BOOOOM [Liam]

The first Sin City trailer is now out...
I'd say thus far it looks to be about the most faithful comic-to-movie translation ever attempted (even the shot composition matches the books).

I'm so going on like opening day, first showing.
I am going to watch the hell out of this movie.

HO HO HO / merry xmas [Liam]

AdventuresOf LBo: i haven't slept much

AdventuresOf LBo: and like it's not that i had a real statement to make

AdventuresOf LBo: i just felt like drawing that

flapjak88: haha

flapjak88: wow, that is random

It's n00z to me at least. [Lester]

For the past 3 months or so I've been making after-work screwdrivers with a bottle of smirnoff orange, you know, to calm my nerves after a long day of dick-slapping media buyers and leaving red mushroom welts on faces. A girthy shiitake, if you will.

So as I was cooking Christmas Eve dinner, I went to fix myself another and moms informed me that she'd emptied the bottle months earlier and had filled it with cooking wine.

WTF!!!!111 That means about 50% of my alcohol consumption since August has been chinese cooking wine + OJ.

Questions:
1) Why didn't I ever notice?
2) Why don't more people drink cooking wine and OJ?
3) Who would keep vodka next to the soy sauce and still think it was vodka?
4) Do chinese people not believe in mason jars?
5) Why don't more people drink cooking wine and OJ?
6) Who drank my fucking vodka in the first place?

I need to know these things.

As an aside, Pilan had a dream about me.

Pilan: haha, i had a dream last night that you shot someone
Pilan: while me you and someone else were robbing like a target/sears/other big store
Pilan: and you wanted to steal guns and money
Pilan: so you got guns from the guy at the gun counter then shot him, and the you knew exactly how to shoot him so that no one could tell that he was dead
Pilan: so he was just there on the coutner and no one else in the store knew what was goin on
Pilan: then you took the money and we left, except cedric was working there
Pilan: so i had to call him later and tell him not to say anything
Pilan: there was some other stuff too, but i dont remember
Pilan: yea
Pilan: so it just looked like he was leaning over the counter
Pilan: it was almost like you tranq-ed him
Pilan: but you really shot him

hella. ninja. skirrz. uknowhumsayin'?

Welcome Back Kotter [Lester]

Commence operation shutdown http://www.gamershomepage.com/oskiblog with transition to teh n00z. (But only because posting my mug to every post on my own website would be narcissistic.)

and Merry Christmas everyone!! I can say this fully knowing that I won't be blasted for PC'ness because:
1) Chanukah/Hannukah 2k5 is already over.
2) Five of the six African Americans who celebrate Kwanzaa are kept off of the internet by the gubment. The sixth is of course, me.

icons! [Liam]

in my never-ending quest to add personality to brog-2, i bring you... icons!




right now i've adjusted the template so it will automatically post each user's icon on the side of their post... i apologize for these pics, i wanted to try it out so i scrounged out whatever i could on my hd and the intar-web. be optimistic. sure, right now ben looks a teensy bit like a wanted terrorist, dbo's pic is not from this decade, and i look like i'm auditioning for a bad cop show, but with YOUR HELP these can be the shiznit! send me the pic you want, with any special demands, by snail mail or email or URL or anything... sorry matt as of now i couldn't even track one down of you (but it WILL be from the usc indian dance if i don't get anything before returning to the office on monday)... anyway tada new feature i should go to sleep

daaaaamn [Liam]

BELFAST, Northern Ireland (AP) -- The gang that held two bankers' families hostage as part of an audacious $39 million robbery in Belfast posed as police officers and walked into their victims' homes, neighbors said.

...security experts said the scale and sophistication of the Northern Bank break-in -- involving up to two dozen gang members and months of intelligence gathering -- pointed to the IRA.
Full Story (CNN.com)


i mean-- daaaaamn.

That's one of the most hardcore things I've ever heard in the news.

Dropping my debut post [Ben]

Well, I just received my midget-sized spinning medallion and 2.0 Signature Line velour, so it's official. As the newest member of teh n00z I'll be assaulting you all with poorly conceived and self-righteous political commentary, mundane observations about whatever, and weekly gardening tips. For your enjoyment, these tidbits will be composed in varying states of inebriation. Most 'good' writers rely on alcoholism for credibility, and if anyone's looking for an easy way out, it's me. Additionally, I think the chic white on black redesign is going to lend some much needed indy-gravitas to whatever I manage to spew here.

Bonus gardening tip: Opium poppies thrive in third world countries with fragile, fledgling democracies. Thanks to the United States' spastic and spectacularly unsuccessful War on Drugz, it's possible to enjoy beautiful foliage and financial windfall simultaneously. Muslim extremists, take a moment to contemplate the aesthetic pleasures of poppy cultivation--there's more to this plucky little flower than it's utility in financing your murderous campaign against books and bare female flesh.

For more information about opium poppies and why every politician in the US should go drown themselves, read this: http://slate.msn.com/id/2110987/.

ong bak [Liam]

ok so today i saw blade trinity, which i dare say was one of the worst action movies i've ever seen. it was so stupid that i seriously almost left the theatre. there's this silly emphasis on flossy CG and poorly choreographed amateurs now that has been hanging around stinking up the place ever since the wachowski brothers dropped their steaming heap of matrix on the planet, and blade: trinity is an example of the horrible, derivative aftermath that comes from using that as your starting point. it's as if in order to properly mimic the modern xXx / matrix formula they had to downplay the excellent fight choreography that wesley snipes pulled off in the original in favor of giving jessica biel's character a self-assembling robotic laser bow (no lie). beyond this, the movie as a whole is just shoddily directed in a way that honestly suggests people in hollywood really don't respect their audience very much.
but i digress... that's not what i came here to talk about.

i just stumbled across a trailer for something that looks exactly what i need in my action diet. it's a thai flick called Ong Bak, featuring future breakout Tony Jaa as some dude who kicks people in the face.

check this teaser out for reference and i'll continue

imagine a dude who has the crazy "no wires / no special effects" moves of jackie chan without the comic softness that has found its way in after decades of stardom (actually it's said he could be better). someone who will look like he's kicking ass on $0 of budget because he is in fact quite physically capable of kicking ass. that's what i'm talkin bout blogga! (ok it's late)that's what action as a genre needs.

apparently even outside the second ong bak trailer through which i was introduced to all this earlier in the week (TRAILER 2 - christ watch him go under that truck, or kick that guy's legs out from under him) people seem to agree that he is in fact on his way to being the next bruce-level action star. i already hope they're right. sorry keanu.

And just so you know I'm not endorsing out of my ass (this is from the toronto star):

French director Luc Besson has already put the stamp of approval on Ong-Bak by purchasing the world-wide rights for the film. Besson is currently producing the film's sequel, starring Jaa, in Thailand, but rumour has it he'll attend the midnight madness screening in Toronto.

and here's a couple brief excerpts from what Aint' it Cool News had to say:

Ong-Bak kicks the living shit out of every martial arts movie made in the last ten years. Every. Single. One. This thing makes Iron Monkey look like god-damned Gymkata. Fuck! A coherent review is impossible right now. I'll try, but it's probably just going to devolve into "And then he... with the... and then the guy... holy shit! With his legs on fucking fire!!!"

...

Let me say that again, in case you thought I was off my head or exaggerating or something you know the one, all the legends have it. That sequence in the club where Ting wipes the floor with the hand-picked champs, finishing off with the punk-wannabe bad-ass who even makes the ring announcer recoil in fear and horror when he steps up... or the blow that finally takes out Zmed... this guy has it. HE HAS IT.

in other words, BOOOOOOM.
btw if anybody knows a good site / wants to chip in on the shipping for an outside-the-US copy, lemme know b/c i'm all about that

random post sleepydrinkfreewritewoo [Liam]

me and union city brian just got Creative Labs MuVo tx mp3 players... some james bond type shit for listening to music while... hm... now that i have it i realize i don't really have very many portable music needs. i'm sure eventually i'll find a way to incorporate it into day-to-day activities.
just like drinking. speaking of which--
i found a tasty $5 wine at trader joe's. it's a rosemount estate grenache/shiraz... never tried grenache but i've always been a shiraz fan and rosemount's aussie ass makes a decent shiraz if you happen to be wine shopping at safeway. the wine has cherry overtones, which is printed on the label but also really jumps out at you when you drink it. mmm lemme check yep still there.
anyhoo
ben blue is finalizing talks to become the next occasional-poster recruit of broG-unit inc. i scanned $20 and my counterfeit watch which will be emailed to him as a signing bonus. get ready for that and also a hot new post by matt which will be hitting the streets sometime soon (also i swear i'm gonna finish this half-assed graphical rennovation this week).
i've started a "visual away message" campaign, based on the commercial break stills employed by rescue rangers and other such top-tier disney afternoon cartoons from back in the day. I probably proudly IMed it to you already but here's the first:


I think that's probably it for now. I should be sleeping.
oh yeah also i'm gonna throw some flash content up here when i get around to it, i've been using my mp3 player to record voice snippets for my first "the real diocese" documentary toon, which will hopefully be dope.