on the left are Brock and me (on my knees) on the right is Tim peeking over David's head.
The second face on his hip.
The monstrisity in its entirityAll photos are courtesy of Brock Muench
-Brandon
Tuesday, January 24, 2006
We made a Moonshtah
A bunch of friends and I got together to make a snowman at 2 in the morning. It turned into a 4 decker monstrosity that looks like something out of "The Thing."
on the left are Brock and me (on my knees) on the right is Tim peeking over David's head.
The second face on his hip.
The monstrisity in its entirity
on the left are Brock and me (on my knees) on the right is Tim peeking over David's head.The second face on his hip.The monstrisity in its entirity
Sunday, January 22, 2006
The Slanket!
I need this so bad. It's so hard trying to read or play games while protecting yourself from the cold. The Slanket is the best idea ever.
http://www.theslanket.com/
http://www.theslanket.com/
-Brandon
Wednesday, January 18, 2006
More trailer reposts
Haven't posted in a while. I've been going through Apple's movie trailers and came across a few more films I'm looking forward to.
Tristam Shandy - A Cock and Bull Story looks strange, and very often that's all it takes to get my interest.
While it has been out for a little while, I'm just now seeing the trailer for The 3 Burials of Melquiades Estrada. I'm defiantly curious, although I've heard nothing about it outside of this trailer.
Superman is most definitely going to be a fun summer movie. I certainly have more hope for it then X3 even if X-Men 2 was really well done. I've always been okay with the decision to leave Beast out of the films because it would be impossible to have him not look stupid as a real life man in costume. Case in point - Kelsey Grammer looks like an ass. I will admit to being intrigued by the addition of the very recent Mutant Cure plotline used in the very recent Astonishing X-Men storyline. We'll see how it goes.
I'm a sucker for drama/suspense like Cache. If the plotholes aren't too huge, and the suspense is actually suspensefull, It's going to be something I'll enjoy.
Mission Impossible 3 is going to be great. I've become an obsessive Lost fan, and I know Abrams has the perfect twisty plot writing style to pull off a decent MI movie. Plus anything with Philip Seymore Hoffman is going to attract my interest. I still haven't seen Capote, but it's coming to the University theatre in March, so I'll have my time.
Thank You For Smoking isn't the most original concept. Placing a completely vile man as the main character in order to learn how truly evil what he represents is. It's not exactly subtle, but that doesn't mean it won't be funny or entertaining.
I almost wish that the trailer for Bubble didn't come with a description as I love the pure nonsensical and slightly creepy nature of the trailer. That alone makes me want to see the film.
Manderlay looks like just the sort of artsy film that I could enjoy. The trailer looks like the film was directed for the worlds largest stage and the dull colors and pitch black background look so cool on a film that is sure to be depressing.
The Poseidon Adventure was such an amazingly fun film. I still watch it whenever I see is on TV. So I'm at the very least curious about the upcoming remake titled "Poseidon." It looks pretty terrible, but I can't help but be curious.
Although the trailer doesn't look like anything special the 5 minute clip from Casanova does make me curious. It may be something worth renting.
There are always a few films I want to see purely because they look the perfect most entertaining variety of terrible. The Hills Have Eyes looks like a winner. Low budget horror about mutants in the long abandoned desert accidentally stumbled upon by random stereotypical middle class family on a roadtrip. Now who is it that there are maintained roads leading right into radioactive wasteland? Even the worst SciFi has given up on the concept that radioactivity creates monsters. It may cause defects but one eyed fetuses are hardly monster movie material without another threat backing them up.
I also look forward to anything with Uwe Boll's name on it. This man is a master artisan of terrible science fiction. Plus he's the first director I've ever heard of who's craft is devoted solely to video game adaptations. How he keeps getting movie deals amazes me, but I hope it never stops. Bloodrayne was a video game with a ridiculous but fun premise as a Nazi killing half vampire who sliced people with giant blades attached to her wrist. Who better to make the film adaptation? Oh wait, he set it in the wrong century. Well, that removes half the charm of the games premise. Nazi killing never gets a frown. Ah well, I'm sure Uwe Boll's film is sure to surprise no one and be completely and wonderfully awful.
And, although I won't feel any need to see this film, I feel a need to comment on it, because its mere existence infuriates me to no end. In case you haven't heard, Flight 93 is a film about what went on aboard the airplane that was hijacked September 11th but never made it to its intended destination. The thing is, no one knew what went on during that flight beyond the actions of the pilots and the facts that the plane was hijacked, and that there was supposedly resistance from passengers after they learned of the 9/11 attacks via cell phones. The film is supposed to be an accurate recounting of everything that occurred on the plane. But due to a lack of knowledge this can be nothing but a complete and total fabrication. Their claims to accuracy are in reality only one thing, a complete and blatant attempt to profit off of September 11th. It is an attempt to make money off of the tragically dead. Should they be stopped from making this film? No, they absolutely have the right to do it. But it is in no way respectable art. It's pure market driven trash that has less merit then the hundreds of cliched romantic dramedys and shitty teen comedies these same fuckers poor out year after year. If there is one movie I hope completely and totally bombs this year, this is it. It deserves none of the money they are hoping for.
Tristam Shandy - A Cock and Bull Story looks strange, and very often that's all it takes to get my interest.
While it has been out for a little while, I'm just now seeing the trailer for The 3 Burials of Melquiades Estrada. I'm defiantly curious, although I've heard nothing about it outside of this trailer.
Superman is most definitely going to be a fun summer movie. I certainly have more hope for it then X3 even if X-Men 2 was really well done. I've always been okay with the decision to leave Beast out of the films because it would be impossible to have him not look stupid as a real life man in costume. Case in point - Kelsey Grammer looks like an ass. I will admit to being intrigued by the addition of the very recent Mutant Cure plotline used in the very recent Astonishing X-Men storyline. We'll see how it goes.
I'm a sucker for drama/suspense like Cache. If the plotholes aren't too huge, and the suspense is actually suspensefull, It's going to be something I'll enjoy.
Mission Impossible 3 is going to be great. I've become an obsessive Lost fan, and I know Abrams has the perfect twisty plot writing style to pull off a decent MI movie. Plus anything with Philip Seymore Hoffman is going to attract my interest. I still haven't seen Capote, but it's coming to the University theatre in March, so I'll have my time.
Thank You For Smoking isn't the most original concept. Placing a completely vile man as the main character in order to learn how truly evil what he represents is. It's not exactly subtle, but that doesn't mean it won't be funny or entertaining.
I almost wish that the trailer for Bubble didn't come with a description as I love the pure nonsensical and slightly creepy nature of the trailer. That alone makes me want to see the film.
Manderlay looks like just the sort of artsy film that I could enjoy. The trailer looks like the film was directed for the worlds largest stage and the dull colors and pitch black background look so cool on a film that is sure to be depressing.
The Poseidon Adventure was such an amazingly fun film. I still watch it whenever I see is on TV. So I'm at the very least curious about the upcoming remake titled "Poseidon." It looks pretty terrible, but I can't help but be curious.
Although the trailer doesn't look like anything special the 5 minute clip from Casanova does make me curious. It may be something worth renting.
There are always a few films I want to see purely because they look the perfect most entertaining variety of terrible. The Hills Have Eyes looks like a winner. Low budget horror about mutants in the long abandoned desert accidentally stumbled upon by random stereotypical middle class family on a roadtrip. Now who is it that there are maintained roads leading right into radioactive wasteland? Even the worst SciFi has given up on the concept that radioactivity creates monsters. It may cause defects but one eyed fetuses are hardly monster movie material without another threat backing them up.
I also look forward to anything with Uwe Boll's name on it. This man is a master artisan of terrible science fiction. Plus he's the first director I've ever heard of who's craft is devoted solely to video game adaptations. How he keeps getting movie deals amazes me, but I hope it never stops. Bloodrayne was a video game with a ridiculous but fun premise as a Nazi killing half vampire who sliced people with giant blades attached to her wrist. Who better to make the film adaptation? Oh wait, he set it in the wrong century. Well, that removes half the charm of the games premise. Nazi killing never gets a frown. Ah well, I'm sure Uwe Boll's film is sure to surprise no one and be completely and wonderfully awful.
And, although I won't feel any need to see this film, I feel a need to comment on it, because its mere existence infuriates me to no end. In case you haven't heard, Flight 93 is a film about what went on aboard the airplane that was hijacked September 11th but never made it to its intended destination. The thing is, no one knew what went on during that flight beyond the actions of the pilots and the facts that the plane was hijacked, and that there was supposedly resistance from passengers after they learned of the 9/11 attacks via cell phones. The film is supposed to be an accurate recounting of everything that occurred on the plane. But due to a lack of knowledge this can be nothing but a complete and total fabrication. Their claims to accuracy are in reality only one thing, a complete and blatant attempt to profit off of September 11th. It is an attempt to make money off of the tragically dead. Should they be stopped from making this film? No, they absolutely have the right to do it. But it is in no way respectable art. It's pure market driven trash that has less merit then the hundreds of cliched romantic dramedys and shitty teen comedies these same fuckers poor out year after year. If there is one movie I hope completely and totally bombs this year, this is it. It deserves none of the money they are hoping for.
-Brandon
Friday, December 09, 2005
Silly people
Well, didn't take me long to find misinformation within the new Windows Live Local. Apparently Brucemore is now the Hoover Birthplace national historic trust which, as I recall, isn't even in Cedar Rapids. They aren't even in the same county.
Google and Yahoo got it right.
Google and Yahoo got it right.
-Brandon
Thursday, December 01, 2005
Discoveries
I woke from a very early sleep at about 9pm today with a huge cramp in my left calf. This is not a pleasant feeling. I spent a few seconds trying to figure out what was going on, and the next minute or so swearing as I tried to will the charlie horse away.
A coworker lent me The Mothers of Invention - Freak Out. I haven't listened to much Frank Zappa. What I had before this I didn't care for. I didn't hate it, I just couldn't get into it. This album has made me curious again. Very wierd, and very fun.
A coworker lent me The Mothers of Invention - Freak Out. I haven't listened to much Frank Zappa. What I had before this I didn't care for. I didn't hate it, I just couldn't get into it. This album has made me curious again. Very wierd, and very fun.
-Brandon
Wow
Mitch Clem, author of Nothing Nice to Say has made a really outstanding strip on the sexism still rampant in todays music.
-Brandon
Saturday, November 26, 2005
Soundtrack of Life... Again
Because I'm bored and I listen to different stuff then when I did this months ago I've remade a "Soundtrack to my life."
| Your Life: The Soundtrack | |
| Opening credits: | The Books - Take Time |
| Waking up: | The Books - Tokyo |
| Average day: | Brian Eno and David Byrne - America is Waiting |
| First date: | Prefuse 73 - One Word Extinguisher |
| Falling in love: | Blur - Sing |
| Love scene: | Jamiroquai - Virtual Insanity |
| Fight scene: | Death From Above 1979 - Cold War |
| Breaking up: | Devotchka - Such a Lovely Thing |
| Getting back together: | Scissor Sisters - Get it Get it |
| Secret love: | The Herbalizer - Song for Mary |
| Life's okay: | Broken Social Scene - 7/4 (Shoreline) |
| Mental breakdown: | Pilotdrift - Elephant Island |
| Driving: | Hot Hot Heat - In Cairo |
| Learning a lesson: | The Go! Team - Friendship Update |
| Deep thought: | Fiery Furnaces - Quay Cur |
| Flashback: | Jon Brion - Phone Call |
| Partying: | LCD Soundsystem - Daft Punk is Playing at my House |
| Happy dance: | The Go! Team - Feel Good by Numbers |
| Regreting: | Super Furry Animals - Run! Christian, Run! |
| Long night alone: | Madlib - Montara |
| Death scene: | Jon Brion - Over Our Head |
| Closing credits: | The Moldy Peaches - Jorge Regula |
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-Brandon
Monday, November 21, 2005
Saturday, November 19, 2005
Fiery Furnaces Kick Ass
I don't care what everybody else says, Rehearsing my Choir is out-fucking-standing. On par with Blueberry Boat. The Fiery Furnaces have my complete and total respect. They are probably my current favorite still active band.
-Brandon
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