Some more filler stuff...

Okay the best of '08 list is almost done. It's like 75% written. So to fill the void I have a pretty sweet best of '08 vid from Total Nonstop Action Wrestling.

FUNNY THING!

I don't watch Saturday Night Live because I don't think it's that funny anymore. But thanks to the lovely people at Hulu, I found this gem that has Ricky Gervais doing a good monologue.



HA HA HA HA HA!

Holy Mackerel!

Another Pro Wrestling based entry, so again, if you are too cool to waste 8 minutes of your life on something that will make you go "Oh shit!" like a dozen times feel free to X out of the window, but if you are open to watching something awesome, you are in the right place. This is from Total Nonstop Action wrestling, there's no date, but I can imagine it's from some time from 02-04. Like if you ever doubted that people could seriously get hurt watch this...



Wow. Just wow. It's funny how bad TNA is now compared to this kind of stuff. I'll leave that for another time, but wow.

ALSO, the top 20 albums of the year is in the works, and will be posted ASAP!

Kanye West is kind of stupid...

I'm not gonna ramble on about what I think of Kanye West, but he sang without a vocoder on SNL and here is the final result...

(NBC removed the vid...go find it yourselves.)

Jesus. I understand he wants to show he can sing, but he can't sing that well at all. I'll speak more of this subject on a different occasion but I just can't get over this.

Smashing Pumpkins are kind of crazy...

Well since last years Zeitgeist was a critical flop, regardless of how hard it rocked, Billy Corgan and Jimmy Chamberlin said that they're not going to try and compete with the digital music buyers who only pay $1 for a single rather than $10-15 for an album, so instead they'll just do singles from now until they lose relevance once again. Which will probably be soon judging by their idiodic method. So they made two new tracks, "G.L.O.W." and "Superchrist" as a digital EP.



So Billy, you wanna forget making an entire album in favor of making single-style songs that fans will eat up? Why in the hell are you making a seven minute, mostly instrumental track? Is that going to be as big as "1979" or "Tonight Tonight"? No. You are making me hate you. Please stop. I liked Zeitgeist. Don't ruin yourselves for forgiving old me.

My Christmas movie dilemma.

Okay. I'm the type of guy that I either see a movie the weekend it comes out or I forget completely, and come Christmas I seem to have a bit of a problem because there's not one, not two but THREE movies I'm interested in. Let me just give you a little break down of movies I wanna see in backwards order.

Number Three:
The Spirit



It looks like a ripoff of Sin City, but seeing as Frank Miller is directing it than I don't really care that much. But I've read a years worth of Spirit comics and I don't see how that upright citizen who lives in his own crypt turned out to be a womanizing bad-ass. Sam Jackson looks awesome as the Octopus, so I guess that's a plus. But the big negative is the PG-13 rating. A guy movie about a womanizing superhero starring EVA MENDES, SCARLETT JOHANSSON and the chick from Sin City that has a PG-13 rating basically means that us nerdy fanboys aren't getting any sugar. At least with the R we can hope.

Number Two:
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button



I love David Fincher. Fight Club and Seven are two of my favorites ("Wow those two aren't the most cliché movies to have on your favorites list!") and they both have Brad Pitt acting his heart out. This is getting a lot of Oscar hype too, it looks really interesting to say the least and I have been looking forward to this. I just don't want to pay to see a mind-fuck of a movie when I could be going and watching the Spirit kill the Octopus or I could be going to see....

Number One:
Valkyrie



TOM CRUISE KILLING HITLER. Did I mention I also love Bryan Singer. X-Men 2 and The Usual Suspects are also on my list of favorites ("Wow just when I thought he couldn't get any more common!") and this looks to be in the same vein...and by same vein I mean kick-ass. This looks like one of those movies that I'll leave the theater going "That was everything I wanted and more!" Where Mr. Button and Mr. Spirit both are likely to have me going "Wow. That was...good." rather than my unrestrained Nazi-killing excitement that I think will come from Valkyrie.

So yeah, there goes $40 at the movies. Hooray for stimulating the economy!

Eminem gets owned...

Not literally, but "Number One," the absolutely horrible new track that is supposedly on Em's new album samples "Preservation" a track from the Dreddy Kreuger helmed Wu-Tang Meets the Indie Culture album that came out in 2005. If Eminem wanted to sample somebody he should've tried sampling someone who wasn't as good as he was.

Here's the Slim track...



And here's Aesop and Del.



You be the judge. Even forgiving the terrible audio quality on the Eminem track, Aesop and Del both rap circles around him...and I don't even think Eminem is bad!

Elementary #3

Okay, the second to last issue of the Chronicle came out yesterday and even though it was submitted forever ago, Elementary #1 was not featured. Hooray! So I figure there is absolutely no reason not to give you, the one person who comes here, the good fortune to see what may end up being the last issue of Elementary...ever.



Soak it in.

Elementary #2

It's back! I don't know whether or not the Hofstra Chronicle plans on running the first issue, which I sent them 2 weeks ago, but regardless, the first set of comics is a bit of a trilogy, and there are only two papers left. So without any more rambling...here it is...the second issue in the Elementary premier trfecta.