Friday linktrash - one man’s recyclables are another blog’s content.
By Burbanked on Jun 23, 2006 in Celebrities, Movies, Off the Rails, TV, The Shield | 915 views |
Links are like a lot of things in life. You set them aside, make a big pile, walk by them every so often and think, “Gee, I should really do something about that…” So we’ve chosen the blogovironmentally-sensitive route: we’ll let you have the links to do with what you will. Now they’re your problem.
You’ve probably seen these already, but it’s really worth repeating when two ordinarily respectable media personalities go incomprehensibly out of their ever-loving minds. Here’s cuckoo number one and here’s nutjob number two.
IGN has an interview with Alex O’Loughlin, an Australian actor whose character wants Vic Mackey’s job on the next potboiler season of The Shield.
Following Failure to Launch and the in-production We Are Marshall, Matthew McConaughey sets out to find even more moronically titled movies that he can fail to successfully open.
According to the Film Experience Blog, zombies are the new serial killers - and wow, do we wish we could get that image of a blood-splattered, grinning zombie Clooney out of our dreams.
Attention fame-deprived artists who dream of depicting Conan O’Brien Vs. a Bear: your prayers have been answered. (via Table of Malcontents)
Are the herky-jerky animations of Robot Chicken a little too finished and professional for you? Then take a look at this Carbon Freeze Sequence from The Empire Strikes Back rendered with genuine Hasbro toys, what must have been six packs’ worth of cigarette smoke, and the finest rendition of John Williams’ classic Empire theme ever played on a circa ‘82 Casio keyboard.




My blog-love affair with cartoonist Doug Savage’s terrific daily Savage Chickens (
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because clearly Cage has decided to become action/thriller cinema’s first Polish great-grandma. (
Well, that’s too bad. Back a year or so ago when I heard that they’d be making a movie out of Judi and Ron Barrett’s terrific kids’ book Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, I hoped maybe it’d be made live-action. Handled well, the idea of seeing an actual town where it rained hotdogs and baked beans in an open-roof restaurant, as well as the bit where sanitation trucks clean up all the leftover rain/snow/food and feed it to the pets would be, I thought, a bundle of CG-imbued cinema fun.












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