90s rock iconoclast Courtney Taylor-Taylor, lead singer of the Dandy Warhols (“Bohemian Like You”) and star of the awesome 2004 documentary Dig!, has turned to graphic novels and Titan Books is about to give his first effort One Model Nation a wide release.
Originally conceived as a movie script and adapted into book form, OMN tells the story of a fictional 70s German rock band and the ways its members cross paths with the notorious German terror organization the Red Army Faction (a/k/a the Baader-Meinhof Gang).
Click through for an exclusive excerpt from the book and more information about how the book got made. +Continue Reading
In the eyes of the dead, we are all food. Pic courtesy of Divine Lunacy.
Yes, ZOMREP. As in Zombie Report. You know, like SITREP, STATREP, and INTREP; Situation Report, Status Report and Intelligence Report. Of course you do, we’re not telling you something you don’t already know. We’re only articulating that for the hippies who’re undoubtedly reading this in an effort to understand their enemy.
Anyway, you may be getting tired of the zombie meme. We are very slowly beginning to do the same…that doesn’t meant you don’t still need to be prepared for the end of all things. Nobody wants to see the walking dead overrun the earth (except perhaps for the occasional necrophage…grunts, necrophagy.) So, we’ve prepped a ZOMREP zombiepocalypse update for you. +Continue Reading
Activision hired noted TV personality and USMC Lt. Col. Rob Riggle to hawk its Call of Duty: Elite program. For $50, you get early access to new maps and maybe get access to a better (or at least richer) class of competition for your online gaming needs. Also, Rob guarantees that you’ll break up with your fianceé, disappoint your mom and confuse your dad.
Click through to see Rob hype the new Liberation and Piazza maps. +Continue Reading
First off, let’s make this abso-frickin-lutely crystal clear. Han shot first. Greedo was a scumbag who deserved it, and any mamby-pamby bullshit that followed later just diluted his roguish character. Sure as piss is yellow and hippies need to bathe, only sissies, asshats and Keith Olbermann fans believe Greedo shot first. Deal with it or get bent.
Despite this and other changes made by his imminence The Lucas (who looks a little bit like he ate the old Lucas, by the way), we find that we really like this. Some parts are better than others, of course, but it’s still fun to watch. Have you heard of this deal? Basically they divided the entire first Star Wars movie up into fifteen (15) second pieces and allowed fans to reshoot those sequences. Then they put it all back together. Skip past the boring stuff if you want. Watch for the occasional action figure, Legos or boobs.
In regards to changing, updating and “improving” the Star Wars movies (which George Lucas has been doing for a while now), we’d like to offer this argument against George’s idea. It’s from a guy named George Lucas. +Continue Reading
Red Tails is an action picture about the Tuskegee Airmen that feels more like a movie made in 1944 than the kind of nuanced and morally complicated film that the credits of its director, screenwriters and cast might lead you to expect.
Who gets the credit and/or blame here? George Lucas. +Continue Reading
There have been some very good documentaries done since our current war (or wars, depending on how you define it) started back in 2001. Restrepo, of course, was utterly brilliant (as was Junger’s book WAR). Here’s one I wouldn’t have heard about if it wasn’t for a friend, which is why it’s so damn important to network.
The movie is called Armadillo. It’s actually been out for a while now. The filmmakers are right up in it when they made this film, which follows part of the Danish Guard Hussars at FOB Armadillo in Helmand Province. The movie stirred up quite a controversy in Denmark, where some of their folks apparently didn’t care for the actions of the soldiers (good to know there are protestnik liberals everywhere).
Good Morning, Vietnam just got released in its own 25th Anniversary Blu-ray edition. Allegedly based on the life of Adrian Cronauer, the disc jockey who gets credit for being the first guy to play rock and roll on Armed Forces Radio, Barry Levinson’s movie is really a just a framework that allows Robin Williams to go wild with his improv without interfering with the plot. +Continue Reading
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