Foo Fighters: White Limo

As per the description on the youtubes:

"SUPER KILLER RAD NEW FOO FIGHTERS VIDEO" Enjoy.

Straight Outta Locash

'Cause some days you just need to hear some CB4.

Your Weekend Cover: Me First and the Gimme Gimmes - I'm All Out Of Love

Damn dude, I have slacked on the covers. Next time I let shit go this long you should slap me around a bit. The new Gimme Gimmes album, Go Down Under,  is exactly what you'd expect. Punk covers of Aussie acts like Air Supply, Olivia Newton John, The Easybeats, INXS. This one starts out with a nice intro from Black Flag's Rise Above.

Radiohead: Lotus Flower

Nice. I'm not saying much until I hear the whole album, but I'm digging this one.

See! That's what I'm talkin' about.

"Don't tase me bro!!!"

Sooo, yeah. The new Thor trailer. There's a Facebook reference, and some ogling, and some hammer throwing at the very very end. Oh and a taser. The god of MFing thunder gets tased. Judging by Thor's attire after he arrives on Earth, I'm guessing they get good clearance sales on cheap t-shirts in the magical kingdom of Asgard. At least he'll be comfortable.

Waiting for King of Limbs

As per the W.A.S.T.E. newsletter:

 " Thank you for waiting. Radiohead are pleased to announce that their new album, The King Of Limbs, is now available to pre-order from www.thekingoflimbs.com

There are digital and physical versions of the album available:

The digital version is available in both MP3 (320kbps) and WAV formats.

The physical, 'Newspaper Album' comprises two clear 10" vinyl records in a purpose-built record sleeve, a compact disc, many large sheets of newspaper artwork, 625 tiny pieces of artwork, and a full-colour piece of oxo-degradable plastic to hold everything together. The Newspaper Album also includes a digital download.

Pre-ordered digital will be available to download on Saturday 19th February.

For the next few weeks, The King Of Limbs will be exclusively available from our website,
but from March 28th it will be on general release on CD, 12" vinyl and digital download in all good record stores."

I just don't need 625 bits of paper. I love me some Radiohead, but I can wait until March 28th for the plain ol' CD. I'll have the new MOGWAI, Black Heart Procession, and the new Gimme Gimmes to tide me over until then.

Comic Book Movies. Ugh.

The first official, all shopped-up still from The Amazing Spider-Man looks ok. Some better. At least it's got more going for it than the crappy spy pictures that have been leaking off the set lately. The black webbing, as opposed to Toby McGuire's silver, is a step in the right direction but I'm starting to hate the "sporty" re-design. Especially the back of the thing, it might as well have a goddamn Nike swoosh across it for fuck's sake. Still...it couldn't be much worse than Spideman 3, hopefully we won't have to sit through another dance number.

It's starting to feel like the mid-90's all over again, where nobody in Hollywood gave two shits about sticking to the material that made a character great as long as they could sell some toys out of the deal. Joel Schumacher's Batman films being the worst offenders, but at least he owns it. If you're not familiar with the word "toyetic" check in around the 3:30 mark. So yeah. The industry is flooded with comics-based reboots, parodies, and a half-baked takes on some classic characters and I really couldn't give two shits about any of them except for one.

Surprisingly, the one character I never really cared much about in comics has the most going for him so far. Captain America looks like it's getting everything right. As a character he never really works for me outside of a World War II setting, luckily this is the setting for a good chunk of the film. Both versions of the costume are really practical for a military guy but faithful to the comics. Plus...there's something really satisfying about watching somebody beat the crap out of a bunch of Nazis. I can't wait to see Hugo Weaving as the Red Skull.


Other than that I just don't have much interest or faith in any of the upcoming comic-book movies. The thing that bugs me the most, and I can't stop coming back to it, is the costume and set designs. These should be no-brainers. There are decades worth of drawings to help insure that you get the iconic look of a character right. I know some things don't translate to flim, and you can't have everybody running around in their underoos, but why does every director think they have to reinvent the goddamn wheel all of the sudden?

Thor Just doesn't look like Thor. If you're gonna go with bearded Thor, you need to have a haggard ass, battle-worn, ass kicker of a guy not some abercrombie model. I can see what they're going for with the cape, but it comes across as cheap. Like Smallville cheap.

And Anthony Hopkins is all sorts of wrong for playing Odin. Don't get me wrong, he's a good actor. Don't go calling the movie police. He's just one of those Jack Nicholson type actors that plays one character really well and doesn't do much else. He's never a character, he's Anthony Hopkins. Plus....I can't stand the stick-on eyeptach. I know it's from the comics but it looks shitty. Smallville shitty. (I think that's gonna be my new rap name) 

I should be all sorts of crazy about Green Lantern, but no. Again, it comes down to design & casting. Everybody in the movie looks really fucking cool except Hal Jordan. I just don't buy that CGI costume & most of it has to do with the mask. It's too goddamn bright & it looks photoshopped on, because it is. I hate to give credit to Schumacher, but at least his bat-masks looked like they existed in the real world. Ryan Reynolds may surprise me but I'm not expecting a lot from him as Hal Jordan. He plays a great smart-ass, which would be perfect for Flash or even another GL like Kyle Rayner. Anybody except Hal Jordan. "I know, right!??"

X-Men: First Class looks prequely alright. That's all I've got. I completely lost interest in the X-Men when the geniuses at Fox let Brett Ratner simultaneously fuck up one of the best X-men stories ever written and kill off ALL the series' main characters. The Wolverine movie didn't help either. The casting for First Class doesn't bug me, not even the Kevin Bacon part. It's mostly my apathy that's the problem. I've just been mutant-ed to death. The only selling point for me is that Betty Draper runs around in not a lot of clothes, so it's got that going for it. At least a renter.

Ok then nerds, see you at the movies. 

Your pal,

Smallville Shitty

MOGWAI: Mexican Grand Prix

Taken from their newest collection of coolness coming out next week Hardcore Will Never Die But You Will,the video for Mexican Grand Prix has hit the interwebs. It has a bit of a Stereolab vibe to it, you know if Stererolab wasn't dead set on boring me into a coma. But I digress. You either like the dancy stuff they've been getting into as of late or you don't, but I'm liking it so far. How to be a Werewolf seems to indicate that there will be more traditional, organic sounding MOGWAI tracks as well, I'm looking forward to listening to the whole album front to back next week.

Exit Through the Gift Shop

Whether or not this is a documentary or a mockumentary, this film is fantastic. I lean towards believing that it is a mockumentary. The story is a little too perfect, the situations too exact for it to make me believe that it is real. That may just be the pessimist in me, but that is how I feel. I also believe that Banksy is a huge prankster and that he might see this as one of his greatest works. He seems to try and expand his artistic horizon constantly and I wouldn't be surprised if he has decided to expand into film. Thierry Guetta is a fantastic character, whether real or imagined, he's thoroughly likable and may be completely crazy. Shepard Fairey, who is real, is also great in this movie. Rent it, get it on Netflix, find it on the internet, I thoroughly enjoyed this movie and highly recommend that you see it as soon as you can.