4.08.2010

Refused Re-Issuing Shape Of Punk To Come

Oh hell yeah. The Shape Of Punk To Come is for me one of the best albums of the late 90s. Refused self destructed too soon to make it big, the fact that bands are still imitating the sounds on this album is proof that they were on to something cool.

On June 8th Epitaph is putting out a 3 disk set with the album, a live set, and a DVD of the film Refused Are Fucking Dead. Awesome.


4.05.2010

Record Club - INXS

The first two tracks from Beck's Record Club interpretations of Kick are up. New Sensation is one of my favorites so far.

New Sensation



Guns In The Sky

4.03.2010

New Mooned

Coincidentally I ended up sitting through this thing the other night. Mrs. Cooper had renewed her attempts to get me to read one of these books so I offered to sit through it and hope that getting as drunk as humanly possible would make it less painful.

Now it could be the whiskey talking, but this one was ever so slightly less shitty than the first. Not in terms of the story, which is a little sillier than the last one, but in terms of overall film-making. I guess Twilight made enough scratch to afford them a better camera op, better editor, and even the CG effects were a notch up from the last one. And by "a notch up" I mean they looked about as good as something you'd see on Xbox. Don't believe me?


"Watch out! It's Monday and Garfield's gone ape-shit on some wild forest lasagna!"




The whole idea of nice sparkly vampires running around in the daytime is still ultra-retarded to me, so I couldn't get past that enough to take the movie seriously. The addition of werewolves doing the same didn't help, despite their efforts to woo me in their sly Abercrombie model way. But I'm a glass half full kinda guy and I can appreciate the two benefits I gained from watching New Moon:

1. I won't be asked to read anything vamp-mormony for a while and 2. I really did get pretty drunk by the time this thing was over.

Ok that's enough bashing for the near future. Sherlock Holmes is out on Blu-Ray which means I have a hot date with a ginger midget.....

4.01.2010

Twilight - New Moon

Best Movie Ever. The acting is super, the directing is fantastic. Screw you Katherine Bigelow, you stole that Oscar. I am so impressed. I cannot wait for the next one. LOVE IT LOVE IT LOVE IT. If I ever have a son, I will name him Jacob.