Wednesday, August 26, 2009

WTH Country Music!!!

WHAT!!!
THE!!!
HELL!!!
Country music!!! Seriously, is there some kind of stupid game going on with country music stars??? Did they like meet somewhere and discuss this? This is how I imagine this going. Country douche #1 "So country music is boring, we need to do something to spice it up." Country douche #2 "I agree but what can we do? We're boring fucking people. We can only sing about dogs and tractors so many times!" Country douche #1 "True, but we country music male singers need something. All the female country music stars just started singing pop and calling it country. We got nothing." Country douche #2 "I got it!!! Why don't we have a competition to see who can sing the most retarded jackass song and turn it into a #1 hit! It doesn't actually have to be good, we can just use our supposed stardom to sell it! It gives us something to do and make money! It's win win!!" Country douche #1 "Excellent idea!"
I know this song is old, but I just heard it today. But WTF Brad Paisley!!!??!? Fucking Ticks!!! Seriously WTF were you thinking??? Who thinks telling a chick that you wanna check her for fucking ticks is a great idea for a fucking song??? Are you fucking mentally retarded?? How do people accept this jackassery?!? I mean are they that hurting for ideas in country music? All done with tractor, dog dieing and break up songs? Fuck what should we sing about next? Well we're country, whats in the country? FUCKING TICKS!!! GENIUS!! WHY DIDN'T I THINK OF THIS BEFORE?!?! Seriously, check the video the chicks in the video go crazy for TICKS!!! WTF COUNTRY?? Are you all really that damn redneck??


Brad Paisley = Dildo

Saturday, August 22, 2009

District 9 - Review

This movie is brutal, visceral, and pure genius. Not since I saw Batman: The Dark Knight have I felt a movie blended action, drama and compelling story so perfectly and to be honest I felt, as a movie, it was better. District 9 speaks to humanity as a whole. It shows our selfishness and brutality. It exposes our inability to tolerate differences, our greed, and our lack of respect for even our own species. Humanities barbaric nature and greed take center stage. Even when one of our own is in need of help, he ends up exploited by his own family for greed. The underlying story of love and understanding though can be easily missed amongst the brutality of the rest of the film, but it's there in the relationship of Wikus and Tania and the prawn Christopher and his son. Not until the end does Wikus' fight for self preservation give way to his understanding of what is more important, the subjugation of an entire race or himself. Through the whole movie we have humanities selfishness shoved in our face but the last 30 min shows that even that basic instinct can be overcome to help those who truly need it.
Neill Blomkamp is an amazing director. He blended action, storytelling, visuals, camera work and sound perfectly. Now the POV camera stuff was rough for me, I tend to get motion sickness, but it was important for the film. It helps the story, it gives you perspective on whats happening. The transitions from one camera style to another work very well and roll well into the action sequences. The scoring is perfect for this movie, it helps us get a sense of the brutality appearing on screen or the solemnness of the moment with its silence. The volume is actually matched appropriately too. Never did I feel like the music or sound effect drowned each other out, I always knew the music was there but didn't feel like it intruded on the scene taking place.
This movie is simply amazing. If you can watch, understand and learn from it you'll walk away a little more insightful and hopefully a little more tolerant of others. Try not to let its message overpower you and cause you to dislike the film just because you may have a difference of opinion, but like any debate try to see its point of view.
District 9 is an ingenious film, with fantastic direction and believable acting. While some scenes are hard to watch and some camera work makes you feel like you're about to blow chunks it helps drive the point of the movie home, you just gotta be open to the ideas it presents.

10/10

Wednesday, August 12, 2009

Why does TV suck major ass?

Seriously though, why? It's god awful. There are like 5 shows that have any substance to them at all. Most of it is retreaded trash that MTV or E! has done like a hundred times. Reality TV isn't fucking reality!!!! It's trite contrived shit. They're scripted, and I use the term loosely, "actors." Even the regular fiction TV sucks major ballsack. Lost is probably THE worst TV show to come out since Saved By The Bell. It's garbage. The actors are horrendous. The story is so fucked up and trying to be genius with it's craptastic plot twists that it ends up being obvious and a big fat epic fucking fail. The only good TV I've seen, is usually on the History or Discovery Channel. Gangland for instance is great documentary TV. It actually shows shit that affects our lives. Gangs are a huge problem in our society that we kind of blew off after the mid-90's. Us blowing it off didn't stop it from spreading like the fucking Black Plague. One fictional TV show that I think is worth anything is Supernatural, yeah it's your standard monster hunter spiel but it's fucking good. It's campy and cheesy, like a good action flick. The lines are your standard macho bravado and the soundtrack is always good classic rock. It's fun to watch because it isn't pretentious trying to be profound and deep. It's two dudes beating the shit out of horror movie monsters! It's like being 10 and sneaking back into the living room to watch the horror flick your parents said you couldn't. I rarely even watch TV anymore most of it's crap. Bones - crap, Lost - feces in a bag, The Hills - mung (yeah see if you remember what that means). Again I ask, why does TV suck major ass? The world may never know.

Mastodon - Crack the Skye Review

So I had heard Mastodon off and on over the past 5 years. I really liked their music and thought they were pretty bad ass. Colony of Birchmen is probably my favorite of their songs. I finally decided to buy one of their albums. I downloaded Crack the Skye (Deluxe Version). From iTunes "The lyrics unravel a fantastic story about a paraplegic who can only travel out of body. He burns his anchor to reality and is lost in space until getting sucked into a wormhole and into a spirit world where ghosts send him to Tsarist Russia, puttin his soul inside Rasputin's body (who is murdered after trying to usurp the czar). The protagonist's soul must then fly home while the Devil trys to trick him." How trippy is that shit? Honestly, it works!! Oblivion is an eerie tune, with deep droning vocals and a slower more melodic guitar sound which totally sets up the whole astral projection business. You can totally see yourself leaving your body and flying off to space, its creepy as hell if you truly think about it. The music throughout the album is A. MAZE. ING! Each song is different, in pacing, instrumentality and vocal stylings. Troy Sanders and Brent Hinds each have amazing voices which fit perfectly with how they arrange their music. Alternating between dark and brooding to frantic and aggressive the instrumental section is fantastic. In the deluxe version you get all of the songs plus the instrumental scoring, minus vocals duh. Brent Hinds and Bill Kelliher are amazing guitarists that switch pacing between songs like it's nothing. The solo in The Czar: Usurper/Escape/Martyr/Spiral is phenominal, listen to the score and you'll be blown away. Brann Dailor is an amazing drummer who sets random pacing throughout the album, but who's transitions through that frenetic pacing is flawless. Overall this album is a testament to the true artistry Metal musicians can have, fantastic story and amazing musicality by all band members. 10/10 I will be buying more of their albums!

Watchmen Review

I actually really enjoyed it. It was much better than I expected. It was confusing, but in a purposeful way, like any GOOD mystery/drama movie. All questions were answered. Action sequences were fantastic, acting was good, performances felt genuine. I honestly think it kind of got the shaft on reviews. There wasn't near as much crazy effects reliance as reviewers made it seem. Dr. Manhattans blue penis wasn't as prominent as most people made it out to be. From what I read and the people I knew who had seen it made it seem like there was a big blue wanger in every scene. It was only in like maybe 3 scenes for like 3 seconds, I would have barely even noticed at all if I hadn't been looking for it, yes yes I said I was looking for blue penis get over it. Granted the random love scene in Archimedes, while awesome, was a little unnecessary. Overall I think this movie was really good and did not deserve the bad reviews it got. On a 1-10 scale it was a solid 8, but as a comic book lover I would give it a 9.5.