Animation

The FUN SONG, but of course!

Best part ever? The Spartans jumping in the background. It's a great little shout out to "This Spartan Life".

Oh.

My.

God.

Ok, so I know there's girls out ther that are totally into action movies; but ... maaaaaan. My boys and I just had to wipe the drool off our mouths after we saw this trailer. Actually, they got pretty spooked but I was like totally,

OOOOH!

AWESOME!

THAT ROCKS!

I can't wait for this movie to come out. Seriously. And I really don't care much if it has a story or not.

Who gives a damn about plot when the story is in how they created the "live action" looking robots?

And the sounds effects!

Duuuuuuuude! Can you dig the sound effects?!?!?!

Ohmygodohmygodohmygodohmygodohmygodohmygodohmygod
ohmygodohmygodohmygodohmygodohmygodohmygodohmygod.

I really,

honestly,

deeply,

truly

can't wait for this movie to come out.

I AM SO THERE ON OPENING NIGHT!

Not long ago I wrote about my shock and disbelief to find that MTV is not a music video tv station anymore but a "lifestyle" entertainment company. WTF?

Well, I have to admit that I don't miss the music --I'd rather watch music videos on the net. Which is probably why they've turned into basically a reality TV network using kids instead of the washed up celebrities that appear in VH1.

That said, it hasn't stopped me from watching the car-wrecks they've produced with My Super Sweet Sixteen (a show that even Anderson Cooper can't walk away from) and Flavor of Love (which will earn Flavor Flav many eons in hell --no matter how many hits he wrote for Public Enemy).

Not all is bad though. Here's some of my guilty TV pleasures :

You know you are part of the peripheral masses when the only exposure you had to classical music was through a Bugs Bunny cartoon.

It's weird. In my household jazz was a must along with all sorts of afrocaribbean music. Classical music? Nil. So growing up the only frame of reference I had for classical music was cartoons like The Bunny of Seville.

Ah good times.

Enjoy.

When you grow up on the periphery of an Empire such as the United States, the kind of consumable culture you are exposed to is not necessarily that which would be considered popular by the Empire's mainstream standards.

So, for example, I grew up watching a lot of what constitutes today's treasure trove of Warner Bros.' banned cartoons. It was so common to see every morning jazz jivin' sambos, looney dwarf-like Hitlers and wascally wabbits dressed in drag on TV that I was actually shocked to learn those cartoons were censored and outright banned here in the U.S.

GOLDILOCKS AND THE JIVIN' BEARS (1944), is part of the now infamous Looney Tunes/Merrie Melodies, Censored Eleven. I find it fascinating that the dogs of animation, Harman and Ising, are included in this list, as well as Fritz Freleng, Chuck Jones, Robert Clampett and Tex Avery.

Harman and Ising founded Merrie Melodies and Looney Tunes, and became famous for a little sambo-like character called Bosko. They basically translated the minstrel theater of the time into cartoons --and in the process made film and animation history.

I think it is unwise to ban these cultural gems from TV. Forget about the puritanical sensitivities of the political correctness police. I think that contextualized as part of the country's popular culture, they are invaluable tools for the world to understand the cultural development of the United States.

How long must we sing this song?

How long?

Wipe your tears away

Wipe your tears away

Wipe your tears away

Sunday Bloody Sunday

Sunday Bloody Sunday

Source : YouTube - Sunday Bloody Sunday

I wonder if the hipsters over at Jewschool have found out about Mel Gibson's "new movie" ... heh.

YouTube - Mel Gibson's Next Movie

It is a brilliant little gem of political incorrectness.

The whole 22 minutes of The Boondocks' "Return of the King" :

This spells the death to TV as we know it because the internet is for porn and not just of the sex kind.
This is total postmodern, prosumer media porn!

And there is even a HAMSTER DANCE!!!!!!!

OHMYFUCKINGBLOGICANTBELIEVETHERE'SANEWHAMSTERDANCE!!!!

To those who have not been around the web since forever like old geezers like me and Jason, Hamster Dance was to the web back in 1995 what it would be to a teenager to drop acid, smoke weed and eat 'shrooms all at the same time.

People loved to hate that site. So much, and this will tell you how way back this goes to, the guy that coded Greymatter, the first open-source and free blogging software I knew of, created a satanic version of the site, Satanic Hamster Dance.

Hamster Dance was reviled but groundbreaking because it proved that the net was an alternative space for moving pictures. Animated GIFs became the basis for many a crappy 'net art' project but, by blog, people where all over PERL and Javascript to see how they could push the form. Weirdos like the father of my kids pushed the limits with JAVA. Do any of my techie readers remember the collective orgasms over Macromedia Flash? Does anybody remember how Joshua Davis acquired semi-god status with PrayStation and his flash projects?

I am so getting old.

Jason, you are so right, this video thing is gonna be really big.

The Daily Show is already proving TV shows have an alternative life on the net.

This is just the beginning.