I Just Ate IN A Bioshock Level

I mean, listen. I don't get easily frightened by Japanese restaurants. In fact, normally I find them to be quite pleasant and full of delicious nom noms. But tonight, ATFG token male (and new Cinematical rock star) @davidehrlich, took me to some place that may or may not begin with a K that was ACTUALLY FROM THE CITY OF RAPTURE. All that was missing was actually being underwater. Well, and I guess splicers trying to kill me would have been more fitting than live humans eating shumai, but life isn't perfect.

I decided to snap some photos of the location, so you could be as totally freaked out as I was.




If only I had been able to show you the inside of the bathrooms as well



Loooooong room



The other side of the loooooong room



Circus of fucking values



The music was just as creepy as you're hoping it was



Look at all the THINGS to explore! And the two splicers!



Counter to go behind and shit ton of alcohol to drink. Good thing I have that tonic that makes alcohol good for me instead of bad :)



What. The. FUCK. isthatinthatroom.



The sign leading to the restaurant and the zombies overlooking it...



The cotton candy machine. Okay, so this photo doesn't SCREAM Bioshock, but whatever, we got to make our own cotton candy, you're jealous

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Location:New York City, New York

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Vote For Outdoor Cinema Food Fest's Fall Movies!

The Outdoor Cinema Food Fest is letting us vote for which movies we want to see in the fall, along with which movie we want to see on Halloween.

Head here to participate!

I voted for Back to the Future, Almost Famous, Fast Times...(have never seen it), Goonies, Edward Scissorhands, Ghostbusters, The Matrix, Raiders of the Lost Ark and volunteered Anchorman.

For Halloween, I voted for Scream cause it's terrifying, obviously, and one of my most favorite movies of all time. I love Shaun & Zombieland, just don't wanna watch a comedy on Halloween. I wanna scream. Thus - Scream!

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Sushi Slippers Taking The World By Storm!

Because if I make it my post title, maybe it'll come true?

I mean, they are SUSHI SLIPPERS.

I think the real question is, on which date does it become appropriate to sport these the morning after?

Buy em for $28 on Etsy.

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Nekkids True Blood Trashy Delicious HEART!

EXACTLY, you guys. I rest my case.

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Joseph Gordon Levitt Continues To Be Awesome [Event]

Night one of HitRecord's Summer in the City, in its entirety

I will be at the August 30th event with so many fuckin bells on

Around 47 minutes, he sings Natural Woman <3 <3 <3

Right before that, Carla Guigino reads a Tiny Story! Amazing.

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Scott Pilgrim Panel from Comic-Con 2010

Here is most of the Scott Pilgrim panel for you, from Comic-Con 2010! Fun panel, great moments. Pilgrim had an amazing showing at Comic-Con and won over the entire geek market & their friends. It may have not reached beyond that yet (small drop off next weekend?! word of mouth?! possible?!), resulting in all of us being in a state of fret, so I thought I'd post this so we can all feel a little bit better! Pilgrim may not be as mainstream as we hoped, but I have no doubt it'll go down in history as a beloved cult film, if nothing else.

Opening - Brandon Routh on Superman vs Todd Ingram
:37 - Is Michael Cera afraid of being type cast?
1:08 - Did Ellen & Alison make out in the movie? Will they now?! Answered by Alison Pill
1:40 - What brought Edgar to this project, based on a graphic novel
2:36 - What was Michael's favorite part of being in Scott Pilgrim
3:25 - Michael on the Arrested Development movie
3:58 - Did the members of the cast like the source material? Answered by Jason Schwartzman & Aubrey Plaza
5:10 - What's it like pretending to be Canadian?
6:25 - Was Edgar inspired by fighting games for the fight scenes?
7:23 - What research did Michael do to prepare for this role?
8:40 - Jason says something sweet about Edgar :)
9:00 - Did the cast feel pressure being a part of the project? Answered by Mae Whitman & Satya Bhabha
9:40 - How did Ellen find getting into character for/playing Knives?

:20 - How did they not crack up on set and what is the funniest scene for each of them to film? Answered by everyone.
5:28 - The experience of shooting in Toronto and using Toronto as Toronto
6:48 - Hilarious moment of girl calling out Michael Cera for not getting in shape during Scott Pilgrim

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Edgar Wright Burrows Deep Into Scott Pilgrim [Seewhatididthere?]

A bunch of journalists recently had a lovely chat with Edgar Wright, the director of Scott Pilgrim, (and also director of one of my top 5 TV shows of all time, Spaced and top 10 movies of all time, Shaun of the Dead, lalala, I love him), opening today, in which he touched on his Comic-Con experience, why there was never a doubt that all seven exes had to be in Scott Pilgrim, and why the American Spaced pilot just didn't work. While we were unable to attend the roundtables at the last minute, the amazing Todd Gilchrist of Cinematical fame was nice enough to share his audio so we could transcribe some of the magic that transpired.

On Comic-Con,

It was my fifth Comic-Con and it was probably the most bananas. We showed the film three times over the weekend and it was very sweet, it became sort of like a theatrical residency. And the cast -- some of whom like Michael Cera, had not seen it yet, watched for the first time on Thursday night with the Comic-Con fans -- they all came back every night to watch it and, you know, I came back, so I watched it twice over the weekend.

And the audience reaction surpassed even the love Wright & the cast felt for the film. Though Wright experienced what a Comic-Con screening could do when he brought Shaun of the Dead in 2004, which resulted in "...the best screenings we ever had of Shaun...", the insanity of Scott Pilgrim was a whole other ballgame.

It was great on the first night, then kind of got bigger on the subsequent nights…It wasn't the first time I'd seen it with an audience, ‘cause we went through the test screening process, so I've watched it about five times with an audience, you know, like completely cold, so I knew where all the big laughs were already, but then people just responded very warmly throughout, and it was just very gratifying. [P]eople clapped frequently, and I think it says everything about the film that on the first night, they clapped at Scott and Ramona kissing, but they also clapped when Scott head-butted a man to death. [Laughter] That probably says everything about the film: kissing gets applause and so does head-butting..

One of the defining elements of the film is the influence it draws from video games, which is something that also made the comics stand out. On that influence,

Well, it's in the comics, we took it a little bit further.

Before the comic book movies started to really score in the late 90s, there was a thing in the 80s, where the best comic book movies were not based on comics. Like Robocop is an amazing comic book film which isn't a comic and yet it was leagues ahead of comic book adaptations. It always amused me -- not to mention any names -- but the general consensus was that a lot of video game adaptations as films were not very good or haven't been. Not many people can honestly argue that there have been that many great video game films yet. [... W]hen people make like, Tomb Raider or Prince of Persia or Resident Evil, they leave out the most famous part of video games, which is the graphics and the most fun aspects of it and stuff. I guess the only film that did that for a little bit was Doom -- it at least had that point of view sequence. But I thought, well this is the perfect kind of license to take the parts of video games, the parts of video game adaptations that they always kind of leave on the floor, and have a ball with it.

Bryan Lee O Malley had this great quote about Scott Pilgrim being the hero of the movie inside his own head and I think the film is exactly that, it's like Scott Pilgrim's daydream [... H]e's like a fantacist and you're watching his version of events. It kind of explains the level of reality. You're seeing the film through Scott Pilgrim's eyes and it's kind of governed by the pop culture that he consumes.

On whether he plays video games himself and much much more after the jump!

I did grow up on [...] the British home computer, The ZX Spectrum [sic] was what ruled my sort of pre-teens. And then I also went through a Sega phase and a Playstation phase, but [...] I haven't owned a console in ten years. When I made the TV show, Spaced, they had a Playstation on the set and it was my Playstation and I left it on set at the end of the second series and I never had a console in my house since because it was becoming a problem -- like I had a heroin addiction and I had to like, get off. So [...] I would call myself a "lapsed gamer."

The video game references in the film are all more nostalgic than anything. [...] People always talk about video games in a contemporary sense, and yet [...] most of the iconography and sort of tropes that are in the film are all like, from the 80s.

Much like Kick Ass, as one reporter pointed out, Scott Pilgrim, the film, was being worked on as the comic was still being written - in this case, all the books after the first installment, as Edgar got involved so early on that the second book, although written, didn't even have art yet. When he and co-writer Michael Bacall met with Bryan in Toronto in 2005, they "...[picked] his brains and [Bryan] sort of forced himself to outline the rest of the books." Some of the film actually came from that original outline, even if it changed once Bryan actually wrote the rest of the books. Wright goes into more depth on the matter,

I was skeptical about it at first but as it turned out, it actually worked out really well.

[...] By the time we started [actively] making the film, the fifth book had been published and the sixth book had been half written and essentially, even though the two things diverge, and very much with Bryan's blessing, [...] we sort of arrived at the same ending from different directions and it was really interesting in that respect. It worked out, it became a very organic process, that Bryan was involved all the way through and even in some cases he took the lines from the script and put them into the books. [...]

With this we decided pretty early on that it was okay to diverge because structurally, we had to make it more like a 70s Shaw Brothers film, like you know with a sort of succession of tournaments and jewels or even like, video games. Although ironically, a lot of the fighting games of the 80s are based on like, 70s kung fu films, [...] so all the different things blend together, but it's interesting. Sometimes I think some fans say "Well, why didn't you make six films?" And A. I think I would have been laughed out of the studio and B. I'm glad that everything is climaxed in 2010, I think it was the right -- I'd much rather the film be coming out on the heels of the book and the game than for us to be talking about Scott Pilgrim's Finest Hour in 2022. 

On whether there was ever a point where he thought he should cut the exes down,

This is gonna sound really silly, but me and Michael Bacall decided that even numbers didn't sound cool. And you couldn't just do five, cause that would be too similar to Five Deadly Venoms and two of them are twins, so it has to be seven anyway, seven sounds cool. Six does not sound cool, four does not sound cool, five's been done, it's gotta be seven, that was it.

I think in terms of a film adaptation, with the fans, it would have been like Three Days of the Condor, people would have been like "Auugh, gaaghhh they took two of the exes out." So I felt like we had to do it and I think in that sense the video game metaphor is probably even stronger in the film because of that ‘cause the idea is Scott Pilgrim is fighting through different levels and it hopefully has a labors of Hercules kind of feel to it [...] Scott Pilgrim, half of the way through sort of gives up, because what was fun in the first fight and maybe part of the second fight is not fun anymore for him, so he goes through a passage where he doesn't wanna fight, then the next fight he has he is consumed with jealous rage and literally conjures up a green-eyed monster and it's almost about the -- sort of like the first and the last fight are about him doing it for the right reasons, and finally it's about him fighting for himself rather than a relationship.

On whether he is into comics at all and if there is anything else he would like to see adapted into film, even if he didn't adapt it himself,

I used to read all the Marvel comics when I was a kid and in my teens. I was definitely more of a Marvel kid, well I also used to read 2000 AD, the British comic a lot, [but] as I've been working over the past 15 years, my comic book reading has sort of lapsed a bit, beyond some big graphic novels. [...] Bryan's book six years ago, it was literally pressed into my hands two weeks after it was published and I hadn't really read anything like that and it really inspired me because it wasn't like a generic superhero film, and it wasn't the same old spin on the X-Men, it was something a little bit different. And that's what kind of made it irresistible to me, really, is that it was a mix of different genres and there have been comic book adaptations of comedy books, like American Splendor or Ghost World, but this was in a completely different kind of league, somewhere between that and The Matrix, something I just thought was really kind of fascinating and an irresistible challenge really.

On whether he always knew he wanted Michael Cera to portray Scott Pilgrim,

Never had anybody else in mind. Me and Michael Bacall have been working on it since 2005 and I remember writing the first draft in 2005 and watching a lot of Arrested Development and saying aloud "Aw, it's a shame that George Michael kid isn't older, he'd be perfect." We essentially got our wish, like five years later.

But really to me it's funny. When there are some people who talk about the casting, they maybe envision somebody who is more of a ripped action star or sort of matinee-idol handsome or something, and I never saw it like that when I read the books. To me on the page, Scott Pilgrim looks sort of like a gangly teen and he is an unlikely fighter because essentially it's this complete wish-fulfillment fantasy of somebody who has played a lot of video games actually [being] like a kick-ass fighter in real life. So I thought there wasn't really any other actor, as far as I was concerned, who could bring off the charm -- like the goofiness, the huge massive insecurities, that he basically goes to pieces for the whole mid-section of the film -- and somebody that would be fun to watch in these fight scenes. To have somebody that was more physically confident or outwardly confident is not as much fun to watch in the middle of these battles and yet, for my money, Michael Cera and Jason Schwartzman having a sword fight is very entertaining to watch. 

On people online calling it a Hipster movie

It's funny, cause I find with this film, and this is a theme we've tackled in Spaced and in Shaun of the Dead and even in Hot Fuzz, it's kind of been a theme in everything I've done [...] is no matter how cool you think you are, there is always somebody younger, cooler or thinner. [... T]here is definitely this element with Sex Bob-Omb, in that at the start of the film, Sex Bob-Omb are legends in their own living room, and then when they go into the outer world, everybody is better than them, everybody is cooler than them. Stephen Stills is a complete nervous wreck because every other band is cooler, and for Scott Pilgrim, in terms of the other exes, everybody represents something to him which is intimidating: [Lucas Lee] is famous, Todd Ingram is a better bass player, Roxy Richter is sexually intimidating to him, Gideon Graves is a much much cooler -- he is the hipster, the villain of the piece is the hipster and if you look on the score album, during the fight sequence where Scott Pilgrim mows down all of Gideon's henchmen, the name of the track is "Death To All Hipsters" and if you do notice, they all have jaunty sort of hats on. [...]

I don't know anyone who describes themselves as a hipster, it's always used as a derogatory term and Bryan Lee O Malley joked once, he said "The only hipster I know is Edgar Wright" and I said "I wish I was skinny enough to be a hipster." ‘cause I feel exactly the same way, when I go to LA, I just see people in skinny jeans and think "Oh shit!" So I wouldn't call myself a hipster, I think I need to lose 50 pounds before I can be called a hipster.

On Simon Pegg saying he was publicly relieved that Fox' Spaced reboot didn't fly and if there was any chance of it still happening.

I think Simon would publicly relieve himself on the pilot. [Laughter]

I've publicly registered my discontent about the American Spaced a number of times and one thing I now kind of find is even though I've seen it and I watched it with Simon and Jessica and it was strange. It was very strange to watch something made on an obviously bigger budget be so kind of bland. However, I’ve got to say I have absolutely nothing against any of the actors in that pilot, because they were just doing their job and [there were] some kinda funny comedy actors in that so I feel I’ve got to be careful what I say, because it's unfair to them to them that the pilot didn't get picked up, so some people didn't get work and stuff. But I'd be lying if I said I was not happy that it's gone. What was very clear that was really interesting watching the American version of Spaced is that the actors playing the Tim and Daisy clones in the American one did not write the show. And what you can't fabricate, you can't put in a bottle, you can't put personality in a bottle and if anything, it kind of really came home to me, it came home to all of us, how personal that show was and how that can't be Xeroxed really. I mean, The Office is different because it's a workplace comedy and the actors in the other show have made their own mark with it. But this was something where it was Simon and Jessica; it was their lives, it was their personalities and you can't just cut and paste those kind of souls really. It just [had] no heart to it whatsoever.

And for fun, Metric performing Black Sheep at the first Scott Pilgrim screening of Comic-Con 2010!

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Don't Mix Up Your Studios. Come On.

Really?

Sources say that the WB isn't too happy about Ryan Reynold taking on the role of Green Lantern when he already had a superhero franchise in the works with them.

You have over 1 million readers/month, dude. Don't confuse WB with Fox. Siiigh. Research what you are talking about first if a Tweet is vague. Ugh.

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The Only Thing This Limited Edition Scott Pilgrim Poster Is Missing....

...is Comeau. I mean, come on, he "knows everyone", he should be on every poster. :).

[Collider]

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True Blood Preview - "Everything Is Broken"

True Blood clips for you from this Sunday's episode?

Sidenote: How fucking good is this show right now? Yes, so good it requires cursing. Holy sex scenes, Batman, you guys! I love this show.

Stay tuned - coming up very soon we will be giving away a True Blood gift bag from Comic-Con and a soundtrack of the score.

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Bioshock: Infinite To Be Released in 2012. PLEASE WORLD DON'T END SOS I CAN PLAY IT ALL!

UM. Do you guys EVEN UNDERSTAND??!?!?!!?!

Way to eclipse my excitement for Fable 3 and Portal 2 by ANNOUNCING A THIRD BIOSHOCK GAME ARE YOU EFFING ME?!!?!?

The third game is set in the 1910s in a Cloud City called Columbia. While there is no direct connection, story-wise, to the first two Bioshock games, there is a nod to them in the trailer, and what we all love most about Bioshock include the gameplay, the sensibility, the tone, and the genius story/storytelling, which ANY Bioshock game will have, regardless of where & when it takes place and a connection to that psycho, Andrew Ryan.

Here's the official synopsis,

BioShock Infinite is a first-person shooter currently in development at Irrational Games, the studio behind the original BioShock (which sold over 4 million units worldwide). Set in 1912, BioShock Infinite introduces an entirely new narrative and gameplay experience that lifts players out of the familiar confines of Rapture and rockets them to Columbia, an immense city in the sky.

Former Pinkerton agent Booker DeWitt has been sent to rescue Elizabeth, a young woman imprisoned in Columbia since childhood. Booker develops a relationship with Elizabeth, augmenting his abilities with hers so the pair may escape from a city that is literally falling from the sky. DeWitt must learn to fight foes in high-speed Sky-Line battles, engage in combat both indoors and amongst the clouds, and harness the power of dozens of new weapons and abilities.

Drawing much more from Jules Verne than Ayn Rand, the trailer has a very steam punk vibe and is fucking gorgeous. And you hear that girl yelling? I went to NYU with her, she was the star student in our class and now she is DOING THE VOICE AND MO-CAP OF THE MAIN GIRL IN BIOSHOCK, which I happen to think is the coolest thing I've ever heard.

To hear more in depth details from those who got to witness the live demo (jealousy. OH THE JEALOUSY) head to Kotaku.

And if you haven't seen it yet, here's the trailer. 2012 come now plz.

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Catch Up On Scott Pilgrim THIS WEEK! Now on iPad/iPhone!

Want to read all of Scott Pilgrim before the movie comes out this Friday, but can't get to the local comic book store/don't have a local comic book store/local comic book store is all sold out?

Never fear! Oni press and comiXology have come to the rescue by releasing all six Scott Pilgrim books on the iPad & the iPhone. I just downloaded the free app (search for Scott Pilgrim) and it's GORGEOUS. The first two chapters of volume one are available free and beyond that, the volumes are $6.99 for one through five and $11.99 for six.

I'm very much a believer in physically owning the comics you read, but the iPad REALLY helps when you are in a bind, like missing an issue that was never reprinted, or that you lent out before you got the chance to read it, or, as in this case, you only have a short time to read A LOT of material that you can't necessarily get your hands on tangibly at this point.

Comics look REALLY pretty on the iPad. Felicia Day and I totally had a chat about it at Comic-Con. That is all.

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Geek Theater Of The Week

I don't often write about theater, as there aren't many geek centric productions out there, but because of the Fringe festival and LA just being weird, August brings many geek offerings for those of you who like some theater with your movies/video games/tv/comics, like I do. Please let me know if you see any of these and hopefully I'll catch some of the Fringe shows while I'm in town in a few weeks.


Note: The formatting in this post is beyond fucked and I have no idea why. Let's just pretend a 12 year old made it and we'll all feel better about each other.



Los Angeles:


USS Pinafore: Star Trek meets HMS Pinafore - currently has a deal on Goldstar and actually has gotten pretty good reviews, with a rating of 100% from the LA Theater equivalent to Rotten Tomatoes, Bitter Lemons. Official info below.

"USS PINAFORE"
an outer space musical
Adapted by Jon Mullich
from "HMS Pinafore" and other
Gilbert & Sullivan works
Musical Direction by William A. Reilly
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Presented by Crown City Theatre Company
"U.S.S. PINAFORE"
takes Gilbert and Sullivan farther
than they've ever gone before...
to outer space!
The nineteenth century ironsides of the title has been fitted with anti-gravitation gear and lasers set to kill!
It takes to the air in a brand-new version that is guaranteed to blast you out of earth's atmosphere and send you to a solar system filled with laughter and delight.
The trivial antics of G&S's veddy British lords and ladies
seem far less trivial when they're fighting for their lives
against alien lizard men!
(okay... possibly slightly more trivial, but twice the fun!) 

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Fridays and Saturdays at 8pm
and Sundays at 3pm
Thru August 22nd, 2010
LOCATION: Crown City Theater in NOHO
11031 Camarillo Street, North Hollywood, CA 91602
PRICES: $25 General Admission
Students and Seniors $15
FOR MORE INFORMATION: www.crowncitytheatre.com
818-605-5685
FOR TICKETS CALL: 1-800-838-3006 or click here

4 more shows, in LA and NYC, after the jump!

Mary Lynn Spreads Her Legs - Tickets here - Runs through the end of October. Also has a deal on Goldstar!

Mary Lynn Rajskub, best known for her television work as fan favorite Chloe O' Brian on the Fox hit 24, is ready to take to the stage in her one woman comedy performance -  Mary Lynn Spreads Her Legs.

Mary Lynn's private life serves as the inspiration for her new show, which explores what happens when Mary Lynn discovers she is pregnant and subsequently becomes a mother. Written and Performed by Mary Lynn Rajskub, Directed and Developed by Amit Itelman. PERFORMANCES ARE EVERY FRIDAY AND SATURDAY AT 8PM! $20.

New York


Ghost of Dracula  - The bastard child of "Dracula" and "The Breakfast Club," with a lot more blood, and music. Runtime: 1 hour.

Buy your discounted tickets here for only $15: http://bit.ly/c1b1fk They will be $18 at the door, so get them now.

A play by Kenneth Molloy that's been called "A coke-fueled bloody stabfest," and "The Dark Knight of vampire plays." It's got blood that rains from the sky, wolves that howl in the night, and Powerpoint presentations that slightly malfunction. It's more kick ass than any other play inspired by The Breakfast Club.

There's sex, rocket propelled grenades, and piss made of holy water. There's also a ghost vampire, or vampire ghost. Interchangeable terms? I don't know.

Opens Friday the 13th at The Connelly Theater. Located at 220 E. 4th St. Buy your tickets in advance online and save some American dollars to spend on other fun things, like drinking with us after the show:http://bit.ly/c1b1fk

Friday August 13th @ 7:30PM

Saturday August 14th @ 5:15PM

Wednesday August 18th @ 10:45PM

Tuesday August 24th @ 8:30PM

Sunday August 29th @ 2:00PM 

Getting Even With Shakespeare - Yes,  Shakespeare mash-ups count as Geek Theater. Have you READ Kill Shakespeare? This is like that.

Jurassic Parq: The Musical is Jurassic Park told from the perspective of the dinosaurs. No, I'm not kidding. After reading the synopsis below, I'm even more confused. But whatever, I'll see it. Cocktail party!

Boldly re-imagined and retold from the perspective of the dinosaurs, Jurassic Parq is an unflinching meditation on gender, sexual, and racial identity in an evolving landscape destined to stun you with its importance. And you should probably see it drunk. 

If you buy a ticket for opening night, we will transport everyone in the audience, via time machine, to the Jurassic Era to have a cocktail party with the real dinosaurs on which the characters in the play are based.

THAT'S RIGHT! Destiny has gifted us this technology so that we may have the greatest opening night party. Ever.

So buy your tickets now at:  www.fringenyc.org

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Back To The Future Timeline Infographic

If it's Back to the Future related, and I see it, it's getting posted. 

[Slashfilm]

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Evil Ex #7 Goes Back To Brooklyn

HBO's Bored to Death is coming back! September 26th at 10pm! Woot!

I adore so many people in this cast as human beings and actors, and the first season was certainly enjoyable enough to get me watching season two. I'd pretty much watch Jason Schwartzman, Ted Danson and Zach Galifianakis do anything, but it's nice that this anything is a well written HBO show.

Below is a behind the scenes look at the show, followed by a peak at the comic Super-Ray, made by Ray (Zach Galifianakis) in world, and was created by Jonathan Ames (showrunner) and Dean Haspiel in real life. Enjoys!

 

Download full comic here. 

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Geeky Ringtones For You?

Because I said so

Tonight, @Brotodeau created an Inception ringtone and posted it on Twitter for all to download. This resulted in me downloading it. It was awesome. Afterwards, I got inspired and decided to experiment with my new droid and its ringtone capabilities. I don't know what the rules are for iphones and what not, but these will CERTAINLY work for a Droid or a Blackberry. Here they my geektastic experiments.

Battlestar - Violence & Variations (Lee/Kara) - Download

Battlestar - Roslin & Adama - Download

Lost - Life & Death - Download

True Blood - Hairclip (Bill/Sookie) - Download

Scott Pilgrim - 8 Bit Universal Theme (For @genjadeshade, whose idea it was!) - Download

Note for Droid owners - I sent the files to myself using Bluetooth, then set them to ringtones. Super easy that way. Actually, if there is any other way to get ringtones on the Droid from your computer...I don't know what they are.

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Bert Cooper Drinks Youth Serum & Performs In Broadway Play!

This youth serum chops your age in half. So give some to Don Draper so I can date him, okay? Okay! Good deal. Apparently this serum also makes you sing songs from my favorite musicals to your business associates. WEIRD.

Note: Yes, I only just found out Robert Morse played J. Pierrepont Finch in the movie and on Broadway. So I got excited. But check this out - the clip above is from 1967, but Morse actually originated the role on stage on 1962. Mad Men Season 2 took place in 1962. So did Bert Cooper go see How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying in 1962? A rich ad man based out of New York City? Probably. Wonder if that was weird for him. Seeing his young self performing on stage and all.

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How Chris Nolan Incepted Us With Inception & May Be Taking Over The World

Note: Inception spoilers lie ahead. Do not read if you haven't seen Inception. In fact, if you haven't seen Inception, please close the computer immediately and go see it. Good deal!

Okay. So. This just happened. It's 4:30 in the morning now and I started writing at 3:50.

The first thing I remember is being in a hotel room. High in a hotel room, cause it's just me, a hotel room, room service and a tv. Fun! Then all of the sudden, I hear the zzzzt sound of a hotel door being opened and it's someone who I love very much, but was not expecting to see behind the door and someone who I don't want to see when I'm blazed out of my mind. So I ask what Person A is doing there! Person A had to see me. I explain that I'm really tired. Person A suggests breakfast. I say I don't think that would work and note how odd all of this is and think, how funny if I was dreaming...

Cut to: I'm a library with Person B and Person C.

(Back ground: Person B is an old friend of mine who recently got involved in a theater company I work with. Person C is the artistic director of the theater company. Person B works in theater at a high school and Person C is in the process of finalizing a deal where the theater company teaches, in some cases, theater to kids - we had a meeting yesterday where this was brought up.)

Person B tells Person C that the kids talk about the program all the time and they just love it, etc. etc. I interject, "Wait, didn't we JUST have that meeting yesterday?" Person C replies "Quick turnaround."

So I start thinking...about how earlier I thought I might be dreaming...

I then say "Okay, this might sound totally weird, but I LITERALLY have no idea if I'm in a dream or not right now, it's totally fucked up." And look to them for answers, for them to tell me I'm ridiculous. Blank stares. I suddenly feel threatened and terrified.

I think think - "where's my totem. fuck fuck, where's my totem? I need to know if I'm dreaming. If I am, I need to wake up."

I try to look at my hands, I can't see them. Something is wrong. I reach into my pocket and realize I don't have a totem, so what else, what else. The pocket! What pocket am I reaching into? What am I wearing? What WAS I wearing earlier? I can't see it. I then decide that my shirt must be made of my mother's name and my pants must be made out of my dad's name. But then I realize none of this makes sense, I can't see what I'm wearing & there is no such thing as a shirt made out of Elizabeth* or pants made out of Arthur* - this is a fucking dream.

So I say think, okay, WAKE UP! Things get shaky, but it works! I'm suddenly in bed!

But wait, it may be cause it's dark, but it looks like my bedroom in my parents' house, not where I sleep now. I then look to the side of the bed and see what may or may not be a foreboding figure standing in front of me, holding a weapon. I scream at the top of my lungs AND FALL OUT OF BED, hitting my stand up lamp on the way down.

I instantly wake up in actual real life, terrified, on the verge of hyperventilating. I turn the light on, get my cat, and write all of this down.

I'm not sure where all of this falls on the scale of positive vs negative ways a movie affects your life, but Inception played a role in my dreams tonight in a way bigger then "I dreamt about Inception."

I understood after seeing this movie, on a subconscious level, that what it was telling me about dreams was true. That I could figure out if it was real or not, that I could wake myself up, that telling my dream-mates that I think I'm dreaming is dangerous and - interesting that screaming & falling on the last plane of dreaming before waking up is what actually woke me up? We all know the "kick" on the first plane in a dream within a dream is what actually wakes you up. Well, we think we know this cause we saw Inception. And now it just happened in my dream.

Chris Nolan, I don't know what kind of genius mastermind you are and I hope if you do take over the world, it's a benevolent dictatorship. Because you just made some shit up in a movie and I DECIDED IT WAS FACT WITHOUT EVER DECIDING IT WAS A FACT. Which also happens to be what occurs when someone is incepted in your movie. When Inception occurs. You incepted me with Inception. You incepted all of us. And now for better or for worse, I am finding it easier and easier to recognize when I'm dreaming (something similar, but not quite as intense, happened a week or so ago). At this stage, being conscious of the fact that I'm in my subconscious freaks me out to much to stay there, and I always wake up. But if this movie is somehow singlehandedly building our minds up enough to be able to fully participate in lucid dreaming, which, who knows, could lead to the film's technology existing in real life? Which could lead to actual physical Inception? Which you could totally do with an army of top notch lucid dreamers?! Well that's a whole other fucking movie right there, isn't it?! Except real if it was real! But IS IT REAL?!

WHAT'S HAPPENING?!

I also happen to be so sleepy and tired with a brain that has yet to recover from all of the 8 hours of drinking and 3 hours of sleeping that occurred yesterday, that it's no wonder I was high in my dream. My brain can't even function normally in my subconscious. That's how tired I am. But maybe it's also this complete inability to keep my eyes open that allowed for such a deep sleep so soon after I turned the lights off. Two levels in after a half hour, if that, of sleeping?

I must know go back into the land of the unknown (and by unknown I mean very well known) of my subconscious and hope things go more smoothly this time. Dating Joseph Gordon Levitt, Rupert Grint, James McAvoy or Aaron Tveit would definitely be acceptable subject matter.

See you on the other side.

*Not my parents' actual names, changed for purposes of this story.

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Emma Watson Is The MOST Beautiful [TTLLTOT]

Today's entry in Things That Look Like That Other Thing?

Only a great face can pull that shit off. So congratulations, Emma Watson. You officially have a great face.

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AHHHHHHHHH LOST EPILOGUE AHHH DYING

Join me in hoping my boyfriend doesn't catch wind of this before I can tell him so I can watch his reaction to this answer-giving two minute slice of genius on toast bread happiness AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!! And we still get 12 minutes once the DVD comes out?!!?!
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Faint!

[Jezebel]

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Televisionaholic

Going to keep most of this after jump because I want to keep Megan Fox's acting and JGL on the front page for as long as possible.

(cross posted from But They Didn't Ask Me)

They say the first step is admitting you have a problem.  Lady and gentleman who read my blog, I have a problem.  I watch way too much television.  Case and point:  I visited Hulu.com as I often do when I have other things I should be doing and decided to give the pilot episode of SyFy's Haven a look-see.



I like Stephen King.  I like Maine in theory.  And while waiting for Fringe to return in the fall, I could use something reminiscent of The X-Files and every other crime fighting science fiction show ever.   Plus, Haven has that one actor from Six Feet Under and 24 with the great goatee that I saw in Santa Monica the other weekend.  Consider me sold.

The rest after the jump




Ten minutes into the pilot, our fish out of water FBI agent is having a somewhat heated conversation with the local police chief because this murder just isn't making any sense.  That's when I recognize the police chief.  He's the actor who played the coroner and title character in the Canadian crime show Da Vinci's Inquest.



He's a little grayer and puffier than when I last saw him bucking the system and fighting for his dead victims in Vancouver, but it's definitely him.  Although I lived in Canada for several years, the only reason I know and love Da Vinci's Inquest is because my Canadian grandmother stumbled across it at 4pm everyday on A&E.  The show was amazing, and not just because in Canada, the coroners are a cross between a homicide detective, American coroners who conduct autopsies, and judges who get to hold their own trials otherwise known as inquests.  Every episode was reminiscent of Homicide:  Life on the Street or Law & Order in it's prime when Sam Waterson aka A.D.A. Jack McCoy played the system anyway he could to get justice.  And Da Vinci himself was a brilliant alcoholic misanthrope who could banter up and down a scene with his teenage daughter.  Anyway, the show was amazing until Da Vinci got into politics, but back to the point-- this actor my grandma loves shows up in the middle of a crime scene on this new show Haven.

I immediately call my grandpa's cell phone, and when he answers and explains that they're out to lunch with some visiting family, I assure him it's an emergency and I need to talk to Grandma now.  Very confused and a little concerned, she takes the phone, and I start heatedly describing to her what I've just witnessed.  Da Vinci is on a new show that they absolutely have to start watching immediately, like during lunch if possible.  You see, not only do I watch too much television, but I know far too much about other people's viewing habits.  I know that my grandparents love procedurals, but especially the kind that are a little tongue in cheek and on the quirky side.  Haven is set in Maine with an absurd recurring cast of locals and the occasional death or dismemberment is seen as puzzling and troubling rather than earth shattering, and that's perfect as they really enjoy something with a body count and a sense of humor a la the long dead Nash Bridges or more recently Castle.

Doesn't get much better than Don Johnson and Cheech

Except for maybe Nathon Fillion and... can we replace her with Cheech?

Grandpa also has a thing for young, pretty professional woman who are too smart and too sarcastic for their own good.  This describes the blonde protagonist in Haven to a tee.  And Grandma loves paranormal undertones, but nothing as frustrating or vague as the supernatural on a show like Lost.  The strange phenomenon in Haven have a logical and clear if still fantastical explanation by every episode's end.  PLUS, there's a recurring role played by Da Vinci!  If the start of a television show tailor made for them isn't an emergency, I don't know what is!!!!

Grandma laughed, explained to visiting family what my call was about, and handed the phone back to Grandpa.  Grandpa laughed and asked me to email him the name of the show and when it aired so he could record it on his DVR.   A few days later, he emailed me back to say they loved it.  Just as I was starting to feel proud of my recommendation, my television viewing prowess, it hit me.  I watch way too much damn television.

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New Eminem video featuring Rihanna

The new Eminem and Rihanna single "Love the Way You Lie" has grown on me immensely. The first time I heard it I felt it was a little gimmicky but I've grown to appreciate its sincerity. "Love the Way You Lie" is a song about abusive relationships by two artists who have very infamously dealt with domestic abuse. Eminem has already rapped about his tumultuous relationship with his ex wife Kimberley Scott (who Eminem fans know as "Kim"). He's been criticized for his violent lyrics which include fantasizing about killing his (then) spouse. But Rihanna has been more subtle in her artistic references to her relationship with Chris Brown (who Rihanna fans know as "that unapologetic abusive motherfucker"). Her last album Rated R (which is insanely underrated) alluded to being heartbroken but also finding the strength to move on from a fatal relationship.

"Love the Way You Lie" is a big step cathartically and musically for both artists. Eminem's lyrics, although not his best, are piercing as ever but surprisingly tender. You can hear his desperation, anger, and ultimately his shame not just in his lyrics but in his voice. For Rihanna, it's her musical admission of how a seemingly sadomasochistic love made her stay in an abusive relationship. While this is something she has previously discussed in interviews, she's never allowed herself to appear so insecure and fragile as she does in this song. Even her newly cultivated bad ass girl image is toned down for the single's music video. With "Love the Way You Lie" Eminem and Rihanna give us an honest account of their individual experiences with violence and love. I don't want to assume I know the extent of their individual experiences; it's too easy to assume that they were on polar ends of the domestic abuse spectrum (Rihanna as the female victim and Eminem as the male oppressor). All I can do is appreciate that their song expresses how multifaceted abusive relationships are...and I can also appreciate its great hook!

As a bonus, the music video rocks. It features Megan Fox and Dominic Monaghan as lovers tormented by their intense, violent relationship. I know it's just a short music video but both their performances are great. The video will hopefully garner more attention for the efforts made by Eminem and Rihanna to be open about their romantic struggles and also their efforts to evolve as popular artists in an increasingly shallow, monotone pop music industry.

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On The Subject of Crushes

She hosted a Whiskey Party. LOVES.

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