13 posts tagged “bored”
Um, yeah, hey there. This is the number three google image result for the term 'drunk hot girl'. This was searched for random blogging purposes, but it also saves you the trouble.
In case you wondering.
I one day hope to make this place at least, like, semi-substantial in the content department, but I seriously have a lot of writing crap to do, and not a lot of hours to do it. But, one thing I do for sorta fun is read random crap online, and Stuff Hipsters Don't Like is my new favorite random crap, probably only for the next two weeks until I like something else for two weeks.
Coincidentally, I am watching an example of Hipster Eye Deficiency Syndrome (HEDS) in action right now by observing a hipster who is sitting in my place of work! He came in wearing tight jeans and a tie that probably came from my grandpa’s contribution to the Salvation Army, and at first I was surprised to see that he had no type of lens sheilding his eye. But then, as he took out a book to read, he donned a pair of Ray Ban sunglasses! If I did not know about HEDS, I would be completely baffled by this behavior, as most people require light to read.
Fun, fun.
Sometimes (read: always) I wish I lived in an area where there was more happening instead of basically nothing--meaning, I wish I lived in a city, so I could just hop a train somewhere cool. I mean, yeah, being in Jersey, I can basically do that anyway, but that's not my point. My point is, I want what I don't have, not what I could have if I tried a little harder. Anyway, things:
Over at the Editing Room, they've got the abridged script for the Dark Knight, and it's not bad, but it's got a bristling comments section going for it. I was lured in and contributed some of my office-addled insights, like this gem:
Lastly, as this thread seems to be devolving, there is a difference between rating a movie, and rating the experience of watching it. I the TDK is pretty darn entertaining as a movie, in the theater, that I sat there and watched (twice). As soon as I left the theater the first time, I was able to point out flaws, but when I went back to watch, I could care less about the flaws, because I was having a good time, because that’s what the movie is: a good time. It gets a lot of gas for dealing with psychological issues, and for being almost unrelentingly somber, and I think that’s why it gets a pass with so many people: it’s okay that it’s imperfect because it seems to mean well. It treats the comic with respect and blahblah…
So, yeah. In Rod’s review/script for GVS’s Psycho remake, he points out that there is a lot that isn’t entirely awesome about the movie because it wasn’t so awesome in the original. But Psycho transcend’s the criticism beause it upped the ante at the time and people have been ripping it off ever since. That is the case here, sort of, at least according to the media, so that’s TDK’s burden and is why it’s probably so easy to get excited about, and so easy to hate as well. RANT!
OMG I'm so fucking insightful!
The Hollywood Reporter also has a story about the Dark Knight (because it's fun to talk about), and along with it, they've got a sampling of the hefty bundles of millions it's gotten for everyone's favorite charity case, Warner Brothers:
$871.5 million
Worldwide boxoffice cume$489.4 million
Domestic boxoffice cume
(second highest ever)$158.4 million
Opening weekend (best ever)$49.8 million
Worldwide Imax gross (highest ever)34%
Percentage of Imax viewers seeing the film for at least the second time18
Days to reach the $400 million domestic benchmark (fastest ever)
Sources: Nielsen EDI, Imax Corp. and THR research; figures as of Sunday night
I'm so happy for them! Next and last, Aaron Sorkin, the mushroom-enthusiast and West Wing show creator, is putting his considerable, mind-bending talents toward the feat of writing a Facebook movie. Sigh. Look, what I'm posting are reasons to drink this weekend. Says THR:
Facebook was founded by Mark Zuckerberg while studying at Harvard along with pals Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes. At first, membership was restricted to Harvard students, then expanded to all Ivy League schools before going on to open up for all universities and high schools in Canada and the U.S. The site now has more than 100 million users worldwide.
Despite offers in the billions of dollars, Zuckerberg has steadfastly remained independent.
Endeavor-repped Sorkin last wrote "Charlie Wilson's War," while Rudin has "Revolutionary Road," starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet, and the film adaptation of the Broadway play "Doubt" coming out this fall.
"I feel about this introduction the way I felt about 'Sophie's Choice': It could have been funnier," Sorkin finished.
Whatever, Aaron. Lastly lastly, your boy Mike Phelps is gonna host SNL. Later daaaaays!!!
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?
Webmd has this story about how some skin moisterizures contain carcinogens, and have been giving cancer to test subject. The test subjects are animals obv, so you don't have to be sad, just scared:
Four commonly used moisturizers promoted skin cancers in mouse studies.
Mice are not men. But the unexpected finding suggests that these -- and perhaps other products -- may not be as safe as they're thought to be.
The moisturizers tested in the study were Dermabase, Dermovan (a wholesale-only product discontinued in 2006), Eucerin Original Moisturizing Cream, and Vanicream.
In a mouse model of sun-related skin cancer, frequent application of each product resulted in more skin tumors and faster tumor growth, says study leader Allan H. Conney, PhD, director of the Susan Lehman Cullman Laboratory for Cancer Research and professor in the school of pharmacy at Rutgers University in Piscataway, N.J.
"This was unexpected. We really did not expect to see the tumor-promoting activity of these creams," Conney tells WebMD.
I'll say! I expected to just lube up to prevent ashiness, now my skin is dying and shit. Thanks a lot, fuckers--and go New Jersey research programs!
[Webmd]
What I hate is being in the bathroom at work (or anywhere), washing my hands, then someobody walks in. That person makes the bum's rush for the nearest stall and locks themselves in. Now, I'll be done and out of here in two seconds, but does he use this time to make himself comfortable, warm up the pot? No. He unleashes a hell-torrent squeaky-explosive ass rips that send me staggering out of the restroom in shock. Dude--we get it: you're taking a dump. Give me a chance to leave you with some privacy, bro! Is this not etiquette, because it should be.
Further, I got like no hours of sleep last night, so have minimal energy. I blame my roommate, because I only have one for a couple more weeks, and I've gotta get my blamin' in while the blamin's good. Plus, it's his fucking fault.
Nothing a Red Bull can't fix...
I remember when somebody laughed at me for having a copy of St Anger, the album Metallica came out with in 2003 (so long ago!). I didn't really know better, because I never really "got" Metallica, so one album I didn't understand was as good as the next. The point is, I finally "got it", going from their early 90s stuff, to their late 90s stuff, which I actually liked, then back to the 80s (I like ...and Justice For All the most). But apparently Metallica get it as well, because their next album will be of SPEED METAL (said menacingly [thunder roars]) and will be liked because Rick Rubin produced it and people like him. Being late to the party (me, that is), they were interviewed a while back about it by Rolling Stone.
Set for a September [12th, a Friday] release on Warner Bros., Metallica's still-untitled new album is their first since 2003's St. Anger and their first with bassist Robert Trujillo, who joined in February of that year. It is also a stunning, overdue return to the shock and rush of the band's speed-metal monuments, 1984's Ride the Lightning and 1986's Master of Puppets.
Oh, I believe you!
The guy who crafted the Hulk movie that it's cool to hate, and that I haven't even seen, and probably won't for a long time, has announced his next project. And if you're asking, yes, Emile Hirsche is attached. From the all-knowing Variety-bot:
(in robot voice)
Focus Features will begin production late this month on "Taking Woodstock," scripted by James Schamus and to be directed by Ang Lee.
Demetri Martin ("The Daily Show With Jon Stewart") had already been set to play Tiber, an aspiring interior designer in Greenwich Village obliged to run the family business, a Catskills motel. In summer 1969, he found himself at the center of a generation-defining experience when he volunteered the motel to be the home base for Woodstock concert organizers after his neighbor, Max Yasgur, made his farm available for the event.
...[Emile] Hirsch will play a recently returned Vietnam vet, Eugene Levy will play Yasgur, and Schreiber is in talks to play a transvestite named Vilma.
Did the robot voice ruin it? Me too. Also, Eli Roth might be in Inglorious Bastards for some reason, and Leo Dicaprio won't be, because QT wants to get some German guy to do it, instead of some guy who will make sure the film doesn't tank. Thanks, Variety, for writing this post for me!
The New York Times has an article about how, in Manhattan, it's becoming more difficult for sellers to get rid of their fancy-pants one bedroom apartments, alluding to the lackluster economy and such. The idea is that apartments with two or more rooms are easier to move than the places that would normally go to rich single, or affluent married, manhattanites. It's supposed to be maybe poignant and a sign-o-the-times more than just informative (what's the percentage of people who read the times, especially online, who can relate to this struggle, or to whom it is truly pertinent) but it has glazed my eyes over, because I am dumb poor. I click on the article thinking, 'oh, my, maybe the fates have brought Young New York to its knees and I can now afford to go there for more than a day at time!' But no.
And by one estimate one-bedrooms have been taking nearly three weeks longer to sell than bigger, or smaller, apartments.
Damn, shit is real out there!
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I work out and crap, and, I, like, I assume, most people who do the same, hold myself to a physical template, and this concept will be discussed in this area, on this post, later. I can't figure out how to get my computer at work to accept the level of granduer I expect from my posts, so I have to think of this shit while I'm here, and wait 'til I get home to actually flesh it out, oh, poordom!
I'M BACK: Anyway...So where was I? Right. America's blog, Gawker, calls attention to a study that concludes that pictures of skinny, pretty models advertising a product, makes women feel worse about themselves and, inversely, makes them think the product is representative of some sort of ideal that is better than them, making them want to buy it. I see this happen with dudes as well--they walk by Abercrombie and see the ripped guy posing some jeans, call him a homo, then go buy the fucking jeans, as if Levis doesn't sell just as good of quality. Now, the thing about models, whether male or female, is, if being a model is their primary source of income, then they have all the time in the world to work out if they want to. They don't have to spend all day in the office, or the daycare center, or Applebees, then hit the YMCA on the way home. All they have to worry about is looking good, so holding yourself to look like them can be dangerous, because you are not them.
BUT, I kind of feeling like a dude trying to get ripped like a model can be done in a good way, and the person can become overall more healthy because of it. Of course, anything can be abused, including your body, in the name of obsessing over how you look in the first place. But if girls are trying to look like Kate Moss, and they want to get that way within a year, there really can't be a healthy way to acheive this. She's fuckin' super skinny and (allegedly) does drugs, so even if you're dieting, it's probably a shit diet. If you're working out, it's probably too much. I mean, she's good looking, but why would you want to look like her?
What I mean is, besides the implication of being in perfect light and having a world renowned photographer play up your best features, maybe we can consider the dozens of different body types that come off as attractive, instead of whatever one type we all, respectively, have fixed in our minds as the bees fucking knees. So here's a bunch of pictures of people's bodies, and you can decide which ones are healthily attainable (and worth going for, if only to be healthy, if you need a reason not to feel supeficial about it). Mixed up, boys and girls (click on pictures for larger).
link to gawker
link to Adage covering the study
model portfo pics from COACD
