The Star Of His Own Dope Show: Trent Reznor Calls Marilyn Manson a, “dopey clown”.

I’m going to let Chris expound on this article at Spinner.Com,as of the two of us he’s much more knowledgeable and opinionated on things NIN related.

But I will say this;

FUCKING DUH!

Welcome to the club, Trent. Your pin and decoder ring are in the mail.

You Didn’t Think It Was Going To Be That Easy, Did You?

 

Susan Boyle didn’t win Britain’s Got Talent’s main event. Boo hoo, sad for her and her fans.

Lets not delude ourselves here, did anyone think she was really going to win? Sure, it’s a great story that I’m positive, even as we speak, someone is already trying to buy the rights for so they can make a movie of the week that totally distorts the facts. But honestly, did anyone think she was really going to win? She’s old, that’s the first thing everyone notices. It’s true the entertainment industry has turned into a bunch of old people trying to sell youth to the young, but that’s not why she lost. She lost because she’s average. If she’d have been old and smoking hot we’d be singing a different tune (see how I did that, it’s a music joke); but the simple fact is she’s unattractive.

We are a people obsessed with setting and upholding a standard of beauty; it’s how we’re wired. It’s instinctual. We believe that, because we want to fuck them, good looking people are somehow more exceptional than the majority of us. For example; pound for pound I’ll take, as an actor, Paul Giamatti or Phillip Seymour Hoffman over Brad Pitt or Keaneau Reeves any day of week. Now look at who gets the rally high profile, big money roles. And don’t even get me started on actresses; over half of the crop of current leading ladies couldn’t act their way out of an empty room.

As a person of average looks I would love to think that this isn’t a rule, but everywhere I look I observe to the contrary. Good looking people earn more on average, get promoted more, win more competitions; we go out of our way for good looking people. I don’t see this as something that’s ever going to change.

The GM Bankruptcy: Meet The New Boss

GM thinks you’re fucking moron.

My high level of, “Oh, FUCK YOU” is preventing me from being overly clever with this post. I am amazed at the audacity of this company as it quickly attempts to spin the utter failure of the last couple of decades. I don’t know what’s worse; the Eric Bana on Zoloft narrator or the fact that I know, deep in my heart, that people are just too gods damned stupid to see how badly they’re getting played. All of the changes to their business model that GM plans on making, changes that are strong enough and smart enough to re-build the ailing auto, were strong enough and smart enough to have implemented anytime in the lat 25 years! They rode the easy profit train until it reached it’s last stop, upon where they were beaten, mugged and gang fucked by a group of Asian auto companies with spiky hair and overly complex clothing.

Ok, it’s not fair to blame Toyota and Nissan and the like for the problems that GM and Chrysler are facing, but it’s not too far off the mark in some respects. For some reason I can’t really fathom the American government has been making it easier for Asian car companies to do business in America, a favor the Asian countries have not been returning. Still, it’s our fault for letting it happen. Americans are, on the whole, an intellectually lazy and apathetic lot who are content to let the whole of the world pass them by while they feel smug and superior and in the simple fact that they are Americans. If it weren’t for the fact that I live here and I have deal with these backwards people, I would be profoundly glad to let them all go to hell with their boots on.

Unfortunately, I’m ONE of the moronic mass of middling, mindless…. something insulting that start’s with an “M”. I can’t just abandon them to their well earned fate. I mean, Americans have worked really hard to make sure that we are pretty much the backwards redneck asshole of the world community. It’s the same as how we feel about that one really annoying family member,

“Yeah, I know he’s a douche, but what can I do? He’s family.”

Hitting D-Box – It’s like banging your Mum!

According to this article at Aint-It-Cool it appears that D-Box technology is set take over your local theatres in Borg like fashion. For those not in the know, D-Box is a software/hardware combination developed by a Canadian company that turns comfortable theatre seats into slightly less comfortable theatre seats that jump and rock. The seats can be set to buzz and hum or rock and slide using a variable intensity switch. And unlike a lot of other seat rockers and floor shakers it is not driven solely by LFE (Low Frequency Effect) signals but by meta data encoded into the digital audio stream. What that means is specific motion commands can be set to correspond to specific on-screen events.

Now Hollywood has a long history of attempting to meld interactive elements into their presentation with results that very between half assed amusing and soul rapingly ridiculous. So one has to wonder if this is going to be the real deal or just another cold sore for an industry that has been losing a long slow war against video games and better home entertainment technologies. D-Box technology has been introduced to the home video enthusiast with the leap to Blu-ray home theatre by being included on films such as Live Free or Die Hard and Terminator 2. These rockers don’t have the same level of finesse that the larger cinema units have, and they sure as shit aren’t cheap, so I don’t see this as being something that’s going to catch on with a lot of households and it can probably be best described as being for high end enthusiasts only.

With a limited number of films released each year that could benefit from this kind of thing I’m not convinced that this is going to be a useful wedge for the film industry to try and drive between us and our wallets. With the increase in ticket price that accompanies this new tech though (an average of $8 to $10!) I’m not really sure this is the best time to be flinging new shit against the wall. I find the concept slightly more interesting than just controlling the temperature in the theatre, using wind machines or dressing a couple of ushers up like giant bugs and having them run through the room (all tried and rejected practices, I shit you not!) but I’m just not convinced it’s anything that casual movie goers are going to give a flat fuck about.