Oh man, its the wrong corpse! Aaaahahahaha!

Anyone remember that fairly dire Frank Oz-directed wannabe-British comedy Death At A Funeral from about 2 years ago?

Well good, because now they’ve made it even better by remaking it with Chris Rock and Martin Lawrence!

Is this the quickest ever turnaround for an English speaking movie to be remade in English?  It is interesting to see the different beats their hitting.  You see, white people make screwball comedies like this, but black people, they make screwball comedies like this!

Meeting place by the awesome

One more teeshirt photo, this one sent from loved ones home-side.

Ace.

Photographic evidence

Some collected shots from my temporary hometown.

Who says you can’t wear a surgical anti-Swine flu mask AND be punk?

The best bookends I’ve ever owned (and I’ve owned some good bookends)

The English on the banner says “Sexy Party.”  The Korean says “booby booby.”  So just to be clear, that’s “Sexy Booby Booby Party”.  Oh, the Korean underneath says “If you can’t feel it, you can’t come in.”

Another ace purchase.  This is my Eco & Smile teeshirt.  The English underneath reads:

Earth is getting hotter by human being. We destroy nature for our own benefit & convenience. Our selfish reacts destroied the balance of nature, and it made lots of animals & plants disappeared. 

Its a badly worded downer!  Wicked.

More Tiger & Bear

My latest comic for the Tiger & Bear project, above.  I quite enjoyed illustrating a script from a 10 year old Korean girl, I’m thinking of asking her to write some Jesus of the West.

Apparently the project is going gangbusters, and is getting dropped in quite a few glossy lifestyley magazines over here, which is why I’ve been asked to push this one through.  Will yuz posted.

What was Metropolis like before Superman?

A first hand account, here.

We didn’t call them super-villains back then, we called them assholes. As in, “Did you see what that asshole Brainiac did to the Corn Exchange?”

More bear stuff

More Tiger & Bear for another comic, this time skewing further into kiddie-style as the story I’ve been given has been written by a 12 year old Korean girl.

Boo Boo to bring sexy back

Really?  Justin Timberlake is voicing Boo Boo in the new Yogi Bear movie?

Seriously, what’s the point in that?  Are there not some out of work voice actors better suited to the job?

I know, this is exactly the sort of thing I shouldn’t let myself get angry about, and I know the movies going to disappear alongside Alvin and Garfield, and I know that this isn’t really any kind of indication of the black hole of crass marketing towards which our culture is being irreversibly sucked, I know that I don’t have to let myself make this about that, I know this, its nothing, its just another lame update of some serviceable animation of my childhood.

But goddammit, people.

The New Zealand Herald strikes again…

… with this well-known story that’s over four years old.

Ricky Gervais victim of identity fraud

What this clever journalist has done is listen to Ricky’s latest podcast, in which he talks about it once again.

Get a blog, dude.

The last scream you hear… will be your OWN!

Don’t you love how terrible old movie trailers are?  They’re almost an art form to themselves.  This one from Play Misty For Me, a film I’ve failed to watch even though my mum’s repeatedly referenced it over the past 29 years as one her favourites (also happens to be Clint Eastwood’s directorial debut – I knew I had taste in my genetics).

Also, here’s a picture of a young Clint Eastwood.

Hot damn.

Good movie #2

Away We Go (trailer)