Monthly Archive for January, 2009

Punishing

Holy cow Punisher: War Zone was bad. At least The Spirit had some style, albeit in a lame not-really-Sin-City kinda way. Punisher was just painful to watch. Horrible acting and dialogue all around, completely nonsensical plot with more gaps and errors than bullet-holes. No idea what the jerkwads over here are smoking.

Ray Stevenson has as much enthusiasm for the role as Homer Simpson might have for a stick of celery. He is not “shredding through his opposition” — he is a man in a body vest who does not get hit by Hollywood bullets, gives absolutely no impression of strength or aggression or general deadliness, shows no sign of tactical intelligence or military training or skill in armed or unarmed combat, and has as many facial expressions as a potato.

Peter Hartlaub of the San Francisco Chronicle, was it really “one of the best action packed and violent films [you've] ever seen in [your] life”? Have you not watched Rambo? Or Shoot ‘Em Up? Or even any one Steven Seagal flick?

This is the fourth new movie I’ve watched this year.

It’s the fourth shitty movie I’ve watched this year.

Old kottke, new kottke, my kottke

So kottke recently went from my favourite ugly yellow-green to a series of seizure-inducing blues. It’s actually quite refreshing (and very Apple, murdering of darlings and such), but sometimes I have terrible, recursive nightmares and yearn for the comfort of the familiar yellow bar.

Old kottke, new kottke, my kottke

Here’s the userscript — it hides the blue border and turns the header yellow. I based it on a simple custom CSS script I found and I’ve only tested it with Safari/GreaseKit, so proceed with caution.

uhm yeah

Time for some points!
threadless
edit: oops, already subbed a few of these
also I need a haircut
edit 2: hey you can’t tell if I’m wearing pants

Dying to say this to you

Confession: I am totally enjoying The Sounds’ dance post-punk electropop New Wave whatever you want to label it 2006 album.

It’s (horrifyingly) not that far removed from the flower metal shite I have to play in 6 hours. Halp

Stars

were absolutely brilliant. I was hoping for Personal and I guess everyone wanted Heart and Mak wanted Tonight (?!) but it was all good. They played a couple tracks off the newish EP too — I was all “is this the one where they shout ‘fuck the war’” and Mak was like “what” I think more because he couldn’t hear me than because he didn’t know the song and then Torq said fuck the war and it was a bit anti-climatic

Me and C were stopped by this usher halfway down the steps and she (the usher) kept lurking in the shadows so we had to wait a bit and then make a dash for the front. I guess I feel a bit guilty but hey if you’re going to pay a hundred plus and content yourself with sitting down halfway back in the hall then it’s your loss (I couldn’t figure out how to use the word “languid” in this sentence).

If you are that girl who nicked the setlist from Evan Cranley’s feet or you just remember better then click below and edit the list

Stars Setlist Esplanade Concert Hall, Singapore, Singapore 2009

edit: other posts by other people: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 + setlist