Via Slate. If that was John Malkovich at the end, I won’t be watching regardless.
And while we’re talking popcult, I know Lady Gaga is… homaging… about a dozen different singers on her new single, but am I the only one surprised by the Barbra Streisand vibe?
Uriel
I’m pretty sure it’s the Vincent Chase vehicle ‘Aquaman.’ Although I thought James Cameron was set to direct that…
TheMightyTrowel
I just assumed Gaga was trying to hit every gay fave diva in one vid?
Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)
That isn’t Malkovich. As for what the spot is promoting…You’ve got me.
PsiFighter37
On the top of Mauna Kea, 14,000 feet high… just saw the sun set here. Incredibly gorgeous, even if I’m a bit lightheaded right now.
NotMax
Justin Bieber vs. Predator
Needless to say, it’s not a feature-length production.
Liquid
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0i88t0Kacs — A little flashy for Geralt but otherwise a fair and even-handed portrayl.
@ NotMax — http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxI6ITD42RY
Santa Fe
@PsiFighter37: Balloon Juicers are everywhere.
Jerzy Russian
@PsiFighter37:
Did you see the telescopes?
Yatsuno
Made guac for work. Dinner in oven.
And sometimes people don’t suck.
Keith G
@NotMax: In the climactic scene, Bieber pisses in a bucket just before he kicks it?
Re Gaga…Fun stuff. She is out there trying. Sometimes it’s a home run, sometimes a whiff. If one were to doubt her talent may I suggest her duet with Tony Bennett – one of the best jazz/swing vocals I have heard in a long time.
NotMax
@Liquid
Ah, but in the final scene of JBvP, Predotor leans over Bieber’s body and pulls up his pants.
The audience rises as one in a standing ovation.
Predator then nailgunning suspenders onto him is icing on the cake.
The prophet Nostradumbass
Thunder, lightning, and rain in the Bay Area this evening. Not completely unheard of, but certainly unusual!
Mnemosyne
@The prophet Nostradumbass:
You must have gotten the thunderstorm they said was supposed to be headed south towards us in the LA basin — did any hail come with it?
NotMax
And we thought that dang ottoman was a hazard…
RandomMonster
@Mnemosyne: Too warm for hail in this thunderstorm, at least here on the coast south of SF.
jank_w
I’m amazed that nobody got the hint the other day that: if you were against something when it happened under Bush, but OK with it under an Obama administration, that makes you a hypocrite.
And yet, the commentariat here…these can’t be self-identifying democrats who attempt to defend this misbegotten public/private security state, can they?
I did not know lines could be drawn any dearer.
Mnemosyne
@jank_w:
Well, that’s certainly a different interpretation of the trailer than anyone else has come up with. So Malkovich is Bush, or Obama?
YellowJournalism
@NotMax: Bieber plays 30 seconds of his newest album for the Predator. Predator immediately sacrifices himself to an Alien to escape the pain.
FlipYrWhig
@jank_w: hey, I’ve never heard that one before! Wow! Also, doesn’t Jar Jar Binks suck?
max
If that was John Malkovich at the end, I won’t be watching regardless.
It wasn’t Malkovich. Title, Stranger, followed by a pan down from a starfield, which reeks of either Starman or Stranger In a Strange Land, but then the dude has got cut rope around his wrists, and he’s washed up, implying he was drowned, and then we get the dude with the sewed-up lips. ‘What is that again…?’ I said.
Ah:In Haitian voudou superstition, a zombie is a dead body revived by magic to act as a soulless robot. In recent years stories of zombies have spread throughout Western countries in Hollywood horror films about the walking dead. According to the folk tradition, the houngans, or voudou priests, are said to dig up corpses and reanimate them by magic rituals. Another way of creating a zombie is to feed the victim a preparation that stupefies the soul, leaving the body a living corpse. To cure a zombie, it is said one should give it saltwater to drink. Special burial techniques are sometimes used to prevent corpses from being used as zombies. The corpse may be buried face down and its mouth filled with earth; sometimes the lips are sewn together, presumably to prevent the soul from leaving by the mouth. A somewhat naive custom is to strew handfuls of sesame seed on the grave (a common practice in eastern Europe to entertain vampires), so that the spirit of the deceased will always be occupied in counting the seeds.
Right. Old school zombie, or not, but the sewed-up lips are to prevent the exit of the soul. Got it. Black and white film…GOT IT!
Undead Starman!
max
[‘What?’]
jank_w
I guess it’s Bush vs Obama, and only the tactics (if that’s the right word) change.
meant as reply to mnseysoyome
jank_w
@FlipYrWhig: I don’t know.
NotMax
@max
Zombie trivia the younger set may not know.
When the Comics Code Authority was put in place, it banned the use of the term “zombie” in any comics seeking its seal of approval on the cover.
After a short period of compliance, the company which eventually was named Marvel Comics invented and used the word “zuvembie” for their stories instead.
Comrade Colette Collaboratrice
Not gonna click. I’ve never quite recovered from the shock of seeing full frontal Malkovich in “Al di là delle nuvole,” and even if it’s not Malkovich, just the thought of him would put me off my Wheaties.
jank_w
@FlipYrWhig: Fact is, if swooping up all info on everyone without a warrant was a problem for you until 2009, but not so much after because a different team was in charge, you might want to look in the mirror and repeat these words. “I am a big fat hypocrite.”
Yatsuno
@jank_w: You seem…concerned.
YellowJournalism
@max:
Well, they are dead, so what else they got to do?
NotMax
@YellowJournalism
According to Wingnuttia, vote.
jank_w
@Yatsuno: Actually, i kind of am but happen to agree with a previous commenters that the comments are a cesspool. Since you are a frequent commenter, you might know how a cesspool gets made? Thxinadvancebye
Ripley
@Keith G: Absolutely agree re: Lady Gaga. She’s damn talented.
Yatsuno
@YellowJournalism: And if you didn’t care for the dearly departed, throw black sesame seeds. That’ll show em.
@jank_w: Nah. Sockpuppets bore me.
PeakVT
Resource constraints and Egyptian violence.
Amir Khalid
@max:
I learned about this one on The X-Files. Mulder wards off an attack by a vampire/pizza delivery guy by scattering sunflower seeds to distract him. (Sunflower seeds are Mulder’s favourite snack.) Before breaking off his attack to pick up the seeds, the vampire scolds him: “Now why’d you have to go and do that? You are in big trouble, mister.”
Yatsuno
Wifey hath been alerted to Twin Cities BJ meet-up. And she’d better go dammit.
? Martin
@max:
That goes back quite a ways, at least to ancient greece. It was believed that evil spirits were compulsive. Sieves play a prominent role in wedding ceremonies, mainly to occupy the evil spirits with counting all the holes. In various other cultures (I’ve heard it found in the southern US as well) collanders were hung outside doors so the spirits would have to count all of the holes and not get around to finding the keyhole.
Anne Laurie
@? Martin: Yeah, one of the reasons for throwing rice at weddings is supposed to be that the demons who’d otherwise spoil the festivities will get distracted counting every grain. Same for throwing dried beans out of the front door at New Years, which I’ve heard about in China & Japan as well as Ireland & Wales!
balconesfault
The following Tea Party attack on David Dewhurst just HAD to be linked here at BJ!
http://www.dewfeed.com/
wasabi gasp
Tonight I went to youtube and listened to too much Barbra Streisand.
Tonight I went to youtube and listened to too much Barbra Streisand.
Tonight I went to youtube and listened to too much Barbra Streisand.
Tonight I went to youtube and listened to too much…
Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)
@max:
In the link I provided up top, there’s an interesting theory that it’s a remake (?) of an early ’70s pilot about an astronaut who lands on Earth’s twinned dystopian planet that is always on the opposite side of the Sun. I’m putting my money on this one.
PsiFighter37
@Jerzy Russian: Saw the outside of them – not the inside. Phenomenal view of sunset…not as bright as on Haleakala, but more spectacular colors.
You also have some spectacular stargazing as well – no wonder all the telescopes are up there.
raven
@PsiFighter37: Could you see Haleakala from there? We could see the big island at sunrise.
gene108
@NotMax:
He seems to be in really good shape for his age.
@NotMax:
Beiber would just punch through the Predators chest and rip its heart out. Laugh at the haters and reveal himself to be the dark and angry God Beliebers have secretly been worshiping and now his legion of faithful will go on a crusade to purge the world of unbelievers in an orgy of blood and human sacrifices to appease the newly arisen God.
Ben Cisco
Early voting window for NC primaries starts Thursday.
Arclite
@PsiFighter37: How did you get up there? They usually insist people not drive beyond the observation post at 9000 feet.
Tyro
@Amir Khalid: that was such a fantastic episode in so many ways.
NotMax
And the ante has now been upped.
Related:
BillinGlendaleCA
@PsiFighter37: Did you see the lake up there?
dmsilev
@NotMax:
Sort of a reimagining of Bambi vs. Godzilla?
NotMax
Meanwhile, in Pakistan:
And at Fukushima:
Bobby Thomson
Camus wept.
Patricia Kayden
@jank_w: Actually, I’m against “it” under Bush or Obama. However, I don’t see this as a mark against President Obama who has already said that he wants to see the rules reformed. It’s now in Congress’ court to do something about reforming the Patriot Act and hence putting some checks on the NSA’s surveillance powers.
Betty Cracker
@Keith G: I’m a closet Gaga fan. Had to take my kid to a concert a few years back (kid is a HUGE fan and was too young to go without parental supervision but HAD to go). I was dreading it but left a convert.
Sister Rail Gun of Warm Humanitarianism
@Ben Cisco: LOL
From IndyWeek:
Pittsboro, Carrboro, Chapel Hill and Hillsborough, congratulations. You have the simplest of situations—one election and you’re done.
Durham city residents, you’re so special, you can vote twice
Wake County, you’ll need a flow chart.
jayackroyd
When I set up a Gaga channel on Pandora, the third or fourth performer that played was Sinatra.
jayackroyd
@Betty Cracker:
What closet? I’m a huge Gaga fan. Proud to say it.
Rex Everything
Hot Italian chick. She can sing too.
Sister Rail Gun of Warm Humanitarianism
Outside the Russian Embassy in Stockholm
Rex Everything
Gosh, Anne Laurie’s passive aggressive hatred for President Obama is particularly passive aggressive in this post.
malraux
@max: What’s funny about the compulsive nature of vampires is that it means that Sesame Street’s Count Von Count isn’t all that different for counting things. He’s just a vampire.
My favorite episode was the day that the number of the day was zero, so the count flipped out and went to the beach to count all the grains of sand.
Paul in KY
@Jerzy Russian: Did he see Georgie?!
Paul in KY
@Betty Cracker: She is very talented.
Mnemosyne
@Amir Khalid:
IIRC, that episode (“Bad Blood”) was written by Vince Gilligan, who went on to create and produce “Breaking Bad.”
@jank_w:
So Malkovitch is playing both Bush and Obama? I mean, I know people think he’s versatile, but don’t you think that will become a little confusing for the viewers?
Mnemosyne
@Betty Cracker:
You know who else is a closet Gaga fan? Alice Cooper.
ETA: I love that you can see him reading the words off the teleprompter to start with, but then he really starts to get into it.
chopper
@jank_w:
whew, thank god that doesn’t apply to me, or i’d really feel the wrath of ‘jank from the internet’.
bago
Who knew Bowie and Madonna were an item?
FlipYrWhig
@chopper: I think we’ve all heard of his brother, wank from the Internet.
jank_w
@Patricia Kayden: And that’s OK, so long as you don’t advocate storing my, my child’s, my nephews, my unborn neices communication history information in a database, I have a problem with everyone who would claim the right to house that when we are unindicted and have no arrest/search warrants out for us.
And for you!