Watched BLADE RUNNER 2049 last night with a friend and it was so fucking long!! 2h 43m long to be exact. I cannot say whether I thought it was long because the beats came late or whether it was because it had me scoffing at certain character dynamics and some of the ideas featured on-screen. As far as sequels are concerned — especially in this entertainment climate of reboots and remakes — BLADE RUNNER 2049 is near perfect.
Harrison Ford punched Ryan Gosling for real while shooting a scene in Blade Runner 2049.
Forget the action packed trailer however because this narrative is a slow burn (a noir mystery about a missing child and the existential crisis the case triggers in its investigating agent).
[What follows is just me ranting, cause I do that, plus spoilers] The ambiance was 100% faithful to the original film’s vision, save for the absence of ethnicity and lame holograms, I must say however. They were either blatantly promoting a real-world brand name or showing someone in performance like a dancing ballerina or a singing Frank Sinatra or Elvis Presley. Political correctness on show with no space for creativity or (any) cultural diversity as there was in the first film. This to me just painted BLADE RUNNER 2049’s world (the future) as being really uninspired and boring. What ever happened to the visual artists or innovative advertisers of the future, and surely people would still do things like extreme sports or have festivals and local gigs. But nooooo, what we are supposedly treated to are cool, advance holograms that are unambiguous and mainstream which is ultimately ineffective and nonsensical world-building, suffice it to say that yeah the future will probably be OK with nudity and have proximity sensitive holograms. Titillating ideas for those not familiar with sci-fi, I suppose. But who, what type of people were those lame holograms for? BLADE RUNNER 2049 is an intelligent tale to be sure but for this tiny subliminal gripe (not showing enough humanity) it loses recommendation points from me. Continue reading ‘BLADE RUNNERING TIME 2:0493 [F]’
Sonoma resident Matthew McDermott captures video of a tree being hollowed out by wildfire in Schellville, California, October 9. McDermott was driving in Schellville where he and his friend Trevor Bach spotted the fire and pulled over to have a closer look. Sonoma County was affected by “The Tubbs Fire” as it spread from Napa County on Sunday night, October 8. By Wednesday morning, the fire, one of more than a dozen in northern California, had spread to 28,000 acres. With thousands of structure threatened, dozens of neighborhoods have been evacuated. Tubbs has already destroyed 550 homes and 21 businesses. [Credit: Matthew McDermott via Storyful]
Get all your shit together, Merica, this was not schwifty at all, lol. It was just dipping sauce after all. Re-released based off of a throwaway gag from a cartoon McDonald’s underestimated anyone (#fandom) genuinely loved while they cashed-in for negative but invaluable publicity fuck!! For realsies though, this shit is amusing, like Pokémon Go all over again only more retarded [adjective: informal / offensive. Very foolish or stupid]. Because you know, it’s only the second-largest fast food restaurant chain in the world, you’d think they could handle supplying a little more than a few packets in an hour. But also, surely once you hear a place is out of a thing, wouldn’t any sort of loitering or rallying be completely redundant. Are people really that naive to how things work? Maybe cartoons and eating and laughing it off afterwards is all there is to life for some. Hmmm…
Angry crowd chants "We want sauce" as police force them back. 1000+ people camped out to get #szechuansauce but McDonalds had 70 sauces… pic.twitter.com/wEaqC64Hln
McDonald’s first issued Szechuan sauce as part of a tie-in with Disney’s 1998 movie, Mulan. In a press release, a company representative confirmed the sauce would be available in “limited quantities for alimited run available in restaurant for one day only.”
The move may seem odd for those who haven’t been paying attention to Rick and Morty or Rick and Morty co-creator Justin Roiland’s Twitter account. A joke about Szechuan sauce was included in Rick and Morty’s season three premiere. The internet became aflame with demands for McDonald’s to bring back the limited-time sauce.
Fans of the show may get their opportunity to taste Rick’s hype after all — see below:
OCTOBER 7, 2017 @ 2:00 PM
Each McDonald’s in the location finder will give away limited-edition posters and stickers, while supplies last; only the McDonald’s locations labeled “Szechuan Available” will be giving away Szechuan Sauce, while supplies last.
There was no official word on whether the sauce was brought back specifically because of Rick and Morty, but it’s better to believe this was the case, no? This isn’t ad hoc basis is it?
I had recently been scouted to audition for a supporting speaking role in an upcoming feature film, due in part to my looks. You can imagine how surprised I was to learn this, and of course I accepted the opportunity to try. The catch (I suppose); I had FIVE pages of dialogue to memorize and deliver in a standard American accent. I am not at liberty to divulge details beyond that I do not think, but I will say that it will be a live-action adaptation of a beloved classic that is going to be internationally popular.
I found myself gesturing a lot when I was practicing so it was less stressful on the day of my appointment when it was encouraged of me to do my audition/reading as I rehearsed it. I had fun. We must have gone over it at least five times because I chocked on my first two read-throughs LOL. Yeah… Probably not a thing any casting agent wants to see or hear about but hey, they knew what they were getting when they sent the call out I suppose (*cough my handsome face cough*), and hopefully they see the character in me too, because how cool would that be.
I’ll just leave this here:
Written by Wang Jingping / Li Yong / Composer Matthew Wilder.
Filmmaker KOJER painstakingly rotoscoped characters and objects from Spirited Away, My Neighbor Totoro and other Studio Ghibli films, then composited the animation over live footage. The scale is off at times, but we still want to live in that world:
BGM : https://goo.gl/bwTaFl (xclassicalcatx – Spiríted Away: One Summer’s Day (Viola Cover)
Ahhh the sweet, nostalgic sounds of unbridled horniness. Here’s a fun fact, that melodic guitar riff is a sampling of a Red Hot Chili Peppers track. So credit where credit is due, you know how it goes — “Pretty Little Ditty” from the Red Hot Chili Peppers‘ 1989 album Mother’s Milk. Which means that everyone holding an instrument in the video above is 100% a poser lol
Fun fact — a group of a hummingbirds is called a charm. Youtuber WildWingsLA has a special bubbling birdbath setup specifically for hummingbirds outside their Beverly Hills home. Known for being territorial, it’s rare to see so many birds at once, but at times the frame fills with dozens of them:
A record 30 hummingbirds bathe together at one time during this morning’s wash! You’d never know they will be harassing each other in five minutes’ time…
Todd McFarlane shares his career as a comic book artist that includes making Spider-Man cooler and creating the Spawn character. He also shares his blueprint to launching Image Comics and McFarlane Toys. He sat down with Complex to share tons of practical tips for success based on his passion and experience:
If you can’t be in the live audience at SKYCITY Auckland this Saturday, August 12, you can watch the Grand Final live on Bravo from 8 p.m.! You can also check in on http://nextmissnz.com/ where they will stream the Grand Final live online.
And I have to rep this chick of course because she’s awesome! Goodluck 😀
UPDATE: She won herself a crown! Form 200 candidates to Top 20 to Top 3, congratulations Shek Delos Santos 2nd Runner Up of Miss Universe New Zealand 2017. And mad congrats to the new Miss Universe New Zealand 2017 Harlem-Cruz Atarangi Ihaia
Now that that’s over, I feel safe saying how cringe the televising of it was XD In dire need of a revamp and culling on the old conservative (boring) fashioned middle aged men representing MUNZ, me thinks. But that’s just me and my mixed feeling on the whole thing. As for Shekinah the and all contestants, way to go!
When I was sweeping behind the cold kitchen bar, she was filling a glass jug with the unused soy-sauce from the tipping pots. That’s when I saw a camera flash go off behind her and the man who took it. A photo of her. I let it go then. I suppose I was taken-aback by the man’s shamelessness, and not in a funny Frank Gallagher-esq way. I had to calmly walk into the hot kitchen where no one could see me, and lean on the bench with my head cradled in my folded arms to hide the contempt in my face. Fists clenched. I heard Carlos behind me refitting the stove elements, and before he left he said to me, “don’t cry my friend.” We lol’d about it afterwards, but at the time, I was just really fucking pissed with that shady fucking customer.
I collected myself and went back out, only to see another flash go off again and him with his camera phone so obviously pointed at Harriet’s derriere. When she went behind the kitchen to deliver the tipping pots for rinsing, I met with the man face to face and confronted him about the nature of his snap happy antics (fully aware he was a dirty fucking pervert anyway) and his response to me was that “it was for facebook.” What a chump. A pathetic fucking excuse, yes, and also one that doesn’t actually lend itself to being less creepy — the moron. I grilled him before finally posing the simple question, of which I knew he wasn’t going to be able to answer, “so why didn’t you take a selfie instead?” He went on about going to the bar area and something about me being in the photo with him, really though, I switched off because he was being verbose. I starred at him (possible resting-bitch-face) before simply leaving him mid-sentence. I was prepared to fuck his shit up. Too close. Pity got in the way I think. Maybe I should have… IDGAF
The only thing I feel remotely satisfied with is how I had gotten across to him that I had Harriet’s back, the burnout fuck. There were no more flashes after that. I had expected him to leave. But the man had moved from his table to strike up a conversation with the Maître D’ manager at the front desk and stayed by his side conversing the rest of the night, right up to when I had signed-out and was ready to go home. A strategic move on his part, perhaps. Or just saving face. I had a quiet word with the girl who was unaware of the man’s shadiness, which I must admit put me in a peculiar frame of mind; if she was blissfully unaware of him, would not telling her have been better? I know what went down. The man knows that I know what went down. The manger WILL know of him tomorrow. But is her knowing just making the day longer for her? Why did I even get involved? Was it for me or her? Whose character is shaped more by the exchange or are we all just the same? Being sensitive is a right burden sometimes. Fucking people, amiright! Got me feeling like Dr. Manhattan, minus the cosmic powers.
Harriet is sweet. Man was a degenerate. I’m discombobulated. All three the same now as we were before. Has something profound and/or subtle changed or are such social interactions merely a means to retain the status quo of social normality between strangers? If this were a video game I’d pickpocket his phone and wallet and gift it as recompense. Maybe hire the thieves guild to do some digging, then maybe pay some spellcaster to turn me into a werewolf so I could claw his dick off with my pinky. H-o-w-e-v-e-r in RL, all I can warrant is an equal reaction otherwise I’m the degenerate. The fucking minor. I do wonder how much of a deal this is to Harriet though. Her opinion could subdue my thoughts somewhat.
The title (I do pride myself on titles) is a reference to a 1996 Nickelodeon movie (their first), Harriet the Spy, an American family comedy-drama film based on the 1964 novel of the same name by Louise Fitzhugh. I remember liking this movie when I saw it to the point of actually carrying a magnifying glass around with me. I was already an avid journaler by then too (future blog post perhaps). Youthful innocence ohh how I miss thee .·´¯`(>▂<)´¯`·.
Lily Ki a.k.a. LilyPichu, wanders the corridors at IndyPopCon finding unsuspecting cosplayers to follow while she lovingly plays them their respective theme tunes on her melodica (blow-organ). I personally would love to have a soundtrack follow me wherever I went. Lily bolts when she has been made though. I like this:
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