Huh.

Up and moved my arse to Livejournal, didn't I.

http://kissplease.livejournal.com

Tomato...

Haven't seen it yet, obviously. But from what I can see on Rotten Tomatoes, the movie is absolutely killing the opposition, well, quality wise. It's got a perfect "Fresh" rating as of now. Damn, I can't wait!


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This is football...

Much has been said about the effects leading up to and following the Nick Riewoldt incident. To sum up what happened briefly - Riewoldt tried to take a tough mark (catch the ball), but clearly it didn't work out. He fell badly and broke his collarbone. When Riewoldt recovered somewhat (stood up), and was headed off the field, two players from the opposition (Brisbane Lions - Mal Michael and Chris Scott) decided it would be wise to bump into the area around Riewoldt's injured shoulder. When off the field, sitting on the bench, no doubt shaken by what just happened, he started to cry.

Taking the acts of force by the two opposing players out of the equation, there have been two fields of thought on this subject. On one hand, it's a show of weakness to have Riewoldt (the captain of the team) crying. On the other hand, the incident was tough on him, and he has the right to let his emotions out.

Now personally, I think that he has the right to cry. Crying on the field may be taking it a bit too far, but when sitting on the sidelines, knowing that the next six weeks will be spent recovering instead of playing, would be devastating. Just because he cried doesn't mean he can't perform as the captain of the team.

There is an idea among many people that crying is a sign of femininity in men, as is a sacrilege to see on the football field. If we're going to discourage crying on the field, then I for one think we should discourage the other femanine traits in football. Just because you're on the football field, it doesn't mean that touching or hugging another male is right. If crying is to be discouraged, then all other acts of emotion should also be discouraged.


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Feel Good.

Gorillaz have a new single available to listen to online, you can stream it through either the iTunes music store, through Real Player, or through Windows Media Player with this here .asx link. It's pretty hot, I must say. I was a massive fan of their first album, and this a welcome joy to mine ears!

I've also been listening to a lot of Tahiti 80 lately, their Wallpapr For The Soul album is special.

The new Ford Shelby Cobra GT500 (the original version of which would be familiar to all Gone In 60 Seconds fans) has just been unveiled to the public, and it's reasonably hot. The front view is especially mean, and the profile shot isn't bad either. They definitely should have maintained the vents from the classic, but whatever. The arse - as with the standard Mustang - is fucking terrible and needs a makeover ASAP.

A mate sent this MMS to my phone this morning. Beautiful.

Today I had a major lapse of sanity, and attempted to teach the average forum goer about the benefits of grammar and punctuation.

And.. That's about all I can be arsed with tonight.

The Office (US)

I started watching it with an optimistic mind. But no doubt, if you've watched the original series then you'll be disappointed. The boss is decent, same with the receptionist, and the US alternatives to Tim and Gareth. It's just not as funny as the original, with everything seeming more forced. I mean, the jello joke is funny, but not twice in one episode funny.


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What is this, 1980s New York?

My younger brother just recited to me a story told him by one of his friends (whom we shall call "Sally") recently. Apparently she was getting the train home from work late one night, and when she boarded the carriage closest to her on the platform, she didn't like the look of a couple of idiot drunkards in the otherwise empty carriage and quickly moved to the next one along. Here she found only three girls and nobody else. Two of the girls were sitting quietly, and in the seat between them was another girl with her head in her chest, seemingly asleep. It was late at night, so no biggy there. Didn't warrant a second thought. Five minutes later, the train rolls into the next station and sits there longer than usual. Suddenly one of the doors opens, and in works the train driver. He walks over to Sally and asks to see her ticket. Sally figures it's a little odd that he's picked her specifically - not to mention coming out of his cabin to do it, since it's usually only transit police who check tickets - but she pulls out her ticket and hands it over. The driver declares the ticket invalid and tells her to get off the train. Sally is a bit shocked, as she'd only just bought the ticket, and says so to the driver. He refuses to listen and makes her get off the train.

Once they're outside the carriage, he walks her away and then stops her. He turns to her and says "Look I'm sorry about that, your ticket's fine. I pulled you out of the carriage because I just saw those two girls strangle the girl in the middle. I've called the police".

That's about all my brother bothered to share, and I was too busy to probe for more info, haha. Still, you'd think the driver would stop the train the moment he saw it happening, right? Though maybe the camera had only just switched onto that carriage the moment they were finishing up. Either way, hell of a story!

Hot like that.

By sheer dumb luck - in so much as I took the unusual (for me) step of actually applying for a job that I'd like to make mine - I may have scored a regular freelance writing gig. I'd be covering the latest news in Anime for kids, as well as reviewing upcoming releases and what not. I've been offered a trial spot right now for the June issue of the magazine in question, which means I have a few weeks to get my shit together. Hot! Adding to that, my first freebies from Australian anime distributor Madman rocked up in the mail this afternoon.

Did Ooda mention that Yahoo! are buying my much loved Flickr? I think he did. Truth to tell, I don't read his posts. Gives me a headache every time. I kid I kid, you're a good sport. So I wonder though, what will this mean for those of us who make bigtime use of Flickr? I admittedly do not have a premium account, but that's mostly because the free account was fulfilling my needs. What am I going to do with a gigabyte of space and bandwidth? Flickr this week assured their users that Yahoo!'s buyout will not spell doom for the website and its free accounts, nor would it result in an influx of morons into the community. Time will tell, I guess.

I was always a big fan of the photos that would flow like so much flowing stuff out of New Orleans (or wherever) every year during their Mardi Gras festivities. But hot diggity damn, It may be fair to say that Rio cannot be beat. Check out these shots. Definitely not safe for work or in the company of prudish prudes.

There's been another school shooting in the US. At least they're still number one for something.

How to find MP3s and what not, via Google's search engine.

Adidas are apparently considering - thought it's a long shot at best right now - manufacturing a limited run of Zissou's; the fake Adidas runners created for Wes Anderson's (brilliant, if not a little slow) movie The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou. Seems they've been getting literally swamped (truly - they had a major plumbing problem) with calls asking where folks can buy the shoe and have had to tell each caller that the shoe does not in fact exist. Huh! It's okay though, relax. You can make your own.

Movie/Television roundup #2...

The promotional posters for Sahara - based on the book by Clive Cussler - are out. I was sceptical about the movie, as to be honest, I'm an absolute whore for Clive Cussler books. Matthew McConaughey actually is probably the best actor they could have picked as Dirk Pitt, though I would have liked a recast of Steve Zahn as Albert Giordino. What he's supposed to be is a stocky Italian; This guy looks nothing like it.

Looks like Mr Tarantino is planning to make a martial arts movie, with Donnie Yen (Hero) and Li Xin.

The American version of The Office is set to air in the US on Thursday, after the always interesting The Apprentice. I just got around to watching the original The Office, and of course, it was great, as I was told for a long time. The new series will have the exact same first episode, and then branch off to originals. Hopefully it works out.

Looks like Kojak is back on. Latest episode of The Contender was good, with a great fight, and a note on the suicide of one of the fighters. Finally, Woody Allen (that twisted f*ck) has broken his losing streak and has made a good movie.

Rantage...

Sigh, I figured university (or college for you American folk) would be busy, but now I'm getting a good feeling of it. Got a few essays due in the next two weeks-

Should parents have the right to physically punish their children?
Is homosexuality biologically or psychologically determined? Is the answer different for men and women?
There are people in the world who are happier than we are, while possessing far less. (Skinner, B.F.) How can this be?

Questions aren't too bad. Got another assignment for Philosophy, not that hard, but means thinking for a bit.

Rantage over.

Failage...

Somewhat interesting read about all the pilots which failed this year. Big number of them.


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Flickr...

Looks like Flickr, to no big surprise, has been bought out by Yahoo. I know Van's a fan of it.

What is going to happen to Flickr?

Flickr will be continuing on the path it's on -- to Flickr 1.0 and beyond. We'll be working with a bunch of people that Totally Get Flickr and want to preserve the community and the flavor of what is here. We're going to grow and change, but we're in it for the long haul, with the same management and same team.

Are you going to become Yahoo Photos?

No. Yahoo Photos will get a lot of Flickr features, and there are alot of other areas around Yahoo that will also be Flickrized where Flickrization would be good. Yahoo Photos and Flickr have different kinds of users with different needs, and will remain separate for the foreseeable future. Flickr would also suffer from a sudden deluge of LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! omg! so we're going to grow it carefully.

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$10 or the pussy gets it...

Would have loved to have seen the Jack Johnson in concert, picked up his latest last weekend, following the recommendation by Van. Following the advice, I think that Van meant to say "the man with the godlike wang", but I'll pretend that demi-god is a compliment...

When their beloved 2-year-old kitty went missing last month, Katherine DePasquale and Alex Martinez thought she was just lost somewhere in their Hell's Kitchen building.

Then a note arrived saying that Penelope was OK but that the couple would never see her again.

Their kitty had been cat-napped.

"There are so many strays out there, so why would somebody take her in and not give her back?" a distraught DePasquale asked yesterday.

How stupid are some people, I mean people who kidnap cats. The other pussy linkage is, ah, interesting.

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Jack Johnson @ The Sidney Myer Music Bowl

So last night, as the title of this entry somewhat highlights, I saw Jack Johnson perform at the Sidney Myer Music Bowl here in Melbourne. Scud and I arrived a little after the gates opened, to be greeted by a massive - truly, truly massive - line, but we were cool with it because it was a nice warm bright evening and the surrounding view (read: girlies) was terrific. It was only until we'd eventually reached almost the front of the line that we began to wonder if we could actually pick up our tickets at that particular entry. It turned out we couldn't, so we had to wander around to the other side of the venue to join the queue for picking up pre-purchased tickets. Hoorah! Some signage advising of this would have been nice, but I suppose we should have had the commonus sensus to think of asking before lining up.

Once we'd gotten in, we made a b-line for the gents. All that standing around had been too much for Scud's bladder I guess. The view continued to be nothing short of sensational (read: girlies), so I didn't mind the waiting.

We then proceeded up onto the main hill, where we discovered that our chances of finding somewhere to sit in plain sight of the stage were about as hot as the odds of me sprouting rockets out of my arse and visiting the moon - not too flash. After standing around umming and ahhing, we eventually caved in and sat on one of the two side hills, where we had a beautiful view of not a whole lot. But gosh, the scenery was great (read: girlies).

The Support Acts

G. Love & Special Sauce came over from the US with Jack and Donavon, and they were quite good - in a slightly unorthodox and perhaps slightly unsuited-for-the-day kinda way. I quite enjoyed them though, and might get their album (AKA download it).

Donavon Frankenreiter is a good mate of Jack's, and so it went without saying that he'd be somewhere on the supporting cast. I've been a fan of his for a year or so now, and it was great to see that his show lived up to expectations. The quality of his performance had me thinking of the evening as a bit of a double-header Johnson/Frankenreiter gig rather than it being all about Jack. The ladies loved his massive 'stache and cowboy outfit too. Hell, even I was a little excited.

Xavier Rudd is shit, end of story. I would boot him off a cliff if it came down to that or listening to his endless and annoying songs with no variety and or interesting.. bits. Yes.

The Main Man.

Jack! Brilliant. Offering up a varied selection of tracks from all of his albums, mixing and shuffling songs into each other, performing duets with Donavon and G. Love, inviting Kram from Spiderbait on to play drums - it was all great. Well worth the 70 bucks. He has a special air about him I think, in that he's very calm and easy going, and that permeates and melts into the crowd, spreading out up to back of the hill and making everyone relaxed and happy to sing along.

The let down? Some drunk teenaged dickhead was singing along in a death metal voice. He then proceeded to urinate where he stood in the crowd. Top guy! I'd have loved to give him a smack in the gob, but unfortunately he was in a larger group and my odds would not have been too hot! Still, it wasn't enough to ruin the show. Great night.

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Where'd all the good people go?

When I first began reading this Wired article regarding the Aggressive Takeover of The Brain by The Right Hemisphere (as I prefer to think of it) in the 21st century (boy), my first thought was something along the lines of "excellent, now us (remotely) creative types will be revered as gods (except for Ooda, who will be viewed heretofore as a demi-god)". But the more I thought about it, creativity is no less vulnerable to Asian outsourcing than IT and various related industries. The amount of times I come across websites for Indian design groups offering to create your company logo for 20 bucks - often displaying work on par with any western artists - makes me a sad panda. More power to them - if it means they're finally going to be recognised in the west as a viable and welcome proponent of the international business community - but shit... It also spells major personal underselling for my future.

Hot diggity there were a lot of bracketed comments in that paragraph.

This crowd claims to have developed software that can almost instantly bring full colour (more like Technicolor though, if you ask me) to black and white images, with nothing more than a few strokes and scribbles in the appropriate areas. I am a little dubious, but it'd be pretty sweet.

I don't know how reliable these figures are, but in a recent article, this website offers up some pretty damning statistics as a counter to the United States' too oft bandied around claims of being the number one country in the world.

The owner of website Milka.fr has been ordered by the courts to surrender her domain name to Kraft, who are the international owners of the trademarked product and name "Milka". Apparently the fact that her name is Milka is less relevant than we might have thought! Legally, I can understand and somewhat accept the ruling; but that said, it still smacks of corporate bullying.

Australian readers (particularly from those states that follow AFL footy) may be familiar with Sam Newman and Rex Hunt and their ongoing shit-slinging matches. It all came to a head this wek when Sam called into Rex's 3AW AM radio show and gave him the verbal beating of his life. I am confident that even his wife doesn't give him this much stick. Sam pulled no punches, other than to keep his language in check - and that was an admirable effort on its own. Anyway, check out the call right here via streaming audio.

Open wide...

US Congress fights to keep comatose woman alive

United States politicians have invoked emergency powers in their bid to see doctors resume feeding a heavily brain-damaged Florida woman who has been kept on life support for the past 15 years.

Terri Schiavo, 41, has been in a persistent vegetative state since a cardiac arrest sent her into a coma in 1990.

Doctors removed her feeding tube yesterday after a protracted legal battle that pits the woman's husband, Michael Schiavo, against her parents, Bob and Mary Schindler.

Mr Schiavo insists Terri should be allowed to die because she would not want to live in her current state. He says that was her wish communicated to him when she was well.

But the Schindlers argue their daughter should be kept alive through life support and have questioned Mr Schiavo's fitness to serve as his wife's guardian.

Now, congressional leaders will summon the Senate and House of Representatives back into session from its Easter recess to vote on a bill which would give a federal district judge jurisdiction over the case, setting the stage for a new round of legal battles.

In this case, I have to come to the defense of the husband. I mean, its been 15 years, it's not like she's going to suddenly wake up. I don't know this medically, but when someone is brain dead isn't it a definite that they won't wake up?

Seems like a big waste of time for all parties to be caring for her in the first place, and letting her stay alive in the, ah, second place. The courts should rule that if you can't sustain yourself (I'm only talking about food, not oxygen or the like, and not related to infants) then the patient should not be given sustenance in the form of food. Wouldn't the bed/room she's taking up have served someone else a lot better?

Just makes the parents seem like they're very greedy individuals.

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Gimme wang...

Ah, looks like the battle of the blog has begun! Anyway...

Doctors cut man's micro-penis off and grow it on his forearm

Needless to say that there is no normal man in the world who would agree to bid farewell to his genitals and have his penis cut off. It is an open secret that the male organ is considered to be the object of eternal pride for all normal men living on Earth. However, if there is an experienced surgeon, who guarantees a considerable increase of the penis size after such an execution, some men would probably take a risk to experience the miraculous genital reincarnation.

Russian doctors from a Moscow hospital have recently performed such an operation on one of their patients. They cut his tiny penis off in order to grow the organ and attach it again to its natural place. Furthermore, the doctors were growing the phallus on the man's arm.

On another wang related note, did any of the so called penis enlargement techniques ever work? I know the pills were a definite bust, but does the good old fashioned penis pump do the job?


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Windows Evo VIII

I have to make this a quick entry, my dim sims are almost ready!

So, what release version will Longhorn be? If the early ones were 3.1 and 3.11 (or whatever), then what are these 95/98/ME/2000/XP versions? I calculated that Longhorn will be version 8, but don't you dare hold me to that.

Anyway, the reason I mention Windows is due in part or in whole but definitely in some form to the fact that the 2006 release of this monopolising grandeur will ship with 6 new typefaces. THAT'S RIGHT. NEW FONTS! All I really want them to do is remove Comic Sans, but I guess I'm probably asking too much there.

This guy thinks he's developing a machine that can make anything you want, right there on the kitchen bench. Well, anything except toasters apparently. I think he's been watching too much Star Trek.

The new War of the Worlds trailer is online. It's quite a bit longer, and it gets me excited in my shirt. Honestly, I had to take my shirt off, there was that much excitement happening. I'd show you pics, but.. Well.. Nobody deserves such a cruel punishment.

Wes Craven has two new thrillers on the way, one being Red Eye and the other being Cursed. Christina Ricci turns me on in a weird I'm-not-happy-about-it kinda way, ya know what I mean? 'Course you do.

I think Ooda and I are racing to see who can post the most shit lately. Do you suppose he's trying to take over my blog? I think he's plotting something. I'M CALLING 911 BITCH.

No I kid, keep posting. Those Bob and McE guys have proven to be disappointing! I will eat their children. With honey soy, that shit has proven to be delicious!

Spore...

I've been aiming at keeping the amount of game related posts down due to the inevitable geek factor it brings. But this is one game that really needs something said about it.

Spore is a new game being created by Will Wright, the guy who created "The Sims". From what can be seen, this will be the game that will define what an epic game is. You start the game off as a basic microorganism, where you can add basic "body" parts like claws and the like. Eventually the being will evolve...

Over time your creature will evolve in a basic being, then a pseudo human being. Different cities will be created(using a sort of Simcityeske style) all around the world, and when required, battles will occur. Eventually the level of knowledge will be so great that your society will be able to create a spaceship, which means colonizing or battling other worlds.

I hope this game ends up being good, and it's nice to see something other than a generic first person shooter.

*Images in gallery from Gamespy/Gaming Steve


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I thought you were hot...

There is no escaping the naked lens of High-Definition TV. The picture is so clear that aging signs and skin imperfections are clearly visible.

This site has a list of celebrities that will look better and worse on HDTV, which explanations for each. Interesting.


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Hook nosed jew bastard...

Went and borrowed some DVDs, and finally got around to watching Private Parts. Must say I was quite impressed, interesting and funny, though no doubt it will appeal most to Howard Stern fans.


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And in the left corner...

I have to admit, I've always been a fan of Rocky. There have been whisperings about Sylvester Stallone doing Rocky 6. I'm somewhat happy about this, but still, what is the impulsion to mess with a winning formula from the past (Yes, I do realise it's because of the money).

Well, to get to my point, last week The Contender started to air. It's a new series revolving around boxing, made by Mark Burnett, so obviously follows the Survivor/The Apprentice formula quite closely. Hosted pretty well by Sly Stalone and Sugar Ray. The shows ratings, to be blunt, are not amazing, but to their defense, NBC has f*cked around with the show airing time quite a bit.

I'm really loving this show. About half of the show revolves around the two teams, who have to complete one task against each other, the winning team being able to choose who fights who from each time.

The second half of the show focuses on the fight, and this is where it really gets interesting. Fights are professionally ranked, with a healthy crowd at each fight. First two fights have been great, with somewhat smaller (in stature) guys choosing to fight clearly larger opponents. Best thing is seeing the little guys win out. The slightly enhanced camera work/effects during the fights really adds to the experience.


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Water out of air? Brilliant!

This is a nice development. I know it's nothing new, but the fact it's in a convenient, small factor form is what really sets it apart. This device is called the "Air2Water Dolphin", which is a dehumidifier combined with a water purifier. To put it in simple terms, you plug it in, and it harvests water from the air. Apparently it can create 20 litres of water a day in a 70% humidity environment. The fact you don't need those inconvenient water bottles is a huge plus.

This would be convenient for places where there's a problem with water pollution/contamination. I promise my next post will be somewhat less geeky.


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Tell them... Bring more Pocky!

You have to check out these Pocky commercials, straight outta Japan. They're so stupid that they're awesome!

Bang.
Bang.

(I shot my baby down)

Also, this short video of the Nintendo DS in action is hilarious. I didn't realise what I was supposed to be watching, all I was seeing was some dipshit drawing clouds and butterflies and what not. Then the third thing he draws ends up with an interesting result, and even the user himself was shocked - as you'll see yourself (1.3mb .AVI).

These guys have a goddamn jet powered remote control scale F-14 Tomcat (3.4mb .WMV), and it looks like.. Well.. A lot more exciting than I ever thought RC airplanes would be.

The dochebags way to make a million dollars...

If I wasn't so go damn attractive, I'd start to take offense at some of Van's comments. Anyway, looks like a fool who dived off a road bridge into shallow water will be awarded with $1m in damages...

A MAN who became a paraplegic at 14 when he dived off a road bridge into a New South Wales river was awarded more than $1 million in damages today.

Mr Dederer, from Newcastle, claimed the RTA and the council were negligent despite there being signs prohibiting diving, because the signs did not say diving was dangerous.

Justice John Dunford agreed and today awarded Mr Dederer $1,050,000 in damages.

He ruled the RTA was 80 per cent responsible for the accident and should pay $840,000, while the council was liable for 20 per cent of the damages to a total of $210,000.

The judge ruled the signs erected were inadequate because young people continued to dive from the bridge.

"I am satisfied that the signs were not effective in the sense that large numbers of young people continued to dive, do somersaults, etc from the bridge," he said.

Usually I fully agree with people getting reasonable compensation for accidents - when they actually deserve it. This is one case where the kid deserved what happened to him, and I don't mean the compensation.


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Van's movie roundup.

Pfft. Ooda. What does that guy know about movies! I kid, I kid.

I have news, news, news. You need to be geeky to be interested in my news. If you are not geeky (and no Kerri, dorky is not geeky!), you'd best move along on account of there is nothing to see here.

The official website for the The Watchmen movie is now online. You can register for updates, you can join and participate in their message board, or you can download their wallpapers. It's all very exciting, truly. If you're not familiar with The Watchmen, it was (and still is, I guess) a short series of comics written by Alan Moore - also famous in the mainstream for authoring the comic upon which the movie The League of Extraordinary Gentleman was based (a movie he made no secret about hating, but one that I quite enjoyed) - and it's quite good. You can learn about it a little here at Amazon.com.

A prequel to Ang Lee's amazing 2000 epic Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon is to begin film very soon, and you can read about that very special news right here.

The first poster for the upcoming Aeon Flux movie - based on the MTV animated series about a femme fatale assassin going about her business 400 years into our future - is now online. You can check it out here.

Yahoo! Movies has posted an 11 minute behind-the-scenes video from the Sin City movie.

IGN FilmForce has some news regarding which new mutants we ought to expect to see in the X-Men 3 movie. Fears that Angel may be a female instead of a male have also apparently been put to rest.

That oughta do for now.

Kerri called me today, she's so cute. For some reason, whenever she calls me we get this crazy 2 or 3 second delay, and it's terrible! It doesn't happen when I call her though, so I think she may be engineering this occurence so that she can get out of having to call... No no, I kid! Don't kill me woman!

That's a 5 dollar shake...

Gosh I loved Pulp Fiction. I was about.. what.. 15 when I first saw it. Maybe 16. Made shit all sense to me back then - though at the time I probably thought I had it all figured out - but it was such an eye opener for a young lad. From there I moved away from Back To The Future type movies, and onto the gritty Hong Kong and nasty anti-Hollywood movies. Everyone has their eye opening moments I guess.

I always knew that the cost of living in Japan was ridiculous by western standards, but I also knew that it was a case of supply and demand. There are 127 million people living in Japan, on a couple islands with a total land mass of 377,835 sq kilometres. Compare that to the USA ( 293 million folks sitting around in 9,631,418 sq km of land) or Australia ( 20 million Aussies kickin' around in 7,686,850 sq km of sunburnt country), it becomes pretty clear why everything in Japan costs a wee bit more than what we're used to. That said, AU$12 (US$9.50) for a freaking burger with the lot?! Pass me the rice, please.

Is this about the cutest 404 page you've ever seen? That's an accomplishment that is. (Link courtest of Adam Berry).

The following link is extremely unsafe for viewing at work and/or in the company of prudes. This is quite funny, but.. I can't help but think that no guy is ever going to go down on this girly again! I know if it were me, I'd be like "Oh, go down there and kiss that demon-looking guy? Sure!".

Brief movie roundup...

A new pseudo-interview with Quentin Tarantino is up at Moviehole. Answers some of the questions that have been raised lately...

Kill Bill : The Whole Bloody Affair
QT is also going to release both "Kill Bill" films as one uber-long movie. "Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair is definitely getting a wide release," says, "actually, that'll probably be the first movie that Miramax, under their new company, will be releasing theatrically. It's the Japanese version, that's why I call it that, you know, it should probably come out in the next few months. It's going to be NC-17 in America. We couldn't do that when Disney owned the place but now Disney's the fuck outta there we can do anything we want! It's gonna be off the hook!"

In other news, a new Batman Returns poster is out. I haven't really watched many Batman movies, and haven't read the comics at all. I have to admit though, this movie looks like it may be good. But on my list of comicbook/movie adaptations, Sin City is probably topping my list, with Batman Begins second, and Fantasic Four taking third, even though it's showing signs of suckage.

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