Talk about Dark Media... it doesn't get much darker than this on both the horror and psychological scale. This is proof that Hollywood is officially fucked up. A movie about a killer vagina with teeth won a Sundance Award?
The next one's even worse...so you'll have to click inside for the look see.
Unsure about how I feel about me with blonde hair, though...
In the final wrap up and to close my "Evil wins over good" post...
Evel Dick wins by a score of 5 to 2.
nice.
The oddest part was that America, as in the American public voted for these two to sweep it all and even more so for Dick to win!. America voted for a mean, nasty yet overly honest scoundrel to beat all the god fearing bible thumping prayer players.
I love America... there's hope for you yet.
In the final wrap up and to close my "Evil wins over good" post...
Evel Dick wins by a score of 5 to 2.
nice.
The oddest part was that America, as in the American public voted for these two to sweep it all and even more so for Dick to win!. America voted for a mean, nasty yet overly honest scoundrel to beat all the god fearing bible thumping prayer players.
I love America... there's hope for you yet.
Maybe the fun of reality TV is that it actually can reflect reality. Take the microcosm that is Big Brother season 8. BB is somewhat of a 'last man standing competition', starting with 14 contestants and every week one is voted out by the other housemates until only one remains.
Now I know it's not the most watched reality show, but for once we got hooked due to a dull summer tv season and of course because there was no Rock*Star.
This season featured a man named Richard (Evel Dick) Donato and his extranged daughter Danielle wherein they were attempting to possibly reconcile they're relationship.
Danielle is a 21 year old waitress and Dick is a 44 year old bartender from LA. One of those bars that all the rock stars go to. He's a cross between Dennis Leary in attitude and looks akin to Tommy Lee with about as many tattoos.. He's brash and crude and sometimes lewd. No matter what, his forwardness and brashness, although it might have seemed brazen, tactics-wise it worked splendidly.
There were three other contestants in the house that were advancing to the final 8. One was a god fearing girl named Jameka, the only who often prayed before and after competitions and in fact probably prayed every minute.
Along with her was a someone whom she'd befriended named Amber who always cried about nearly everything. She claimed that Jameka restored her faith in god. Also, there was Zach. He claimed that Jameka also allowed him to find god again. It was no question that Dick was playing the Devils Advocate as he constantly chided them on thier faith and it's futility.
All three of them believed that they could beat the Evil Donatos aka "the bad people" simply by praying to god. Each time they prayed. They prayed to win contests. They prayed to evict the Donatos They prayed to win the competition. I mean, Zach was clearly in better shape and 20 years younger than Dick who was the oldest member of the house and yet the "evil team" prevailed.
They prayed so much they forgot to try a simpler method... How about be better at what you do and stop relying on empty prayers that fall on deaf if not non existant ears?
It's just like the last set of miners. They prayed to get them out and they were abandoned and left for dead. How much more proof do you need that prayer is useless?
Needless to say, this isn't a movie and evil does win quite often. In this case, all these prayer filled bastions of god have been evicted from the game and the "evil Donato duo" is going on to win over half a million dollars. Let alone the fact that these people have developed a serious fanbase along with support from America itself with the tasks given their in house mole called "America's Player".
This was one time that the public rooted for the dark side and the darkness won. It's a different world now... I think I'm finally starting to like it.
"HAIL THYSELF!!"
Ok...I've been hooked on two lately. Stan Lee's "Who wants to be a Superhero" on SCI-FI just ended. As much as I thought Major Victory would have won it, he got eliminated 3rd to last. I had been going on and on about this show in the Dark Forums, until it got down to the final two of Fat Momma and Feedback, but the real money was on Feedback to win it and he did. He even looked great in his test footage, as the winner gets to be featured in a new Dark Horse comic and have a Saturday night feature film on SCI-FI. I think he'll be great. I'm pre-ordering the DVD set just so I can see all the crazy shit like the auditions.
"Rockstar: Supernova". I'm enjoying this year more than last years "Rockstar:INXS". The talent is better and more animated and they're singing to front a band with Tommy Lee, Jason Newstead from Metallica and Gilby Clarke.
This is the one year where I think a woman could win the slot. Dilana has my vote. She's like a modern day Stevie Nicks meets Joplin. Powerful and spot on in virtually every performance. Storm Large is just someoen you can imagine in a leather outfit singing while she beats you. When her time is done they'll be returning her pics to her website. Allegedly there's some pretty racey ones that were removed while she's been on the show. Maybe I just like female vocalists.
I still like this show much better than Idol because these are real singers from real unsigned bands who can actually sing. Sure, they grow within the competition, but the music is still all hot rockin' and no pop crap. I'm just sick of Idol. I never wanted to get into anyway and all th eones I pick never win because they're cool and they want pop dweebs. Anything chosen by pop culture is never any good. It's the votes of the mindless masses that determine the winners and the good go home. All those AI rockers should have gone to Rockstar instead.
OK...that was the most twisted South Park premier I have ever seen. In true Matt and Trey form, they got their revenge for the traitorous cast member. Using cuts of Chef's dialogue from over the years, they made a "brainwashed" Chef who had his mind warped by "that fruity little club that scrambled his brains". Obvioulsy a dig on Scientology.
So Chef dies in the end...or so we're led to believe...as the "Super Adventurers Club" (a club that molests children for some absurd religious reason) resurrects him in a cold black metal suit which speaks through a hideous black respirator. Rising on the table he speaks in a voice akin to an impression of James Earl Jones in a can ...
Yes...they did it... they replaced Chef featuring the voice of Isaac Hayes... with Darth Chef!.
THAT was funny shit. Catch it on repeat if you missed it.
Boy... I know everyone and their mom is talking about Isaac Hayes decision to leave South Park because they dissed Scientology, but hey... I've a right to voice my opinion too. What the hell is he thinking? It's not the first time they dissed Scientology, but if Tom Cruise wasn't such a public assmunch, maybe they would have left it alone. There's a ton of irony and hypocrisy in a mans decision to leave a show that has religiously tossed fun at Mormonism, Catholicism, Judaica, Satanism, racism, AIDS, Stem Cell research and a plethora of other topics that kept
lining his pockets with money, but when you leave a show because they attacked your bullshit religion? That's just dumb. Why didn't he leave over all those racist shows they did? Did Tom Cruise threaten to not be his friend or something? Travolta didn't get bent out of shape when they spoofed HIM.
Get a grip Hayes... Only Lays potato chips has hired you since. Keep this up and the next gig you'll have is "The Surreal Life".
Touched by an Angel...Dead.
Joan of Arcadia...Dead.
Wonder Falls...EXTREMELY Dead.
Now the last of the heavy hitters after 10 years finally bites the big one:
7th Heaven is being mercifully laid to rest.
I'm so sick of Reality TV. So much so that I feel this story is the downfall of the Reality TV biz... I really think that the cruelty is worth more to humanity than anything else and worse yet it means big bucks to network fatcats. It's bloody disgusting. If all the reality tv shows died, the only one I might miss is RockStar*INXS.
Read this.
Well...what can you do. It seems I can never pick a winner. I rooted for Bo Bice to win American Idol. He lost. Now my streak of picking the second place guy continues. Y'know... you don't win the Silver, you lose Gold. This time it's Marty.
Now I started rooting for Marty after Ty was booted and now HE has lost. I just can't pick 'em. Marty losing may not much matter. He's better off with his own creative freedom. INXS told him they wanted to talk to him about opening for them when they tour with the winner.
Oh yea...the winner you ask?
I LOVE the movies. I love going to the movie theater. I love trailers... I love waiting for the show to start. I love getting my popcorn and sitting in a good theater with a huge screen and reclining seats, lifting up the armrest like a couch and clearing my ears for a helluva surround sound blast.
Although I have a surround sound home theater, the screen is only 32 inches (and I don't even think 60 is big enough in relation to the movie theater experience) however, it's just not the same.
I actually LIKE hearing other peoples reactions.
When Star Wars Episode IV: A new hope FIRST came out, and it was released in the theaters...no matter where you were in the world, moviegoers jumped up and shouted "YEA!" when the Millenium Falcon returned to save Luke and you felt like your heart exploded when the Death Star did. Everyone let our huge roars to the explosion of the evil Sith globe, and you felt a comradery with your fellow film goers. I like the crowd experience. I like concerts...I like movie theaters. I believe home review on dvd is just for catching what you may have missed. But thats just me. The only thing that ruins it is loud children and celphones.
Any opinions?
I tell ya... WebKittyn is rather useful for media introduction. I probably would never have watched these things if it weren't for her... I originally had no interest in "Over*There"...y'know the war drama by Steven Bochco? So far it's another one to add to my realism tv repertoire. I still am mildy amazed that sponsored cable, as in cable tv with commercials, still gets away with the foul language thing. Not that cursing makes things real or not, it's just that it brings forth a sense of humanity. Face it... In personal situations, most people curse. It's just the generations. Sort of a sign of the times.
"Over There". Good realistic war time tv. Catch it. It seemed easy to jump into. Not for the cursing... But for the actual writing and realism of the Iraq war and it's toll on both the soldiers, their families and even the life of the insurgents. Trippy.
Lately I've found a few shows that amuse the hell out of me in the last few weeks. Who says summer TV sucks?
I enjoy things like "Monk" and "The Dead Zone" but testosterone asked for something meaty and I think I found it.
Who would think that Aaron (Love Boat/ Beverly Hills 90210/ Fantasy Island) Spelling would produce a show that wasn't a campy cop show like his Shatnerized "T.J. Hooker"?
Enter "Wanted" on TNT starring Gary Cole as a tough commander of an elite crime squad made up of different professionals in law enforcement whose mission is to take down 100 of L.A.'s most wanted. What a show! All you need is to add the word "fuck" to the script and it would be like any R rated movie. The violence is realistic and raw. The writing is intense in its action... And naughty words are not taboo! Gary Cole has come a long way from Mr. Brady and Uncle Bill.
The stories are intense. I guess everyone is trying to push that C.S.I. Factor (back when the show wasn't all about the gross out).
"Rescue Me". I watched it for the first time last night. I dig it. Dennis Leary and his band of fireman are rather amusing...and they don't have censorship to lessen the intensity that is Learys style. They came off as real. Especially in personal interaction.
Both are great realistic TV in a world of reality shows.
Ok... I'm not waiting for the new blog and changes to start the fun. Let's kick of some of the new categories with this post.
Remember the famous "Shit" episode of South Park? It was based on some primetime show (probably NYPD Blue) that added the word "shit" to it's script for realism. It was only heard in the mature time of night. It seems 10pm is the mature time now. You can basically do anything on TV as long as the kiddies are asleep which is projected as 10pm barring the fact that parents raise their kids in the Donna Reed era. Today, if I go to the movies and it's a midnight show, at least 3 couples will have their 2 years olds and such screaming. You think they'll do anything different when it comes to home? Didn't that 3 years old die choking on popcorn at a movie theater in Queens at an after 10 pm show? Was that gods way of saying they were bad parents?
Anyway...I totally left the center of where I was going.
There's something far more impressive about television realism with a few real life expletives NOT deleted. I got so sick of hearing silly made up words like "friggin' " and "jaggoff". What the fuck is a "jaggoff" anyway? Is it a jaguar tipped off a tree? I'd rather they just used the real words and then bleep them like South Park. Well, at least it's better than the words they substitute when censoring movies. "Airhead" does NOT have the same effect as "asshole". I laughed the hardest when I heard the words "mickeyfickey" in place of "motherfucker". I spent days afterward calling people "mickey fickey" and giggling. I figure he must be the bastard child of Mickey Mouse.
TV outside the U.S. Is so much more real. Granted they only have like 4 broadcast channels vs. our 7, but that's why there's cable. The point being is that there's nudity, realism and real words on television shows in the European countries. There's no anal FCC to crawl up into an ass and fester. The second point would be that if you're going to imply foul language, just do it. Stop skirting it. You're not insulting my intelligence.
If I was going to be offended, maybe I'd actually pay attention to those ratings we give tv shows now. Oh thats right... We pay about the same attention to those as we do the movie ratings. Just ONCE I'd like to see someone turn away an underaged person at a movie. Just to show that NO ONE gets into "Terrence and Phillip in Asses of Fire" without proper I.D.
I was originally going to speak on something else in this post, but it took a mind of it's own, so I'll leave that for another post.
...and lastly on of TV realism...
There are two kinds of cable TV stations. Those that advertise and have censorship and those who don't.
For the longest time, only HBO, Showtime, Cinemax and the like allowed uncut raw cursing in it's media. Be it movies, series shows, documentaries...whatever, you expected that for your paying dollar you got what you subscribed for. Then came the "free" cable stations. Y'know...the ones you got with the "basic" package. Usually the Ted Turner tirade was to censor anything and everything all for the sake of the sponsors I suppose. But recently, I noticed that's begun to change. A&E shows like "Intervention" have upped the de-censorship scale with the allowance of the word "shit".
Recently they seem to be changing that. Realistic shows like "Wanted" on TNT, "Rescue Me" on FX and "INtervention" show that the FCC is starting to let up, even if its in the slightest way.
Cast my thumbs up into the air for the new millenium cable tv.