The 'W' Trailer Has Arrived

As I've mentioned before I'm eagerly awaiting Oliver Stone's biopic about George Bush. It's not because I'm a big fan of Stone's movies or that I think this will change people's views on Dubya himself. His life and career are even more ridiculous than any Hollywood hack writer could come up with.

If you went to see a movie about a President of the United States that couldn't read but had the authority to make decisions about going to war, but he was really chummy and liked to joke around :) then you'd say "That Jerry Bruckheimer has done it again! Three cheers for Jerry!" That's what you'd say.

So without further ado, I give you the teaser trailer for the most unbelievable/believable movie of all-time.

The Watchmen

An amazing book written by Alan Moore and drawn by Dave Gibbons. This is the book you start your graphic novel collection with. It's the opposite of most hero stories. This is the other side, the dark side: greed, jealousy, murder and little bit of mental illness...delicious. The debate over making it into a movie has been going on for almost two decades - who, how, when and why?

It's a big, juicy, awesome story. So good in fact that squeezing it into one film is a sin. So much will be lost in the trimming of this tale. The only glimmer of hope was in 1996 when visionary genius Terry Gilliam took a stab at trying to come up with a plan of attack on how to bring this gigantic monster to the big screen. This was the end result, "I think it's going to be impossible to make as a film, unless you make it three and a half hours long, which most people aren't going to want. - Gilliam"

For me, that was all I needed to hear. It's done, no Watchmen movie.

(I had hoped on a Watchmen season, like on HBO. Maybe two seasons, get the whole story in there. But did they listen to me? Noooo...)

So for the past year we knew that Zach Snyder (Director of '300') took on the job. We were teased with update blogs and character pics. I only sat and wondered just how much this film would suck. The trailer, which appears before the new Batman film, is online. I will say this - it looks fucking awesome. Who knows what kind of story they're gonna tell, but it looks exactly like the book...exactly.

Even if you've never read or even even seen the book, you should check out the trailer. I think you'll find that this is a big story, regardless of how the script turns out.

Lemmy

He was born one day before Jesus (if Jesus had been born in 1945), he's done more speed than you've had coffee and his voice kinda sounds like what your conscience SHOULD sound like (so you always hear it).

He's Lemmy - the lead singer and bassist from one of the toughest, coolest and most clairvoyant hard rock/metal bands of all-time. Sure most of you have heard of Motörhead and you may recognize Lemmy from his trademark mole, but what do you really know about this living legend, a character the contains the essence of what it truly means to live the rock life? Not much? No problem. Somebody went ahead and did the work for you.

Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you the most perfectly titled movie since "Problem Child" - this is Lemmy: The Movie.

Many years ago I was working on a job that required me to be up at an ungodly time in the morning. I was in a van with Dylan around 5am and we were drinking coffee, rubbing the sleep out of our eyes and sitting in silence at a red light in NYC. As we sat there in our soon to be caffeinated depression, a man crossed into the headlights of our rented van. We looked at him, he looked at us - it was Lemmy.

As cool as we thought we were, he could see our eyes locked on him like it was Mr. Belvedere himself. He cautiously paused, as to make sure we weren't two shitfaced dicks that would plow through a red light at the crack of dawn, and then continued on with what had to be the rest of his night/our morning.

I can't remember who, but one of us said, "Jesus Christ, is that Lemmy?" There needn't be an answer as we both new what had just occurred. We might as well have been on a Rock 'N Roll safari that day/night. Keep your windows rolled up and don't annoy the animals - just sit, watch and observe. Photos and such are available at the gift shop.

Cruisin' For A Bruisin'

What do you get when you add this:

With this:

And this:

The answer is this:
His name is Tom Davis and he's the head of The Church of Scientology's Celebrity Centre in Los Angles. He's a perfect specimen of Scientology awesomeness.

Let's pretend Tom Cruise had a twin brother (with the same first name) and he had all the energy, determination and spunk that Cruise posses - minus the acting chops, charm and charisma. Tom Davis is that man, let's just call him "The poor man's Tom Cruise."

The clip below is one of the greatest attempts of being intimidating and tough; which completely fails in that objective. It's part of a BBC investigative report on Scientology where reporter John Sweeney is trying to interview former and current members of the "religion." Everywhere John goes Davis shows up with his own camera crew and interrupts. This is just a clip from an 8 part series on Youtube. If you enjoy the following clip, then go here for part 1 and then take it from there. I highly recommend it, ridiculously fascinating.




Tom Davis fact #26 - He is the son of actress Anne Archer.

(Seriously, how much of a hard-on does Davis have for Cruise? Unreal. I can just see him sitting in a white room with every film Cruise has ever done - watching, studying and learning.)

Sometimes...

words can't describe beauty, art or poetry: