Should You Comment On That Facebook Status Update?

Not sure if you should leave a comment on someone’s Facebook Status?
Here’s a chart that may help you out:

Should You Comment On This Facebook Status Update? (via AlanaTaylor.com)

Acoustic Metric EP Unplugged

5 new acoustic tracks from Metric:

stream the songs (and videos) for free.

Remember Jean-Claude Van Damme?

You do? Well…do you remember liking any of his movies? Because I don’t. And I never thought I would say this, but:

I want to see the next Jean-Claude Van Damme movie.

JCVD (click for trailer)

(a quick update because I haven’t completely given up on this blog…even though I have tons of other web-related stuff going on at the moment.)

Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog

The widget wasn’t working out for me, so here’s a direct link to the site:

Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog

Starring: Neil Patrick Harris as Dr. Horrible, Nathan Fillion as Captain Hammer, Felicia Day as Penny
Screenplay By: Joss Whedon, Maurissa Tancharoen, Jed Whedon, and Zack Whedon
Directed By: Joss Whedon
Produced By: David Burns, Michael Boretz, and Joss Whedon
Plot Outline: The story of a low-rent super-villain, the hero who keeps beating him up, and the cute girl from the laundromat he’s too shy to talk to.

Music by: Joss Whedon and Jed Whedon
Lyrics by: Joss Whedon, Jed Whedon, and Maurissa Tancharoen
Score and Orchestration by: Jed Whedon

more Tower Defense flash games

If the hits on my post about Onslaught 2 are correct, then a decent number of you have apparently been letting flash games eat away your time. Here are a few more that have kept me occupied for way longer than I should have let them.

Budapest Defenders:

Budapest Defenders by TNT

Molotov cocktails, machine guns, snipers and roadblocks with enemies coming from multiple directions. I just wish the graphics were as slick as the intro page.

Turret Tyranny:

Turret Tyranny by Matt Jones

Freeze guns, obstacles that block your shots and evil space bubbles give this one a unique twist. I never got too far on this one though.

Vector TD X:

Vector TD X by David Scott

Two different enemy paths make this one even more addicting than the original Vector TD, which I liked quite a bit. The graphics might not be for everyone, but they remind me of Tron and I dig ‘em.

the freedom to choose Devo

 

It seems that some of you have discovered my set of “Top 80s” posts by searching for Devo. Maybe the recent interest has something to do with these new bits of information:

Devo recorded a new song titled “Watch Us Work It,” which was featured in a commercial for Dell. The band has announced in a July 23, 2007, MySpace bulletin that a full length music video for the song is forthcoming. Casale said that this song was chosen from a batch of songs that the band was working on, and that also this is the closest the band has been to a new album.

In an article called Are You Not Devo? You Are Mutato, LA Weekly says that “After touring sporadically over the past decade but not releasing any new material, Devo are spending December at Mutato trying to create an album’s worth of new material and contemplating a method of dispersal in the post-record-company world.”

recipe for Doomsday (with posters!)

Neil Marshall’s simple recipe for

Doomsday:

Should we add some High Tension to the recipe? (click for trailer)

4 cups of 28 Days Later…
2 pounds of Mad Max
5 pints of Thunderdome
2 1/2 cups of District 13
fresh squeezed official* Rhona Mitra
2 tablespoons of Running Man
3 1/2 teaspoons of Resident Evil
4 ounces of Aliens
1/2 tablespoon of Equilibrium
1 teaspoon of V for Vendetta
1 small can of No Escape
some dried Abyss
1/2 ounce of Silent Hill
a dash of 300
3 teaspoons of Gladiator
1/4 teaspoon of Ultraviolet
a dollop of Judge Dredd
a dash of Tank Girl (optional)
a sprinkle of Underworld

Mix all of the futuristic elements in one bowl and all of the apocalyptic elements in another. Slowly fold the dystopic items into the futuristic mixture and carefully combine them all into one script, being careful not to add too much wirework. Drizzle the official Rhona Mitra (see below) throughout and be sure to throw in a gratuitous ass shot. Make sure plenty of the people involved have cool accents and then give it to Neil Marshall (the guy that wrote and directed Dog Soldiers and the Descent) and hopefully it will turn out to be half as good as either of those movies.
I’m not sure if this is a good thing or a bad one, but I’ve never seen a trailer that reminded me of so many other things. I have faith in the writer/director based on his previous projects though, so this film’s definitely going on my to-see list. Besides…Rhona Mitra looks like a girl that I could freshly squeeze watch for way, way longer than movies ever last.

Garnish with The Transporter and add some bikers from Weird Science to taste.

Serves millions.

*the official website of Rhona Mitra

edit:

see 5 minutes of Cloverfield update

Here is some new stuff about the movie previously known as 01-18-08:

The poster for Escape from New York supposedly inspired the scene of the decapitated head of the Statue of Liberty in Cloverfield.

J. J. Abrams apparently conceived of a new monster after he and his son visited a toy store in Japan. He explained, “We saw all these Godzilla toys, and I thought, ‘we need our own monster, and not King Kong, King Kong’s adorable.’ I wanted something that was just insane and intense.”

See 5 exclusive minutes of Cloverfield.

They have also launched viral websites for Slusho! and a Japanese drilling company to add to the mythology of the story, much in the same way that they did for Lost.

oh yeah… Be Kind Rewind!

I got so excited when I saw the trailer for Be Kind Rewind (what a great idea!) that I immediately watched it again before showing it to my cuddle partner. She was equally excited (mainly because she loves Mos Def) and also watched the trailer again. Then we talked about it a bit and I forgot all about sharing it. Until now.

Be Kind Rewind trailer

 

Luckily for you, they’ve released some youtube videos specifically to remind me to share.

Jack Black and director Michel Gondry explain the art of sweding.

 

And there’s more: Robocop, Ghostbusters, Driving Miss Daisy, Rush Hour 2 and BoYZ In THe HooD are all sweded here. I hope they’ve got more movies up their sleeve though…I don’t want these to be the only ones.

Jumper trailer and (new!) posters

I’ve liked every other Doug Liman movie that I’ve seen, so maybe this will be as cool as it looks. I guess anything is possible. Crap. I mean anywhere…wait, that doesn’t even make sense. And I’m a dork. Anyway, here are the posters and a link to the trailer:

Jumper HD trailer

So…which poster do you like better? It’s like modern Egypt vs. the Matrix with new Las Vegas.

 

Jumper by Steven Gould

Has anyone read Steven Gould’s book? It’s apparently one of the 100 most frequently challenged books of 1990-1999. (There’s a sequel too…in case the movie makes enough money.) I haven’t read it, but his other book Blind Waves was pretty darn cool and would probably make a great movie.

edit:

new foreign posters: