Is Going to Blame it on the Train

Yeah I'm back with another short but sweet one.

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Maybe you're in the market for a 2010 Camaro, and if you are you might want to have a look at the 68 point dealer delivery checklist, you know so you can give the car a good once over with the common problems they're having with this car, like broken transmission output shafts. Although since that same tranny is used in several other sports cars it's more likely a bad batch of transmissions than a problem with that transmission as a whole.

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I still love my Camaro, but the 2010 has mine beat hands down power and performance wise. But I guess that's the difference between three and four hundred horsepower eh?

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Now let's shift gears from awesome cars to awesome actors, and how can you get more awesome than Mickey Rourke? I mean this is the man who told Iron Man 2 Director Jon Favreau that he wanted his character in the film to get drunk and argue with his pet parrot, or at least according to this he did. Told you he was awesome, but wait it gets better.

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Seems that recently while partying in London he ended up with a statue of Christ (and who hasn't?) and punching the shit out of a traffic barrier (and who hasn't wanted to?). Good times, good times. But it gets better, check out the top 7 awesome things that you didn't know about Mickey.

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And now this is a must share bit of movie news, even if it doesn't involve Mr. Rourke, but here's the trailer for Tim Burton's production of Alice in Wonderland starring none other than Johnny Depp as the Mad Hatter. I'm looking forward to this film, Burton & Depp are great at what they do and when they do it together it's even better and the Alice in Wonderland stories are great, even if they were written by a man with an unhealthy attraction to little girls for a little girl. But that being said, do read the books.

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And I will sign off today with what just might be the best power ballad EVAR.

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Until next time.

Is Spring Going to Take This Time?

Good morning iPhriends, how's it going? The sun is shining brightly and it stopped snowing yesterday around dinner time, although there was a thick frost on everything when I got up this morning . . . but let's hope winter had its last hurrah for a while. I've had my fill. It's nearly May and I still have the heat on.

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I *finally* got to see the Watchmen film Friday night at our local theatre and let me tell you it was worth the wait. I think they did a very good job of translating the books to the screen and look forward to purchasing the DVD release with up to one extra hour of footage.

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If you seen the Watchmen I think you'd have to agree that Jackie Earle Haley, the man who played Rorschach in that film (and Kelly in the Bad News Bears), he'll make for a great, and much darker, Freddy Krueger in the upcoming Nightmare on Elm Street reboot (according to this he is anyway).

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Oh and those of you are interested how's about some pics of Malin Akkerman (the actress who played the Silk Spectre II in the film) forgetting the rule about wearing gitch under your skirt, especially when getting in and out of automobiles and you're famous and people like to take pictures of you.

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You know I'm always planning for World War Z and think that it would be in your best interest if you did as well, because well you know I care. So what's your zombie contingency plan? If you haven't come up with one on your own yet perhaps you can read these 11 examples and you can work on your own. You know better to be prepared, like the boy scouts say "Hope for the best and prepare for the worst."

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And finally a happy 83rd birthday to author Harper Lee . . . would you believe I've never read her To Kill a Mockingbird? And yes I did in fact graduate from high school. Go figure.

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That's her for today, until next time.

Half assing it

Check out this trailer for what might be one of the finest films released this year, Lesbian Vampire Killers. The title alone screams win, but I've been let down before. Damn you, damn you to hell Vampires versus Zombies, lucky for us the trailer looks great. This film might even be better than Zombie Strippers.

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Since the Watchmen film comes out this Friday I think it's appropriate to take a peek at The 7 Stages of Nerdgasm: A Fanboy Awaits the Watchmen Movie. And speaking from experience, that list is pretty accurate.

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Let this article be a lesson to you, don't piss off the Mary Kay Lady - the Avon Lady go right ahead.

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I totally need one of these, don't you think?

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And finally RIP Philip Jose Farmer (you can read more about him here), I hope we meet up on the Riverworld.

Itchy Feet

Between the book that I'm currently reading, actually devouring, and watching episodes of The Long Way Down on the National Geographic Channel (if you're not working (like me), or considering shagging off work on Monday they're running a marathon of the ten episode series started at 10 AM Central Time) I've got the urge to have my own motorcycle adventure . . . granted it'll have to wait after all I am locked in the heart of winter and I think that I should get a larger bike for it, even if Ms. Pryce did make her journey from Alaska to the Southern Tip of South America on the same bike that I own (albeit different years), me on the bike is like two of her.

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If you've never had the urge for such a trip yourself, perhaps the series (or McGregor & Boorman's other trip the Long Way Round) and the book will make you think that maybe this is something that I want to do as well . . . although it would be hard to get the kind of support that The Long Way guys got for the average person like you or I.

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Well best be going now, almost time for another TV series that makes me want to take a little trip.

And in the beginning . . .

I haven't read it, but The Clash have released a book, all written in their own words, detailing how the band started out and how they got together simply title The Clash. You can read a bit about the book and some passages from the book here. I'd like to give this one a read, so if you do get this book lemme borrow it when you're done with it, would you?

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Thanks.

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Wanna see something cool? Of course, we all do. Well how about a mummified 12 year old McDonald's hamburger that looks as appealing (or appalling, depending on the person) on the day it was hatched under Ronald McDonald's vengeful gaze. When have to wonder how this burger can do so well and last so long in the wild, when they stay inside me for such very short periods of time? One of the mysteries of modern science I suppose.

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While we're talking fast food, how's about a side by side comparison of the food from the ads compared to the stuff you get in the restaurant. We all know from personal experience that things just don't match up from the ads and in real life, but it is interesting to actually see it right in front of your eyes like that. I mean it's not often I'm lucky enough to be jamming an A&W Uncle Burger down my pie hole while watching the TV ad for it.

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BTW - I found the Uncle Burger a little disappointing, it was missing something taste wise, but that's just my opinion. Great name for a sandwich though and the mascot has a sweet little 'stache. Almost expect that the Uncle in the burger family is still single and shows up to family BBQ's in a gold TA, pinches Mama's bottom, drinks all Papa's beer, makes the kids more than a little uncomfortable and don't even get me started on how Grandpa feels about it all.

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Or maybe I'm just projecting.

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And now for something completely different; ever shop at American Apparel? Yeah me either, seems that most of the clothing buys lately are coming from Mark's Work Wearhouse, but I have to say that American Apparel's ads are pretty interesting, someone has compiled 30 of their favourite, which happen to be their porniest, here. I'm sure their catalog's are a big hit with the barely pubescent boy set, that shit's way better than Nat-Geo ever was.

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Seems that there's a bit of a kerfuffle over nurses in the UK and after reading this article I'm not sure what that problem is. Some Lord has a bad experience, in his opinion, with his nurses while in hospital and then has this to say:

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"The nurses who looked after me were mostly grubby - we are talking about dirty fingernails and hair - and were slipshod and lazy. Worst of all, they were drunken and promiscuous".

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I don't know about you, but these girls sound like they're a pretty good time.

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MMMMMMMMMMMMM dirty nurses.

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From fast and loose to fast and loose, check out this cool race between a motorcycle, a Porsche and a fighter jet. You might be surprised at how this one shapes up.

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Well that's her for now - but did you know that if you do a Google Image Search for Dirty Nurses with your safety filter off the first pic to come up links back to a page on here? That and the Drew Barrymore flashing Dave Letterman on his show account for a whole lot of my traffic.

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Don't forget, Jesus Loves You, big time.

Well you can just call me Mr. Above Average

According to this article from the Daily Mail from our friends across the pond Mr. Average breaks the law at least once per day (no word on how many times a day Mr. Awesome does), be it speeding or illegal downloading or thoughtcrime maybe even. Sure that's true, we all knew it, we all do it, it's just we're breaking the laws that no one enforces, can enforce or they're the ones we're allowed to break a little (like speeding, everyone believes you won't get a ticket for driving 10 km/h over the posted speed limit, so everyone does.)

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I guess that article was the journalistic equivalent of reporting that water is wet and fire hot, movie at 11.

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Speaking of movies, how's about we take a few minutes to indulge in some historical geekery and watch the first sci-fi film ever made, Le Voyage Dans La Lune! (A Trip to the Moon!) over here at YouTube (not to be confused with the Smashing Pumpkins video for Tonight Tonight). This film was made by movie pioneer Georges Méliès in 1902; the particular version that I've linked to is narrated by Matthew Hawes, reading from the actual script that Méliès wrote to be read along with the film. Pretty cool eh?

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Maybe you prefer your geek films a little more current, so how's about this for news; according to this article Universal studios is going to adapt Robert Jordan's "Wheel of Time" series of super thick fantasy novels for the big-screen. I started to read this series late, when it was about nine or ten books long, and made it about half way through the fourth book when I just had to throw in the towel.

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I had so much catching up to do, with each book being at least a couple inches thick in paperback format, and knowing full well the series wasn't ending any time soon (Mr. Jordan has died so the 12th book in the series is being finished by Brandon Sanderson and is supposed to be the end of the story), the cast of characters was getting so big it was hard to keep track of who was doing what with whom and when, especially when one character might not be mentioned for several chapters, or later in the series a third of the book, it was more than a little overwhelming, and I decided to cut my losses and work on something else.

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It was almost as overwhelming as deciding to read everything from the Asimov universe in proper chronological order, but with more characters. So in closing on this topic - I hope that Universal has some of the best writers in the world because adapting this monstrous literary achievement is going to be no small feat.

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And even if they do make the film, I don't know that I'll live long enough to watch the whole thing, and don't say they made films out of the Lord of the Rings series. I know they did and they were awesome, but if you were pile the LotR books beside the WoT series the WoT pile would probably be about triple the size. Hell for that one the theatre would have to issue catheters and IV drips to everyone watching.

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In other geek movie news according to this article Columbia Pictures is going to be making a movie out of the comic series Preacher. I haven't read any Preacher, but I'm supposed to be borrowing some and everything I hear about it is great, so here's to hoping they do this series justice in theatres.

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From the world of late breaking music news, Deftones bassist Chi Ching is in a coma after a bad car crash that happened in Santa Clara on Monday. You can read a little more about it here if you're so inclined.

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And here's a public service announcement/plug - if you're looking to vacation in the Canmore, Alberta area check out this vacation rental condo. It's owned by a friend and his wife, so when you book tell them I sent you . . . or maybe better not, that might get your sorry ass booted out.

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Well I think that's enough for today, don't you? Until next time, you stay classy San Diego.