Astrojanitor

Jurassic Park is pretty damn dull, but Jurassic Park 2 is pretty fun in a kind of dumb campy way. If only for Jeff Goldblum inexplicable having a black gymnast daughter. And, although it's going to make me sound like one of those contrary a-holes, I actually feel it's Spielberg's best shot movie. But then I also feel Spielberg should be shot shot....so do what you will with that opinion. A really great semi-lost classic horror film is Carnival of Souls from 1962. A little creaky in places, but in it you see where the modern zombie film got all of its ideas. Literally, every single idea. It's like primordial Night of the Living Dead. Also has a killer score. All done on a pipe organ...spooky as hell.

Great article: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2006/mar/25/arts.artsnews Far as I'm concerned Thomas Kinkade "paints" worthless monkey garbage and any supporter should be jailed for clearly not understanding what art means, Article shows he isn't just an embarrassment to art, but also an embarrassment to humanity. For god's sake, fifty years ago we celebrated Pollack, Picasso, Warhol, de Kooning and Johns....now it's this pathetic pig ****? This Palin-esque celebration of the mundane...this celebration of not being able to understand anything even remotely complicated? This is the kind of thing that will torpedo this country. The fact we call watercolors of cottages painted in a perspective, even a drunk child would understand as being completely ridiculous, art...well that's just proof we need to start teaching art in schools. The lack of cultural literacy is creating a society of one dimensional lunkheads. I'll cop to it, the very existence of Thomas Kinkade infuriates me. We are capable of so much more.

He should be arrested for first degree felony being a ****ty artist. Most of this idiot's work looks like a child drew it. The fact this motard is America's most successful artist shows we, as a culture, need to start reading more. The Nickelback of painting.

I picked Fitz as I think he's pretty underrated. not great by any means, but certainly underrated. Real choice is none of the above, but I've never really understood the prevailing fascination with the boring failure that is Trent Edwards...and the other two haven't really done anything. So really it's two question marks, Fitz and a guy who spends most of his life on the DL (It's the offensive line!!! I know I know, shut up).

Neutral Milk Hotel, and especially their Aeroplane Over the Sea album, is a straight up masterpiece. It's a little twee at times, a little lo-fi for some tastes...but it's one of the perfect examples of mid-90s indie rock.

For me it was the band Royal Trux. Took me fifteen years of buying their records and seeing them play before I "got" it. When they finally did click they became one of my favorite bands. On the flip side is Radiohead. I have bought, and rejected, probably 5 radiohead albums over the years. I don't think I'll ever find that band anything more than boring as a dog's ass

Silent Hill isn't half bad. Has a cool look if nothing else. This Mortal Kombat thing is actually test footage. There's no film to back this stuff up--it was produced in order to raise money for a film. Nothing at all may come of this.

I am final;ly catching up with the last few week's worth of episodes. I have got to admit "Fly" is easily one of the best hours of television I have ever seen. Brilliant how the show can pump its brakes on the grand narrative and really spend some time getting into the psychology of Walt and Jesse. And Rian Johnson's direction? Good god, that is why I went to film school. If you haven't seen Johnson's films (Brick and Brothers Bloom) I suggest running to your netflix queue and doing some point and click. Especially Brick.

I have recently decided Sebadoh III is one of the most influential albums ever. I would say once a week or so I get an LP or single by a band that totally rips that album off. HoZac Records seem to only release albums that sound vaguely like Sebadoh III. Gives me hope for the future.

you're not embarrassed by Tonic, but you are by Pearl Jam? Leads to a more fun question: What are the terrible bands you loved in High School? Mine were: Black 47 Mighty Mighty Bosstones actually any and all ska, to be honest. I also had an irrational love of the Peter Gabriel album So

Sebadoh GBV JSBX http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZmxNM6DwsY...laynext_from=ML Railroad jerk RFTC I can get sucked into a youtube hole for hours watching these old "120 minutes" videos

Those Godard films from the mid-60s always make my head spin. There's also this amazing film starring Mick Jagger called Performance that I'm convinced I'll never fully wrap my head around. It's either totally straight forward and I'm over thinking it...or a total mind!@#$. I also find anyone finding Avatar to be even tiniest bit watchable the most confounding thing in the history of cinema

MicMacs is opening this month. MicMacs will be many many thing, but dark and depressing is not one of them. Fromt he director of Amelie, City of Lost Children and.....Alien:Resurrection.

A couple months ago they also released a parody of Poker face called...wait for it...No Poker Face. That's some serious sub Mad TV **** right there. Glad to know their stupidity extends to word play.

neat, over priced ugly crap. but it's vaguely patriotic so....it'll be out of business in six months. Pretty dumb idea for a store, I've got to say. Have a furniture store that only sells american? that's an idea. having a warehouse filled with needlessly expensive nonsense with a flag painted on the side? that's not anything.

she had a pretty wild story. her early films actually featured her--let's say making love--to a german shepard. later she claimed she made deep throat at gun point. she became a minor celebrity, turned christian and was an anti-porn activist, finally she flipped back and went back into porn in middle age. Could be a decent lady based Boogie Nights if done well/starring someone who could act.

I love the bad movies--it's what I choose to watch most of the time. So of course I own a copy of The Room. It's a wildly stupid/entertaining film. I don't recommend watching alone, or sober. If you dig on that whole Tim and Eric aesthetic the film will tear you apart, Lisa. For a good time check out Samurai Cop: caution: humorless reactionaries will demand your arrest if you view the above clip

The film is actually pretty dull. I was expecting a super trashy mad scientist film and, to an extent, that's what I got. But it never really justified it's premise. the guy who played the scientist was pretty amazing though. but, like all classic grindhouse, the trashiness is hyped and everyone gets carried away with the horrors they expect to see. Then they don't see those things. Kind of how, in the 70s, there was this hype/fear of the snuff film. Flick is going to disappoint a lot of people

uh huh, keep trying to convince yourself that isn't bigotry.

if you feel the need to point out you are not pro-gay, that makes you anti. would you feel the need to point out you are not pro-Asian? Pro-African American? Of course not. If you weren't anti-gay you would not go out of your way to make sure anonymous Bills fans don't accidentally think you support the community

oh, so you're a bigot. just say that.

In Oklahoma we should have gotten meth chex.

I think that's a pretty interesting point to discuss--how much say should a victim have in the punishment? I get your argument, but grenier's desire to keep the matter in civil court at least shows the desire to assigned blame. She wasn't paid off, she seems to feel the matter was dealt with. The irony is Polanski was arguably punished far worse than if he had just done time (he was only looking at a few months). Would keeping some other crimes in civil court, essentially, privatize felonies? Would it put the rich above the law? Even more than their ability to out lawyer defendants? To put one argument to rest: I don't condone Polanski (obviously) but I see no point in jailing him, especially when Grenier doesn't want it.

You're right, yesterday a woman came forward saying she was molested in 1985. Via a press conference. Maybe it happened and may it didn't--all we know is was convicted of statuary rape in the 70s. After Greiner won the civil case in 1988 she began to say the criminal case should be dropped. Was even pretty vocal about him being able to attend the academy award ceremony when The Pianist had all the nominations. So sure, I thought it happened during a party and it didn't. Putting Polanski in jail depends on what you feel the purpose of jail is. I think the only opinion that matters is Samantha Grenier's. If she thinks the charges should be dropped the charges should be dropped. Despite this new person's claims, Polanski has never been in trouble with the law and would not have set foot on US soil again. Maybe she feels the civil case is enough, maybe her empathy comes from knowing about his notoriously terrible life (wife and unborn child slaughtered by Manson family watched family wiped out while in a concentration camp). There's nothing to rehab, no prison as vengeance if grenier feels avenged, There's just no point in it. per groupiedirt.com...(first thing that popped up on google) "Jimmy Page is considered a legend when it comes to sex with groupies. We've heard that he hasn't given up his S&M ways and he likes his women to be submissive. We also hear that Jimmy is into role-playing and often asks his sexual conquests to pretend that they're little girls. And sometimes maybe those conquests really ARE little girls. Just ask Lori Maddox or Sable Starr, two of many females who had sexual relationships with Jimmy before they reached the age of 15." per activemusician.com "'Uncle Ted' also had a well-known predilection for underage girls, even going so far as becoming the legal guardian to a 17 year old Hawaiian girl in 1978, so he could continue to 'date' her with impunity." It was a sleazy time for show business. No one is arguing Polanski isn't sleazy or deserves to be pardoned or what he did was right. I'm saying jailing him is pointless when Grenier wants the charges dropped and when his only crime happened 33 years ago.

all I'm saying is the girl doesn't care, there wasn't a pattern of sexual abuse in his history and it was 33 years ago. What is jail time going to accomplish? One of Jimmy Page's regular groupies was 15, Ted Nugent was so infatuated by the 16 year old he was banging he became her legal guardian--where's the outrage there? Woman does not see herself as a victim--never did. Polanski won't step foot on US soil again. There is exactly no reason why all this time and energy needs to be poured into an ancient crime. It's just petty. If the woman felt she was victimized it would be a different story. But she doesn't, so no crime as far as I'm concerned