METROPARK (Fashion / Music / Art) and OBEY are teaming in a contest to find cool T-Shirt designs incorporating the OBEY look, feel and politics. I submitted 3 designs - Two Men's, One Woman's.
Men's: DJ Diabetic - Drop the Beats Spray Cans
Women's: Twitter
Feel free to check them out, comment on them and VOTE for them too!!! [ LINK ]
WHY did Green Day put out such a piece of CRAP album?? Really? Why? I was excited when the first new single was played on the radio - Know You Enemy. But after hearing it a bunch of times, it seemed lame, like they mailed it in. But I knew the whole album wasn't going to be this way. Hell, American Idiot did the same thing - some good songs mixed with some okay songs. Right? Don't judge by one song...
After getting a copy free from a friend (thankfully I didn't pay for it except with my time and a little of my musical soul) I listened to it at work. I was taken back HOW HORRIBLE it was. It sounded like they copied the worst of themselves and threw in some trite musical influences, sounding more like My Chemical Romance.
My friend Spork tells me that they have "matured" and they did a concept/ rock opera album. Unfortunately, they haven't matured rather than sold-out, making shitty, MTV-produced muzak. And if I wanted a concept album I would buy Tommy or something by Queen.
Here, I bring you not the bad Green Day but, Top 10 reason to like GD:
01. The whole INSOMNIAC album 02. Fast and concise punk songs 03. Nice Guys Finish Last 04. Minority 05. Early punk on Dookie 06. Poprocks & Coke 07. A song for a generation - Good Riddance(time of your life) 08. Fun in concert 09. Cast Away 10. Kerplunk!
If you want Great new music - get these CDs:
Rancid - Let the Dominoes Fall - 5 Stars Street Sweeper Social Club - Self Titled - 4 Stars
San Diego Comic Con is officially SOLD OUT (of tickets that is). It is also the 40th anniversary (I've been geeking out since 1986, as a Pro since 1994). This year I will have my new camera so the pixs will be even better. LT has never been before (look out) and will be attending with me on Saturday.
Insider info:
• Disney will be bringing Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time as their centerpiece. It's also likely that Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland will show up and that Pixar will bring Toy Story 3, and a trailer for TRON 2.0
• Warner Brothers' presentations will include Sherlock Holmes with Guy Ritchie and Robert Downey Jr. as well as our first look at Jonah Hex with Josh Brolin and probably Megan Fox. Maybe some IronMan 2 stuff as well.
• Zack Snyder will be in attendance to do a Blu-Ray Live showing of Watchmen one of the nights.
Nothing coming from Michel Gondry's Green Hornet, Martin Campbell's Green Lantern, but there could be things from Where the Wild Things Are (which I'm super stoked for!!!)
Shows having panels:
Battlestar Galactica: The Plan and Caprica Chuck Dexter - Awesome! Dollhouse Eastwick Eureka Flash Forward Fringe Human Target Legend of the Seeker Lost - Can't wait MythBusters Past Life The Prisoner Psych - Stoked! Sanctuary Smallville Stargate: Universe Supernatural True Blood V Vampire Diaries Warehouse 13
HEROES actors and writers will be present at Comic-Con, but there WILL NOT be a panel on that show.
- OR- the Future of media might be better than I thought...
FINALLY some good news in the way of TV and Movies. I have been ranting over the last few months that TV cancels good shows and produces very few - new and good ones. And as far as Hollywood and movies, they have thrown in the towel with bad choices in remakes and lame movies in general. So I bring you the good news:
FUTURAMA Gets 26 New Episodes
It's official, FUTURAMA is coming back with Comedy Central delivering an order for twenty-six episodes to run over two seasons.
The cable network has now given the order for this new batch of episodes with all key voice cast members expected to return for the new episodes, along with the series' core writing team.
Matt Groening and David X. Cohen are said to be already working on stories for the new batch of episodes which pick up where the last special, "Into the Wild Green Yonder", left off with the main characters fleeing death and flying into the unknown.
Groening and Cohen's much loved sci-fi cartoon comedy aired from 1999-2003 on Fox but the 72 produced episodes have proven such a DVD sales success and ratings hit in repeats on Comedy Central that four direct-to-DVD releases were ordered and released in 2007 & 2008.
The first half of the new episodes are slated to premiere on Comedy Central in mid-2010.
Dark Hero Studios is planning a zombie feature film franchise adaptation of Gary Reed's comic book DEADWORLD. [ LINK ]
DEADWORLD veers from the popular zombie mythology of depicting an apocalypse in which humans are overrun by flesh-eating corpses. DEADWORLD picks up four months after that event, where the Dead overtake the Earth, with humans few and far between.
The protagonist is King Zombie, a Harley-riding corpse who holds a grudge against the survivors who made him an outcast.
David Hayter ("Watchmen") will write the screenplay, produce, and both conceive and design the look of the film. Bill Mechanic, Robert L. Robinson Jr. and Jeffrey D. Erb will also produce.
Announced on BBC America - Torchwood: Children of the Earth. Starting July 20th and running for a full week (Monday through Friday) at 9pm. Best Summer TV. Looking forward to it!!!
