HOLY CRAP A POSTER FOR THE BLACK HOLE at 0:19 SECONDS IN!!!

Update: better cut of video replaced.

I'm not one to go on about what's playing on my iPhone. Posting your track listings is like admitting you find Alan Alda "kinda cute" from his days on MASH. Yeah. Dated.

However, I am loving this podcast I've discovered (...through StevieB? Madhouse on Twitter? I don't recall): Electronic Music Bears. It does fill up my commute when I don't have Disney travel podcasts to listen to. I suggest if you have time, you download it, put it on and shake your ass.

Admittedly the music selection/mixing is a personal thing and you can wind up with stuff you may not care for. Example: the last entry was pretty forgettable, except for whatsiszname's face. This episode is exceptional (even if his picture is ...uh... not): DiscoPup mixed some pretty fun songs. This particular podcast is worth a listen if you only choose to download one!

Now Dance, motherfooshers! Dance!

Non sequitur video interlude.

My long dead grandfather on my mother's side. The man had unruly eyebrows. Crows would fly from his forehead when he shouted. Howler monkeys screaming from his brow would interrupt dinner. The greatest lumberjacks would lose their way (still to this day) inside the forest of hair above his eyes.

And

Thufir Hawat, Mentat to Paul Atredies. If you haven't read Dune, then you should know that Mentats are a sect of people who act as human computers, chemically enhanced so that their mental abilities are heightened. And, according to David Lynch, have big furry eyebrows, no doubt modeled after some scruffy film history professor from his past. While I don't claim to be chemically enhanced smart (or even smart, naturally), I do like the idea of having bushy brows and being thought of as a person who may dwell in a musty library and spout crazy thoughtful things at youths.

I also have one chest hair that SharkBoy hates, who I call Brenda. Da renamed her Sophie a while back. I love her regardless of her name. She peeks up out of the top of my shirts and greets the morning sun with a hairy smile. This just makes me look like a cash-for-gold reseller.

With Tron: Legacy wrapping up, Joseph Kosinski is slated to start work on another Disney sci fi: The Black Hole which fills me with equal parts of glee (the visuals coming out of Tron are quite amazing) and dread (I hope to god they get a good writer and someone who knows how physics work in space). My only hope for the film is that they get an engineer/artist to recreate the beauty that was the Cygnus, the doomed ship that would venture into the black hole. Though the movie was crap, the design of the ship was the star. Probably one of the last greatest movie model props ever.

I'd like to see Mad Max re-imaged. I would shed no nostalgic tear if they did. When I saw it the first time as a kid on TV, I loved it, but I could tell that it was hacked to pieces for TV. And the version they showed was the one where Mel Gibson's voice was removed because he was swearing like a sailor is accent was deemed too strong. When I did see the original cut years later, I was impressed and still loved the core of it, but it was like discovering Heidi Montag while she was in mid-surgeries. But only as if I cared about Heidi in the first place. Okay that comparison doesn't work but you get it.

Speaking of Mel, another I'd love to see redone is Fahrenheit 451 (Filthymouth McNastytounge owns the rights for some weird reason). The original, while highly stylized in a groovy late 60s way, is a snoozefest. I'd love to see it redone as a commentary on digital copyright management. The big scene at the end when Montag (weird... coincidence?) discovers the colony of living books, I'd love to see him try to talk to one of the "books" and they reply with "I'm sorry. I'm only compatible with Amazon's Kindle. Would you like to purchase one now?" He falls to the ground and with a truck out sky shot, screams "Noooo!" to the heavens.

One other one that would be curious to see redone is Crusing. Actually... thinking about it, nothing would change. Never mind. Move on.

Imagine if they redid Airport? Yeah. Can't see it without some New York Times article about how it relates back to 9-11. Again, move on...

Do you think Christopher Lee would step into his sleek jumpsuit to revisit his role as Captain Ramses in Starship Invasions? I'd pay to see that. I remember this one as a kid and loved how everyone in the movie just wanted to commit suicide. Fun!

Here's a short list of movies I wouldn't lose sleep over (yet would go see if the trailer alone aroused nerd wood out of me) if they re-imaged or remade:

• Saturn 3
• A Boy and His Dog
• Battle Beyond The Stars
• Barbarella
• The Last Starfighter (seriously the CGI in it is "quaint" but needs freshening up)
• Sophie's Choice

Via Nerdist

iMoose: Very happy with the Glee Finalé. Glad they kept it real. Didn't try to make it too fantastical, Felt very grounded.

cwbolt: I agree. And even tho I predicted the outcome- it was wholly satisfying

TedHealey: @iMoose @cwboldt I didnt like SueS's choppy flopping back and forth from being a bitch and nice all season and dull cross episode story.

cwbolt: so you don't know any people in real life who are tough and bitchy on the outside as protection for their vulnerable insides?

TedHealey: @cwboldt characters dont vasilate between polar opposites within seconds of a story development point. its cheap writing

TedHealey: Vacillate, even. dang

Madhouse6: @Tedhealey @cwboldt @imoose who said anything AMAZING needs to happen. can't it br fun to just enter this world and see what happens?

Yeah. It's snowballing...

Before you Gleetards string me up, hear me out.

Two things really bother me about Glee when it comes to the writing:

1) How the writers handle Sue Sylvester. She's my second favorite character on the show (other than the blond cheerleader, Brittany, of course). She has some of the most callus and cleverly written commentary I've seen on TV, yet her character jumps between face-punchingly hateful to achingly vulnerable within episodes. Okay I get it, she has cracks in the armour and it's good to see these cracks, but they show way too fast and at the most convenient of moments. Too fast, too many times. It detracts from her character, makes me not believe her motivations, especially the third or fourth time she softens up. Lets face it, she's the villain - she should have one character changing moment at the end or we lose confidence in her. It started with the Madonna episode. I didn't believe her running commentary on how much she idolized her - it went downhill from there.

2) The story arcs from show to show were boring this year. Moment to moment were fantastic: Kurt's Dad kicking Finn out of his house for using the word "faggy"; the Saftey Dance sequence in the mall (I choked hard at the end of that one); Rachel's Mom rejecting her. All brilliant TV stuff. But for the life of me, all the continuous stories bored me, culminating in a "Lets Wrap It Up Quick" season finale. Come on... Sue becomes a judge at the beginning of the season finale show? They could have dropped a teaser at the end of the episode where Will seduced Sue as revenge for such a heinous act of emotional roulette. No story lead up means less emotional connection and her sudden change of heart to vote FOR New Directions didn't seem valid to me.

It was a boring season filled with great moments, is all I'm saying.

Via Gawker TV.

He's right. Computers have grown, the interface is horribly outdated.

Via Boingboing

Via FirstShowings.net

I don't know what's up with Jake. I loved him in every movie he's been in, but this one he preened and pranced around the screen like a doe-eyed emo who didn't get how to mug for the camera during slapstick comedy action parts. You know the bits: hero get's farted on by a camel and he looks wide eyed at the princess and says "If I have to gas, the temple is the other way!!"

Okay this didn't happen in PoP but if they did put this scene in, Jake would have phoned it in.

Not that I didn't like him. No, his comedy fell a bit flat, is all. He looked good parkouring around ancient Iraq, jabbing swords into so many of his fellow countrymen to prove to his fellow countrymen that he was innocent of... well never mind. This ain't Citizen Kane.

As for story, it was meh. But come on, it's a SUMMER BLOCKBUSTER derived from a VIDEO GAME. I went in with expectations low and was satisfied. It ran a bit overly long but I wasn't disinterested with the story at any time.

Oh and Hollywood? Can we talk a moment? Please stop casting Ben Kingsley as a "hidden" villain in movies. He's as subtle as a Michael Bay movie. Also Hollywood, remember when you were making sword films in the 40s and 50s and you had long uncut scenes of beautiful choreographed fight scenes where the actors look liked they actually learned how to sword fight? Could you please bring that trend back and replace it with the unwatchable, cut-every-three-frames-to-hide-crappy-sword-fights kind of thing you're doing now? If you need an example, please see Star Wars The Phantom Menace - shitty movie but the hype about the three-way sabre duel was epic and watchable (other than the rest of it - "Yippieee!"). Learn from it! Ta very much.

Anyway, I give it 2.5 racing ostriches out of 5.