For individuals like Vin Diesel, Ben Affleck, Paul Walker, Tom Cruise, Nicholas Cage, Angelina Jolie, and the rest of the ridiculous VIP list who claim to be “actors”, my question is this: Are these people serious? Are they joking when they appear in public and wave to audiences while blaring their corny smiles and arrogant walks in their designer uniforms? (don’t call me a hater damnit) But do they whole heartedly believe in their own hype, and as in hook, line, and sinker? Or do they just do it for show? Please tell me it is just for show, please.
And when they are interviewed talking about their latest “film” (translation: terrible and unoriginal remake) that they do simply for the money, which I can’t blame them for, are they actually serious about saying the new project is exciting and the greatest thing ever? Do they actually think these films are quality? Are they serious when comparing these new crap films to the old classics such as The GodFather, Casablanca, StarWars, Citizen Cane, or the several Kubrik (RIP) masterpieces that had surfaced throughout the past decades?
Someone please tell me…ARE THEY BEING SERIOUS? Has Hollywood finally lost its mind for good? These “stars” are more of a joke than any other group of celebrities on the globe, and to add insult to injury, they claim to know what is best for the world. Hell, some of them are even involved with the U.N. (unfortunately that was probably one of the better moves the U.N. has made this century). But I digress; I just want to meet one of these people behind the scenes, with no cameras, no video, and just ask them… ARE YOU SERIOUS?
I won’t mind if they are just pretending. Sometimes I pretend. I know I am nothing…do they realize that deep down they are nothing too?
What’s going on in our society with this obsession of laziness and new ways to NOT walk? Have we lost our minds? We can’t walk anymore? It’s not good enough that we have the biggest or fastest cars, we also need to have the closest parking space every where we go? What happened to walking? What happened to being thankful for the legs that we were blessed with? Do you realize how many people can’t walk and wish they could? And to show how thankful we are for our legs, we find new ways not to use them. God forbid we break a sweat moving our fat a**es from one spot to the next. Is it efficiency or laziness?
And what is this Hollywood obsession with Segways? You need a “Segway” to get around now? Is that where we are headed? As if we haven’t become an obese enough country…now we need another reason not to exercise.
Get up and move a little. Wake up, wake up, wake up.
Everyone jokes around about the infamous “comb over” as if it is globally accepted as a ridiculous style, so I’ve never figured out how so many guys can wear this hairstyle with a straight face. I have to give it to them, they have much more guts than I do. I am usually the first to say that we should not be concerned with our appearance so much, but when it comes to the comb over…come on! Give it up. If or when I do lose my hair on top, I pray that I will be wise enough just to simply shave my damn head and not put people through the punishment of seeing some slicked over scraps of hair in my last attempt of denial. And why do people who have this hairstyle think it looks acceptable? Will someone please tell me? Why would you leave hair on the side at all? It looks like a clown. Ri-diculous. As far as I’m concerned, the comb over goes in the same category with the bolo tie and parachute pants. Time to stop the insanity. If you know anyone with a comb over, tell them what time it is.
Below is an entertaining video on these absurd comb over fiends.
The lead singer of this band is now hosting an independent style interview show on VBS.TV called “Soft Focus”. He is as annoying as hell and a terrible host, but the show gets some good interviews like Ian Mackaye from Minor Threat and even Henry Rollins was on there. Cheers.
I figured that I’d take a break from complaining about popular culture and ignorant social habits so I could share with you a favorite (well the only) podcast I watch, from a site called askaninja.com. For those of you who have never heard of this at all, the co-creator (who plays the ninja in the videos) is a comedian named Douglas Sarine from Los Angeles, and apparently he launched the first “askaninja” video back in 2005 (just like everything else, I am super late on finding it). Anyways, so the guy just dresses up in this bootleg ski-mask (a ninja mask) and a black sweatshirt, and stands in front of a blue/red screen on camera for a few minutes on each video to answer real inbound email questions that come into the site (usually very random ones). What’s genuinely unique about this podcast is that unlike most comedians who attempt to make random comedy witty and can’t pull off a simple social commentary joke without making it too serious, the ninja succeeds in delivering them all. There is a constant theme of silly antics where he is in character as a master “killer” who is always out to destroy the audience, but in the midst of the nonsense you can tell that these are brilliant posts made to bring some thinking into the equation (in my opinion). And don’t let the name or logo fool you, Askaninja.com in fact contains deeper themes than you would image, as they take on some topics like net neutrality, global warming, and even an episode inspired by the recent writers strikes.
The first episode I ever came across (shown below) is without a doubt my favorite episode wherein the ninja reviews the film ‘Pirates of the Carribean’ (parts 2 and 3). I watched it over and over again and could not stop laughing like a clown because it was not only funny, but exactly the way I view most movies this day in age. Today’s Hollywood director or producer may as well load several scripts into a cannon, launch them out onto a set, and have their assistant pick up the pieces in order to randomly construct the plot of any film. Ha-Ha-HA.
On a serious note, check out this post from his site regarding myspace and net nuetrality (permission found on the blog from “digital filmmaker”):
Submitted by digital filmmaker on February 2, 2007 – 7:32pm.
Let me start off by saying we love all of our friends and fans that we’ve made through Myspace.
But sometimes Myspace the company does some gross stuff that violates the spirit it was created under and the values of the Internet itself.
Over the last few months there has been a lot of debate over Net Neutrality, which basically boils down to one company blocking access to to another companies servers in order to gain a business advantage. This debate has usually focused on the companies that charge for bandwidth like AT&T, but recently Myspace has pioneered a new form — blocking sites that users link to in their bulletins and profiles.
Right now if you link to anything at a site like “http://revver . com” (remove the spaces) Myspace will delete the link. Try it. That sucks right?
Revver is not the only site. There are dozens of smaller video and photo sharing sites that they are doing this to.
Why should you care?
Ask A Ninja was created because we were in control of where we posted the videos. That’s a big deal because if we’re forced to put them on MySpace video then FOX could take the episodes and make money off of them without paying Douglas or me anything. Which isn’t fair and takes away the incentive to create cool shows for you to watch.
Why is this against Net Neutrality? Because videos from Myspace Video and Youtube are not effected. It’s only these smaller, more innovative companies that haven’t been sold for billions of dollars.
Here’s what you can do:
Copy this bulletin. Repost it. Blog about it. Make Tom put up a little fix it bulletin saying he’s sorry.
Once you’ve reposted this, send a message to Tom (http://myspace.com/tomanderson) like this (or even better, write your own):
I’m sending this message to request that MySpace stop blocking videos from sites like Revver. Choosing the video-sharing service that is right for me is very important and is why you built Myspace. What I like most about MySpace is that I can generally do what I want here. I like that Myspace is a relatively open platform where I can communicate with my friends (and promote my stuff) in all sorts of ways. I feel good about sharing videos from Revver because I know they respect copyright and look out for independent artists. Please bring back Revver!
For individuals like Vin Diesel, Ben Affleck, Paul Walker, Tom Cruise, Nicholas Cage, Angelina Jolie, and the rest of the ridiculous VIP list who claim to be “actors”, my question is this: Are these people serious? Are they joking when they appear in public and wave to audiences while blaring their corny smiles and arrogant walks in their designer uniforms? (don’t call me a hater damnit) But do they whole heartedly believe in their own hype, and as in hook, line, and sinker? Or do they just do it for show? Please tell me it is just for show, please.
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What’s going on in our society with this obsession of laziness and new ways to NOT walk? Have we lost our minds? We can’t walk anymore? It’s not good enough that we have the biggest or fastest cars, we also need to have the closest parking space every where we go? What happened to walking? What happened to being thankful for the legs that we were blessed with? Do you realize how many people can’t walk and wish they could? And to show how thankful we are for our legs, we find new ways not to use them. God forbid we break a sweat moving our fat a**es from one spot to the next. Is it efficiency or laziness?
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Everyone jokes around about the infamous “comb over” as if it is globally accepted as a ridiculous style, so I’ve never figured out how so many guys can wear this hairstyle with a straight face. I have to give it to them, they have much more guts than I do. I am usually the first to say that we should not be concerned with our appearance so much, but when it comes to the comb over…come on! Give it up. If or when I do lose my hair on top, I pray that I will be wise enough just to simply shave my damn head and not put people through the punishment of seeing some slicked over scraps of hair in my last attempt of denial. And why do people who have this hairstyle think it looks acceptable? Will someone please tell me? Why would you leave hair on the side at all? It looks like a clown. Ri-diculous. As far as I’m concerned, the comb over goes in the same category with the bolo tie and parachute pants. Time to stop the insanity. If you know anyone with a comb over, tell them what time it is.
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I figured that I’d take a break from complaining about popular culture and ignorant social habits so I could share with you a favorite (well the only) podcast I watch, from a site called 
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