Archive for the 'Media' Category

My Cousin Might Rape My Childhood

Wednesday, July 9th, 2008

I checked boingboing this afternoon, only to discover with absolute terror that Hollywood is working on an ElfQuest movie. Seeing as I spent most of my youth saving up my lunch money to pick up every book of this beloved series I could get my hands on, I’m officially a fanboy, which means I’ll […]

Lewis Carroll Gonna Get Raped

Tuesday, December 11th, 2007

When I was little, I loved Alice In Wonderland for its freaky imagery, and mind-bending poetry. When I was a teenager, I still loved it, but for its mushrooms and hookahs and hallucinogenic references. Now I love it as an adult, for its bent logic, and mostly nostalgia for having loved it as […]

Zombie Movies in Baltimore

Wednesday, June 21st, 2006

I’ve always wanted to make a zombie movie, but suffer from an unfortunate lack of any related talent. Thankfully, some others are working on it as well. I don’t really know any of these people, so I have no idea how realistic their ambitions are, but they went through the trouble of putting […]

The Book of Racism (Is Long And Boring)

Wednesday, May 10th, 2006

Maybe I’m just a little upset because somebody’s talking shit about one of my idols, but apparently some people are calling Stephin Merritt racist because he doesn’t like modern rap. It’s a little confusing though, because he does like older stuff (like Run DMC), and he doesn’t like modern white pop either, and he […]

Fuck You, Keanu

Wednesday, February 22nd, 2006

Fuck you, Keanu. Fuck you right in the fucking eye. Here’s how I assume the pitch went when producing A Scanner Darkly:
“Hey, let’s take Ben’s favorite book ever and make it into a potentially awesome movie!”
“Great idea! Let’s get the awesome director of Slacker and Waking Life to direct it, because that’s […]