fenech |
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Eli Roth | ... | Sgt. Donnie Donowitz |
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B.J. Novak | ... | PFC Utivich |
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Samm Levine | ||
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Nastassja Kinski | ... | Bridget Von Hammersmark (rumored) |
Gotta love that 'rumored'. Why even include it? Also, the character names don't matter as much as the fact that someone is agreeing to be a part of it, which is the good news.
Finally--Harry Potter has been moved back to too far to be worried about right now, but here's a link to some pictures from the film/set, like it helps or something.
Shit yeah!...These eleven months are fuckin flying by, bro!
Lastly (more definite than 'finally'), people have seen Guy Ritchie's Rocknrolla, and they don't hate it, so that's a positive.
Hard Candy basically sucked anyway, amiright?
I bought a jump rope today. I bought it on a whim yesterday at work, actually, but it showed up today, meaning the next day, which is remarkable.
...I'm just, y'know, saying.
Will Smith begat a trend. Next up, briefly, is Jessica Alba, though my want for her to go away is less complex, more essential. The thing is, directors seem to be tempted to hire her, and so she will be cast in decent movies, ditzing it up in a ruining way. I mean, starring in Hayden Christensen coma thrillers is one thing--but please stay away from any further Sin Cities, THANK YOU. I will take Rose McGowan's pseudo-comic stylings over this one's wooden line readings any day. But to show I don't just hate actors, or good-looking people, I will say that Rosario Dawson is underrated, genuinely seems to be talented, and should get whatever roles she goes out for, because she doesn't suck, like Jessica Alba, who is fucking awful.
I like a lot of music and other stuff from the '80s, but not like everybody else. I can't stand Bon Jovi, I think Top Gun kind of sucked (this is arguable), but I like a lot of stuff from that time. However, I think the 90s takes the cake as being a time when people began to "care more" about how their product was perceived. Blame it on grunge and irony, but even artists of dubious originality quotients (like, say, Silverchair), wanted you to know that they meant it. With hip-hop and R&B, even the most bubblegum of artists needed street cred, somehow, some way, and one way was to throw a rapper on the track. I mean, people still do this: I think even the Jonas Brothers have done this.
So, in the case of the group Total, they already had the cred because of Puffy, and because they were total tough and/or bullish-looking, depending on which member you were talking about. Could there be a total these days? I mean, the Jonas Brothes are prettier than them, but that's only because they are trying so hard to be--Total didn't give a shit about being pretty, not at first at least. Anyway, Mariah Carey's temporay proteges Allure actually needed the rap accompaniment, if they wanted Funkmaster Flex playing their shit that is. So that's what we get, some Total, some Allure. Happy Wednesday.
The levels to which i am looking forward to the Dark Knight are sort of embarrassing. I don't think it's going to be the Best Movie Ever, or even the Best PG-13 Blockbuster Released in the Month of July Ever, but I've been looking forward to it since the joker card at the end of Batman Begins. I've been looking forward to it further ever since Heath Ledger was cast as the Joker. He has almost made me cry with his acting, so that makes him good (Brothers Grimm gets me every time jkjkjkjk).
Christian Bale was good in the Machinist (American Psycho was ok, the book was better) Morgan Freeman is boss hog, and Maggie G is good as well (I don't know shit about Eckhart, not from experience at least). Superhero sequels have a tendency to be pretty good, so i'm hoping.
I mean, i'm just looking to like it, the movie, just like the next fucker, so it can't let me down, because i don't have expectations of its quality, i just want to SEE IT. Okay, even that means there's an expectation on my part, but i tend not to read reviews for movies i plan on seeing, so when i see it, i hopefully won't know much about the consensus of its quality, so any bar set will be the one I've myself, which I can deal with. But i don't get genuinely geared up about a big budget movie, 'cept maybe once a year, (altho more than that this year) so we'll see how this ends up standing. I'm a fan of pretty much all involved, so I'm rooting for them to not waste my money.
Bees: In which I don't hate something.
I found Glass Candy from the Chromatics, who I found from Liars. I don't know how I found Liars, but more on them some other time. The Chromatics used to be noisy and scary, but by the time I looked for, and found, them on Myspace, they played night-time disco music, and were on the same label as these guys. I like these guys a lot, although, going in cold, one might not know what to think at first. Anyway:
