you sicken me w/ your geekery

the batman-on-film crowd is going to have a premiere party for the dark knight and i'm kind of bummed b/c it's going to be in a suburb of houston.  namely, tomball (what happens in tomball stays in tomball!  sorry, that's a lame inside joke), which is a nw suburb of houston.  i may or may not have mentioned that i lived in houston last year (came back to california in late july) and so it stings a little that i'm going to miss this.  the BOF crew has been in cahoots w/ warner's since batman begins, and probably before then, so there will most likely be cool merchandise to purchase at the party.  plus, it'd just be cool to see the movie w/ a bunch of die-hards.  but, i am going to see the dark knight w/ my brother and some friends premiere night in l.a., hopefully at grauman's chinese, so i can't exactly gripe about that, now can i?  we'll leave o.c. thursday afternoon, scope out the theatre and see what the sitch is.  i'm sort of concerned that there will be an extensive line at that point, but who knows?  then we'll see it at the premiere and then we're definitely going to see it again that friday and most likely again at some point over the weekend.  fucking stoked.

JOKER FTW

it just gets better

and by "better" i mean "laughably worse." some of the anti-psych folks over at furious seasons are casting a hairy eyeball toward, wait for it, meditation. that's right-- meditation.  click on the link and have a gander for yourself.  as always, the comments are where it's at.  

i mean, honestly.

swear to christ this isn't just another lame youtube vid

this is, instead, the video for lali puna's "faking the books," one of the coolest videos ever.

for the love of god, sign me up

oh noes, evil psychiatrists (redundant, right?) are running clandestine lab experiments on unsuspecting people to see if illegal drugs like mdma and lysergic acid diethylamide (known on the streets as "acid") can help w/ mental disorders. well, fuck me sideways. this is just another example of psychiatrists telling their clients that popping a pill will solve their problems. what will the anti-psych community think!? drugs are, like, sooooo bad for you! and these ones are illegal! they're toxic.  ALL drugs are toxic!  T-O-X-I-C.  nobody says they wanna be a junkie when they grow up.  besides, why use drugs when you can get high on life and, like, go for a run? running is so much funner and not to mention it's healthy and positive.  

all right, enough of that. even i can't maintain that level of sarcasm for too long.

sooooooooooooo, saw kingdom of the crystal lulz on thursday . . .

and, um, yeah.

er. wow.

at least temple of doom will now be regarded as the second-worst of the series. also, temple's got that heart-extracting scene that sort of makes up for its deficits. but this one? well, this one's got . . . um . . . it's got . . . uhhh . . . cate blanchett looking rather hot and sexy in her tight soviet outfit and snazzy anna wintour-esque page-boy haircut.

and.

um.

well . . .

a lot of people worked on it? it gave a lot of people a big gig to work on. so that's good for the economy. oh, if you love awful cgi (wait, is that redundant?), then you will absolutely love indiana jones and the kingdom yadda yadda. and if you thought the horrid cornball/cheese/shit/retard factor of the star wars prequels got a bad rap, you will totally love indy 4. gratingly cute, soon-to-be-infamous monkey scene? check. wholly improbable sword fighting that takes place on speeding automobiles? check. cloying references to the previous installments? check. car-motorcycle chase scene that could've been cool but instead just has to be cute? check. h o r r i d lucas-like dialogue? without a fucking doubt, pal.

how hard can it fucking be, lucas? how fucking hard? you had a wildly successful, established franchise that you chose to revisit and you could've made something awesome w/ a rabidly devoted fanbase, but no. no. and listen, i'm not even a big indiana jones fan. they're fun movies, sure, but i don't own any of the movies and i wasn't at all champing at the bit for this to come out and even i feel burned by this. i just don't understand it and the only reason i can accept is that lucas, you are middle-aged, you are extremely wealthy, and thus you have nothing to prove anymore. creativity is a young man's game and by most people's standards, you lost the plot decades ago but frankly, as far as i'm concerned, you never had it begin with. stop writing and start producing exclusively. you're a money man and you see the world in numbers. emotions don't factor into your view of the world, which is why any attempts at emotion in your movies come off as embarrassingly garish and grotesque. leave the attempts at art to the artists. hell, leave the attempts at entertainment to the entertainers.

unsolicited advice for the day

never drunk-dial your therapist.  

lori drew indicted and a victory for teh gayz

fucking fry, bitch.

in more positive news, my glorious home state as finally overturned that ludicrous ban on queer marriage.  now teh cali. gayz can be bound in misery like us heteros.