Dood, Remember Kurt Loder?

This weekend, Bangkok Dangerous, the new geriatric action flick starring Nick 'put that mother fucker in a cage' Cage is opening, and boy does it look terrible.

I was perusing a few, and by few I mean gargantuan amounts of short reviews of this new blockbuster on RottenTomatoes.com and I noticed a special someone had added their 2 cents to the pile of online movie critics.  The almighty Kurt Loder, formerly and currently of MTV (I cannot believe the guy still has a job there) gave his stale remarks about both Cage and the movie.  Really!?  Kurt Loder is ripping into this?  I thought he was dead.  Well, not dead in terms of physical rigor mortis, No.  More like completely irrelevant.  Maybe.  

This comment goes to show that movies like Bangkok Dangerous with it's 90's styled Hard Target-esque horribleness begs for people as obscure as Kurt Loder to send a message to Hollywood, or the Pang Bros., or the general public that a man can still find solace even after becoming a mannequin (i.e. Kurt Loder's 90's chic hair-do and his smug yet completely un-intimidating persona).  Ha.  Kurt Loder.  When I was watching coverage of Kurt Cobain's death, there were so many eight year old jokes going on about that guys name.  Loder.  

I'm 10.     

Reverse Psychology: Don't Buy This Record

D.C. based hip-hop genius, Panacea, has just released 'The Scenic Route'.  Go Buy This.  Go Download This.  Go Do Something That Involves This.  Around two years ago I was given a tiny white faced gem.  A guy I worked with at Pizza Hut was like, "...here."  He handed me a blank white topped burnt CD.  I was like, "...what is it.  I mean, who's on it?"  We had had a conversation a week ago about music and what we listened to.  I said Converge, he said Bix Beiderbeck, I said Miles, he said Common, I said Life and Times, he said Boards of Canada.  We understood each other.  We wore the same uniform, and I am not talking about the black from head to toe Pizza Gut uni.  We talked to any and everybody about the music we dug.  Didn't care if they knew it or not.  Gorilla appreciators don't.  We show up with  record and a "here you go" gesture and peddle enjoyable music.  There are only a few records that I can say I remember the day it was put in my hand, but 'Ink Is My Drink', Panacea's earlier release was one of them.  So let me put this in your digital hand browser, "here." 

You See What Robert Downey Jr. Started?!

The new movie Tropic Thunder was, in fact, quite hilarious.  Ben Stiller was...well, Ben Stiller (still can't escape the angry guy character from Friends), Jack Black was, "eating jellybeans, dude.  Just eating some fucking jellybeans," and Robert Downey Jr. helped 'Black Face' make a comeback.  

Anywho, The Democratic convention has come and gone and everything for the past few days has been right in the world.  The globe is still spinning, wars that should've stopped long ago are still-a-ragin', McCain is making feeble attempts at saving face for the upcoming elections, the world is only being virtually destroyed on the internet, and finally, Japan is taking a cue from American blockbusters, such as Tropic Thunder, to comment on how we, in the states, look to the rest of the world.  Kudos, Japan.  Kudos.  Only naivety could get away with this...only naivety.

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by oman79

Wow.

 

New Youth or Sonic Record

One of the greatest American rock bands is coming out with a new record that, according to Thurston Moore, is going to be Indie.  I don't have to put that in posthumous italics or quotes because instead of a fashion or un-substantiated genre it's actually now a finite, descriptive adjective because of what Moore intends to say; the new record will come out on an indie label.  Good.  Sonic Youth has to tell everyone they are on an Indie label.  Geffen and DGC were just...you know, GOD! Just, so commercial.  My art-y was in a can of unmoving musical stalemate compromised by money.  

Either way, for music news to be about what label a band is going to use after debuting two new songs in Brooklyn, NY last weekend, where Thurston was quick to point out that the songs didn't even have real titles or real lyrics yet, telling us what a band doesn't know is pretty much the most pointless news ever.

Now for some horribly commercially corrupted music from a forgotten era

 

That chick with the pigtails is the reason I can't be around five year olds.  Thanks Youth

CNN Is A Psychotic Ex-Girlfriend

If you hadn't heard Barack Obama's PR team sent out a mass text message to all interested media parties as to who his VP pick was going to be.  In other words, there was a booty call, Barack got mad coverage by many a different female anchors.  He must be real good in the sack.