At least, that’s the theory.
It’s no secret that I’ve been brainstorming a lot here and there for things to do on idealoclast ever since I’ve made that patreon page. I’m not shying away from the fact that I do take this stuff in a serious stride. It’s a fun stride and I do what I can, but when I have to juggle a show along side writing for a living, it does burn me out here and there.
Unless I’m doing something for funsies. Continue reading
Remember that time not too long ago, when an artist put out an open letter about the unsolicited use of her artwork and we all jumped on-board the subject because it involved Anita Sarkeesian?
Then I guess the Producer said something about the subject, but at the same time not really. Continue reading
Set up of the second episode of the Speakeasy Panel show.
Usually when trying to start a show that you want to perform in front of an audience, the entire process is much more difficult that you’d imagine it to be in the beginning. Continue reading
“I did it. I’m finally here.”
Jimmy Fallon looked at the crowd from behind the curtain, holding back all of his excitement and a nervous bladder. He did something that seems so impossible to do: Be the host of the tonight show.
Words couldn’t properly express how he felt about this moment. ‘Thank you. I love you.’ kept rolling around in head as the show was about to start. He thought about everything that came before him, a tear trickled down his face as he starts to recall the events that transpired. Continue reading
15 years is a long time when you think about it. I mean it normally is a long time, I don’t think anyone could argue it not being… But when you put it into the context of a new Cibo Matto album, you might turn your head to a side slightly, squint, and a deep inward voice will just say ‘huh’.
It’s probably because I have no real sense of time.
I originally discovered Cibo Matto in the game ‘Jet Set Radio Future‘ for the Xbox, (probably around the time they’ve disbanded.) and didn’t actually acquire Viva! La Woman and Stereo ★ Type A until a year later. So my enjoyment of the band was a little more than ‘late to the party.’
But looking back at it, I probably came in at the right time. As soon as I became entranced by both albums, I got enough of a fill of everyone’s solo pursuits at the same time. Yuka Honda going into a direction you can describe as an entry level Yoko Ono (given that Sean Lennon was one part CB, I guess it’s a no brainer), and Miho Hatori just pursuing whatever seems to interest her. Continue reading
I was very much into it when I was younger. The whole ‘Believing in God’ aspect is a very easy impression to impose on a child, that is willing to believe why anything is the way it is. I suppose thinking that there is an all powerful being watching everything all the time, could scare a boy into believing everyday.
He wakes up groggy, after another late night of typing ‘I AM NOT FAMOUS ANYMORE’ over and over again in his twitter feed. He’s done this for some time thanks to the ever leering public, that keeps reminding him that he’s screwing up.
This morning he tries something different.
‘WHY DO SEAGULLS FLY OVER THE SEA?’… submit.
Shia gets up from the pool of his own sweat that was once a bed and puts on a nearby t-shirt. He gurgles orange juice in his mouth that’s been sitting outside of the fridge since Wednesday. Dips a tooth brush into a bottle of Jack Daniels and proceeds to brush his teeth.
He’s a busy person today. Continue reading
There’s a lot of people out there, that may not know how to properly express things with words. Years have proven that us, as everyday human beings, have a hard time conveying the things we really want to say. Sometimes our hellos slip-out into a conversation that is suddenly compared to nazi’s before you even get around to introducing yourself.
Sometimes you can have a day where everything goes wrong. You could break your hand on a paper weight as you ruffle through work documents, which probably wouldn’t have happened if you didn’t get a paper-cut. Sometimes when you change the bottle of water on the cooler you accidentally spill a little and now it looks like you’ve wet your pants. It’s actually important to get the coolers that allow spill safe caps. If you have to take the cap off to put it on, accidents always happen.
Just yesterday this old lady gave me a can of chunky soup, which is a beautiful gesture from a woman that thinks I’m dying of hunger. When I put the groceries on the kitchen counter, the soup fell out of the bag and landed on my foot. Ow, right? Now I have a sore toe with blood build-up and broken dreams.
Sometimes you want to get a cool gift for a baby that isn’t going to remember you because they’ve just been born. Their minds are developing. Wouldn’t it be great to get them something so amazing, that they keep hearing about this uncle they never see that just hands out awesome gifts? Then years later, you visit family again and the baby has learned how to walk and talk. When you go to introduce yourself, “Hello Mr./Ms. Baby, I’m your uncle.” They will just say “OH.”
That baby has judged you right then and there, and you can believe you bought a plane ticket to be baby judged!
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I am a fan of the Ninja Turtles. I’ve been just as big a fan of it in my adulthood, as I’ve been in my youth. But I suppose I make it pretty obvious. I keep finding myself watching cartoons, movies and reading comics about those ‘renaissance mutants’, and I share from time to time that TMNT is still pretty cool.
But I also know when it’s not for me. There’s plenty of times in the franchise’s history when something about it was atrocious, dare I say blasphemous. But every iteration is open to whatever kind of story it wants to tell. It’s never been 100% consistent on it’s 29 years of existence, with retcons, reboots, and loose interpretations all over the place.
The new Nickelodeon cartoon is doing quite well, and they really try the hit those nostalgic notes of the franchise while telling the story in their own way. The problem is Michael Bay’s live action interpretation of the franchise is never going to be what anyone will want it to be. Continue reading
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