Quote of the day
If the Bacon Council of Elders knocked on my door one day and informed me that I am delicious and therefore must become bacon, I would not hesitate to hand over my measly life.
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It’s like Robocop meets Gone With The Wind!
In the heady, high-concept, coke-fueled days of 80’s Hollywood, it was rumored that some movies got produced simply on the basis of having an easily-communicated premise, like “Think ‘Gremlins’ in the Sahara!” Frequently, these premises would simply be a joining of two different movies into one (”It’s ‘Weekend at Bernie’s’ meets ‘The Godfather!’”1).
Thankfully, two decades later, we now live in a world where computers can do this sort of thing for us, thus eliminating the need for Jerry Bruckheimer.
Introducing, I Apocalypse Now Pronounce You Chuck And Larry (via Metafilter), which does but one thing: movie title mashups.
In some cases, they’re just plain dumb (”Kill Bill Vol. 1 Vol. 2″?) but frequently you get nuggets like the following not-so-subliminal message to M. Night Shymalan:
Stop Making Sense + The Sixth Sense =
Stop Making The Sixth Sense
…or the “Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas” of soft-serve sugar rush paranoia:
Sky High + Vanilla Sky =
Vanilla Sky High
…or, Charles Grodin being haunted by the ghost of his dead dog:
Beetlejuice + Beethoven =
Beethovenlejuice
You get the idea. Who said technology never gave us anything useful?
1 I would totally pay to see this. [back]
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A Crude MS Paint Version of a Graph I Was Shown Yesterday
Some of you already know what this represents.
Those of you who don’t - any guesses?
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2008-09-18 asides
- Curse you Dangermouse! I can’t hear the Beatles’ “Julia” without hearing Jay-Z saying “Y’all tuned into the muhfuh greatest!” now. #
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He Leaves
It strikes me that EXIT signs would look to a native speaker of Latin like red-lit signs that say HE LEAVES.
David Foster Wallace - Infinite Jest
I don’t have many favorite authors, but David Foster Wallace was one of them. Something about the way he could be incredibly intellectual, deep, funny, nonsensical, and yet, down-to-earth (sometimes all at once) resonated with me since first reading The Broom of the System many years ago. I don’t have the heavy emotional attachment to his work that some do (in my world, that kind of obsession is usually reserved for musicians and filmmakers), but I’m still finding it hard to stop thinking about his suicide.
On the Metafilter thread where I first heard the news, someone compared it to the news of Elliott Smith’s suicide a few years back, and I think that’s an apt comparison. Especially since both Smith and Wallace occupied valued space on my CD and bookshelves at the time of their deaths, but I didn’t really appreciate what they accomplished in their work until afterward. I own a good portion of the books DFW wrote, but I’ve really only ever read three of them. Strangely enough, I had just started his short story collection Girl With Curious Hair a few days ago.
We just can’t have nice things, dammit.
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