Thoughts on the cosmos and other stuff from Lileks.
Category Archives: Popular Culture
Batman
Hilarious.
Well, He Can Still Fall Back On The Al Green Thing
So it turns out that one of the few things that Obama seemed to be actually good it, isn’t. He sux at basketball, too.
Winnie The Pooh
A Prometheus Review
“Short version: utterly gorgeous 3D and a phenomenal cast are wasted on one of the most profoundly, fundamentally stupid movies I’ve seen in a long time.”
We went to see Marvel’s Avengers yesterday (great movie), and noticed that Prometheus was just starting in another theater as we were walking out of the one where it was playing, so we could have done it for nothing, but weren’t up for a double feature, particularly given what I’ve been reading about it.
Our Celebrity President
Don’t miss Mark Steyn’s latest on Barack Hussein Kardashian:
…there are some cheap seats available. A year and a half ago, big-money Democrats in Rhode Island paid $7,500 per person for the privilege of having dinner with President Obama at a private home in Providence. He showed up for 20 minutes and then said he couldn’t stay for dinner. “I’ve got to go home to walk the dog and scoop the poop,” he told them, because when you’ve paid seven-and-a-half grand for dinner nothing puts you in the mood to eat like a guy talking about canine fecal matter. And, having done the poop gag, the president upped and exited, and left bigshot Dems to pass the evening talking to the guy from across the street. But you’ve got to admit that’s a memorable night out: $7,500 for Dinner with Obama* (*dinner with Obama not included).
At least he didn’t say he had to go home and eat the dog.
Is Obama A Replicant?
Maybe this explains a lot. I was watching Blade Runner last night, and in a scene I’d forgotten in detail, Rachael fails Deckard’s empathy test by her non-reaction to these words: “eating raw oyster and boiled dog.” Hey, it’s just what’s for dinner.
Of course, it assumes that there is some kind of universal antipathy to eating dog, when it’s clearly a cultural thing, so it wasn’t really a fair test of whether or not she was human. And of course, I don’t think that Obama could stand up to Harrison Ford in a fight for more than a couple seconds, even now.
We Are Devo
Patricia’s nephew Matt, has picked up an interesting addition to his Kickstarter film project:
We have great news about the music in Charlie and Wendy. After talking with some of the band members for the last few weeks, DEVO has become involved with the film. A song by DEVO will be played during the opening and closing credits. The song works perfectly for the film. We are big fans of DEVO and many movies their music has been used in (especially by Wes Anderson). We are lucky to have them on board and are excited about using the song in the movie.
They still have a ways to go, but are off to a good start.
Prometheus
Barring spectacular reviews, I’m not inclined to see it. Of course, I haven’t seen the second and third Alien movies, either. I didn’t like the first one that much. I view this as more in the horror than SF genre, and I’m not a fan.
I Don’t Love Lucy
I’ve discussed this before, but I’m glad to see that Lileks agrees with me:
I’m not a big fan of the TV shows – the wailing, the stupidity, the ‘splaining to do. Whenever she’s in a movie she’s much more enjoyable.
That could be, but I’ve never watched a movie with her in it and am not motivated to do so, given my antipathy to the TV shows.
[Googling]
Ah, we agreed on the subject a year and a half ago, too. Sometimes I feel like I’m running out of new things to say.