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November 02, 2009

V

Hollywood has been out of ideas for about ever. So, they reimagine, recreate, or steal ideas. Some are good. Some not. Battlestar Galactica was awesome. Now, the latest reimagining will be V. Looks decent and I have the DVR set to record it. I’ll miss Jane Badler, the total babe from the original series.

October 23, 2009

Might hurt album sales

Musicians want to know which songs were used to torture prisoners at Guantanamo.

October 22, 2009

It also marks the last time NIN was good

Pretty Hate Machine is 20 years old.

October 21, 2009

We’re winning

Bushmaster advertisement for AR-15s in issues of Maxim magazine:

From Gun Porn

Well, they do share the name of the inventor of the machine gun and sound suppressor. Also an ad for the Remington 870.

A few years back, I would never have imagined a men’s magazine catering to young men (some even say metrosexuals) would be advertising evil black rifles. Fantastic. Oh and go get your man card.

I think I’ve fallen back in love with Freedom Group.

October 19, 2009

Disappointing

So you know, Where The Wild Things Are was not good.

October 16, 2009

There ought to be a law

Congress looking to regulate the volume or TeeVee commercials.

October 14, 2009

Sad

Captain Lou Albano dies at 76

October 13, 2009

Hows’ that gonna work?

Trailer for the movie Where The Wild Things Are. The Mrs. is excited and wants to take the kids to see it. I wonder, though, how exactly the movie is going to work. The book is fairly short and how will they make a feature length movie out of it?

Gimme Back My Bullets

Lynyrd Skynyrd flip flops on guns?

October 09, 2009

Try that today

TeeVee is different. Imagine if a kids’ show today did a bit with a confederate flag or a bit that featured whiskey, smoking, gambling and some dude dying.

October 08, 2009

A list

Top Ten Conspiracy Theories.

As I’ve said before, I love conspiracy theories. Some of the most entertaining reading ever. I have to admit, the Paul McCartney one is new to me.

September 28, 2009

Why does Triangle Man hate Particle Man?

My kids are into songs by They Might Be Giants. My son really digs Particle Man. But we don’t know why Triangle Man is such a poopyhead.

Also, he’s into Peaches by POTUSA, which is the greatest rock video ever because everything is better with ninja fights:

September 25, 2009

Taxonomy

I mentioned before that one cannot possibly keep up with all the genres and sub-genres of heavy-metal. Now, there’s a flowchart.

September 23, 2009

They still rock

Living Colour!

September 03, 2009

Every thing is on the internet

A musical interlude:

September 02, 2009

22 years old

One of my favorite movies: The Princess Bride.

A look at where they are now. I never realized who the guy that played Count Rugen was.

September 01, 2009

Knowing

My wife got the movie Knowing from Netflix. It was decent flick until the end when it turned to a pile of crap. Seriously, what was that?

August 17, 2009

Handy to know

Mathematics of a Zombie Attack

August 14, 2009

Les Paul has died

A tribute from Billy Beck, who, frankly, doesn’t say a lot of nice things about any thing.

I have a Gibson Les Paul around here somewhere. I haven’t picked it up since probably 2003. Doesn’t even have strings on it. Sits in a closet next to two new packs of strings that I bought two years ago planning on picking the thing up again. I guess I should probably string it up soon.

August 13, 2009

Brief movie reviews

Since kids, my movie watching has been slacking. Recently got at Netflix account. Love it. Some brief movie reviews:

Bubba Ho-Tep: LOL WUT. Elvis and JFK vs a mummy.

Hellboy: Good guy demon kicks unearthly booty.

Watchmen: MTV is on the air, Nixon is president, 99 Luftballons, a sociopath superhero, Vietnam surrenders, and it’s 1985

Shooter: Sans Funky Bunch, Marky Mark gets his gun porn on.

August 11, 2009

The only sucking is the economy

Times tough in the porn industry.

August 06, 2009

Not a Real American Hero after all

The new GI JOE stands for Globally Integrated Joint Operating Entity. And works for the UN. Weirdest thing to happen to GI Joe since he went from 12 inches to three.

July 29, 2009

The Ballad Of Jayne

LA Times:

L.A. guns to be crushed today, turned into steel rebar

That song wasn’t that bad.

July 23, 2009

Zombie Moonshiners

An independent film made in East Tennessee. Via MKS.

July 08, 2009

Cool

R. Lee Ermey has a new show coming out called Lock N Load. As I said before, this is one of the reasons why we win.

July 07, 2009

Local band gets local coverage

The local paper has a piece on Whitechapel, a local metal band that has had some recent success. They call them death metal. I thought they were more metalcore. But who the Hell can possibly keep up with all the genres and sub-genres of heavy-metal?

June 30, 2009

Turns out, the kid is not his son

TMZ:

We’ve learned Michael Jackson was not the biological father of any of his children. And Debbie Rowe is not the biological mother of the two kids she bore for Michael. All three children were conceived in vitro — outside the womb.

Nothing to add. Just the headline.

June 29, 2009

Just one

Brehd: One brave man steps forward and remembers Michael Jackson as the freak he was

June 26, 2009

Lock ‘N Load

A new Showtime series:

Showtime presents a new original reality series about guns, and the people who buy them.

With trailer. Wonder if it will continue the trend of cable TeeVee helping with pro-gun attitudes?

June 25, 2009

Bummer

Farrah Fawcett, who was probably responsible for the first time men who are now my age took an interest in women, has died.

June 23, 2009

Terrible

Guav: BrokeNCYDE is what happens when freaks and geeks don’t get beaten up in high school.

That was awful and I couldn’t make it past about 30 seconds.

June 15, 2009

PSA

I caught the Mythbusters episode this weekend wherein they test if you can bend the trajectory of a bullet after it was done in some Angelina Jolie flick. Seemed quite unsafe to me, even though they did take additional steps. But more importantly, Kari don’t go shooting when you’re six months pregnant. Lead, noise, and other things that likely aren’t good for baby.

I’ll play

A meme from Xrlq. The letter C and I picked stuff on my MP3 player since I doubt I could even find a CD now:

Cake
Captain and Tenille
Carrie Underwood
Cavalera Conspiracy
Candiria
Chess
Christmas Classics
Cindi Lauper
Clutch
Coal Chamber
Collective Soul
Coolio
Counting Crows
Cracker
Crash Test Dummies
Creedence Clearwater Revival
Cypress Hill
The Cardigans
The Clash
The Corrs
The Cult
The Cure

June 09, 2009

Bound for Glory

Apparently, David Carradine’s family alleges that he was killed by assassins, even though his death looks like he pulled a Hutchence. Sounds silly. But Squeaky points out that his hands were bound together. That would imply that he had some sort of helper. Or some ninja drew the really, really short straw and had to go kill the guy. Then tie a rope around his wiener. But if a ninja went through the trouble of tying up a dead guy’s Johnson, you’d think that the ninja would have remembered to unbind the hands so it didn’t look like ninjas did it. That, or somewhere the boss ninja is really pissed off. In some boardroom somewhere, I can picture the boss ninja saying Dammit, Larry, if you’d have just remembered to untie his hands, this would have been perfect. Now, we got the heat on us. Bad ninja. No ninja snacks.

June 02, 2009

The day’s news of lasting significance

A sequel to Heathers!

June 01, 2009

Embarrassing tunes meme

Marko started by posting Top Five Most Embarrassing Albums On My iPod Followed by Tam and Sebastian. I don’t actually have an iPod and use my Blackberry but I figured I could still play.

1- Jack’s Big Music Show Season #1: Yes, it’s for kids and I bought it for the kids. But the song Grumpy is catchy.

2 – The Biz Never Sleeps: Biz Markie. There are actually other songs on there that are not Just A Friend.

3 – Extreme II: Pornograffitti: Good songs. Well, one.

4 – Captain and Tennille’s Greatest Hits. Love Will Keep Us Together rocks. I don’t care what you say.

5 – Flashdance: Original Soundtrack. It rocks and you know it.

May 28, 2009

Bing Bang Diggly Diggly Dong

LabRat links up one of the funniest, most disturbing videos I’ve ever seen. My kids used to watch Lazytown all the time. The music from the show is pretty good. But Lil Jon never showed up.

May 20, 2009

’cause that would be racist

Popular television shows inaccurately portray violent crime. Odd. Based on TeeVee, I always thought most murders in the country were committed by affluent white people for either insurance money or because of skeleton in the closet. Or a random serial killer. Turns out, not so much:

When researchers compared the shows to the CDC data, they discovered the strongest misrepresentations were related to alcohol use, relationships, and race among perpetrators and victims. Previous studies of actual statistics have shown that both perpetrator and victim were often under the influence of alcohol and/or drugs when the crime occurred, differing from what the shows portrayed. Also, CSI and CSI: Miami were more likely to have described the victim and the attacker as Caucasian, which is misrepresentative. Finally, according to the CDC data, homicide victims typically knew their assailant; however, the television series were more likely to have portrayed the perpetrator as a stranger.

TeeVee Stuff

So, the only sitcom worth watching on TeeVee (My Name is Earl) is being cancelled. I gathered that show was still popular.

And ABC is remaking V.

May 11, 2009

Wanda Sykes wants Rush Limbaugh’s kidneys to fail; just like Wanda Sykes’ TV shows

Ya know, Wanda Sykes is usually funny. I liked her shows. They were funny. Unfortunately, I was one of the only people who thought that. But the kidney and terrorist jokes were not funny.

And the truth in a joke: Most of you covered me; all of you voted for me.

While we’re discussing things easy to make fun of, I don’t understand why it’s a big deal for Obama to put Dijon mustard on a burger. Nor why people are getting bent out of shape for mocking the mustard.

Remember, I do this to entertain me, not you.

Uncle Pays the Bills


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