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It's Time

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If This Keeps Up, We'll All Be Dead Soon.

And with that I'll take a sip of fine single malt Scotch Whisky (just because), put on Tom Waits "Time" and try to enjoy the view.

09 was really one of the best years of my life.

Hugs from Oakland California.

The Art Of Parties

Cornelius

This Is Better Than Avatar

I Hate Avatar

So...defying conventional wisdom which would dictate that I STAY IN FUCKING bed, I cursed the cabin fever sprits, threw caution to the wind and went to see Avatar this morn. My kind boss wanted to go see it, and being we both work in this effects saturated industry we went with the attitude that we were on a fact finding mission. Plus this bitch was in 3-D IMAX, which I was hoping would be like a Pink Floyd Lazerium show san the bong loads.

I was wrong.

Nothing new from the king of grump here. I expected to hate it. I fucking hated it.

If you have a mild intelligence you already know this film sucks balls, but I'll parse it down into easily digestible bullet points so you can avoid all other long winded reviews. (Warning: some spoilers ahead)

The Good.

1. The whole world was rendered beautifully, from industrial and environmental to creature design. Certainly not worth the ticket price, but it was fun to see. I guess? Maybe not.

2. Ummmm..the main Marine leader was a good bad ass. He said things like "Lets make this happen people! I want to be home by dinner!"

3. Ummmmmmm....Dragons flew around. That was cool. Riding Dragons rules.

The Bad

1. The inane thematic undercurrent of CORPORATION=BAD, INDIGENOUS OPPRESSED PEOPLE=GOOD.

2. The Ewok "spooky/mystical/Earth Mother/GAIA dance at the end.

3. Remember how dumb the Blue Cat People looked in the trailer?

4. Re re-use of the Titanic theme song. Seriously.

5. Dances With Blue Cat People

6. Cameron's obligatory bad ass latino female marine.

7. The main character arc must have been written by a computer? (IE: Snarky Marine wise guy {transforms into} the humbled by the naturalistic beauty of THE OPPRESSED BLUE CAT PEOPLE guy {transforms into} the Fallen From Grace Guy/ I Now Have No People Guy {transforms into} The One.

8. The subtitle typography! Yes Im bitching about the typography. Vomit.

9. Can anyone say Rich White Man Guilt?

10. Yet another dumb "authentic" made up language that some insufferable shit wipe is going to learn/ then post to Buzz Feed.

And related..3-D sucks balls.

Fever. Virus.

So, for the last 4 days my body has been attacked by some kind of ugly flu strain, keeping me at home, entrenched in the covers.  I did download "Inglorious Basterds" on the iPhone and had a tech moment...kinda like the little kid reading under the covers with a flashlight, except Im an old kid and the illumination is now Lithium generated, but still..same spirit.

I did try to work on a very odd song that Im starting to sculpt on with my pal Ler...we are swapping files via FTP in the hope of creating an albums worth of well, oddness. But the flu shut that one down pretty quick...trying to get a tempo to match when your body feels like it's made of rubber is "interesting". I'll face it this week...should be fun. And of course I hope to return to the MBO studio to finish this damn EP! Hopefully this week...

Fuck me..Im dizzy

Good nite MBO land.

Me And You

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So Im going to migrate this Blogger account to a new WordPress system. This may make things a bit shaky around here while this is going on...

Chances are Ill fuck it all up...

But I'm done with Blogger..

Thank you, please drive through...

"You Aint Gonna Make It With Anyone Anyhow.."

Brains. Redo