Just because I'm getting older doesn't mean I'm growing up.

Iron Man 2

I have no background on Ironman other than the last movie and that Scratch had a collection. That being said the 2nd one looks pretty sweet.

Has anyone checked on Scratch this weekend?

Once I get skydiving out of the way, this is next.

I carved your name across three counties...

That's a line from the first track from Middle Cyclone by Neko Case, as she sings from the point of view of a tornado. It's an almost violent kind of song that seems to capture the intensity of a tornado as a metaphor for passionate love. Given the experience we've had with growing up around tornadoes here at the Kool-Aid Gang, it was quite awesome to pick apart the words to this song.

Somehow I avoided listening to this CD when it came out in June. Perhaps I was a bit skeptical given it's prominence at the checkout counter at Starbucks when it came out, but damn if it isn't the best album of 2009.

Dallas finally got a radio station playing music worth listening to, and I happened upon that first track, "This Tornado Loves You," on a drive home from work. I picked up the album shortly after. I'd suggest you do the same.

Check out her performance on Letterman earlier last year:

I kind of enjoyed this video about her creative process making this album, too:

This rating may be premature, and I may change my attitude towards this album after more repetitive listens, but for now, I'll go with:

I think we should all dress up as Space Marines next Halloween...

Here's one for you Firecracker George. I can't remember where I found this picture.

"verily, it tied the room together"

I am a fan of both "The Big Lebowski" and Shakespeare. Adam Bertocci reworked the Big Lebowski script to Shakespearean. Examples of reworked characters:
The Dude becomes "The Knave"
Walter is "Sir Walter"
Jesus is "Joshua Quince, a pederast"

Good reading for this weekend.

find the adaptation at - http://runleiarun.com/lebowski/

Lebowski Line: "You see a wedding ring on my finger? Does this place look like I'm fucking married? The toilet seat's up man!"
Shakespearean version: "Zounds, man. Look at these unworthiest hands; no gaudy gold profanes my little hand. I have no honour to contain the ring. I am a bachelor in a wilderness. Behold this place; are these the towers where one may glimpse Geoffrey, the married man? Is this a court where mistresses of common sense are hid? Not for me to hang my bugle in an invisible baldric, sir; I am loathe to take a wife, or she to take me until men be made of some other mettle than earth. Hark, the seat of my commode be arisen!"


Lebowski Line - Jesus: "Let me tell you something, pendejo. You pull any your crazy sh*t with us, you flash a piece out on the lanes, I'll take it away from you and stick it up your ass and pull the f*cking trigger till it goes "click"."
Shakespearean version - Quince: "Well; but be forewarn’d. It reach’d mine ears That combustible Walter, o’ercome with rage Did shed good sense, and raise his sword in play. I fear not such jade’s tricks, an seeing ill, Would snatch the burden from the jealous knight And pierce his gizzard with the wrongful steel, Points up, as said of Coriolanus."


Lebowski line - Walter: "Is this your homework, Larry?"
Shakespearean version - Sir Walter: "Is this thy parchment, Laurence? "

It's a gooooooood thing...

Snoop Dogg and Martha Stewart in the kitchen making brownies. Now I know what she was doing to pass the time during all those days on house arrest.

Hehehehe. It's says...

I pass this building on my way home from work each night. The light in the sign has been out for at least a month now, and I'm surprised no one's bothered to fix it yet. I chuckle every time I see it:

Closer and closer to a Star Trek universe...

Even with the convenience of laptops, iPhones, Kindles, and other gadgets, the experience of flipping through books and magazines still has not been replicated to a point that I actually enjoy using these devices for my reading. I still subscribe to a magazine or two, flip through the morning paper at work, and prefer buying a book at the bookstore over trying to read one on my iPhone. Apple is rumoured to be coming out with a tablet device in the coming months, though, and many magazine publishers are readying themselves for the eventual evolution of their medium to electronic displays. If they incorporate the design strategies outlined in this video, it might actually be another game-changer in how we consume information. I especially like how this guy has thought about the experience of a print magazine, and how it differs from what we get currently online through blogs and RSS feeds, apart from the obvious satisfaction of flipping through pages, and considering the magazine issue as a complete project with a beginning and an end rather than the endless stories we get through the Web.

Mag+ from Bonnier on Vimeo.

That would have been one trippy Ewok battle...

Truth be told, I've never read Dune, but I enjoyed the movie adaptation directed by David Lynch. But could you imagine what Return of the Jedi would have been like with him at the helm?

A dirty mind is a horrible thing to waste...

A screen capture of a real page from Fox News (via The High Definite):

Set Your DVR's Now

OKC on the New Years

If we already didn't have plans... Flaming Lips will be covering Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon on New Years Eve.

"The Lips will be collaborating with the band Stardeath and White Dwarfs (who boast Wayne Coyne's nephew Dennis Coyne as a member), to perform their own version of Dark Side. Special appearances from Henry Rollins and Peaches are said to also be included."

Mammaaaaaa!

I think enough years have gone by since Wayne's World killed this song for me that I can actually enjoy the updated version of this Queen classic by the Muppets:

Gear up for the weekend...

Maybe Firecracker George should submit his work for the sequel...

Considering how much backstory has been created and is currently in print, you'd think they would have already made a Warhammer 40,000 movie by now. Better late than never, I guess. From their official website:

Codex Pictures revealed today the director and screenwriter for the forthcoming Warhammer 40,000 movie ULTRAMARINES.

The director is Martyn Pick, whose credits include the 2009 film The Age of Stupid, on which he was animation director; London 2012, the promotional film commissioned by Film London and the London Development Agency which was premiered at the Beijing Olympics; the 2001 US Budweiser NBA commercial; and the celebrated BBC promotional trailers for the Euro 2004 soccer tournament. Martyn was chosen to direct Ultramarines for his renowned and highly distinctive ability to fuse live action and animation and the fluid, rich painterly style of his film-making.

The screenplay has been written by someone who needs no introduction to Warhammer 40,000 fans – best-selling author Dan Abnett. Dan has penned more than 25 books for Games Workshop’s Black Library, with total sales in excess of 1.2 million copies. He also works regularly for 2000 AD, Marvel Comics and DC Comics and has recently seen publication of the first of three novels for HarperCollins' new sci-fi, fantasy and horror imprint, Angry Robot.

ULTRAMARINES, a sci-fi thriller employing CGI and state-of-the-art production techniques, is being produced by Codex Pictures in association with Good Story Productions Ltd. The Canadian co-producer is POP6 Studios.

His insurance company must be loving these new cellphone video cams now...

Don't know if you heard about this guy that crashed his $2 million Bugatti Veyron into a lagoon near Galveston. He initially claimed a low flying pelican distracted him. Unbeknownst to him, some admiring fans of the car were filming the whole thing:

If my wife gets a Snuggie, I'm getting one of these...

I posted about the Tauntaun sleeping bag awhile back, but who knew it could substitute for a Snuggie?

ThinkGeek has more uses for it on their website. I especially like the idea of the after lunch nap. I actually have a little ledge under my desk that would fit an alarm clock perfectly.

CAAAATFIIIIIIIGHT!!

Now this might make me more interested in women's soccer: