måndag 14 september 2009

fredag 11 september 2009

Quentin The Comedian

Just watched Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds (hard to spell), and guess I thought it was a so-so movie. Great acting, and also very funny to see Wayne from Wayne's world (Mike Myers) as a stiff-lipped British officer. Brad Pitt is okay as the redneck leader of the basterds.

The whole concept, with a bunch of jewish sadists going medieval on nazis is a bit ridiculous, but works okay for entertainment. The fact that the movie changes the outcome of WW2 entirely is quite banal, letting the nazi party leaders including Hitler get killed trapped in a burning movie theater in Paris.

Tarantino is a bit of a comedian, and his films are usually filled with little cool details and jokes. When he on the premiere night in Berlin has an after party including a female black singer from Sweden, makes you wonder if the Germans have given him bad reviews previously? (In the end a full movie theatre of Nazis/Germans gets massacred).

Here's a clip from CNN where the killing of Nazis is called "fun":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBVqO8m63Wc

Here's a clip from the Berlin premiere, with a different focus:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxeTSFe6Dvs

torsdag 10 september 2009

How could I have missed Seth Godin?

Wow, this guy Seth Godin seems to be as cool as any of the cool pop-sociologists like Chris Anderson or Malcolm Gladwell. Here you can watch one of his speeches totally free. Probably cost about 2000 dollars a pop if your boss woulda sent ya:

måndag 7 september 2009

froot

Jay-Z: Blueprint 3


I like this picture of Jay-Z and Beyonce vacationing. They look good together. Notice the way Jiggaman is wearing his trunks so his underwear shows. My son does the same, funny! This has been a big hype for teens in Sweden for almost ten years now!
Anyhow, Jay-Z:s Blueprint 3 is out, and without going into details, I can say that it is a good album. Say one third of the songs are built upon annoying samples, or use autotune, which I hate. But the other two thirds are good stuff. One song is based on 80's anthem "Forever Young", which is a song I normally can't stand, somehow works okay with Jiggaman's rap. Alicia Keyes is featured on one track, she's almost always great. Here she delivers. Farrell is on a little jazzy-weird tune, that also works. The first single, "Run This Town" with Kanye and queen of R'n'B blandness, Rihanna, is a dull thing, with horrible wailing from Rihanna.

More fruit


I'm makin' a 3D frootcake!

fredag 4 september 2009

froot froot


A peach I've done in C4D, whilst learning 3D techniques:

Michael & Michael Have Issues

Wow, hadn't heard of this show until yesterday when someone recommended it. And man, it blew me away. The first episode is up there with Curb Your Enthusiasm and Sarah Silverman. Very clever and funny.

The plot is basically about two coworkers, writers for a comedy TV-show, who constantly bicker, and start fistfights/beefs with each other, and their "fellow" coworkers. Let me say that they are quite vicious, but since the show is so far over the top, they get away with it.

The theme is quite similar to Studio 50 On Sunset Strip, and 30 Rock, but they have a more contemporary, more documentary style. The little skits thrown in are always insanely funny, like this one:

torsdag 3 september 2009

Fun Buddies in Dino-Land

Just watched Will Ferrell's new flick Land of The Lost featuring my new comedy fave Danny McBride from TV's Eastbound & Down. Saw the movie with my kids, and they all enjoyed it highly, and so did I.
The movie is good fun, a bit trippy, and stays on the tongue-in cheek side of going hot turkey. If you, like me, are a fan of both Ferrell and McBride, the movie is a winner. If you don't care for classic zany US comedy, stay home.

onsdag 2 september 2009

Entourage Season 6: Let Bros Be Bros



Entourage Season 6 keeps the quality level up and sizzling. The first few episodes are a bit on the lighter side, but later into the season the drama heats up. So does Johnny Drama, who is hired as a lead in a cheezy TV-sereies, which becomes a hit. At least he's got a job! Vince is hugely successful with a Scorsese movie, and is back on top. Of last season's financial crisis there are no traces.

These episodes are more "man magaziney" than ususal, with Vince and Drama using their Hollywood status to pick up women. Ari shows a heart, helping new character played by Gary Cole, famous for his part in 80's TV series Midnight Caller. This time he plays the part of an unstable agent working under Ari.

In episode eight, Swedish cult actor Peter Stormare appears as a badass security consultant, hired to protect Vince from a stalker. Other guest appearances are from people like 50 cent, Bob Saget and Josh Wedon. Even show creator Mark Wahlberg pops up in a golf tournament.

The show is as always great, if you can smirk at the laddiness factor, and life in LA seems quite okay.