Avengers Movie Announcement

Ahh, the Avengers. You're no X-Men, guys, but you aren't nothing, either. With Marvel's forthcoming "Heroic Age" reinvention of the classic line comes the announcement that SLWMAC "Stuff (and people) that i like" official selection Joss Whedon will be directing the new film, starring Robert Downey Jr. as Iron Man, Chris Evans as Captain America, Edward Norton rumoured to be playing Bruce Banner (Hulk, dumbass) and Samuel L Jackson as Nick Fury.

Allegedly. We've heard this before (wonder woman Pre-production purgatory, anyone?), so be ready for a whole lot of pointless waiting. Not to be a negative nancy or anything but once bitten, twice shy, babe.

It Makes Me Sick To Say It, BUT:

i'm thinking of getting a twitter account so i can follow Bret Easton Ellis and Craig Ferguson. Justin Jorgensen posted a tweet on his D&D (Design and dicks) blog Penis Ennui (best blog title ever?)from Ellis and it was GENIUS:

BretEastonEllis via twitter: Ran into Roger from American Dad at The White Party. “Telephone” blasting, pools of lube, Nacho from Grindr, all of us watching “Dahmer”…





if you've read his books, you recognize this as classic BEE. just the way he can totally put you in this fucked up surreally psychosexual scene with just a few strokes (as it were). ACK, i CANNOT wait for Imperial Bedrooms to come out. Also, twitter is sort of the perfect medium for Ellis, what with his fixation on disposable culture.

also, i GUESS it would be cool to interact with my friends :-)

still thinking about it though! not sure i'll go through with it.

Breaking Bad

Are you guys watching this?

It's a show about this loser-y coulda been/never was chemistry wunderkind named Walter White (Malcolm in the Middle dad Bryan Cranston in a remarkable multi-award winning tour de force performance) who lost his shot at wealth and scientific prestige YEARS ago, and is now just a middle class high school chem teacher with a marginal amount of personal dignity in his life. Bad gets worse when he's diagnosed with almost certainly terminally advanced lung cancer. Thinking of his pregnant wife and teenage son who has cerebral palsy being left with less than nothing after the exhorbinant expense of his unlikely to succeed treatment, he of course realizes what he has to do:

Manufacture a new strain of blue SUPER-METH, obviously.

with his gangsta wannabe super small time dealer/z tier cook of a former student, he sets off on a very jacked up course.

Season Three is airing now (next episode will be the 4th of the season). Seasons One and Two are out on DVD. Netflix it, buy it, whatever it. it's a bleak, funny, twisted, visceral show with a heart... however that works, but it's true!

Fair warning, though- if you were ever into meth, this show will make you grind your teeth a little bit. Still, it's worth the discomfort. The drug stuff doesn't make it look fun or cute in any way shape or form.

ps: my friend rob wants to bang the teenage son who has cerebral palsy. at least he LOOKS legal, i guess?

stay classy, rob!

:-)

NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!

Dave's Pawn Shop 1

Dave's Pawn Shop 2

Dave's Pawn Shop 3

They posted this thing on the Flight of the Conchords HBO page saying that they won't be coming back for a third season, "but the real Bret and Jermaine will continue to exist."

NOT THE SAME!


but at least there's DIAGNOSIS: DEATH!

it's like our paris.

Out of Our Minds

Melissa Auf der Mar, former Hole and Smashing Pumpkins bassist has released the video for the lead single "Out of Our Minds" from her upcoming album of the same name.

It's a cool song and a neat video. Pretty good, and you have to admire her for doing her own thing, coming out with her own album at the same time as Courtney but still being totally classy in the press. You get the feeling that the whole time she was in Hole (oops) she was learning how to NOT BE LIKE COURTNEY. Plus, she can fucking WHALE on the bass, and the guitar and other instruments. I sort of got to talk to her in 1999 when me and my friend jewell got pulled on stage at the last HOLE tour, and she went in her pocket and got a whole bunch of her personalized guitar picks out and gave them to us, and she was just super nice and sweet but funny and cool, too. after they did Celebrity Skin, i was like "that was SO GOOD!" and she did kind of a valley girl thing while smiling and said "i KNOW!" and then totally grinned at me. She's rad.

I Am AGOG!

saw this on Penis Ennui and House of Vader yesterday, and christ almighty i don't go in for this sort of shit, but DAMN. it's AMAZING, and if it weren't for a few VERY MINOR points in the song where his phrasing reminds you he is asian, you'd be like "this is better than whitney (pre-crack)." it's not just vocal dynamics, either. this LITTLE ASIAN BOY seems to REALLY EMOTE. Roll the FUCK OVER, susan Boyle!

The Revenge of the Living Ham

SO, ham was on sale for easter and at a little over a dollar a pound, who can pass that shit up? so i got a 10 pound ham, and the race is ON to see if i can really use it all up before it turns. So far i've made a savory ham and lentil soup that is just on the cusp of being stew... it's pretty thick. Also, i made the obvious large batch of ham salad for sandwiches and crackers and stuff (with light mayo, which isn't actually bad with something as strong tasting as ham). what else do you guys think i should try? worst case scenario, i can just freeze a bunch of it for soups and whatever later on, but i was thinking it might be fun to try some new ham tricks.

lemme know if you've got ideas!

Craig Ferguson Wins Peabody Award

For his watershed interview of Archbishop Desmond Tutu. If you watch this and still don't get why Craig Ferguson is the most compelling presence in late night television, then i'm pretty sure that i don't want to know you. I love tv... so much of it is trash, but it really can be transcendant sometimes, and this is an example of that.

Above is the complete episode, in order. it's worth the 38-40 minutes of your time, i assure you.

Mystery Team

i've been waiting for this fucking movie to come out for MONTHS. it was supposed to get released in march, and i went to buy it, but the release got pushed back to the end of may.

bullshitty. anyway, check the trailer and join me in my impatience and frustration. take, eat. do this in remembrance of me.

it's the green band, but i thought this trailer was funnier than the red. couldn't find a copy that fit on the blog, so double click to get the pop out.

Go HERE to check out more from Derrick Comedy.






this is kind of silly, but it's still funny.

"you're my middle-aged angel..."

"age is just a number and i'm not good at math"

"i want to bring your love to show and tell"

etc, lol.

Um...

Look what Jason made me!

Wow. Just... Wow.

i don't really know why my head has to be on a woman's body, but apart from that, it TAKES MY BREATH AWAY.

i also like the hill people style moonshine jug realness.

if somebody (jason) could insert a gaggle of monkeys into this, i think we'd be talking BANNER PIC, here.

New Bret Easton Ellis: Imperial Bedrooms

THANK GOD. motherfucker needs to write faster.

this is the sequel to Less Than Zero.

First line as per Ellis: They had made a movie about us.

coming June 2010...

Subject Matter Vacation, All I Ever Wanted...

So this is my second semester where i've taken ONLY maths, sciences or statistics, and let me tell YOU, all left brain work and no right brain play makes Sethy a DULL BOY.

anyway, i'm taking a 2 credit writing class this weekend just for fun and superfast credit. i thought it was just called "Creative Writing" but i got this thing in the mail the other day that called it "Creative Writing Workshop: How to be an Original Writer," and that sounds a little bit lamer, i have to admit. i have very vivid ideas about the lame-o's who are going to be in the seminar with me. i visualize berets, art fair earrings, ornate and complex facial hair and lots of not very subtle proclamations about how "in the writing group that i belong to..."

I also suspect that the people in that class who AREN'T 'like that' are going to be the dregs of the academic barrell, who are only in there because the class was still open for registration and to keep up their minimum number of credits for the semester.

i could be totally wrong, of course. i've never taken a writing class that wasn't required before. i mean, I love writing, i know some cool writers, but mostly in my experience i've found that self-identified writers are cringe inducing and mega lame and either SUPER untalented and/or complete posers.

maybe i'm just predjudiced. maybe i'll find these notions of mine challenged by this experience.

Update:

The highlight of the evening for me was when the instructor said that in the short story writing class that she's teaching this semester, she was forced to ban VAMPIRES as subject matter. While hilarious, i also felt an overwhelming sense of pity for this woman- i can't IMAGINE how awful it would be to read non-stop vampire stories as conceived by 30 or so moderately to UN talented 18 - 20 year olds who either want to be Anne Rice or Stephanie Meyer. oh, the unbearable darkness! VLAH!

moving along...

it was just day one, and we only met for two hours, but so far, i was partially right... people did work their writing groups into their introductions, and there were a couple of people saying insufferable things, BUT:

the vast majority of the group are middle to later aged women. What made me think that maybe i should dial back my judgement a bit was the fact that most of the people there talked about wanting to be able to express something and not knowing how to do so, and they also talked about the fear that they had surrounding that need, as well as the possible consequences. THAT is something that i can respect and have compassion for, so that's what i'm holding onto for dear life. if their writing is awful is beside the point. they have something that they feel like they have to say and they're struggling to say it. that's real, and human and- in my humble- admirable.

having said that, i may feel very differently by sunday afternoon.

BWAH-HA-HA-HA-HA!

Ahhhh...

South Park has still got it.


as soon as i saw this episode, i knew EXACTLY which picture they used, lol.

I kind of like SJP (Honeymoon In Vegas, LA Story, Ed Wood and also she was really funny tormenting Bette Midler in First Wives Club) but Sex in the City is a straight up slice of DIRTY ASS and i can't believe how many people (gay men and women that DON'T live in New York and probably DON'T live in an urban area at all) LOVED that show, including my boyfriend. he secretly rented "The Ugly Truth" the other day, though, so who knows what darkness lurks in the heart of Germone.

PS:

Like the shark, the Sarah Jessica Parker has millions of teeth, which it uses to cut through bone, candy and fences.

OMG Becky, I Can't Fucking Wait

The news came out last week and everybody knew about it i think, but Betty White is hosting SNL on May 8th- the mother's day episode.

They're pulling out all the stops to make this as EPIC as possible.



Tina Fey, Amy Poelher, Rachel Dratch, Maya Rudolph and Molly Shannon (not pictured, but you all know what she looks like) will all be backing up our girl Betty. It should be pretty fucking good. i'm hoping that all the guest stars will have a role in writing the episode's material- not that Seth Myers and Co aren't more than capable, but there are some real comedic luminaries here, and all of them female, and it could be that they'd have a little extra insight when it comes to writing sketches for a woman like BW.

OH! they should TOTALLY get Maya Rudolph's boyfriend Quentin Tarantino to write a sketch! can you IMAGINE?

Hand Transplant

The video above isn't of the hand transplant that i wanted to talk about, but it is the same institution and doctor (Lee) that was involved.

They just did a new surgery with 23 doctors that took 11 hours for this Army guy who lost BOTH hands in a farming accident. to do it, they had to remove the arm above the right elbow before attaching the donor arm. most amazing, the guy has functionality in his left hand ALREADY, and the surgery was only three weeks ago. it's INSANE.

when the footage i saw becomes available online, i'll update this entry. it's almost up on the abc website HERE, but it's taking forever to load. i'm up in prescott at my "Gay Dads'" house for spring break, and their computer is rickety and slow as hell.

Ugh

really DIDN'T want to ever have to do this, but i'm going to have to put SLWMAC on comment moderation mode.


I am so sick of writing about this, but this is probably the last time, unless he mails me a pig's heart with a nail through it or something really colorful like that...

Lu the 43 year old ex-boyfriend STILL won't leave me alone. If he bothers you guys on your blogs, just report it to blogger. He's started a blog where his username is my real name, so i guess just watch out for comments from "me." Or you can go to his blog, and look at some 10 year old pictures of me where i'm extra extra fat and/or not wearing an appropriate amount of clothing. He writes these mildly broken english captions 'in character' as me, and reveals what he believes to be SHOCKING REVELATIONS about me.

His life must be FANTASTIC.

The Mystery of The Jorgensen Wall

above: Justin Jorgensen's wall from THE ZONE (click image to enlarge).

Justin Jorgensen did the design for this LA gay sex club called THE ZONE, and he did a series of blog posts about the conceptual and practical processes behind this strange assignment which i found to be pretty interesting/entertaining. One of them detailed how to do a wall with a contour line picture of a guy getting head, and it literally drove me crazy for MONTHS, because it reminded me of something, but i couldn't figure out what.

ANYWAY, today i was talking to someone about collage, and i was suggesting that they check out David Wojnarowicz, and then it hit me! that's what the Jorgensen wall reminded me of! Sweet Relief!






above: Various works by the seminal David Wojnarowicz

Skinny Little Bitch

The new single for Courtney Love's reconstituted HOLE (Now with 25% of ANY previous HOLE incarnation!) album/opus/eggregiously late homework 'Nobody's Daughter' was offered up as a free download on the ALBUM SITE on the 4th, and it is a grindy little piece of hard black candy (that's a compliment).

It would make a GREAT stripper song, FOR REALS.

BELOW is C-Lo and company doing a real quick version of "Pretty on the Inside" followed by an abbreviated "Sympathy for the Devil," which she pretty much KILLS. As usual, her choice of covers (past covers include Fleetwood Mac's 'Gold Dust Woman,' Guns and Roses' 'Paradise City,' and Bob Dylan's 'It's All Over Now, Baby Blue'- all of which sounded like they were written for her)is arrogant and excellent.

Skip to 1:10 to check out "Sympathy."

Hey, Deacon!

is this TRUE???!?

Happy/Sad

Jason left for Connecticut today, and he was so excited. I haven't met Mark (or is it Marc?) yet, but i'm sure he's a very special person. Just the stuff Jason's mentioned about him indicates that he's a very sweet, very big-hearted guy. who doesn't love THAT?

i fucking MISS HIM ALREADY, though, and i hope he freezes his dick off in the cold!

You HEAR that, fucker?!

;-)