I’m Not There
Christian Bale, Cate Blanchett, Marcus Carl Franklin, Richard Gere, Heath Ledger, Ben Whishaw, are all Bob Dylan.
Sure, this movie came out in November, 2007, but I have yet to see it, and it seems quite a feat to get all of these actors to be Bob Dylan.
Review: The Man from Earth [2007]
An impromptu goodbye party for Professor John Oldman becomes a mysterious interrogation after the retiring scholar reveals to his colleagues he is an immortal who has walked the earth for 14,000 years. (Eric Wilkinson, IMDB)
You’d think this is a boring movie, the Man from Earth and I’d grant you that. The entire film takes place in an old, rustic cabin in the middle of nowhere. But it should be said that this is the last screenplay written by sci-fi writer Jerome Bixby, the man who brought you the episode “Mirror, Mirror” on Star Trek and, among other things. And apparently this man knows how to keep an audience in place for the 87 minutes this movie runs.
1×01: The Premiere
In this premiere, just in time for the fall, Brady and Jay V discuss a few of the movies released this past summer. What we saw, what we liked, what we didn’t saw, what we didn’t liked.
Jay V says:
I think it was a decent premiere. We hadn’t done a podcast in a while, and we’ve never really done a show like this. It’s something new for the both of us. So what if we ran almost double the time limit? We had fun and I hope you do, too, dear listener.
Brady says:
Coming from where we were at with Jay V Mail, I had tempered expectations. Could a different show–starting from scratch–ever be as successful? I had my doubts at first, but I’m happy with the outcome of the first one. Enjoy!
Audio Blog: Commute Times
The first in a series of Audio blogs by a12m contributors. Listen as Brady gives his thoughts about the end of the summer.
Death Comes In Many Forms.
When I was a kid I loved to eat bananas. I ate them all of the time. Unfortunately something happened to me right around the time I was in high school. I consumed a banana and got very sick. Like throat closing, can’t breathe, need to go to the ER kind of sick. Life was never the same after that.
I developed many more food allergies since—bell peppers, eggplant, strawberries, mango, kiwi—you get the idea. I also acquired a latex allergy due to fruit allergies. It’s funny how things can cross react like that.
Street Fighter: The Later Years
Of course a Street Fighter fan would dig this up and like it…. Well, shortly after the arcade game’s release, hoards of adolescence’s majority dropped billions of quarters in to play the game. Sure, I waited till it hit the Sega Genesis—and Super Street Fighter II—but the spirit of gaming was still there. I played the game for minutes at a time, bought into the whole franchise. Lunchboxes, posters, action figures—they weren’t for me. But I did see the travesty of the movie, written and directed by Bucks County, PA’s very own Steven E. de Souza. And I did collect the entire “Street Fighter Alpha” series. And I did own two versions of the anime cartoon—one in a yelow box and another in the red box that had more blood and Chun-Li in a shower scene! (oh those Japanese people, thinking drawings of women are worth putting in showers in every single goddamn cartoon—one of many reasons I stopped watching anime, but I digress…)
“Street Fighter: The Later Years,” created by CollegeHumor director-man Sam Reich, regarded the original combatants from the hit Capcom game “Street Fighter II.” The story, told in nine parts, turns the game’s storyline upside down and gets everyone together for some good ole past time fun. (more…)
Spider-Man 4??
I figured I’d better write this before Chris gets his grubby hands on it—or maybe he didn’t care about this enough, after the debacle that was Spider-Man 3—but according to news reports like the one at The Boston Herald and UK’s Times Online, director Sam Raimi is going at it again, with star Tobey Maguire reprising his role. It won’t be for just one sequel, but two! that’s right, Spider-Man 4 and 5 will be filmed concurrently. Quoting the Boston Herald exactly, “Tobey Maguire and ‘Spider-Man’ director Sam Rami (sic) plan to reunite for the fourth and fifth installments of Columbia Pictures’ comic book franchise – despite rumors that the actor wouldn’t play Spidey in the new flick, reports the Hollywood Reporter.” Tobey states they never wanted anyone else. And I’m sure by the time you find your way to the BH article, they will have corrected their mistake. Oh, the wonders of Internet.
On a slight tangent, at least Maguire will be able to spend time with his kid. The Times Online reports that Maguire will be taking “early mornings and evenings off,” for quality time with his 22-month old daughter.
I can’t say how excited I am about this week-old revelation, because I don’t know. On one hand, it’s Spidey. On the other hand, Eric Foreman as Venom!! I’d hate to see what atrocity Sony lets pass the green light after witnessing that epic fail.
Old iPod
I dug up my old iPod last week, charged it on the desktop computer [my laptop doesn't have the right FireWire connector] and this morning plugged it in. After five minutes the battery was dying. Looks like it’s time to set the thing aside. but, here’s the weird thing, and I will go into more detail tonight . . . .
Well, I guess it’s not so weird, but the second song to play out of the blasted machine was Justin Timberlake, “Like I Love You.” First off, I’m wondering what the hell that’s doing on my iPod. Pete Yorn and Counting Crows I can deal with. But Justin Timberlake???
Tonight I’m going to do that “twenty songs on shuffle” thing, see what comes up. Stay tuned, readers! And in the meantime, here’s something below the cut to keep you occupied.
Ham, Bacon, Sausage and…. Fireworks?
They say you learn something everyday. Yesterday I learned that evidently pork products and explosives go hand in hand. I took a trip to Virginia this past weekend for a wedding and every store between the Maryland border and the Chesapeake Bay Bridge sold pork products and fireworks hand in hand. I’m not sure what that is all about but if you give me a beer I think we have a party.
Who ever heard of bus rage?
Hi everybody! This is my first post with a12m. I have a lot of stuff I want to talk about, but not a lot of time these last few days. So keep checking back, and I promise I’ll have more to come.
Until then, I hope you enjoy this video (below the cut) as much as I did. Not that enjoyment is the right word. Horror is closer. Disbelief might be the most apt. Warning. The story gets gruesome. RIP Tim McLean. And boo PETA.
Can you believe Greyhound was actually going with a slogan before that claiming “Who ever heard of Bus Rage?”
The Tim McLean Story (Wikipedia)
Delays
It was the secret plan of the About 12 Minutes podcast to debut on the 12th of September, an apropos date given the number in the podcast’s title. But delays have forced us to push back production.
Can you believe, About 12 Minutes is already suffering from problems, and is behind schedule? Well, I, Adam, will fill you in on our plans for the premiere episode.
Brady and Jay V will talk about this past summer movie season. With it at a close, what movies were good, what movies weren’t? And what movies did they not even see?
The following week will be a review on things happening on the Intarwebz. What’s cool, what’s not, and what’s just way too passé for today’s Web 2.0 standards.
The week after that? Jay V will tell you about the comic books he reads. You’ll be very disappointed in him.
(subject to availability. topics may change at any time without notice. offer void where prohibited, and also alaska)
My Debut!
Hi Everybody! Can you believe someone asked me to post my 2 cents up here?! And this isn’t even my site, I am so verklempt …..pardon me….. Thank you for allowing me to vent and falling under my magical spell. You will now send me $100 cash everyday for the rest of your life because you know of no better way to spend your hard earned money…
Since this is an election year and we have not much time left to get to the polls, I have some questions. If you know the answers, post them here and I may or may not hear you out, depending on which way the wind blows. If you are an American and a registered voter, you know you have to choose who will be our next leader, but what if none of the candidates are right for all of us? Can a “conservative” leader be the best choice for the rich and the poor people on the east and the west coast? What if maybe the younger people need a different kind of President than the older people? We’ve become so diverse as a nation, is there any way to satisfy us all?
Til next time!
The Declaration of Me
Much like a bad burrito on a Saturday night politics has reared its ugly head across the country. Sure politics is something that is always there, kind of like dirty laundry but ultimately most people, rightly or wrongly, only give a crap every four years. Every year the two parties of consequence come out and lie to our faces, telling us that this is the most important election ever. The each claim the other party’s nominees are not fit to run our country, when in reality neither party’s nominees are probably fit to run a McDonald’s let alone the United States of America.
I myself tend to stay out of political discussions, although with the amount of blogs about politics I am finding myself drawn in further and further. I feel your political choices are your choices and that you should not need to defend them to anyone. However I felt it was time to at least lay out where I stand.
Baby, it’s instinct.
Emperor Penguins go through a death-defying mating ritual whereby they forgo food and shelter for months at a time. They waddle over 70 miles to the same patch of ice each time in order to mate and give birth and ostensibly to keep their young from harm’s way, though not always successfully. Sea turtles live for well up to, and sometimes beyond, 100 years, throughout which they travel thousands upon thousands of miles all over the world, from shore to shore to shore. And every time they nest, they return to the same space to within a hundred yards on the same beach on which they were born. When the queen ant of a colony dies, the worker ants quickly take a batch of the most recently hatched female eggs,to a separate enclosed “room” and when the larvae hatch, they receive a specially nutritious diet. The worker ants then seal the room and leave the developing larvae to devour one another, and whoever emerges the victor is hailed the new queen. These behaviors are, for the most part, completely baffling to us. And so we, as humans, have created a concept called “instinct” to help us understand the behavioral patterns of animals. “Instinct”, as defined by Webster’s Medical Dictionary is:
1 : a largely inheritable and unalterable tendency of an organism to make a complex and specific response to environmental stimuli without involving reason
