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May 26, 2004

pixelpushing the envelope

"'The only thing we're afraid of is getting complacent. We need to bring in outside people so we keep throwing ourselves off balance,' recalls Bird. 'So I was brought here to cause a certain amount of disruption. I've been fired for being disruptive several times, but this is first time I've been hired for it.'"

Posted by R. at 05:52 PM |

May 23, 2004

flatland

I wish HBO would stop pumping out those disturbingly crude video-collage interstitials wherein poorly composited characters from its various series "interact" with one another.

Posted by R. at 06:11 PM |

May 19, 2004

not just for homer simpson

There actually are helper monkeys?

Posted by R. at 06:23 PM | | Comments (3)

amen

"William Safire, you etymology-obsessed Nixon-humper, shut up!"

Posted by R. at 04:55 PM |

it's settled

You're gorgeous enough.

Posted by R. at 04:46 PM |

white nights

"In the hilarious comedy White Chicks, Shawn and Marlon Wayans play two ambitious but unlucky FBI agents who go deep undercover as high society debutantes and infiltrate the sophisticated world of the Hamptons to investigate a kidnapping ring." And thus are a thousand and one nightmares born.

Posted by R. at 01:32 PM | | Comments (3)

May 18, 2004

seeing green

"Thus, The Whole Ten Yards, say, isn't a comedy but a sequel, just as Shrek 2 is a sequel and not a ... whatever the hell the first one was—a fluorescent foam-rubber gargantua spawned in a fructose-stoked nightmare from the modest pages of William Steig's sketchy little book, badly drafted, opportunistic, and cross-marketed into a rapacious consumerist howl." Heh.

Posted by R. at 03:04 PM |

May 14, 2004

title-ating

Hot fucking dog.

Posted by R. at 01:51 AM | | Comments (4)

May 03, 2004

debacle

A year later, the horrible cave rave from The Matrix Reloaded reminds me of one of the musical numbers from Showgirls.

Posted by R. at 07:04 PM | | Comments (2)