
I just want everyone to know that I love you, I value your readership, I am genuinely concerned about getting some blog posts up, but most important of all; i'm defiantly NOT ignoring you to play Prototype...
[ˈshyeə, ˈshyaə], -adverb informal
1. Sarcastic form of "yeah"; often followed by the phrase, "more like..."
2. Portmanteau of "shit" and "yeah."
Above is the trailer for I Hope They Serve Beer In Hell. It releases September 25 across the country.
The film is based off the NY Times Bestselling novel of the same name written by Tucker Max. (Link goes to website. Did I just blow your mind?) It is a collection of short stories about his drunken antics in college and beyond. Tucker, along with friend Nils Parker, adapted the book to a screenplay and sold the script to an independent studio (Darko Entertainment), retaining creative control as well as a director's credit.
Let's go over that again: Tucker Max wrote and produced this film, which is based on his bestselling novel about his life. I couldn't be more jealous of that if I tried.
To promote the film, Tucker started a production blog, where for roughly the last 18 months, he has been chronicling the process of producing the film, from hiring a director and casting roles, down to video interviews with the lowliest gaffer on the set.
And now, with the final print finished and the movie set to release in a little less than two months, Tucker is taking the film on a "Premiere Tour," as he calls it, visiting 32 cities to screen the movie to a limited audience. People who attend the screening get to see the film early, which includes a Q&A session with Tucker and Nils, and a swag bag filled with film merch. All for ten bucks.
Pretty sweet, right? Well guess what else: The first stop is in Portland. And I got tickets.
I'm not gonna lie to you: I'm a little afraid that this is going to suck. On the surface, Tucker's writing describes the kind of douchebag fratboy idiocy that I think most civilized people hate. Plus, the stories come off as severely embellished (Tucker vehemently insists that they're all true, but what else would he say?). But it's told with such a brilliant tone, and so out-and-out funny, that you really can't help but like it. That said, I'm definitely wary of the possibility of, once this is committed to celluloid, that it's just going to come off as a 90-minute Real World episode.
But hey, it sounds like fun, and I've followed it this far. May as well see this ride to its conclusion.
So apparently in an effort to remain completely unpredictable well into the stage of life where most successful musicians are enjoying their victory lap phase, Bob Dylan has decided to record a Christmas album for release later this year.
There have been four songs announced for inclusion so far and they are, “Here Comes Santa Claus,” “Must Be Santa,” “O Little Town of Bethlehem,” and “I’ll Be Home for Christmas.” Hopefully he won’t get around to covering more modern fare such as Paul McCartney’s holiday themed abortion, “Simply Having a Wonderful Christmas Time,” because I think that might be the one song capable of killing all hope. In a very general sense.
I’m a ridiculous fan of Bob Dylan and will buy this on day one regardless, but are normal people really in the market for an album of Christmas classics translated through Bob Dylan’s husky baritone? Also, isn’t it weird that this guy is Jewish and he’s covering “O Little Town of Bethlehem?” Is he even Jewish anymore? He went through a Christian phase for three albums in the 80’s, but since then he hasn’t been name checking the Jesus much at all, and the rumor has been that he’s back to being all Jewish and stuff. Regardless of his personal faith, I for one am glad that Bob Dylan has put aside the nitpicky specifics of any one particular religion to celebrate the birth of our true savior, Jesus Christ.
Remember a few months back when members of Hanson, Smashing Pumpkins, and Cheap Trick all teamed up to form Tinted Windows? Remember how they were terrible? Well that pitch black cloud hasn’t prevented other big time artists to take part in a supergroup renaissance of sorts. On one hand we have the commercially successful Van Hagar/ Satriani combination, Chickenfoot, which you probably don’t care about as much as your cool dad does. And on the other, we have the overwhelmingly awesome Dead Weather, which combines members from most of my favorite bands (White Stripes, Raconteurs, The Kills,
There’s not much information about the band yet but the lineup is Josh Homme from Queens of The Stone Age on guitar, Dave Grohl of Nirvana (and Foo Fighters I guess) on drums, and John Paul Jones from LED ZEPPELIN on bass. That last one will probably be the biggest deal to most people, but honestly the idea of Grohl and Homme working together again is exciting on its own. It’s easy to scoff at Dave Grohl considering the Foo Fighters are just about the most average anything ever, but his involvement here should in no way be glossed over. Not only is the guy a great drummer, but he has an impeccable taste in side projects. His Probot project (where he wrote all the songs and played all the instruments while classic metal singers provided vocals) was excellent, and the dude also provided drums for the first Tenacious D album
Good, right? It will probably sound nothing like that, but regardless, I think there’s plenty of reason to be pretty optimistic here. Now we can only hope that Trent Reznor’s collaboration with Bono and Ghostface Killa works out.
"`G.I. Joe' is a big, fun, summer event movie — one that we've seen audiences enjoy everywhere from Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland to Phoenix, Ariz.," said Rob Moore, vice chairman of Paramount Pictures. "After the chasm we experienced with `Transformers 2' between the response of audiences and critics, we chose to forgo opening-day print and broadcast reviews as a strategy to promote `G.I. Joe.' We want audiences to define this film."Translated into English, this reads: "The movie's terrible, we know it's terrible, and we don't want to scare away any people that weren't swayed by the awful trailer from seeing the thing. We just want to collect our huge opening weekend and go in peace."