Thursday, November 25, 2004

Coconut Pete Songs


For those of you out there who are looking for songs by Coconut Pete, they're at the Club Dread official site, if you know where to look.

Here's some quick and easy links for you:

Pleasure Island
Naughty Cal
Pinacoladaburg
Comin' Blowin'


There you go. Enjoy.

Thursday, November 18, 2004

Total ReCarl


Gotta love that Carl. He just wants to live his life and work outta the home, but those food monsters next door just keep on messing with his life.

There he was, just trying to hide in his house and avoid the FryMonster. They talk him into taking a dump in a high-tech toilet situated in his front yard, and he ends up getting all chopped up until he's only left as a head attached to the FryMan's computer.

Frylock makes it so that his computer can translate Carl's thoughts into words, and, lo and behold, he ain't too happy. What are the words that Frylock feels the need to insulate Meatwad's innocent eyes from? Well let's have a look, shall we?


That Carl, dropping multiple F-Bombs on cable television, but wouldn't you?

I know I would.





Carl Laments

Meat-Wad F-Bombs

Saturday, November 13, 2004

Various Links and News

  • The Pentagon wants to create a new, military only Internet. Firstly, wouldn't that be an Intranet? Isn't that what the private ones are called? Secondly, the company I work for spent a whole bunch of money on their computer system, creating a company only system, and it doesn't really do that much, other than allow you to take worthless training modules, read company policy and check some reports. Hopefully they'll do better in the government, but I doubt it.

  • Tommy had the link, and I had forgotten about the site, but Hulk has a blog, or should I say, the Hulk from Toyfare's Twisted Toyfare Theatre has a blog. I like to think that this is Spider-Man from the same series' blog.

  • Ol' Dirty Bastard Dead?

    All for now.
  • Friday, November 12, 2004

    Don't See Saw

    I should've heeded the portents trying to keep me from seeing Saw. Two times I was supposed to see the film with someone else, and both times I was thwarted.

    If I'd just listened to what Universe was trying to tell me, the film would've been able to remain in that land of gumdops and candy corn where everybody has a good time and nobody starts checking their watch after ten minutes to see how much longer they have to endure their torment.

    On the way home I searched way back in my memory for a film that I was this disappointed by, and all I could come up with was John Carpenter's Ghosts of Mars. I was looking forward to both films, and they both came up waaaay short.

    For those who don't know, Saw is about two guys who are locked in a room by an evil genius and told they have to kill one another to escape. The premise is all fine and good, but then the filmmakers added about three layers of greasy, fetid crap on top and came out with a steaming turdpile of a film.

    I could ruin the plot-twists for you, but it wouldn't matter because except for the last one, they're not really very surprising, and the subplots with Cary Elwes' character's (can he do just one movie where he plays an American that he doesn't slip out of his accent whenever he plays 'emotional?') wife and daughter and Danny Glover's detective character are utterly pointless and weigh the movie down unnecessarily when it should be centering on the two main characters.

    Bad, cliched writing, barely adequate direction and scenery devouring actors combine to make this film barely watchable.

    The filmmakers need to go and study the works of Japanese filmmakers such as Takashi Miike and learn how to do a proper tragedy/horror hybrid which they were trying to do.

    And, for Chrissake, if you're going to do a plot point where a guy saws off his own foot to get out of a shackle, show some gore and spend a little money on a prosthetic stump, that covering his foot with a longer pantsleg is just bullshit.

    Man, this movie really bummed me out. Ebert was too easy on it in giving it two stars.


    1/2 babe (it only escapes a zero rating because I actually liked the little killer reveal at the end, but it came after two hours of wasted celluloid, cut about 90 minutes of this two hour film, and maybe I'd give it two babes).

    Thursday, November 11, 2004

    Crash Near To Me

    81-year-old walks away from crash

    By: BEN BENTON Staff Writer
    Source: The Daily Post-Athenian
    11-09-2004

    A Kingston man might agree with the saying among pilots that any landing you walk away from is a good one.

    Around 1:30 p.m. Friday, McMinn County emergency personnel scrambled to the area of County Road 67, where local residents said a small, single-engine airplane went down in a hilly field.

    Nearby resident Josh Guthrie said he was the first to reach the man, identified by authorities as 81-year-old John K. Franzreb of Kingston.

    “When I got down there he was hanging upside down,” said Guthrie, who noted the pilot seemed calm and relatively uninjured.

    ...

    “I asked him if he wanted us to call an ambulance and he said, no, that he was all right. I said, ‘I’m going to call them anyway,’ and he said, ‘Well, OK. But don’t call my wife,’” Guthrie laughed.

    ...

    At the scene, it appeared that the pilot might have successfully landed the little canvas-covered aircraft had it not been for a barbed wire fence stretching across the field where he attempted his landing.

    From the marks visible, it appeared the man got the plane on the ground and slowed down considerably before hitting the fence which folded the plane’s wings and turned it upside down.

    ...

    Another nearby resident, Bill Woody, also talked with the pilot and had seen the plane circling with apparent problems.

    “He was flying around my house next to the nursery,” Woody said. “He was going real slow and his engine kept cutting out and then it died on him.”


    This is right out near my house and I didn't even know about it until I happened to see this story on the front page of the paper on the way out from work.

    Gives me something to think about every time I hear one of those small planes buzzing by overhead (which is alot more often than you might think).

    Friday, November 05, 2004

    More Sound Files


    Because nobody demanded it, here are some sound files from my favorite movie of all time, Rutger Hauer's homage to Zatoichi, Blind Fury!"

    First, what is quite possibly the most clever line of dialogue in film, ever. (profanity alert)
    Next, Nick (Rutger Hauer) tells us all why life is so difficult.
    Finally, Nick reveals how witty he truly is.

    And, one sound unrelated to Blind Fury, "Some folks call it a sling blade, I call it a Keyser Blade."
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