THE LIGHTER SIDE

So in the spirit of Salt and Pepper, Yin and Yang or George and Ethel - I give you one of the best quotes and articles of the day. From the Onion:

Early reaction to the home-video downloads has been positive. "$1.99 seems reasonable to be able to relive my high-school graduation anytime I want," said Patrick Boyd of Pensacola, FL. "My parents don't understand the technology, but I can help them get it running whenever they want to watch it."

The only thing better than this article is the thought of someone actually thinking it would make a really good legitimate idea (which I'm almost guaranteeing will happen).

cheers.

IRONY + TRAGEDY = STATUS QUO

So this became pretty ironic to me or at the very least a little unsettling. I am just getting around to writing this up, but it happened on the 11th. One of the members of Eminem's band, D-12, was shot and killed outside a downtown club. No evidence has been released, to my knowledge. But some of the things surrounding this struck me - such as this, from the article,

"The video for the Eminem song "Like Toy Soldiers" shows Eminem pacing a hospital hallway as doctors try to revive Proof, who has been shot. Later, Eminem attends Proof's funeral as the song's lyrics lament the escalation in violence between rappers."

That's just a little too much for me. Self-fulfilling you may say? I wondered myself. This whole affair just highlights some major problems with young pop-culture and the society it fuels. And I'm not talking about just sub-urbs or blacks or minorities, because Eminem and D-12's influence is as wide-spread as the iPod.

I am interested to hear thoughts that events like this spawn. There are certainly ones that I have that center around the carte blanche we give celebrity in our modern world as well as the transferred reality that the media at large creates in cooperation with our young. In my heart it is a tragedy on about 25 levels.

FILM + IMPACT

so this is probably the most excited i've been about a site that has absolutely no trailer on it (yet). and although i absolutely hate hype that precedes a release date by more than 5 months - this gets an exemption pass.

spiderman was the standard bearer for a well-done, fully-realized, comicbook-based feature film. the first of it's kind as it were. X-Men did quite a good job, but alas the budget and technical constraints held it back. spiderman is worth following.

Not to mention that Lowell from Wings is the villian.

rebirth

So here is the beginning of a new string of real content (if such thing exists among the information super highway). As well, I hate mission statements, but statements like this are poetic. Things you can look for in the future from the great hambino:

Technology + Impact

Movies + Lack of Impact

Deep Thoughts from the Countertop Milk Spill

So, here's to a new beginning.