Joost

I read about this in WIRED. I signed up for the Beta. I'll let you know what I find out.

Joost (TM) is a new way of watching TV on the internet, which uses new and established technologies to provide the best of both the internet and TV worlds. We're in the process of making it as TV-like as we can, with programmes, channels and adverts. You can also see some things that we think will enhance the TV experience: searching for programmes and channels, for example, as well as social features like chat. There are many more new features to come!

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Idiocracy

Writer-director Mike Judge’s (“Office Space”) unique brand of humor examines an average guy who volunteers to be the subject of a hibernation experiment that goes awry.

He wakes up 500 years in the future, discovering that thanks to the rampant dumbing-down of our species, he’s the smartest guy on the planet.

As extensively reported, rumored, and speculated on by Bilge Ebiri, editor of thescreengrab.com, Idiocracy appeared to be the target of deliberate suppression by Twentieth Century Fox, the same studio that had previously watched Judge's Office Space go from big-screen flop to home-video hit (and with whom Judge retains a relationship though Fox channel mainstay King of the Hill). Word of poor test screenings and brutal studio cuts, common enough indignities, were soon followed by reports of more anomalous neglect: industry-mandated trade screenings cancelled at the last minute, print requests by festival programmers ignored, stingy theatrical bookings. A profile of Judge in Esquire was plotted around the arrival of a phone call from Fox granting the filmmaker permission to screen an Idiocracy trailer for the journalist. The call never came. - The Villiage Voice

See the whole article here

You can get it on DVD now, so, I will be looking for it. Let you know when I see it. Sounds like fun.

UPDATE

I have seen the movie. I enjoyed the way they projected trends in both ignorance as well as capitalism gone wild. There were many funny bits as well.

More seriously, it serves as a humorous way of warning kids in particular of the reprecussions of emulating "mooks" and "mid-drifts". (These are terms used by advertisers to describe target audiences of ignorant testosterone driven boys and chicks that want to be hot and dance in rap videos)

The future world is rendered very cleverly and the humor although targetting stupidity is witty and engaging (although often subtle) for the most part.

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Spiders on Drugs

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New York Doll - The Movie

I just saw New York Doll - The Movie last night. This is a wonderful story of Arther "Killer Kane" the bass player for the New York Dolls. After 30 years of painful excile, he gets back together with David Johansen and Sylvain Sylvain, the still living members of the legenday New York Dolls to play one last concert in London pulled together by Morrisey.

I won't say much about it here, because anyone who is a fan of good music and kind souls should have a go at this movie.

If you don't know about the New York Dolls, you should, here they are playing just a couple of their songs, all of which could have been pop hits, but weren't for the sole reason that they were before their time.

Bands like Motley Crew, Cinderella, Poison and many more capitalized on what the New York Dolls started, without adding any inovation of their own. And yet they cashed in millions on their cheap immitations of this great band.




"Why is Arthur standing at the back of the stage smoking a joint while Peter is playing bass?"

Because he couldn't play due to his girlfriend had tried to cut his thumb off with a kitchen knife. If you take a close look, you'll see his hand is in plaster.

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Rocketship 7

I grew up just outside of Buffalo, NY.

I was a Rocketship 7 space cadet. I loved the Warner Bros. cartoons, Davy and Goliath, Gumby and other kid friendly shows that the Rocketship 7 crew introduced me to.

I also remember Commander Tom, and the Uncle Bobby show. Of course as you can see in an earlier post I was a fan of The Hilarious House of Frightenstien. All these shows are represented on the Rocketship 7 site.

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Captain Beefheart

I'm gonna booglarize you



Ice Cream For Crow


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