Helooo, Miss Lady

Ferrell and crew are at it again. Jesus.

I punch you face

The first issue of Kick-Ass comes out today, and I will be picking it up. I have no idea what it's about, but it's by Mark Millar and John Romita Jr., so that's all I really need to know. In other words it should, yeah, kick ass.

Maybe I don't know anything about the Marvel/Icon series because Millar and JR JR are apparently doing their own publicity. Is that the deal with Icon books? Jeez.

Where my dogs at? Footlocker.

Damn drunken German revelers.

Notes on a 24-hour Jackass takeover

The Jackass crew took over MTV for 24 hours starting noon Saturday. Some observations from casual viewing, not made in real time like the Highlander documentary:

— Talking about the pre-Jackass says, someone said Pontius used to get kicked out of bars sober, to which Pontius responds, "Then I started to get kicked out of bars drunk."

— After being fired from Big Brother magazine, Pontius said he got a job with one of the largest women's organizations in the country, and was their only male employee. That may not have been accurate but it's funny.

— MTV, for Black History Month I assume, has been running these pieces from Cornel West with promos for MTV shows. In one he's talking to high school kids or something and says "If the music's gonna be thin and empty, then your souls are gonna be thin and empty." Cut to clip from this week's Making the Band 4, with the "pimp and ho situation" quote. Irony eating itself.

— As an aside on MTV promos in general, for a while they've led into them with some indie band playing or being interviewed, like Tegan and Sara or this week's piano-playing indie chick. Why? They never play videos from those people, thus most kids don't know who they are. So what's the purpose? Is that how MTV staffers are able to sleep at night, running five-second interview snippets from Tegan and Sara and getting the Silversun Pickups onto a Gauntlet III episode soundtrack? Yes, OK, you're not a complete whore. Oh wait, yes you are.

— During the tribute to Evel Knievel, Mat Hoffman to Midget Mike before he did a back flip with Travis Pastrana on Pastrana's motorcycle: "Hold on, and if it doesn't work we'll tell you about it later."

— I flipped back to MTV from something and the below was playing. I can't imagine why, as most of the videos they were playing were friends or by Spike Jonze, etc. Whatever, I'm down.



— Hep-C Barrel Roll. Ha.

— A Kris Markovich sighting in skating clips.

— Bam still pissed at the guy from Dirty Sanchez for melting the clutch in his Lambo doing doughnuts on Gumball 3000.

— I want to do my own 24 hours of MTV to show any music videos, and shows, but mainly any videos I want. Who's with me?

Monk in tha trunk

I like how he murders. Whole series of real dealership ads here.

One (U.S. open-wheel) love

Well, this is pretty good news. Hopefully the IRL will go ahead and add more of Champ Car's road races in 2009 as it said it might. Wonder what the Champ Car owners will do with all those one-year-old Panoz cars?

This leaves Dan Wheldon vs. Danica Patrick as the biggest feud in U.S. open-wheel racing, I guess.

82 skadoo

Henderson vs. Silva for the combined UFC and Pride 185 lb. titles should be an awesome fight Saturday (EDIT: March 1!). Henderson may be the only guy on the planet who can beat Silva right now. Lots of other good fighters on the UFC 82 card, including some big names in the fights not scheduled to air which is a little weird.

America's Best Dance Crew?

The Butterscotch Boys.

Get your Wars on

Was reading this week's announcement on the Star Wars: The Clone Wars CGI movie and subsequent Cartoon Network series, but didn't see anything on the previously announced live action Star Wars series, which hopefully is still in the works.

That did remind me of this sort of Star Wars in the real world photo series I saw on Paul Pope's blog. Some are a little goofy looking, but most look cool. Oh, and don't hide behind the car, Jango Fett will find you.

Sharkdog?

"You know a thing about a shark, it's got lifeless eyes, black eye like a doll's eye. When he comes at ya, doesn't seem to be living, until he bites ya." — Quint
Found.

Orange On the Aisle: Eastern Promises

Ended up liking Eastern Promises more than I expected, as I was only so-so on Cronenberg's A History of Violence. In fact, when it ended I was a little surprised and wanting more.

This film gets pretty nasty, and I'm not even talking about naked Viggo fighting in the Turkish steambath scene, though that fight was pretty badass. I'm talking a poorly executed throat cutting that's gross, and a pregnant girl collapsing in a pool of her own blood in a pharmacy. I knew it was coming the second she walked in the door, but still gnarley.

Some of my favorite stuff in The Wire involves the dope "connect" with Sergei and the Greeks, and there should be no shortage of material focusing on Russian and Eastern Euro outfits as their influence grows and the Italians continue to collapse in on themselves. Hopefully this promises more stuff in the league of Eastern Promises.

Special shout-out to Vinz!

— 4 out of 5 kneecap tats

Spagett!

Dianetically opposed

Posters on Warren Ellis' Whitechapel site followed the quite humorous global Scientology protest by Anonymous yesterday. One poster observed:

A chant of "This is religion!" (pointing to the left) "THIS IS A CULT!" (pointing to the scientology building), repeating - I didn't ever work out what the original point of this was, other than to underscore that scientology is not a religion, but then the mounted police showed up to herd us out of the road so that traffic could pass. At which point, it became "THIS IS A HORSE!" (point at horse) "THIS IS A CULT!" (point at Scientology building).

More good stuff at Boing Boing, including a Frosty Ice Co. surveillance van, Mission Impossible stylee. There was a protest in Philly too, during which a Scientologist was able to disrupt a protester's enjoyment of a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. That's how Cruise rolls.



As a result of all this I also learned you can customize what YouTube posts look like (perty colors), and all about Mudkips. Ahh, Internet.

On that bigger boat in the sky

Roy Scheider, R.I.P. Man, he really wanted a bigger boat, bigger than this.

Michael, I've made a huge mistake

Will Arnett is the voice of K.I.T.T. in the new Knight Rider? Awesome. Oh wait, he got replaced by Val Kilmer. How will they ever re-shoot all those scenes in time? (Ha ha.) Maybe they'll let Arnett voice K.A.R.R. to make it up to him. Or maybe they'll scrap the whole thing and make this:



Story via, complete with sweet cat in Star Wars pic.

Mashed please

This guy's movie and music mash ups are really well done. He's got crisper versions and some background on making them on his web site too. I like this one, and the Se7en, Trainspotting and All the President's Men ones too. Oh, and Planes, Trains and Automobiles. Well, they're all good.

Throw JoePa a bone

I don't know how many more years Joe Paterno plans to coach Penn State, but the next few could be pretty good ones if Terrelle Pryor chooses the Nittany Lions. While announcing Wednesday he was putting off a college decision, Pryor said Penn State was one of four schools still being considered, but it's sounding unlikely to me.

It would be cool though. Pennsy pride Terrelle, yeah?

A Super Tuesday reminder

If your candidate can't bring this or this to the debate, then why bother? Pullo for prez. Vorenus for VP.

You're the man now Stan

Ron Wood pointed out this show in which some pretty cool artists paid tribute to Stan Lee. Luckily I'm unemployed so I wasn't tempted to try and buy anything (unless I find out where some are available). Blair Butler just did a Geek Out segment on the show too.

The piece to the left was done by Blinky, who has Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares and a Pride knockout reel in his TV interests on his MySpace page. Right on bro.

Orange On the Aisle: Rambo

Stallone's getting killed for this fourth incarnation of the Rambo series, and for good reason, but let's give him credit for at least one good call, though there's next to no chance he intended it.

The first scene portrays actions so reprehensible and bloody that it will make you walk out of the theater, or desensitize you properly for the carnage to come. Jeremy and I stuck around for the throat-ripping, head-exploding, jeep driver-disintegrating fun and you really could only just sit back and marvel. I most enjoyed the bow and arrow bit.

Special kudos to the chick who brought her 10-year-old daughter to the show. Babies havin' babies.

I also liked the pictured poster with its spray paint stencil look. When I saw them up in Brooklyn in November I thought it was a joke. Well, I guess it's still funny.

— 1 out of 5 head-piercing arrows

Alexander Hamilton wore Vans

Via Bob and David.

I'm getting one for my apartment

Troika "Cloud" sculpture for British Airways Heathrow Terminal 5. So don't go to Terminal 3, you won't see it.

Who names a kid Spritle?

This new Speed Racer movie looks insane, but in a good way. Trailer may turn out better than the actual movie, but it looks cool anyway. Check it out large and in charge in HD to better appreciate. Chim Chim!

Pumpers or Tumblers?

Close, but I gotta go Pumpers. Sorry Tumblers.

Kicks Watch: Nike SB Dunk high

I think that's what they are, anyway. Don't like all of these, but do like this color combo. Skateboarder Brad Staba rocks them here.