Animation

Frucking FAIR USE, FREE SPEECH hating TV networks!

Yet another 30-40 second clip that's being yanked from YouTube due to another stupidly greedy media company. AUGH! When will it end?

Anyhow ...

Check out what Stewie finds on the lapel of a Nazi officer in this spoof of Indiana Jones.

Oy vey!

Via Oh No They Didn't.

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.