Last night I witnessed what I believe was the best post strike TV! Without their writers the collective late night talk show hosts Conan O'Brien, Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert brought to a head their recent feud regarding "who created" Republican Presidential candidate Mike Huckabee. I know there will be many haters, naysayers and ne'erdowell who will complain that it was just a giant waste of time. To them I say it was a giant funny waste of time! Now make sure yo have 25 min and 58 sec to laugh, or you could play them all at once.
It started last night on The Daily Show
It continued on The Colbert Report
And it concluded on Late Night with Conan O'Brien with not only the inevitable brawl but a special message from Mike Huckabee
Thats right this year both Super Tuesday and Fat Tuesday falls on the same day, Today!
Well here in lovely Baltimore, MD we are not voting till next week, and don't celebrate Fat Tuesday, well not like New Orleans anyway. America's first Catholic Basilica is located here in Baltimore but no drunken people in the street or girls flashing, well no more than any other Tuesday in Fell's Point, Federal Hill or Canton, so I thought I'd leave you with a special pic on this special day, enjoy...
Well honestly I hope not, because if he did and he waited until the movie was cut and released to tell anyone, let's say I'd be more than a little disappointed with Mr. Spurlock! Even though I'm pretty certain this movie is sans bin Laden I am very excited to see it. I don't know when I became actually interested in seeing documentaries on the big (but not that Big) screen. Ah well here's the trailer judge for yourself:
Ok so ActionFigureInsider.com is posting the pic below saying it came for a promo form a Japinese Toy company who is apparently making key chains of Indy's iconic artifacts (well before this) has an image of what is believed to be The Crystal Skull! Do we know for sure? No of course not, but we can speculate.
Update:Sorry folks but the powers that be have their magic "lawyer power" to mysteriously remove all images of the trinket key chains from the interwebs! Here's a promotional poster with a skull looking flame thingie instead!
During what I thought was one of the more exciting Super Bowls in a few years you may have missed some of the great movie trailers. Lucky for you I have a few of my favorites below! I know the Super Bowl had a lot of great adds, but forgive me if I get more excited about a new Iron Man movie than a six pack of Bud(I drink Natty Boh or Yuengling, it's a regional thing I guess). But Just in case you wanted to see them check out YouTube has a special page, check it out HERE
Now on to the trailers!
First up we have the Iron Man trailer, while I enjoyed seeing more of the crimson avenger, I think the last trailer got me more excited. It was probably the absence of Ozzy's Iron Man amongst Downey's Iron Man
Next up is another movie adaptation of a comic book, Mark Millar'sWanted. I've said it before and I'll say it again, if your over the age of 18 and you haven't read this graphic novel, you need to.(The book contains some adult themes)I must also say I am a big Common fan, I have been since his classic Hip-Hop album Resurrection(Which you also NEED to own)
Last up we have an adaption not from a comic book, but a book I love none the less, Prince Caspian. I find it odd the order in which Disney is releasing the cinematic versions of C.S.Lewis's classics (Prince Caspian is the 4th in the series)but hold out great hope Disney releases them all.
Welcome to another Lazy Sunday! This Sunday I plan, like most Americans to watch the Super Bowl, while I'm not that real interested in either team, I will be rooting for the under dog NY Giants fr two reasons. First because the last time they were at the big game they were defeated by my Baltimore Ravens, but more importantly I'm rooting for the Giants because the NewEnglandPatriotscheated. While I would love to witness a perfect season to tell my grandkids about, I find it inherently worthless if I need to tell them that they got there by cheating. I know a lot of people will say they would have had a perfect season without cheating, but we will never really know now will we? If they win the whole season needs to be marked with an *! Now they are even being accused of spying on the Rams before Super Bowl XXXVI. It's hard enough to convince my self to watch baseball any more, if Camden Yards wasn't such a nice stadium to hang out in I may have abandoned that sport all together.
According to AllHipHop.com Comedian/Actor/Social Activist Bill Cosby is going to release a new Rap album. I think it's great that Bill heard about the record industry's recent failings and wanted to do his part to keep another great U.S. industry afloat. I'm going to avoid all of the obvious stabs we could take at Bill over this one, because I respect the man. Mr. Cosby has been very vocal about a culture which he feels is eroding the youth. In the name of full disclosure I am a huge Hip-Hop fan, my tastes rest in 90's Hip-Hop like Tribe, De La, Hyro, Pharside or todays under grown like MF Doom, El-P, Cage, RJ-D2 and others. But Bill seems one of the few celebrities today who is not content to just sit and complain about social issues, but get of his bum and champion his cause. That being said, I think this album will be horrible. I don't think Mr. Cosby truly understands what makes for a good or even decent Rap album, than again I don't think any of todays Studio exces or even todays radio rappers do either.
If you want to get an idea of what this album will sound like check out this jam session from 1969 with Bill Cosby and Quincy Jones
And Here's a clip from Cosby on Meet the Press speaking about his issues with "gangster rap"
A lot of people take issue with Cosby's view on the subject, but I haven't here an educated rebutal on his issues, the closest thing to a counter point would be Chuck D, but it's obvious they seem to agree on many of the problems, just have different ideas on their causes.
