Wednesday, December 12, 2007

Random Randoms

Well it's been a while so I figured I'd throw in some random Good/Bad updates on what's been going on in the world of Luke.

Good: My birthday was a couple of weeks ago. Caleb and Cass ended up coming into town that night instead of the following afternoon so I got to spend some time with him before heading up to visit the parents for the weekend.

Bad: Packers lost to the Cowboys not so much because Favre got injured, but because they played absolutely horribly.

Good: While visiting the parents they took us to a "Paint your own ceramic thingamajig" type place where I painted a coffee mug and got a lot of compliments. It has been many years since I've done an art piece so it felt good.

Good: On the way home we stopped to visit Mike and Lauralye so Caleb could finally meet Hayden. Within seconds of Caleb holding Hayden for the first time, Hayden threw up on Caleb and then laughed.

Bad: Last Friday (12/07/07) Katie rolled our SUV while on the way to work. She hit a patch of ice on an off ramp and went over the side, rolling down the hill 3/4 of a full roll leaving it resting on the driver's side.

Good: Katie was completely unharmed. Not a single cut or bruise. Later in the day her right thigh was a little sore but that's all. Seatbelts save lives and miracles to happen. Also the insurance agent working with us has been amazingly helpful.

Bad: Despite the damage looking minor a lot of little things added up and it would just be way too expensive to fix our beloved Harley Quinn. Chuck put it best, "Goodbye Harley, we harley knew you."

Good: After the insurance pay out we discovered that we owe WAY less on the SUV than we originally thought, giving us more breathing room for buying a new vehicle and soon. Plus this means we won't have to struggle to buy Christmas presents for friends and family, though they are obviously all supportive and understanding of our situation.

Good: The day after the accident Mike and Lauralye asked me to be Hayden's Godfather, and I couldn't be more honored.

Thursday, November 8, 2007

Halloweens

Halloween, that time of year where kids wear costumes that make them as cute as a bug's ear, and teenage girls wear costumes that make them look like whores. I fortunately don’t fall into either category, but I do love Halloween. It’s just fun to think of a creative costume and go out to have fun in it. This year I had the good fortune to go out on two separate Saturdays to have fun.

First on October 27th, Katie and I went out to a bar with Mike and Lauralye. This was sort of last minute thing as Mike and Lauralye were unsure if they’d be able to make it. As such my costume wasn’t nearly as cool as I wanted it to be. Now I wouldn’t even mention this weekend if not for two particular occurrences. First this is what Katie wore:


While that may not seem to be a big deal, when you know Katie’s personality you know it’s very out of character for her to wear something like that. We never pinned down what she was supposed to be. We thought of “demony chick,” “Red Ridding Hood’s Evil Twin,” and Mike’s favorite, “Slutty Slut.” Personally I didn’t care what she called it, I just called it “Hot!”

Now here’s a group picture of all of us. I was a Sith Lord (again, missing a lot of stuff I wanted for the costume), Mike was a Ninja, specifically his alter ego, Vomitron, this is important for later, and Lauralye was Drunko the Clown.


And now the second reason I’m even mentioning this evening: Mike and Lauralye pre-gamed at my place to save money at the bar. On the drive to said bar it started to become obvious to everyone, including Mike, that the booze was starting to hit him way harder than we planned. When we made it to the bar Mike had already switched to Vomitron mode and within the span of two hours had only 2-3 drinks and was starting to stumble around drunk coming very close to getting us kicked out. Fortunately J was there so he was able to help us convince V-Tron that we needed to go home (this of course took another half hour).

Him being as trashed as he was, and Lauralye in no condition to drive herself (though she was at least coherent) they crashed at our place, Lauralye on our ridiculously comfortable couch, and Mike/Vomitron on an inflatable mattress. I even gave him a bucket in case he needed to hurl. When we made our way downstairs they had left (which we heard earlier) and while the bucket was empty, Mike had already done his best to clean up the signature hot pink stomach churn from our sheets and placed them in a plastic bag.

Thanks V-TRON!

So the weekend after that we went to some friends for a party. Katie dressed as a nerd, and I again as a Sith Lord. However this time I was ready. Behold:


The lightsabers are a Darth Maul toy I purchased years ago that while I was out of town, Mike accidentally broke over J’s forearm. I wanted to use them because the telescoping blades actually lock in instead of extending all the time. Also I didn’t want to carry them all the time, so I built a harness for them. I bought a belt for a tool belt and found some clips for mounting electrical piping and then found corner boxes for electrical piping to screw them on to. I lucked out in that these boxes had removable backs that I then slid the belt through. The harness turned out better than I could have imagined, hence my joy of sharing it. I then purchased some “Knight Leg Guards” and spray painted them black, as well as a flowing black cloak that looks perfect. To top it off and give myself that Sith edge, I painted a black and red line around the edge of my face to allow for this back story for the costume.

Name: Darth Zod (that’s right, I slipped in a Superman reference, too)
Story: My first mission as a Sith Lord was to kill a Jedi Knight. As sign of my devotion to my dark art I killed him, cut off his face and then cut off my own, replacing it with his.

Good times were had by all.

Wednesday, October 24, 2007

Monday, October 22, 2007

Transformers: Because “Humans Who Happen to Meet Robots” doesn’t have the same ring to it

A few years ago the nerd community exploded in joy at the announcement that one of the quintessential properties of our childhood was finally being made into a live action movie. Then the joy continued with the announcement that not only did Dreamworks get the rights to it, but that Steven Spielberg himself would be producing along with Tom DeSanto. And then it was announced that Michael Bay would be directing, and the nerd community let out a collective “FUCK, we were so close.”

So I finally watched Transformers a couple nights ago, and again more evidence arises to prove that I can indeed read certain movies really well without actually seeing them. Now I did go into it trying to keep an open mind, watching it as both a Transformers fan (Notice the name; Colossus Prime) and as a casual viewer who’s never heard of Transformers. But it was to no avail as I was just terribly disappointed from two points of view.

One advantage I had about watching it on DVD instead of seeing it in theaters was that I was able to make this distinct observation: It was one hour into the two+ hour movie until we had a name for any Transformer. Before that the movie had a few fight scenes, all containing humans being attacked by Evil Giant Robot #1 and #2. And RIGHT before the hour mark we had the chance to finally see some robot on robot fighting when Evil Giant Robot #3 tries to run down our leading male (I’ll admit though, Shia LaBeouf did a great job) and Bumblebee comes to the rescue, tackling EGR#3 off a bridge and that’s the last we see of the fight while Mini Robot who can’t stop making little noises that no one seems to be able to hear when he’s sneaking around, is chasing down LaBeouf and his girl-friend-to-be. So as a casual viewer I was an hour into a movie about humans who interacted with a couple of generic giant robots (15 minutes of that being actual interaction) and as a Transformers fan I was an hour into a movie about HUMANS instead of kick-@$$ Giant Robots!!!

I could seriously go on and on for several pages stating only the problems that are signs of mass incompetence and skipping over any nitpicking which there’s even more of (seriously, how hard is it to stop and fact check things like what the deepest part of the ocean is), so here’s a quick breakdown of some that just piss me off to no end:

- Was it really necessary to make the Transformers keep spinning and rolling around all the f’ing time? It doesn’t look cool, it looks femmy.

- Apparently Transformers can change their mind about what they want to look like whenever they want. Bumblebee upgrades himself and the little guy changes from a boom box to a cell phone, both in an instant.

- A scorpion looking Decepticon is being blasted hard core by an air strike, yet for some reason doesn’t retreat into the sand until the SECOND air strike hits him. Then he never reappears. “What,” “the,” and “Fuck”!?

- There’s a clear reason why Cybertron fell to the Decepticons; Autobots are about as smart as an inbred child who’s family tree is a straight line, as proven by the 10 minute shtick of them “hiding” outside the Witwicky residence.

- I counted 6 zoom in to someone saying a one or two word expression of fear and disbelief. No movie should have more than 2 unless it’s titled Zooming in on People Saying a One or Two Word Expression of Fear and Disbelief.

- There was pretty much zero character development for any of the Transformers except Bumblebee, and that’s only because he was in more of the movie than anyone else, and even then we just know he’s a scrappy do gooder since he can’t talk. Other than that we know Optimus Prime is a caring leader, Iron Hide is a stupid gun nut who wants to shoot everything (and I don’t mean gun nuts are stupid, the guy used any excuse to ask if it was ok for him to shoot something), Jazz speaks like a white poser (I swear to God, his first words are “What’s crackin’ little bitches?”), and Ratchet has no tact. Decepticons… man… Megatron was the only one with any development and as a Transformers fan I can tell you that it wasn’t Megatron, it was Galvatron. Just trust me, it makes sense.

- Was Bumblebee “lubricating” on John Turturro really necessary? This is a PG-13 movie and no one 13 or over should find that funny. I’m actually shocked that they got away with showing Bumblebee flipping open a hatch in his crotch to spray the lubricant.

- Megatron owns Optimus, it wasn’t even close. What the heck is up with that? The only reason Optimus should loose to Megatron is that Megatron fights dirty. Here though, fair fight and Optimus doesn’t stand a chance.

- The only thing great about the movie was getting Peter Cullen to voice Optimus Prime (but at the same time they loose points for skipping over Frank Welker for Megatron). And ok, the scene where Prime dispatches a Decepticon by cutting off his head was bad-ass!

Seriously, that’s me holding back. From a fan perspective it was outright stupid and lazy, from a non-fan’s it was just lame. But there is hope, a few positive reviews I’ve read from fans have the same feeling that the positive reviews for Star Wars Ep1 had. Where they seemed like they knew it was terrible but just hadn’t realized it yet, and then when it came out to rent and people started talking more and more about the flaws, they suddenly realized, “Wait a minute, that movies was crap!”

This is one of those movies that I think everyone should see at least once just to build up more anger and less tolerance for horrible, HUGE blockbuster movies. Especially ones that ruin already great stories.

Thursday, October 18, 2007

Danger just keeps on happening!



Not my style of musice but totaly my style of video!!!

Tuesday, October 16, 2007

JJ Abrams: Proof that I’m Not Completely Pompous

Despite what it may look like by my writings, I try to be completely open minded about movies and TV show. There are a very, very select few of them that I dislike so much that I think anyone who likes them is a complete idiot. Now this isn’t going to turn into me saying that I think anyone who like JJ Abrams is an idiot. Far from it, this is about me thinking JJ Abrams is a painfully over rated writer even though I’ve never seen anything he’s written/worked on, and yet I have had people agree with me when talking about him. People who think I have seen his stuff.

His big burst onto the scene was Alias (yes he worked on things here and there before this), which brought Jennifer Garner into our hearts, and eventually Ben Affleck’s bed. Now when I first heard about the show I really wanted to see it, but I got busy and before I knew it had ended up missing the first few seasons. But I did catch commercials from time to time and noticed something: Everyone in the show is lying and everyone changes from bad guy to good guy seemingly every season, giving a sense that no one knows where they want the show to go. I ran this past some people who I knew watched the show, and they all agreed with how contrived that bit of the show was.

Then came Lost, one of the highest rated network television shows ever. When I first heard about this show I again was really curious, but that’s because I originally thought it would be a mini-series. As soon as I found out it would be a regular series I didn’t even try to watch it. Why? Because the premise of the show is people trapped on an island. That’s it. Yes there’s weird stuff going on, but right away I knew that there’s no way they ‘d answer all the questions within the first season, and by halfway through the third season I would find myself yelling “I get it! They’re trapped on an island! Now tell me why!” Now despite the good things I’ve heard about the END of the third season, it appears (at least according to friends I have who are fans of the series) that they found themselves yelling "I get it, just tell me what's going on." And now they’re going to stretch it out to five seasons. I can’t imagine how many people will die from embolisms from the frustration before the series finale.

And now for the mother of it all. My most recent discovery where JJ Abrams makes me never want to give any of my time to anything he’s worked on. No not Mission Impossible 3 (which I heard was just painfully underwhelming). No, not his new unnamed monster movie (what kind of asshole takes this long to just tell people what his movie’s officially called!). No not even his new Star Trek movie about a young Captain Kirk. As it turns out, before Bryan Singer gave us a horrible Superman movie, JJ Abrams wrote a script that made Singer’s version look like the freakin’ Citizen Kane of super hero movies.

Now his planned Superman movie has been long leaked to the world, and blasted by the likes of Peter David, Kevin Smith, Stan Lee, and Mike Mignola, so I will actually not comment on it too much, but it needs to be known by more people just how bad it was. I will say however, if it weren’t a Superman movie, it’s actually a pretty intriguing idea.

In a rather large nut shell: Kal-El (Superman) is the son of Jor-El, the ruler of Krypton (this makes Superman a prince), is rocketed to earth so that one day he can return to free Krypton (which doesn’t get destroyed) from the evil Kryptonians and their robot army. He grows up normal on Earth until he discovers a container that holds a symbiotic battle suit (like Venom in Spider-Man, but it’s Superman’s costume) that gives him all of his powers (so he puts it on and takes it off a lot). As he appears on the scene, FBI Agent Lex Luthor, head of an FBI division that specializes in strange phenomenon (like in the X-Files) tries to convince his superiors that Superman is a dangerous alien who will turn on Earth and take it over, so they need to capture him. Luthor’s desires are shot down, in the meantime a couple evil Kryptonians finally track down Kal-El and show up on Earth. Luthor confronts them to reveal that he himself is a Kryptonian agent sent to gather information on Earth so that Krypton could conquer it with ease. So they team up and Superman must fight all three of them. Then there’s a big climatic fight scene at the end where an army of good and evil Kryptonians fight in the skies above earth. Not just fight, but using a form of Kryptonian flying martial arts, Sky-Fu if you will (I came up with that when going on this rant out loud one time. Feel free to use it).

One of the best things is that after getting blasted mercilessly, Abrams tried to defend himself saying that he didn’t want to make a Superman movie that was based on the comics. It’s freakin’ Superman!!! Show the S-shield to some kid in Malaysia and he’ll say “Superman!” He’s a global icon for THE good guy! Unless someone was pointing a gun to your head, there is no excuse for calling something that insipid, Superman.

Now do I think Mr. Abrams is completely incompetent? No. Just that up until this point he’s been ridiculously lucky. Heck, this “Cloverfield” and Star Trek movie could actually be good. But it’s sad how right I have been so far without ever seeing anything he’s worked on.

Tuesday, October 2, 2007

Kaiju Big Battel: Danger Happened!!!

This Blog is specifically for my Kaiju lovin’ co-horts out there. So if you’re just outright confused click on the link I have posted for Kaiju Big Battel and join in the fun.

For those of you looking at these from the Kaiju page, enjoy!

Note: I post on the message boards there as Bones666, a really old handle I used to use. Anyways, somewhere over there I posted a breakdown of what is below.




Friday, September 28, 2007

The Joys of Text Messaging

The following is a text conversation I had with my friend Chuck.

CHUCK: Anyone talk to J lately? Is his phone off?

ME: He sent a mass txt last Friday. That's the last I've heard from him.

CHUCK: Last I talked to him was Sunday. Maybe the American Gladiators got ahold of him.

ME: I blame the deaf chick.

CHUCK: Deaf chick?

ME: One of the female gladiators was a deaf chick.

CHUCK: Deaf rapists can't hear you say "no."

Goodnight everybody!

Tuesday, September 25, 2007

Heroes From Our Past - Not Just a Kick Ass Dropkick Murphys Song

Subject: Marcel Marceau
The world’s most famous mime ever passed away this past weekend and like most I passed it off as the loss of an entertainer who entertained millions, just not me. I knew he was a mime, I knew that as a further sign of Mel Brooks’ genius he had the only speaking role in Silent Movie. Then I started hearing odd things here and there about him and with a little research discovered he was a hero.

Since anyone can look up this stuff for themselves, I will keep it brief.

Marcel Marceau was Jewish and living in France during World War II where his father was arrested and later murdered at Auschwitz, even before that happened Marcel was already working with the French Underground, notably working as a direct liaison with General Patton.

I haven’t done any more research into his war record, but for my money, the French Underground was incredibly brave and integral in the defeat of the Nazis and therefore mime or not, Marcel Marceau was indeed a hero.

Friday, September 21, 2007

It's Just How I Roll

Like nearly every other blogger out there I plan to write a review from time to time, however I’d like to establish a familiarity to my style/thinking so to save me from explaining certain things over and over again when I write one.

I try to keep an open mind about things. I realize that my opinions are just that, my opinions and I always try my hardest to present them either in a fun way or very matter of fact to insure that it’s very clear why I feel a certain way. On that same note I realize not every movie/book/TV show is designed to win an award. Casablanca is one of my all time favorite movies, but so is Army of Darkness. Clearly the first is deserving of accolades while the other is pure mindless entertainment gold. But again, there isn’t a single movie in the world that everybody thinks is perfect.

What follows is a quick breakdown for the different genres I will be touching on from time to time:

Movies
Movies are my strongest passion and to me what makes a great movie is one where all the key players convey their own passion for the material. Also the things absolutely necessary for me to enjoy a movie are first off the writing, that the story actually be either well thought out whether it be gripping or just genuinely fun(ny). Second then is the acting as I want to feel like the people who were paid to entertain me actually cared about what they were doing. Where directing, special effects, etc. falls all depends on how the first two do. There are some movies that are great stories but don’t have a noticeable directed style so it’s pointless to fixate on it. See, that’s simple enough.

Comics
My second passion; comics, and yes it is a legitimate form of literature. Comics have come a long way from the Golden Age/Silver Age which is often considered hokey and geared towards kids. Yes in books you have to craft an image with words so that the reader’s mind can see what you want them to, but with comics a writer and artist together (sometimes both the same person) actually show you their story in beautiful panels of ink that can make your jaw drop. I always judge comics on those two things separately: the story (does it flow well, does it make sense, was it pretentious) and then the art (does it convey the story well, does it fit the mood, is it pretentious). True either one can make or break a book, but the story is the reason I actually want to read the book.

Books
The written word is powerful, and I love feeling that power. There are few things better than reading a book and not being able to put it down because you care about characters that are typed out in front of you. To me a good book has to be able to do that. I want to feel like the author actually cares about his creations, not just throwing a story together with a bunch of facts he/she happened to read about while writing the book and trying to seem smart (::cough::DanBrown::cough::).

I won’t touch on music since even though I feel passionate about music, too, I don’t really like writing about it. And as for TV shows, we’ll see, but it falls along a lot of the same lines as Movies.

Obviously feel free to agree or disagree, just be clear as to why, not some stupid High School or IMDB comment like:

Rand0mIdi0t69: The Day the Earth Stood Still, sucked!

MrSensible: Why do you say that?

Rand0mIdi0t69: Because it did!

Seriously, IMDB makes me consider forcibly regulating internet access, however it does give all the spazzes somewhere to go and leave me alone.

Wednesday, September 19, 2007

A Probin' We Will Go


Alien: Well since this is your first time I suppose I can let you choose which one you get first.

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Toyfare (a magazine about toys) used to do these things called "Big Shots" in their price guide. They were one panel comics of pretty much random toys thrown in front of strange backgrounds and then had funny (sometimes not) speech balloons or captions. They also had a "Caption This" contest every month with just a picture and then fans went on-line to come up with the funniest caption (they still do this every now and then). This developed into what's known as Twisted Toyfare Theater, which then paved way for the Adult Swim show, Robot Chicken (two of the producers are in fact former employees of Toyfare who worked on Twisted Toyfare Theater).

Anyways I was going through some stuff and came across this Alien figure (from Hellboy) and this shot immediately popped into my head. Unfortunately I didn't have anything to use for a back drop so there's a horrible shadow. Oh well. Feel free to post a funny comment of your own. And yes that is a Tuskernini figure from Darkwing Duck.

Tuesday, September 18, 2007

I'm an "Uncle"



Last Wed. (9/12/07), Hayden Michael Rollins was welcomed into the world (at 7lbs. 13oz, 21" for those who may ask). He is the child of my best friend Mike and his girlfriend Lauralye. Mike and I have been best friends since 8th grade and I couldn't be happier for him and Lauralye. I myself can't stop beaming over the fact that I'm going to be able to help them raise this child.

I think it's funny that me and the four guys I consider brothers all have something that can be refered to as "God's way of compensating" for the often stupid things we do. I'm ridiculously knowledgable of pop culture. Caleb (who actually is my brother) is ridiculously book smart. J is a crazy good chef. Chuck is hands down the most genuinely nice person I have ever known. And Mike is great with kids.

And one more for the road. Welcome to Earth, little buddy:



Failing to Succeed

As an inspiring writer and a fan of most pop-culture a recent major pet peeve of mine is Hollywood’s ability to fail spectacularly at the simplest of tasks, making a movie or television series based on a long standing pre-existing property.

Movies based on pre-existing properties, stories and characters that have been well established in the media for years, should be ridiculously easy to make in a way that will appease almost everyone. The formula and characters are already are there, all you have to do is translate it to a 2-3 hour screenplay (as the case is these days). Now I understand the need to modernize things, maybe give it updated little twists, but what you shouldn’t do is change everything but the most basic of things like names. At that point it’s no longer a re-imaging; it’s a new idea that simply plagiarizes some characters and story elements.

This past summer of 2007 we were given the big one, Transformers. I will admit that I have not seen this movie yet, but it’s because nothing other than the name appeals to me. The story; almost completely different from the cartoon. The characters; almost completely unrecognizable as the characters I loved as a child. As robots, they no longer look like they should transform into cars and trucks, which was one of the greatest appeals of the show. And the worst part, Michael Bay could not stop talking about how he was a huge fan of Transformers. Saying this has become a warning sign that the movie will have little to do with the source material, just look at Aliens Vs Predator. In recent months I’ve discovered that Bay’s incompetence went deeper than just making the Transformers look stupid. Originally none of them were going to be able to speak English, just beep and what not to communicate with each other (apparently this idea was kept for Bumblebee) and Optimus Prime’s trademark windshield chest plate was no where to be seen, leaving only his head to make him recognizable as Optimus Prime (though eventually they got Peter Cullen to do the voice, the only saving grace for my part). Fortunately Hasbro/Takara (the toy company that owns the rights to the Transformers universe) put a stop to this.

The reviews I’ve read have relaxed my apprehension about this movie being remembered as an outstanding action flick as they ring with the all too familiar feelings of reviews of Star Wars Episode I after it came out. Where even when talking about the things they liked about the movie it is all stuff that’s related to insignificant things that have nothing to do with the actual story, and even then are hollow and defensive. So with any luck like Star Wars Episode I, in about two years people who loved it will start to realize that it actually is terribly flawed in the exact same ways.

Now because of Transformers we’re getting a GI Joe movie. The idea of GI Joe has been around long before I was born (1942). And what is the full title for GI Joe, boys and girls? It’s “GI Joe: A Real American Hero.” My putting “American” in bold should give you an idea of what the main idea for the movie is: GI Joe is now a multi national task force based in Brussels. And so far that’s all we really know about the movie. There are a few rumors that make it seem like they’re combining Cobra Commander and Destro into one character, but that’s just a rumor for now, but that doesn’t matter since already they took a basic concept and absolutely ruined it in the simplest way possible, just to make it appeal to a worldwide market more. So at this point even if Steven Sommers wasn’t directing it (he wrote and directed Van Helsing, the first movie that I can ever remember turning off because it was so bad), I do not want to see it because it will not be GI Joe in anyway other than the name.

Now a note on television series. I have not seen it yet, but I hear that aside from some down time now and then, Battlestar Galactica got it right (I saw the pilot/movie and was very unimpressed so I didn’t hop on the series that apparently got really good really fast). This opened up doors and now we’re getting things like Flash Gordon and The Bionic Woman. While the pilot of Bionic Woman is out there, I haven’t seen that yet, but already the head writer/producer has quit due to the network and other producers ruining his vision. Not a good sign. But the main thing I wanted to address if Flash Gordon.

Flash Gordon is another property that’s been around longer than I have (1934) and was a great adventure series involving space ships, aliens, alien worlds, and heroes fighting odds far greater than themselves. So a remake using the same formula as Battlestar Galactica would be awesome, right? Yeah, that would’ve worked if they did that. Instead we get a story about a long distance runner in a small town who randomly jumps back and forth to a planet called Mongo via a very Sliders like mechanism. No space ships. No huge laser gun fights. And the main villain just does not have the presence to be called Ming the Merciless. Just average looking blond guy, no Machiavellian appearance at all! I will say this, the acting is very good, it’s everything else that sucks.

So Hollywood I’m going to give you something free of charge. Go ahead and take the idea and run with it. And keep in mind I’m writing this as I think about it, I originally planned to write something about the A-Team but came up with this just now.

Knight Rider: The Movie. Michael Knight and his wife, Katie “Kitt” Knight, are scientists working on a massive AI program that uses pre-existing brain patterns of a living person. The company funding them is actually a front for a massive illegal arms merchant specializing in high tech weaponry, hoping that the Knights’ new computer system will be their biggest money maker ever. After stumbling on this, the Knights’ try to escape with their research, only to be killed, or so it would seem. They barely survive the explosion designed to kill them in an “accident,” but Kitt is barely breathing, but gives Michael enough time to transfer her thought patterns into the onboard computer of a prototype car they originally thought was being designed for police. Together again now as a man thought dead and a car with sophisticated machinery and non-lethal weapons, they set out to get bring down the corporation that tried to kill them, and who’s very existence threatens the American way. Just think about it: Car chases, techno babble, a non-lethal weapons system on the hero making it more marketable to younger viewers.

It’ll be a gold mine. And for the grown-ups there’ll be a tender moment in the movie where they stop thinking about their mission and give into their deep, true love that they still have for each other, expressing it in the most pure and beautiful physical way possible; Michael fucks the car (this has to be done with implication shots since it will be PG-13). It has to be edgy, you know.

Monday, September 17, 2007

Putting it to rest

As the few people who still look at it already know, AnotherDarkHole is pretty much dead. I haven't updated it in over a year and a half. It's not that I or any of those who wrote for me have run out of things to say, I just don't have the time to do all the file managing required for that page. As I so often point out, that may not be the case if I knew anything about HTML or webpage building in general.

But what I do know is how to have fun. At least I think I do. Or hope. No, think. Hope is mankind's folley, and thought I'm not sure what that has to do sound effects, I'm certainly not a party to it.

So now I will do my thing here instead. I still have a MySpace page for ADH that I check, but pretty much never use it so, here's the place to be. It was a really fun ride working with my brother and a few of our friends just to try and make people smile, developing from a completely disorganized mess of a personal page to a completely disorganized mess of a comedy page. I look back at my first works and just shake my head. It's almost as bad as when I look at stuff I wrote in high school that I thought was amazing at the time.

Oh well, time to have fun.