Stay Cool !

With the crazy heatwave I want to remind myself that winter can really suck as well.

Here's one for all you Philly folks- I forgot how peaceful and nice Center City was compared to NYC....

Well at least Football season's about a month and change away.

Steely Dan vs. Owen Wilson

Steely Dan (my favorite band) has taken action against Owen Wilson and the movie "Me and Dupree" which if you have the album "Two Against Nature" you'll recognize was lifted from the song "Cousin Dupree". The song, Cousin Dupree's is about a loser who moves back in with his Aunt , and the movie's about a loser who moves in with his married newlywed buddies, and shennanegans ensue on both fronts...

Ironically Steely Dan is named after a dildo in William Burrough's beat/sci fi novel "The Naked Lunch" and "Me and Dupree" I've heard just sucks dick.

Anyway I've got your back Don and Walt; and please show H'wood what a real Royal Scam really is.

Check out Steely Dan's Letter here:

http://www.steelydan.com/heyluke.html

GRINDHOUSE an RIP release

Keegs forwarded me the information that Snake Plissken himself is now taken over the role from Mickey Rourke in "DEATH PROOF" making this even more exciting for me. If you don't know Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez have teamed up to make next year's GRINDHOUSE, a celebration of all the B movie sholock horror-sexploitation action genre movies my dad used to take me and my brother to in 42nd Street and the multiplex in Jamaica Queens.

To say I'm pumped is an understatement- QT's movie "Death Proof" is about a Stunt man and a killer car of some sort (Fans of THE CAR and MAXIMUM OVERDRIVE rejoice!) and Rodriguez's film "PLANET TERROR" is a movie about a chick (Rose McGowan) with a machine gun for a leg. I F**KING LOVE IT !!!!

Here's the rub: In LA QT's will be shown first, and in Texas Rodriguez's movie will be shown first. In between they're creating phoney trailers (complete with scratches and film pops) of Swedish Sexploitation films, the Roger Corman Pom Pom girl teensploitation and some horror stuff. The rumor I heard is that the rest of the country the Projectionist in each theater can decide which film goes first.

God Bless these guys....

HULK WRITE! HULK BLOG !!!!

Unlike the CRUMMY Ang Lee movie- HULK THINKS! HULK BLOG! HULK ENTERTAIN!!! RRRRAARRGHRRR!!!!

HULK WANT TO SMASH ANG LEE !!!!!


http://incrediblehulk.blogspot.com/


Thanks to Kathy Keegan for the link a long time ago.

World Gone WILD!!!!

Just random off the cuff notes -


Kim Il Jong's got some balls shooting off missles on the 4th of July...Isn't that our thing? Our worldwide Credit's shot, we can't get out of the Semi Final round in the World Baseball Classic (finishing 3rd in games played with Mexico and Canada) we royally suck at soccer, the dollar's worth nill, and this wacko's shooting off rockets on OUR HOLIDAY? WTF?


I think Voltron would kick the shit out of The Transformers, and all you sickos who looked at Cheetara from Thundercats funny need help.


In one of my earlier posts I raved about ROB VAN DAM - recently he was given the World Heavyweight title to both the WWF and the redux version of ECW, but in a wacky chain of events he was busted en route to an arena for speeding and was found to have possession of a small amount of Marijuana. Needless to say he had to drop the WWF belt 1st on Monday Night RAW, then the ECW belt to an irate fan base in Philly at the ECW taping the next day...Needless to say he's ROB VAN DUMB


The Spider-Man 3 trailer looks spectacular, I just hope they have enough time for all the new villians they're adding in.

Roadhouse finally will get the Special Edition treatment... I just hope they explain why Dalton didn't bring Wade Garrett (I'm not going to explain you'll need to watch) who's half dead to the HOSPITAL where his girlfriend's a DOCTOR only to return to find him dead...

I have to admit that POINT BREAK is also having the same effect on me that Road House did


I love the NY POST :









I gotta find headline of the Puerto Rican kid who got eaten by the polar bears in the Bronx Zoo 20 years ago...I remember the inside caption "Bears play tug a Juan" Bwhahahahahahaha! Dumb ass kid...

I looked at Joey Rocco's site recently and he's starting to rant like a junior mafia version of GPD.

Only a month and change until SNAKES ON A PLANE !!!!

I loved the head butt that French Soccer Star ZIDANE did on the Italian Player with 10 minutes left in DOUBLE OVERTIME - thereby making it easier for the Italians (who were playing for a shoot out to win that trophy that's SMALLER than the Stanley Cup) If I were Zidane I would of pulled the guy's pants down and kicked him in the nuts, because that's showmanship. Especially with a billion people watching.

Speaking of Ass kicking the UFC (or as I call it the Ultimate FAG Championship) aired last Saturday and I heard that it sucked, and like a $3.00 whore in Tijuana. Admittedly I love pro wrestling but it's like dumbed down superheroes to me. The UFC's a bunch of hard hitting, HUMP happy sweaty dudes who like to roll around with one another playing rough house. Eeeyuck. When it first started it was mixed martial arts and was BANNED in 50 states except the one it was broadcasting from, which changed all the time. So you'd have Sumo against Boxing or Kung Fu vs. Wrestling, etc...Now it's just gay porn.

LONG LIVE BEAST BOY!!!

The Madcap Laughs and dies...RIP Syd Barrett

This is what happens when you fry your brain on acid 24/7 in the late 1960's: you create one of the greatest bands in history, PINK FLOYD. Syd Barrett died today at age 60 and was the original founders of the band. He was instrumental in their tripped out acid rock, with such classics as "See Emily Play" and one of my favorites "Interstellar Overdrive". I heard his solo album back in High School "The Madcap Laughs" but quite honestly was too young to appreciate it's experimental sonic quality. Ironically, I did get into Lou Reed and The Velvet Underground's stuff though.

While I'm on the Pink Floyd - I don't really listen to any of their stuff much now as I burned out on them between 1984 - 1987. That's 3 years of f-up adolescence listening to great music that's quite frankly, depressing. I can still listen to "Animals" and "Wish You Were Here" but knowing "Dark Side" verbatim doesn't make it enjoyable anymore. "The Wall" I can't even get to side 2 anymore, but they're still some of the best albums ever made. As for the "Final Cut" I listened to my CASSETTE of it 2 months ago after a 10 year layoff and still knew every depressing note. (Good album though) I will still champion "Meddle" with one of my faves "One of These Days".

So my point? It's a good thing Barrett left the band and Gilmour took over because they were a better band...Kudos to Alan Parsons producing on Dark Side of the Moon, although you should sue Coldplay's ass for stealing your stuff.

So rest in peace you fried up "crazy diamond" they'll never another like you again.

GAMECOCK - The Superhero

*****UPDATED : 6/08/06 ******

GAMECOCK LIVE AND IN LIVING COLOR:




Long story short, has anyone ever heard of a superhero named the GAMECOCK? Apparently a good friend of mine thinks there is one. (They'll be referred to hereforth as Dembugs.

While me and my college buddies were waiting on line to go see Superman Returns, my friend Dembugs turns to me and says "Hey Devo, have you heard of a new superhero named The GAMECOCK?" Puzzled, I retort, "Uh no, I haven't and I never thought that I hear the words GAMECOCK ever uttered out of your mouth." Ironically enough I've got a toilet mouth, but I never put those two word together ever in my life.

Needless to say everyone started asking her what the hell a GAMECOCK Superhero was, much to our amusement- which also brought on quizzical stares from other moviegoers on the line, and making her amusingly, and embarassingly redder in the process.

Like pretending that Joe Rocco's Gay, in the '90's will be like asking Dembugs what the hell a GAMECOCK is in the Aught's...

What the hell do we call this decade anyway?

Our President

Red States. Blue States. I think they both are crappy extremes. I'm starting the PURPLE STATE.

AMERICA F-YEAH !!!!!


PHOTO CREDIT: Alex Ross