100% humidity
This is a fucking travesty. Send air conditioning.
“Seduction community”
Latest in an extremely long list of Wikipedia articles that have chilled me to the bone: Seduction community
Trailer for Frank Miller’s new movie, The Spirit
“Hey Frank, sup? Hollywood here. Listen, you know the way Sin City raked in like a bajillion dollars? You couldn’t do us a favour and just make the same movie again, but just change the name so people don’t cop on. I dunno, call it the Spirit or some bullshit like that. Sweet - [...]
Well…
I suppose I could tell you about how my exams are going. But instead, I’ll just use my tiny bit of free time here to point something out.
Less than two weeks until the new Indiana Jones movie comes out!
Okay, now I’ve got that off my chest, it’s time to point something else out: Moichandising! [...]
Gore Verbinski to direct ‘Bioshock’
Variety is reporting that Gore Verbinski is attached to direct the Bioshock movie. The first Pirates of the Caribbean movie proved that this guy can direct the shit out of something when he’s got the right material. They don’t come much more right than Bioshock.
Things are gonna get quiet around here
Quick note to explain why there’s not gonna be much happening here over the next week or so.
With less than 24 hours to go until my college exams begin, I’m experiencing a mixed bag of fear, nervousness and excitement (although that last one may or may not be an impending bout of diarrhea, brought [...]
Tom Waits (sort of) Announces European Tour
And it looks like it’s going to include includes Dublin!
Full list of American tour dates at anti.com.
UPDATE (09/05/08): As Bobby Digital points out in the comments, Tom Waits is confirmed for the Phoenix Marquee in Dublin on July 30th and 31st. Hot Press has the scoop.
Scarlett Johansson’s Tom Waits album is finally out
Being a huge fan of Tom Waits (and this picture of Scarlett’s arse), I’ve been following the story of Scarlett Johansson’s album of Tom Waits covers for a while now. Now finally, it’s out and we get to be all uppity about her destroying our favourite Tom Waits songs.
Except it’s actually quite good.
I think [...]
Girls gone wild
Just like every other game from Rockstar Studios, a tsumani of controversy surrounds the release of Grand Theft Auto 4 like a… well… like a tsunami. Everyone is getting in on the act, from British MP Keith Vaz, to the anti-drink-driving groups. And I suppose they’ve all got points. Vaz, clearly making street violence [...]
Transparency
There are no words:
Italy posts salary details on web
There has been outrage in Italy after the outgoing government published every Italian’s declared earnings and tax contributions on the internet.
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The release of the information was one of the last acts of the outgoing centre-left government and has shocked many tax-shy Italians, says the BBC’s [...]
