Here’s a rough sketch of the Masterpiece (MP-08) Grimlock…I love that Grimlock created Computron…Not everyone knows that Grimlock was a super genius for an episode (see: “Grimlock’s New Brain”) PS Don’t ask my I colored some of the parts of this sketch the way I did…I have no idea…

masterpiece grimlock (sort of..)
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I am a fan of both Sin City in comic form and the Sin City movie. However, I am and forever will be disappointed that Jessica Alba did not show her boobs at all, not just because I’m admittedly a bit of a perv, but more because that is one of the core elements of her character: Nancy is a stripper! In the comic, almost every panel she is in has her showing off her ta-tas! But whatever I digress…Marv is an awesome character…The crazy loyal nutcase who went on a killing rampage because of his love for a deceased prostitute named Goldie…

marv from sin city by frank miller

this entry sucks and kind of doesn’t make sense. but i don’t care. it has pics! craptastically drawn pics but they are MY craptastically drawn pics!

1. Pulp Fiction
2. Bastardos Inglórios
3. Cães de Aluguel
4. Jackie Brown
5. Sin City (fiquei na dúvida se considerava este ou não, mas acabei considerando)
6. Kill Bill (I e II)
7. Death Proof

Mas a razão de ser deste post é que, apesar de achar o Death Proof meio sei lá, ele tem umas coisas incríveis… Como os trailers falsos, que são todos geniais. E aí uma ironia… Esse post era pra ser sobre o Tarantino… E os 2 trailers de que mais gosto não foram dirigidos por ele:

Machete foi feito pelo Rodriguez e é a saga de um herói mexicano a la Charles Bronson. Foda.

O outro é o maravilhoso  Thanksgiving. Um terror B com roteiro e direção de Eli Roth. Roth é o cara que fez Albergue e, mais recentemente, interpretou Donny Donowitz em Bastardos Inglórios. Lembra dele? Não? É aquele cara que sai da caverna e arrebenta a cabeça do nazi com o bastão de baseball. Lembrou?

By Rahsian Parris

Elliot Minor - From Left to Right: Ed Minton, Dan Hetherton, Alex Davies, Ali Paul and Ed Hetherton

I recently caught up with Ed Minton (from band of the moment, Elliot Minor), who took some time out of the bands hectic UK tour to talk about their new album Solaris, dish the dirt on his band mates and shed some light on what really happens on tour with one of Britain’s favourite pop rockers.

I am anxious, my palms feel clammy and all of a sudden I feel overwhelmed. Is my voice shaking? I am introducing myself and I start to stutter, why am I giggling like an excited child? Maybe it is because I am about to talk to a founding member of one of my favourite bands. I manage to get my name out and ask Ed how he is, “Hiya, I’m very well thank you. How are you?” he says. Much to my surprise, the young, modest voice on the other end of the line is instantly comforting and just like that, it is like talking to an old friend. I answer his polite question, mentioning how petrified I am and slightly unnerved that my other interviewee – Alex, who sings lead vocals – is still asleep in bed. “Do you want me to wake him up?” asks Ed, more as if he were asking me how many sugars I would like in my coffee rather than if he should rouse his superstar band mate from the depths of post performance slumber. He tells me, in an almost childlike fashion, that unfortunately he is not allowed to anyway (orders from management) and that the interview will continue Alex-less.

“I’m the guitarist Ed, not the bassist one” he exclaims, not to confuse ‘the Eds’ (there are two, Minton and Hetherton, brother of other band mate Dan Hetherton) “I’m 23, I was originally born in Japan, I came over to England when I was eight and I’ve been here since.” When asked if he plays any other instruments, other than guitar, he sheepishly replies “in the band I sing a bit, but that’s about it” and outside of the band? “I can play the piano and violin” he says, so matter of fact that you would think that mastering the art of playing such instruments is common practice. Having said that, in Elliot Minor it is. Between them they play nine different instruments including the cello, clarinet and double bass and that is before we even consider their hearty vocal talents. “We all did music at school, we all took to studying music as a major subject, so we all pretty much did the same thing” says Ed who went to independent school Uppingham in Rutland, England. With such prestigious schooling behind him and co-founder, Alex Davies, there is no wonder Elliot Minor are massive; Uppingham’s former residents are no less than Charlie Simpson (formerly of Busted, currently of hard rockers Fightstar) and Harry Judd of punk/pop sensations McFly to name a few. Ed fills us in saying “It’s where I met Alex. We started doing some acoustic stuff together before we formed the full band. We were called ‘The Academy’, but we didn’t really do much with that and then in our gap year we joined up with Dan, the drummer and then we were a three piece for a bit. As the year went on, Alex and Dan got in touch with their friends from school, who were Ali and Ed and then we formed the full Elliot Minor”.

In 2006 the fully formed band entered a Myspace competition to win a chance to support McFly on the Newcastle leg of one of their tours. They won. This instantaneously threw them into the media spot light and they quickly built up a massive fan base, particularly out of McFly fans, but as they signed to Warner Bros. Records (who they parted ways with this year to return to their aptly named indie label, Repossession Records) and went on to support pop/rock giants Simple Plan and and Fall Out Boy; six singles and two chart topping albums later, they are now sporting hardcore fans of their own; just as well because you dare not mention rumours of the feud between them and McFly, you might just get the death stare.

With the band being back ‘on the road’ in support of their sophomore album Solaris it is only right that we get to grips with what actually happens on tour with Elliot Minor. We have heard all the rumours about how younger rockers behave most unscrupulously whilst on tour, but to be perfectly honest, Elliot Minor seem pretty tame as Ed excitedly announces half way through our interview “Alex is awake now…he’s gone downstairs, he’s getting changed, he’s walking around butt naked” before a voice in the background shouts out “Edward is a d**do”. Ed quickly lowers his voice saying ” you didn’t hear that did you?”, my uproarious laughter gives it away. The hubbub dies down and we get back to talking about the tour. A popular part of the last Elliot Minor tour was when Alex played his violin live, Ed unfortunately denounces any rumours of this happening on the current tour saying “Well he smashed his violin up…a few years ago or something? Yeah, I think it was when we played the Astoria [in London], he decided to just throw it to the ground and it broke, so until he gets a new one I doubt he’ll be bringing that one out again”. Slightly disappointing, but I am sure there will be other great things on the new tour. What should we expect? “You should expect to see us playing about three quarters of our new album and then pretty much all the singles from out last album. It’s quite an exciting set. It’s got its ups and downs and it’s quite energetic really; I dunno, we’ll just play the songs and see how the kids react”. Fan’s favourite parts of the gigs seem to be when the guys go all sentimental and play some acoustic versions of some of their tracks, but Ed mentions that this wont be happening either. “We were gonna do a song called ‘All Along’ from our second album, but Ali couldn’t learn the part in time”, Ali interrupts saying “yeah I couldn’t be bothered” [there is laughter], “Yeah he couldn’t be bothered to play it” continues Ed, “Nah, I’m kidding, we were gonna do it, but we didn’t have time…we did ['Last Call To New York'] last tour actually, we were thinking of playing it on this tour, but our set is, I think, the length already, so it would be pushing it a little bit if we added another song, but if the demand’s there we might pull it out as an encore”. This pleases me as it is one of my favourite tracks, thus I go on to tell Ed how I will gather my trustee EM fans and campaign for them to play ‘Last Call To New York’; he laughs and enthusiastically says “yeah you should, then we’ll play it”.

Last year Elliot Minor appeared on BBC Radio 1’s Live lounge album and played a very well received acoustic version of Take That’s ‘Rule The World’, asked if they have any more covers in the pipeline, Ed replies “we just did a radio thing yesterday and we covered Jordin Sparks’ ‘Battle Fields’, that was pretty cool. I know Alex really wants to cover Black Eyed Peas, but it’s just not going to happen [laughter]. Can you imagine that? Alex is like “I’ll rap, I’ll rap” but nobody’s buying it, so nah, that’s not gonna happen” he says in between giggles. “Maybe we’ll put out a band version of Jordin sparks one day, that’d be quite cool”. I am sure the fans would love that, I know I would, speaking of the fans, in the short time that Elliot Minor have been in the spotlight, they have acquired an army of loyal fans that follow them around in adoration and apparently keep them comfy whilst on tour, Ed declares “the best thing a fan has ever done [pauses], you know what? The best thing from a fan, is when a fan gets us a present, like boxes of socks, they’re the most appreciated thing on tour because we obviously run out, then we have to start pulling things inside out [laughs], so that kind of thing is great. Fans also buy you tea and that kind of stuff which is also great [he becomes animated], actually the other day I had a girl customise a mug for me which was really nice. She did the Elliot Minor logo, she just customised it as my own which was great; it’s now on the bus and I drink my green tea out of it. She’d written ‘Ed Minton’s Green Tea Mug’ on it, in Japanese as well, so cool”. So what is the worst thing then? “The worst thing a fan has ever done? You know what? I don’t know, they actually don’t do anything that bad. I guess some things can get a little bit annoying, but that’s fine, it’s no problem”.

As was becoming the ever growing trend at that time, Elliot Minor started out on Myspace before they won the competition to be the support band of McFly and Ed says it was the key to their initial success, “Myspace was, initially, the real driving force behind building a fan base, but it’s definitely kind of ground to a halt now, because nothing happens on it, especially for us; I don’t know how it is for other bands, but for some reason it’s just dead, I think everyone’s bored of it. Facebook is as buzzing as ever, but it’s extremely difficult for bands because you can’t really upload music, can you? I dunno, I don’t really spend that much time online, but Dan, the drummer, is a big gimp, he spends most of his time online so he would know a lot better than I do. He’s quite into Twitter right now” (I get excited and tell Ed how much I love Twitter) “Ooh really? I have my own twitter too, but I struggle to use it” he says. I leap into groupie territory when I animatedly tell him that I’ll add him, “yeah?” he replies “please do”. Back to online communities and the success of the band, we get talking about the pros and cons of social networking sites and music. “It gives everyone a chance doesn’t it? So in that sense it makes it easier for bands to get their music out there, but because everyone’s got access to it now, in a sense, it’s harder to get your name out there; but, I guess if you’re a band and you just wanna get your music out then it’s very helpful, in that sense it’s amazing; but I do feel that it’s kind of going downhill now. Myspace is incredible for it, but since that’s dying down now, it’s starting to get harder again”.

There is a bit more noise now as Ed heads out onto the tour bus, the boys are playing Swansea’s Sin City tonight, so no doubt they need to go and prepare. As we come to a close we chat about memorable moments and Ed’s favourite Elliot Minor show. “The Astoria in London. There was this real buzz period where we had our first album out and our Japanese label was on board, it was just a really good time for us. There were like two thousand kids just going mental, it was unbelievable. It was also our first show where we had pyros [pyrotechnics] and all that stuff, so that was probably the highlight for me; but to be fair, every show is awesome, though I am looking forward to the one in Edinburgh” Queue me getting over excited. “I really am, Edinburgh’s always been a wicked place to play. We played the Liquid rooms before and Studio 24 is it? They’re always such a great crowd up there and also it’s just a beautiful city, I love being up there”. He goes on to tell me about his best live show outside of the band, a Green Day concert in Tokyo that he went to see with his best friend “it was the most amazing thing I’ve ever seen in my life. That will definitely stay in my memory forever”; and for the rest of the Elliot Minor tour? “We’re touring up until the start of December and then we’ll get a bit of time off, I’m going back home to Japan. We’ll get back in the New Year and hopefully, I think this is the plan as it is now, we’ll have a single out early next year and then we’ll just carry on touring. Maybe another UK tour, but we also promised our European fans that we’d go out there and maybe head to Japan as well because they’re releasing an album in March”.

Huge gusts of wind blow down the phone and Ed is audibly cold, the tour bus should be leaving soon to head to the venue of another explosive Elliot Minor show, but in the mean time, at least he has his customised mug and Green Tea to warm his hands and cockles, for after all, this is one rock star that is far more ‘Home Sweet Home’ than ‘Anarchy In The UK’.

Elliot Minor play the HMV PictureHouse tonight in Edinburgh – Doors 19:30 For more UK dates visit www.Elliotminor.com

The New album Solaris is OUT NOW

Hallo Leute,

habe hier eben einen interessanten Artikel vom Tagesspiegel online gefunden.

Demnach findet jetzt am Wochenende  eine Tagung in der Freien Universität Berlin statt, die das Medium Comic zum Thema hat. Dabei sollen  “Wissenschaftler aus Japan Deutschland und Frankreich über kulturelle und soziale Grenzen in dem Medium Comic dikutieren” wie es in dem Bericht heißt. Der Titel dieser Veranstaltung ist “Comics – Zum Stand der kulturellen Legitimität eines intermedialen Mediums”. Dabei werden auch filmische Umsetzungen wie zum Beispiel “Sin City” besprochen. Der Eintritt zu dieser Veranstaltung ist frei.

Ich wünschte so etwas hätten die auch mal an meiner Uni gemacht als ich noch Student war.

Die Veranstaltung findet am 27.11.09 und 28.11.09 jeweils von 10 bis 19 Uhr statt

Quelle:http://www.tagesspiegel.de/kultur/comics/Comics-Comicforschung;art18281,2957970

Abbiamo cominciato settimana scorsa una lunga e dolorosa discesa negli inferi delle produzione cinematografiche a soggetto supereroistico. Insomma, i film brutti tratti dai fumetti. Se volete scoprire quanto si può cadere in basso, continuate a leggere e puppatevi un’escalation di terrore dalla posizione numero 12 alla 10. Oddio che ansia.

12 The Punisher, Jonathan Hensleigh, 2004

Qualcuno si ricorda il vecchio film sul Punitore con Dolph Lundgren senza manco il teschio sulla maglia? Dai, quello che in italiano non si sa per quale motivo è uscito con il titolo Il Vendicatore… C’è anche una sequenza dove si vede un telegiornale, un anchorman che parla di tale Vendicatore e dietro di lui c’è una scritta gigante: Punisher… No, per dire l’accurataggine con cui era fatto… Eh? Ve lo ricordate? Eh? Era brutto… Ma questo è peggio. Si prende un altro biondo (Thomas Jane) lo si tinge di nero, gli si mette un teschio sul vestito (almeno quello…) e poi si fa di tutto per rovinare la saga Bentornato, Frank, quella di Ennis e Dillon. E tra un pezzo dei Nickelback e uno del chitarrista degli Evanescence, ce la si fa alla grande. Ad uscirne peggio di tutti è proprio il Punitore, qui snaturato in ogni sua caratteristica, soprattutto – diciamo così – “psicologica”. John Travolta, nella parte del cattivo, è semplicemente deprimente. Per la cronaca l’ultimo film dedicato al personaggio, The Punisher War Zone, massacrato ovunque dalla critica e da noi uscito direttamente in dvd, non è per niente male. Cioè, a confronto sembra un film di Orson Welles e a questo ci straspezza la schiena. Non a caso si è dovuti ripartire da zero… Per farvi capire quante cazzate si possono dire in un film, vediamo come ce li cava a spiegare tutto quello che muove Frank Castle nella sua vendetta cieca e senza fine in soli 32 fottutissimi secondi.

Attore di pregio che qui mette a rischio la sua carriera:
Roy Scheider (R.I.P.)

11 X-Men le origini – Wolverine, Gavin Hood, 2009

Diciamolo subito, hanno fatto un brutto casino con Deadpool. Un bruttissimo casino. Non è nemmeno un film discreto in cui han fatto un bruttissimo casino con Deadpool, oppure un film che raggiunge a mala pena la sufficenza in cui han fatto un bruttissimo casino con Deadpool, no, è un grosso film di merda in cui han fatto un bruttissimo casino con Deadpool. E dire che dietro c’è la penna del romanziere/sceneggiatore de la 25esima ora di Spike Lee. Al famoso monologo di Norton davanti lo specchio andrebbe aggiunto “Fanculo te! Sceneggiatore, produttore, regista di Hollywood che quando si ritrova ad dover fare un film sui Super Eroi, invece di attingere da quelle migliaia di ottime storie, si inventa cazzate dal nulla, rovinandomi la giornata ed il mio megasecchio di popcorn”

Perchè diamine Deadpool assomiglia a Voldemort sotto steroidi con un giochino della settimana enigmistica sul petto? Perchè?

(Girano voci sul fatto che in un probabile Wolverine 2 o spin-off su Deadpool si scoprirà che il pelato di cui sopra non sia in realtà Wide Wilson)

Attore di pregio che qui mette a rischio la sua carriera:
Danny Huston

10 The Spirit, Frank Miller, 2008

La totale e definitiva perdita di credibilità per un uomo che per un certo periodo è stato nei nostri cuori… come dire: la conferma della fine di Frank Miller passa sicuramente attraverso questo film. Dopo essere stato incoronato dal grande Will Eisner come suo successore e custode dei segreti della non arte, Miller è riuscito a scontentare chiunque facendo trasparire per altro anche una certa cattiva fede. In barba a qualsiasi rispetto per la fonte originale, al personaggio The Spirit viene applicato in laboratorio il trattamento Sin City (vi ricordate? Si può fare lo stesso anche a Charlie Brown… ) . Il risultato si commenta da solo. Se già il passaggio da carta stampata a grande schermo era stata non priva di difetti per Marv e compagni, figuriamoci in questo caso. Dopo dieci minuti passa la voglia di vivere anche al più entusiasta degli spettatori e l’idea di una possibile uscita in sala di Sin City 2 e Sin City 3 mette paura. Deligato… Fortunatamente non è piaciuto praticamente a nessuno per cui forse Frank Miller per un po’ la smetterà di essere definito un Autore visionario. Ma ne dubito.

Attore di pregio che qui mette a rischio la sua carriera:
Samuel L. Jackson.

Parte 1: dalla 15 alla 13

Adriano & FEDEmc

Last week I spent a goodly chunk of my paycheque on the second volume of The Absolute Sandman by Neil Gaiman (and artists). I did this for a few reasons. First, I don’t want Xmas presents this year (and am not buying them for anyone). These Absolute Sandman books are mainstays on the Xmas list, but now I could get it for myself. Second, for some reason it’s not available on Amazon.ca at a reasonable cost right now so I noticed it at McNally Robinson. Third, I wanted to read something in a big-ass tome, to feel like I was plumbing the depths of arcanity and such. That this volume of Sandman tales involves the lord of dreams coming into possession of hell makes it a good fit for that “reading a tome” experience.

Sandman comics are things I’ve known about through my entire comic-reading life (which isn’t actually that long). I may have only started reading comics when the original run was ending. I remember the spines of the trade paperbacks in the comic shop. I remember flipping through issues and not really being dragged in. One time at Campaign we were given a trade paperback by one of our book suppliers. I read it (it had the Midsummer Night’s Dream story in it) and I didn’t mind it, but I had other things to spend my money on like Transmetropolitan. So yes, I wasn’t a long-time fan or anything.

And then I started learning how influential it was, beyond the coolness of Neil Gaiman himself. How this was sort of a gothy bible, an artifact of the 1990s that I missed out on. But now I’m reading it. In Absolute form. While I would love to own books like Absolute Watchmen or the giant volumes of Sin CIty or Hellboy, I’ve read those stories, in many cases I on those stories already. But Sandman is this pristine land I’m walking through on these massive pages with their beautiful colouring et al.

Reading this doesn’t bring back memories of the first time reading these stories because this is my first time. I don’t know if this is forming the same kinds of memories for when I reread them in the future. Of being wrapped up in a blanket on my couch in my underheated condo, sipping tea and shooing away a cat. It’s not the same as if I’d been 17. Damned fine stories though.

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Mil rumores han salido desde que se estrenó Sin City allá por el 2005…

Que si tal personaje repite, que si tal no, que si el guión está finalizado, que si eso es mentira, que comenzará a rodarse en breve, que si se para el proyecto, etc…

Es la historia que se repite una y otra vez… Ahora, Stephen L´Heureux, productor de Solipsist Films ha dicho de su propia voz que:

“Sin City comenzará su producción en la segunda mitad del 2010.”

Ahora habrá que creerselo (o no).

A parte, también habló de la adaptación que se prepara de Hard Boiled, el comic de Dark Horse, obra del Frank Miller de principios de los 90. Al parecer el propio Miller se encargará del guión y de la propia dirección:

“Estamos desarrollándolo. Tenemos el proyecto en manos de Warner Bros y de Frank. Es un auténtico placer trabajar con alguien como Frank Miller. Es una persona muy inteligente y un apasionado de las historias, desde las pulp de los años 40, hasta las actuales.”

Obviamente se le preguntó sobre cuando veríamos esta película, y si habría la posibilidad de Sin City 3:

“Con Sin City en el horizonte, no creo que podamos tratar de manera inmediata esta película con Frank. Además, con lo simple que parece Sin City desde fuera, es bastante complicado unificar calendarios con todos estos actores, fuera parte de la cantidad de tomas que debemos de hacer [...] Sí hemos hablado con Miller de Sin City 3, pero de momento no hemos llegado a nada.”

FUENTE

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…I have two SUPER DUPER BIG POSTS to do, and I’m sorry but I’ve been too ridiculously busy, and then Chelsi started making me drive her to and from the BART for kicks, and there was The Fairy. One of the stories deals with fear and babies and the other one involves a boy calling my breasts ’stupendous,’ and everyone likes a story about stupendous breasts, so I’ll start with that one. But until then, a quick visual:

This was how I spent Halloween, nearly nude, with rockstars, and in Vegas. It was nothing but booze and bright lights and laughter and music.

And of course, breasts.

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Essa é rapidinha, achei enquanto estava estudando para uma prova (!!!). O que acontece quando se mistura X-Men com Charlie Brown? E He-man com Garfield? Luluzinha em Sin City?

Quem quiser mais, aqui tem.

Hey I admit it. I like a bit of RPG every now and again – Conspiracy X, AD&D, Cthulhu etc. Topless Robot dug up the goods with this explanation of the various alignments from back in the day.

I think they got it pretty much spot on. If any of you happen to be Chaotic Evil, then nice to meet you, please don’t hurt me.

Jag är nästan säker på att ingen kommer ihåg det här men ibland brukar jag berätta att jag drömt om/sett/upplevt saker som påminner mig om en gammal film jag såg för flera år sedan. Denna filmen har jag nu av en slump hittat! ‘It’s A Wonderful Life’ heter den och handlingen centreras kring en man vid namn George Bailey. George växer upp i en småstad (Bedford Falls) och har som alla andra människor gigantiska drömmar om att komma därifrån för att uppleva världen med spänning och äventyr.  Men på grund av en serie olyckssaliga händelser tvingas George på grund av sitt medlidande till andra människor att lägga sitt liv på hyllan och detta leder till att han önskar att han aldrig blivit född. En önskan som går i uppfyllelse.

Den må vara gammal och filmad svartvitt, men den är så otroligt bra och intar nu en fast plats i min lista över de fem bästa filmerna jag någonsin sett;

• It’s A Wonderful Life (Se hela filmen HÄR)
• St. Elmos Fire
• Sin City
• Franklyn
• Crule Intentions

Wem Filme wie Sin City und 300 gefallen haben, einen kleinen Faible für japanische Samurais und Mangas besitzt, der wird diesen Film hier lieben. Gedreht wurde das Ganze auf der tollen RED Kamera und in Irland (jupp, Irland sieht Japan einfach ähnlicher ). Der Regisseur heisst Gary Shore und hat davor eher mit Animationsfilmen von sich Reden gemacht. Kinostarts sind noch nicht sicher, wahrscheinlich sind die Verhandlungen mit den Verleihern noch nicht abgeschlossen. Denke aber mal, daß der Film eine sichere Investition für die Fantasy Filmfest Reihe ist.

Also auf ins All, die Katanas ausgepackt und los geht’s mit ‘A Cup of Tear’ (ok der Titel hängt ein wenig )

Synopsis:

Cup Of Tears follows a scorned geisha who creates a magical cup made of tears that causes any man who drinks from it to fall into a permanent sleep. One night the cup is stolen, setting off a chain of events that threatens civil war amongst the clans. Taro, a gifted samurai, sets out to find the cup and one who can break the spell.

Everybody knows that places

The places who never sleep

The wonderful places

The very fun places

Its a heaven in the world

Love,sex,money,drinks,drugs

Everything we need and we want

That’s a never endless sleep city

That’s a places who can makes our dreams comes true

That’s a places who full of  a passion

If you go there

You must want back someday.

LOS ANGELES, CA — The strong word-of-mouth and support for Brown Soup Thing continues to spread throughout the Asian and indie film communities, as the Pacific Media Expo (PMX) will present a special showcase screening and panel for the acclaimed comedy-drama this Saturday, November 7th, for PMX’s 6th annual celebration of Asian entertainment at the LAX Hilton.
While Brown Soup Thing is a story about a Filipino American family, the many fans who champion it are pleased to see the movie expand its audience and fan base.

“Brown Soup Thing is such a wonderful addition to the Pan-Asian programming of Pacific Media Expo,” said an excited Paula Angeles, Director of Marketing and Community Outreach. “This Filipino American movie will not only appeal to Filipinos but also to the multicultural attendees of PMX because it’s a very human story about family.”
The thought-provoking independent film has brought cheers everywhere it has screened, including the Chicago Filipino Film Festival and the Filipino International Film Festival in Los Angeles. Both events reported record festival attendance and strong ticket sales for BST screenings.
“It’s time for Asian Americans to take it to another level in media, and Filipinos are leading the way,” said Korean comedian PK, former resident of the Philippines. “I have a connection with Filipino brothers and sisters. It’s an honor for me to be in a film produced by Edward J. Mallillin and to share the screen with my good friends and talented comedians, Joey Guila and KT Tatara.”
“It’s great when Asian Americans of different backgrounds can work together in a film,” said KT Tatara, whose appearances on Comedy Central have entertained audiences everywhere. “You don’t have to be Filipino to enjoy Brown Soup Thing and I hope this will inspire more Asian American projects.”
Ticket/registration information is available at PMX’s website,www.pacificmediaexpo.com. The weekend-long event also features concerts, fashion shows, Anime, and Karaoke, as well as the Asian Food Challenge 2009, a Pocky tasting, and a special visit from the local favorite Kogi truck.
“PMX has something for all people of all backgrounds,” said writer/director Edward J. Mallillin. “Our film is about a family, and everyone can relate to that. We are honored to be part of this popular Los Angeles institution and hope to walk away with more fans of Brown Soup Thing.”
In addition to Tatara and Mallillin, the BST panel prior to its screening will feature several cast members such as Miss Saigonand Hi-5 star Kimee Balmilero, Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien’s Earl Baylon, Cheryl Noe (The Bold and The Beautiful), and Rona Par (The Flip Side).

While Southern California fans are undoubtedly eager to taste Brown Soup Thing, Nevada fans are also anticipating the Las Vegas premiere on November 14-15 at UNLV. The city expects a record number of Filipinos and Asians in the area, as world champion boxer Manny Pacquiao will be fighting Miguel Cotto the same weekend.

Brown Soup Thing is a comedy-drama about a comfortably disconnected Filipino American family. In order to raise her unacceptable A- average, 10 year-old Lita must submit a video project about what it means to be a Filipino in America. Her upcoming birthday provides the perfect setting to unite everyone: parents who can’t relate to their kids, immigrant sister Fely, the always-guilty over-achiever brother Jude, hip-hop sister Maria, an array of cousins, her grandmother who just wants to cook, and favorite sister Shana, who moved out of the country to get away from everyone.

Brown Soup Thing features 2-dozen special appearances by some of the most recognizable Filipinos and other Asians in the world. Among them: World Boxing Champion Manny Pacquiao, internet star Christine “HappySlip” Gambito, Filipino stars Raymond Bagatsing, Bernardo Bernardo andCora Ugalde Yellen; singers Becca Godinez and Anthony Castelo; and popular Asian-American comedians Paul “PK” Kim and KT Tatara.

Brown Soup Thing’s principal cast includes Kimee Balmilero(Hi-5), Jenilee A. Reyes (Deal or No Deal), Cheryl Noe (The Bold & The Beautiful), comedian Joey Guila (HBO’s P Diddy’s Bad Boys of Comedy), and Rona Par (The Flip Side). BST is also proud to introduce Earl Baylon, Wil Olandria, andSari Arambulo, all starring in their very first feature film.

Mallillin is also the creator and executive producer of the hugely popular internet series Flipped Switch, which will provide fans with exclusive coverage of Brown Soup Thing’s weekend at PMX. Among the many guests who have appeared on the show:Harold and Kumar star John Cho, director Quentin Tarantino, actor Neil Patrick Harris, UFC champion Randy Couture, and Filipino personalities such as Jo Koy, Camille Velasco, andChristine “HappySlip” Gambito.

Brown Soup Thing and Flipped Switch are Malinius productions.

Brown Soup Thing (movie & panel) will be at PMX (Pacific Media Expo) Saturday, November 7th at the LAX Hilton in Los Angeles. The panel starts at 6:00 pm, and the movie starting immediately after, at 7:00 pm. Tickets are available at www.pacificmediaexpo.com. Brown Soup Thing also screens at UNLV’s Student Union on November 14-15 (both shows start at 1:00 pm). Tickets are available at Brown Paper Tickets.

CONTACT INFO:
Shana Quisumbing
Malinius Supervising Producer
info@malinius.com
(310) 987.9989

TICKET/MOVIE INFO:
http://www.pacificmediaexpo.com
http://www.brownpapertickets.com
http://www.facebook.com/malinius

via Malinius

Sin City è un film del 2005, diretto da Robert Rodríguez e Frank Miller.
È tratto dall’omonimo fumetto Sin City dello stesso Miller, una serie indipendente della Dark Horse Comics divenuta un vero e proprio fenomeno cult.
La pellicola è divisa in tre episodi, che raccontano tre storie dell’opera originale di Miller: Un duro addio, Quel bastardo giallo e Un’abbuffata di morte. All’inizio e alla fine del film viene accennata la parte che nel fumetto corrisponde a Il cliente ha sempre ragione.

Leggi altre notizie su: | Drammatico | Noir | Robert Rodríguez | Frank Miller | Quentin Tarantino | Bruce Willis | Mickey Rourke | Jessica Alba | Clive Owen

scanned some of my old 2006 drawings inspired by frank miller’s sin city (these 2 have my initials from before i got married)

shellie from sin city by frank miller

lucille from sin city by frank miller

and here’s something i did last night in anticipation of the tokidoki x marvel release in february.

i really want to learn how to draw chibibotness fairly consistently. i’ve tried doing stuff inspired by lil formers and my mr. bear’s drawings, but so far have not been doing as well as i’d like. i’m so tired…i’ve been staying up into the weeeee hours because i’ve been trying to really get time to myself…overall i’m happy to be a parent, but dammit, sometimes i just need some time alone…also, i’ve been trying to get back into drawing as an outlet for all the crap that’s swimming around in my brain…ewww i just realized that makes my brain sound like a sewer…i wonder if i have pizza eating teenage mutant ninja turtles living in my brain?

CINEMA CITY An Inter-disciplinary practice based archive project

On 11 th October 2009, the city of Bombay witnessed the first public showcase of Cinema City at NCPA Little Theater. The project is initiated by Majlis, centre for interdisciplinary arts initiatives in collaboration with a wide circle of organizations, institutions and individuals. Cinema City is a project to document, archive and re-read the cinema producing cities through images and narratives within cinema and its impacts and manifestations in the lived world; involving inter-disciplinary research, pedagogy, art and media productions. The aim behind the project is to facilitate an interface between collections and collective memory, between access and interaction, between theories and practices, between pedagogy and productions and between art productions and research.

Though the project aims to expand into an archive of postcolonial Asian metropolises that produce cinema, currently the work is being concentrated only on Bombay. This is an ongoing project that we envisage to run for years to come. The preview presentation included the work put together in the first year of the project. The event started with the introduction of the project by the principle curator Madhusree Dutta, she talked about the origin of the project, it’s rational and the various queries that the team came across and will continue to explore in the years to come. The special guest for the evening was Visual Artist Atul Dodiya and Film Historian Ashish Rajadhyaksh.

The audience turn out was spectacular comprising of friends, supporters, film enthusiasts, students and the cinema citizens. People far outnumbered the occupancy limit and squeezed in on the steps and corners of the theater. Even the tenacity of the five hour long programme and lack of amenities at the Little theatre could not dampen audience’ enthusiasm and the theatre was overflowing till the end.

Various components of the preview were:
Sweat Shops of the Cinema

By Kausik Mukhopadhyay, Design Cell, KRVIA; Avijit Mukul Kishore; Mamta Murthy and Rikhav Desai.

13 small television monitors installed on white acrylic screens tell the anonymous story of network of sweatshops (small production units) scattered all over the city that contribute to the larger production of cinema in the city. The palatial sets, the glamorous costumes, the mythological wigs, the romantic ambience of fog and rain, the mighty horses of medieval wars; moreover, the cameras and the lights; the editing and sound studios – all are operated from units that resemble the sweatshops of the multi-national corporations producing consumers’ goods. Yet, together these sweatshops create a dream machine that, in turn, greatly influences the imagination of cinema and the city. This imagination eventually governs the migration and demographic pattern of the city.

Pila House: The Cinema Settlement

By Kausik Mukhopadhyay, Rohan Shivkumar and Design Cell, Kamala Raheja Vidyanidhi Institute for Architecture (KRVIA), Mumbai

Kitsch red curtains and florescent lights seduce one to enter the box which resembles a telephone booth. The walls of the booth are covered with scribbles of the cinema-city date line and anecdotes. An interactive computer game set inside the box lets the viewer have a virtual experience of Pila House, one hundred and twenty years old entertainment district of Bombay. Pila house, a hybridisation of Play House, was marked by the British Govt. as the Entertainment District out of a large graveyard in late 19 th century. Since then the area has metamorphosed from circus and variety shows to company theatre to silent cinema to talkies and still running. The game comprises of cartographs, architectural drawings of the area, official documents, film clips, interviews and documentary footage on Pila House. The viewer can move around the map and select the locations they want to explore.

Tambu cinema: An Analogous Cinema City

By Amit Madhesiya, Shirley Abraham and Jatin Vidyarthi

Images of the popular phenomena of travelling cinema of the 50’s, that now only survives in parts of Maharashtra, is captured on still camera and then overlaid on a soundscape comprised of the location ambience and associative tracks. The project locates the journey of the travelling cinema with the annual religious fairs, the jatras, mapping the contours of an age-old tradition and the symbiotic integration of cinema into such a milieu. The arrival of the cinema is marked by barricaded space, spectacle of cable laying and sound and projection testing, colourful banners hanging in the agrarian landscape, filmi accessories being sold in carts and stalls and occasional visits by the matinee idols. A miniature cinema city is unfolded for a fortnight alongside with the religious deities and the live shows in circus. The phenomenon of the tent cinema is mapped as an analogous and transient Cinema City.

Conversation between Atul Dodiya and Ashish Rajadhyaksh on Atul Dodiya’s previous works on Cinema City

Ashish Rajadhyaksh presented Atul Dodiya’s previous works on cinema in the city and engaged on a retrospective discussion with the artist. Atul Dodiya is to make a new series of work to commemorate the Cinema City project.

Film Screening: 3 films and panel discussion

Certified Universal

Dir: Avijit Mukul Kishore

On many cinemas that exist and constantly get reproduced in the city.

Do Rafique

Dir: Rafeeq Ellias

Rafeeq Ellias walks a talk with Rafique Baghdadi around old and fading neighbourhoods tracing the memory of cinema.

Have you dreamt Cinema?

Dir: Hansa Thapliyal

On three women who live along Film City Road – their relationship with the idea of recreation and the place that    cinema has as a pleasure house in their lives.

Discussion with the three filmmakers, moderated by Paromita Vohra

Panel Discussion: What is Cinema City?

Madusree Dutta, Rohan Shivkumar, Mamta Murthy; moderated by George Jose.

Film Screening: 3 films and panel discussion

Dark Room

Dir: Renu Savant

On the basic materiality of cinema – the chemicals and the moving people.

Dhananjay Kulkarni “Chandragupt” 

Dir: Rhivu Laha

A film writer impersonates as a night watchman.

Sin City

Dir: Srikant Agawane

On the filmography of crime in the city

Discussion with the three filmmakers, moderated by Surabhi Sharma

Compiled by Shikha Pandey.

Sourced from MAJLIS -a center for rights discourse and inter-disciplinary arts initiatives

I’m not sure exactly how many films I’ve seen in my lifetime.

It is probably over a thousand, the list below barely scratches the surface of all the films I’ve seen and it was surprisingly easy to come up with. Rather than systematically list films by era or genre I got my brother’s girlfriend Dawn to call out any films she could think of.

I thought of this idea about five minutes before I began typing and Dawn rattled off films as they came to her while I typed out brief verdicts for each one. I initially intended to create a system for rating but found it too restrictive so I just wrote a brief instinctual verdict for each one.

I have included a link to Rotten Tomatoes and the score of each film, I haven’t seen some of these movies in a very long time…

NOTE: The percentages at the end are not my scores but the percentage of positive reviews on Rotten Tomatoes.

1. Men in Black (1997) – meh (91% – seriously?!)
2. Fight Club (1999) – brilliant (80%)
3. Unforgiven (1992) – immense (96%)
4. Shaun of the Dead (2004) – decent (gets worse every time I watch it)
5. Memento (2001) – pretty good (93%)
6. The Departed (2006) – good (92%)
7. Aliens (1986) – the best sequel ever made (100%)
8. Reservoir Dogs (1992) – great characters and dialogue (95%)
9. American Beauty (1999) – uplifting, brilliant (the stupid bag scene apart) (89%)
10. Goodfellas (1990) – excellent (96%)
11. Predator (1987) – one of Arnie’s best (76%)
12. 12 Angry Men (1957) – captivating (100%)
13. Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003) – meh (78%)
14. Shawshank Redemption (1994) – really, really good (88%)
15. Little Miss Sunshine (2006) – better than I expected (90%)
16. Sin City (2005) – flashy trash (78%)
17. Toy Story 2 (1999) – yep, it’s good (100%)
18. Bambi (1942) – I remember it being good (much to the amusement of Dawn and Sean, many gay jokes followed) (89%)
19. Final Destination (2000) -guff (30%)
20. Edward Scissorhands (1990) – pretentious crap (90%)
21. Stranger than Fiction (2006) – Surprisingly good (72%)
22. Shallow Grave (1995) – okay (71%)
23. Ace Ventura: Pet Detective (1996) – facepalm (49%)
24. Man on Fire (2004) – underwhelming (39%)
25. Ocean’s Eleven (2001) – meh (81%)
26. 28 Days Later (2003) – meh (88%)
27. Casino Royale (2006) – surprisingly really good (94%)
28. Psycho (1960) – I was expecting it to be better (98%)
29. The Flintstones (1994) – Jesus wept (18%)
30. Aladdin (1992) – good (92%)
31. Jackass: The Movie (2002) – hard to class as a film really, hit and miss(48%)
32. E.T (1982) – good (98%)
33. Independence Day (1996) – a glorified B movie (61%)
34. Titanic (1997)  – Good (81%)
35. Ring (2002) – fairly decent (71%)
36. Pulp Fiction (1994) – Tarantino’s best film by a long way (97%)
37. Hot Fuzz (2007) – fun (90%)
38. Monty Python: Holy Grail (1975) – classic (94%)
39. Good Will Hunting (1997) – good (97%)
40. Heat (1995) – pretty good, not great (89%)
41. Zodiac (2007) – boring (87%)
42. Little Mermaid (1989) – decent (90%)
43. Ghost (1987) – crap (80%)
44. Dirty Dancing (1987) – utter shit – that women like this film makes me wonder if they actually deserve equal rights (67%)
45. The Terminator (1984) – the best Terminator (100%)
46. Bean (1998) – a test of mental endurance, awful (41%)
47. The Mask (1994) – rubbish (76%)
48. Frailty (2002) – ridiculous (74%)
49. The Day After Tomorrow (2004) – shite
50. Donnie Darko (2001) – overrated pish (84%)
51. Apollo 13 (1995)– crap (96%)
52. Deep Impact (1998)– more crap (46%)
53. Volcano (1997) – even more crap (40%)
54. I know what you did last summer (1997)– yet more crap (36%)
55. The Matrix (1999) – first half decent rest shite (86%)
56. Lord of the Rings: Two Towers (2002)– boring (96%)
57. Addams Family Values (1994) – some good moments (74%)
58. Nightmare before Christmas (1993) – overrated, largely guff (97%)
59. Star Wars: Return of the Jedi (1983) – (see earlier blog) (75%)
60. Three Men and a Baby (1987) – sickening  (78%)
61. Transformers: The Movie (1986) – decent (haven’t seen it in 10 years) (50%)
62. Cruel Intentions (1999) – trash (47%)
63. Lock Stock and Two Smoking barrels (1998) – good if a little overrated (71%)
64. Clerks II (2006) – absolutely fucking diabolical (62%, seriously what the fuck?)
65. Baby’s Day Out (1994) – horrific (23%)
66. Home Alone 2 (1992) – decent (17% – that seems harsh!)
67. Liar Liar (1997) – pretty bad (84%)
68. Babe (1995) – Jesus wept (98%)
69. The Simpsons Movie (2007) – unfunny crap from a show that is a pale shadow of what it used to be (90%)
70. Mr Nanny (1993) – a holocaust of a film (7%)
71. The Thing (1980) – really tense, really good (80%)
72. Blair Witch Project (1999) – doing something different doesn’t make it good (85%)
73. Run Lola Run (1999) – see above (92%)
74. The Santa Clause (1994) – crap (Dawn: “What’s the film with Tim Allen dressed as Santa Claus?”) (79%)
75. Silence of the Lambs (1990) – they really should have just stopped at this one, a fine film (96%)
76. Matilda (1996) – another crap Dahl adaptation (89%)
77. A Bridge too Far (1977) – the quintessential war movie (67%)
78. Rocky V (1990) – laughable (21%)
79. The Sting (1973) – really good (91%)
80. The Sword in the Stone (1963) – good (73%)
81. The Witches (1990) – crap (100%, what the fuck?)
82. Starship Troopers (1997) – entertaining trash (60%)
83. Love Actually(2003)  – hated it (63%)
84. White men can’t jump (1992) – I liked it despite itself (78%)
85. The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1999)– a pointless sequel (48%)
86. A Bug’s Life (1998) – meh (91%)
87. Hollow man (2000)– hollow is an appropriate adjective (but I like Bacon’s character) (27%)
88. Jaws (1975) – good but overrated (100%)
89. Jerry Maguire (1996)– oh Christ (84%)
90. Dawn of the Dead (1978)– awesome (95%)
91. Drop Dead Fred (1991)– mindless crap (still haunted by my little sister’s repeat viewing of this monstrosity) (9%)
92. Braveheart (1995) – good (it’s a movie, not a history lesson) (76%)
93. Saw II (2005) – crap (35%)
94. Mouse Hunt (1997)– hated it (really wanted the mouse to die) (44%)
95. The Mummy (1999)– didn’t like it (54%)
96. George of the Jungle (1997)– crap (53%)
97. Leon (1994) – ludicrous garbage (74%)
98. Death becomes her (1993)– had its moments (56%)
99. Meet Joe Black (1998) – meh (49%)
100. Dog Soldiers (2002) – entertaining (79%)
101. Cool Hand Luke (1967) – the best film ever (100%)

Took me a while to get todays list together I drank way too much Great Lakes Christmas Ale last night and have been sleeping most of the day. Anyway here are MY top five comic book movie fight scenes. It was a hard list to compile since there are so many good ones but these are my top five. What are yours?

Number Five: The Dark Knight: BatPod vs. Truck
This could have been the whole movie and I would have been just as happy.

Number 4: Sin City: Marv’s Story
Marv’s whole story is like a big long terrific fight scene.

Number Three: X-men 2: Nightcrawler at the Whitehouse
This scene is just down right amazing.

Number Two: Superman 2 Fight in Metropolis
This is the first fight scene of its kind and it still holds up in my opinion.

Number One: Spider-Man 2 Train Fight
This fight reminds me of what it felt like to read comics as a kid.

Before he started directing shite films, Frank Miller had a comic called Sin City, and this Brian Bolland pin-up is from Hell and Back #4.

Há duas semanas atrás, comprei dois jogos novos para o Nintendo Wii, MadWorld e Muramasa: The Demon Blade (por isso o blog não foi atualizado ultimamente). Esses jogos não tem qualquer relação entre si quando se trata de jogabilidade ou história. Muramasa é um RPG de ação inspirado na mitologia e folclore japonês, e MadWorld é um beat’em up onde o que conta é matar seus oponentes da forma mais cruel e criativa possível.

No entanto, o aspecto em comum desses jogos, e o que faz deles algo diferente de todo o resto, é a estética. O visual de ambos, cada um a sua maneira, é primoroso, fugindo do padrão ultra-realista que vemos na maioria dos jogos de hoje. Nada contra esse estilo visual, os gráficos realistas dos consoles da nova geração são fantásticos, mas é bom ver algo diferente uma vez ou outra. Sem mais delongas, apresento o estilo de cada um desses jogos:

Muramasa: The Demon Blade

Muramasa é, com toda certeza, um dos games mais bonitos que já joguei. Sei que alguns podem virar a cara para o jogo por ele ter progressão em 2D,mas é exatamente nesse ponto onde Muramasa brilha. Em entrevista ao site GameTV, George Kamitani, criador do jogo, disse que para criar o estilo visual único do jogo, se inspirou em artistas como Kawai Gyokudo, Kaii Higashiyama, e Ito Jakuchi.

Muramasa é o Chuck Norris dos games no quesito beleza

Okay, nunca tinha ouvido falar de nenhum desses caras, mas após ler a entrevista, fui atrás das obras, e é possível ver claramente a semelhança do estilo artístico de Muramasa com as pinturas. Por isso Muramasa funciona tão bem em 2D. O jogo é feito como se fosse uma gravura japonesa, e muitas vezes eu deixei o controle de lado para ficar olhando os cenários: as planícies verdejantes, o pôr-do-sol ou até mesmo o vento batendo numa plantação de trigo dão a sensação de se estar olhando para um quadro.

Junte a isso os personagens extremamente detalhados, em especial os chefes de fase, que chegam a ocupar a tela inteira, e você tem um jogo que, além de ser lindo, retrata o folclore japonês muito bem.

Ah, pura poesia!

MadWorld

Se você já leu a HQ ou viu o filme Sin City, vai entender rapidinho o estilo visual deste game. MadWorld é um game que tem três cores principais: preto, branco e vermelho, e você não vai sentir falta do resto do arco-íris; isso é mais do que o suficiente para o banho de sangue que o jogo oferece.

Ah, pura violência brutal e desenfreada!

Você pode matar seus inimigos das formas mais malucas possíveis nesse jogo, tudo depende da sua mente doentia. Prenda o seu inimigo com um pneu, atravesse uma placa de trânsito pela cabeça dele e finalize arremessando ele em uma parede cheia de espinhos (acredite, esse é o combo básico do game); se isso der muito trabalho, use a serra elétrica que fica no seu braço e corte seus inimigos em pedaços.

Na minha opinião, essa violência toda só funciona em MadWorld por causa do estilo visual. Se o jogo fosse ultra-realista ele seria, no mínimo, perturbador (fora a polêmica que os moralistas teriam feito em cima do título, vide o que aconteceu com Manhunt 2); a violência no jogo não choca, pelo contrário, ela diverte, pois tudo o que acontece é tão forçado e os inimigos que você enfrenta são tão bizarros, que é impossível não rir do que você está fazendo.

Jack vai roubar seu coração...e esmagá-lo com apenas uma mão

Jogos como Muramasa e MadWorld provam que é possível criar formas artísticas diferentes nos games que funcionem tão bem (ou até melhor) do que o padrão realista. O mundo desses dois games é extremamente cativante, e grande parte disso se deve ao estilo artístico: MadWorld tem uma história incrível, contada como se fosse uma HQ, que me fez questionar diversas coisas da sociedade em que vivemos, e Muramasa apresenta aspectos da cultura e folclore japoneses, como deuses, monstros, e até pessoas reais, de um modo único e fascinante. Portanto, aguardem, pois ainda vou falar muito sobre esses games!

Am Mittwoch gab es kein Halten mehr. Nach all der Dürre im Death Valley – bei der man übrigens förmlich spürte, wie es einem die Feuchtigkeit aus allen Poren zog – konnte nur das Kontrastprogramm folgen. Und wohin zieht  es Wasserwirtschaftler? Na? Na? Ja. Genau. Zum Hoover-Staudamm Eine knappe Stunde Autofahrt von Las Vegas entfernt, befindet sich die legendäre Staumauer, die hinter sich den volumenmäßig größten Stausee der USA weiß.

Errichtet in den Jahren 1931 bis 35 ist sie ein gigantisches Meisterwerk der ingenieurtechnischen Baukunst der damaligen Zeit. Und auch ein bisschen eine Art historische ABM, denn sie verhalf in der Weltwirtschaftskrise Tausenden zu Arbeitsplätzen.

Hoover-Staudamm

Ganz nebenbei haben wir dabei dann auch noch einen dritten Bundesstaat besucht. Ich wusste nicht, dass eine Seite des Dammes in Arizona und eine in Nevada steht. Witzigerweise gibt es auch noch einen Zeitzonenunterschied. Wir parkten also um 13 Uhr in Arizona (linke Seite) und waren kurz nach high noon (rechts) im Visitor Center, um an einer Besichtigung teilnehmen zu können.

Hoover-Staudamm, ablaufseitig

Die derzeit neu entstehende Straßenbrücke für den Hoover-Damm-Bypass stahl dem altehrwürdigen Bauwerk ja ein bisschen die Show. Wegen des Feiertags (Veterans Day) wurde leider nicht gearbeitet.

Hoover Dam Bypass

Wir haben uns für die Elf-Dollar-Power Plant Tour entschieden. Dafür sahen wir zunächst einen ziemlich heroischen zehnminütigen Kurzfilm über Vision, Planung und Bau des Dammes, in dem kein Wort über die ökologischen Folgen verloren wurde. Anschließend ging es dann mittels Fahrstuhl in siebzig Sekunden 530 Füße die Tiefe, um zum einen die gigantischen Rohre betrachten und auch noch einen Blick in die Turbinenhalle werfen zu können.

Turbinenhalle im Hoover-Staudamm

Okay, der Tourguide hat so viele Zahlen in so kurzer Zeit geschüttet, dass mir ganz schwindlig wurde. Zumal ich mit feets, inches, ponds und gallones nicht wirklich vertraut bin Dennoch war es bewegend.

Noch ein paar Impressionen vom abendlichen Streifzug durch Las Vegas gewünscht? Gerne doch. 

Um es für mich zusammen zu fassen. Diese paar Meilen Downtown Las Vegas sind irgendwie  eine Mischung aus Disney World für Erwachsene und Sin City.  Zum einen bunt und lockend, verspielt – im wahrsten Sinne des Wortes – und scheinheilig zugleich.  Da spielen plötzlich Prüderie und vorgegebene Gottesfürchtigkeit keine Rolle mehr. Neben all den Möglichkeiten, die die Casinos so bieten, werden auch Weiblein und Männlein dargeboten. Völlig egal, ob Ehefrau an der Hand oder solo. Visitenkarten mit barbusigen Damen werden verteilt. Und ebenso schnell finden  sich diese Kärtchen auf der Straße wieder.  Wo andernorts am Straßenrand in Selbstbedienungskästen Sparangebote für Hotels gemacht werden, bietet man hier  Jungs und Mädels feil. Allerdings züchtig alles nachgeschwärzt, was das Gesetz für unzüchtig hält

Zudem darf man beim nächtlichen Bummel akustisch nicht zu sehr sensibel sein. Eine Sirene geht immer, sei es die der Polizei oder die des Medical Service.  Dazu in den Spielhöllen die Geräusche der Spielautomaten, die Werbe- und Anlockstimmen, die musikalische Grundbeschallung und diejenige, die sich durch die kostenlosen Shows ergeben.  Wäre all das auf Deutsch – ich glaube, ich würde durchdrehen.

Trotzdem hatten wir unseren Spaß. Publikum angucken. (Interessanterweise saßen vergleichsweise mehr Frauen an den Spieleautomaten, während die Männer eher an Pokertischen zu finden waren.) Wasserfontänenshows betrachten. Bummeln. Über all den unglaublichen Prunk und Protz staunen, der sich direkt auf dem Strip oder aber in den dahinter liegenden Shopping-Centern darstellte.

Shopping-Center

Kitsch belächeln. Und im Treasure Island eine unverschämt gehaltvolle Margarita kaufen und auf dem Rückweg genüsslich langsam austrinken. Danach hat ich keine Lust mehr zum Bloggen

nicht ganz Ernst zu nehmen - Las Vegas by Margarita

]]> http://billsquire.com/2009/11/12/the-thursday-list-top-5-bruce-willis-movies/ Thu, 12 Nov 2009 19:50:38 +0000 Bill Squire http://billsquire.com/2009/11/12/the-thursday-list-top-5-bruce-willis-movies/

Every Thursday I will be making a list of my top 5 or worst 5 things about anything and everything. I may even do more than one list on a thursday so check back often. I am going to start off with the top 5 Bruce Willis movies of all time.

Honorable Mention Look Who’s Talking Too

This movie reminded us all what it felt like to be a baby with a razor sharp wit, a whore of a mom, and a step dad we think is hiding something from us and sister that will one day grow up to marry Tom Arnold.

Number 5 The Whole Nine Yards

I really enjoyed this movie. Bruce was funny and Amanda Peete was naked.

Number 4 The Sixth Sense

This movie was great! It did have a great twist and the build up was terrific and enjoyable. If M. Night would have stopped making movies after this film he would saved us all a lot of time and money.

Number 3 Sin City

The best comic book movie of all time is Sin City. Bruce was great in it. If you haven’t seen it buy it.

Number 2 Pulp Fiction

I would have made Pulp Fiction number 1 if it wasn’t for the movie that is number one. This movie is still great and Bruce Willis was great in it.

Number 1 Die Hard

Yippee-Ki-Yay Mother Fucker!