There is a tone that is generally only able to be heard by people over the age of 25. THE MAN is seriously playing this tone at malls and shops to drive teenagers crazy to keep them from loitering, as if they were bugs or mice. I wish I could find the people that think of these things and beat them with a rubber hose. It's not like there is much else to do when you're a teenager.
See if you can hear the tone, if you can't you have Old People Ears and should apply for your AARP card today (I hear the AARP membership comes with a pair of free white pants, and an elastic belt)! And yes, I can hear it.
Scotty Lago, American Olympic Snowboarder has left Vancouver after these pictures of him partying with his bronze medal surfaced.
The United States Ski and Snowboard Association and the Olympic Committee both say that, “Scotty left on his own accord. He wasn't forced to leave.” However, according to sources close to Lago, the 23 year old halfpipe bronze medal winner pretty much had to leave in order to keep the situation from escalating, and to secure his participation in the next Olympics.
Basically the IOC is making an example of Lago before anymore Michael Phelps bong hit incidents happen again, embarrassing the old codgers that run things. Coincidence that they're making an example out of the snowboarder? Hmmm.... punish the dirty X-Gamer. Yes, come down on that new rebel sport that kind of doesn't belong in the Olympics but brings a huge excitement and draw to the games.
I don't think the pictures are that bad. He wasn't doing anything illegal, he wasn't shooting steroids, wasn't sloshed, he was just partying a little with his medal. God knows way worse things have happened with olympic medals, or other sports trophies like the Stanley Cup (you know people have had sex in the Stanley cup). I guess the pictures have just never surfaced. The funny thing is, as with most scandals, the chick that he got in trouble over, not even that hot. This type of thing is going to land Scotty more fame that if it had not happened, and possibly some new endorsements to go with that fame. Just think how much more he could've gotten over if the chick was hot.
I knew that some crap like this was going to happen as soon as I found out that the American snowboarding team was wearing jeans in the Olympics. Damn the man.
The Flashmob strikes again. Over 100 Star Wars nerds threwdown in a fake lightsaber fight at a shopping center in Bristol England. The whole thing was organized through Facebook. I really am considering buying stock in those plastic lightsabers.
From nola.com: Michael DeMocker / The Times-Picayune As if the heavens agreed this is indeed Lombardi Gras, a cloud that looks remarkably like the Superdome hovers over the Thoth parade as it makes its way down Henry Clay Avenue on Sunday, February 14, 2010. Several parade-goers stopped catching beads to marvel at and take pictures of the cloud.
New Orleans is serously the creepiest town in America. They have ghosts, vampires, voodoo, and now this. I would seriously move there if it wasn't located below a giant bowl of water.
I caught “The Wolfman” last night at RC KDH Movies 10, the remake of the classic Universal 1941 flick. I liked it. Here's the thing though, If you love Saw type movies, or PG-13 teenage horror, this film may not be for you. If you are a fan of the classics, like black and white Dracula, Frankenstein and the like, especially if you love the old school creepy sets, you should go check out The Wolfman.
Benicio Del Toro plays Lawrence Talbot an American Actor who returns home to England after his brother's fiancee Gwen, played by Emily Blunt, asks him to help find her man who has gone missing. Also in the film, Anthony Hopkins who does a bang up job playing Talbot's father. A couple of gruesome murders, a group of paranoid townsfolk, and a few gypsies later and we're on our way. The film is set in the same old school era as the original.
I thought they did a pretty good job of blending the classic horror feel with a modern day horror movie. There have been so many werewolf movies over the years, I was expecting an over the top, full wolf, beast of a creature akin to those in Underworld, or An American Werewolf in Paris. Therefore, I was very excited the first time that the wolfman appeared on the screen looking much more like the throwback Universal wolfman (dude still had his clothes on). It made for more of a creature than animal feel which I though made for a scarier experience (loved the way they made the wolfman run). The updated monster effects, a healthy dose of modern day gore (the beheading scene was badass), and some very good, non-cheesy acting, brought the movie right up to speed with today's horror films.
I also liked some of the crazy flashback scenes that were reminiscent of An American Werewolf in London. The other cool thing that I appreciated about this film was the fact that , in the vein of classic black and white horror films, they took their time telling it. They also didn't over explain it, and allowed the viewer to put a lot of the pieces together for themselves.
All that being said, there were times when the film seemed to crawl by, and although the film touched on how the whole wolfman curse in this town started, it would have been cool to have a more in depth, scary, explanation on everything surrounding the wolfman. The only other part that bothered me was that Talbot seemed much more bent on revenge that trying to figure a way out of the wolfman curse. It just seemed as though some elements of the film were too glossed over.
There were certainly some good scares, but I thought that this was one of those films that was just more cool than frightening. If you go to see it, I'd recommend watching the original 1941 Lon Chaney Jr. version before you go-it will make the experience even better.
