#June2011
BioShock: Infinite Trailer Introduces “Tearsâ€, In Time, Space, and My Boxers.
Just quit, developers. Just do it. Oh, all right. Don’t quit. At the very least, know that you can never blow my asshole out quit like Ken Levine and his games. In a new developer diary, Levine explains how Elizabeth can harness tears in reality to bring in objects from other universes.
Good lord.
Stop reading my vomit, hit the jump and watch.
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‘Captain America: The First Avenger’ Trailer #2 Is Summer Pop Bliss.
This movie has gone from being “Oh Christ I don’t know about!” before the Super Bowl advertisement to my most anticipated movie of the summer. I want to rub all my fleshy nubs all over every part of this trailer.
Hit the jump to check it out.
The ATV-2 Johannes Kepler Looks Like A Real Life X-Wing.
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Through the sheer will of our Collective Unconscious, we have willed Star Wars into exist. Orbiting the perimeter of our dimension is clearly a feet of X-Wings, waiting to strike us bastards. Or, when the meds don’t work, the Angels in basement sing such things to me. In reality, this is a picture of the ATV-2 Johannes Kepler, which just happens to look like my favorite unit of space-combat destruction.
Taiwanese Principal Dresses Up As Iron Man For Graduation, Drops Superhero Knowledge.
A principal in a Taiwanese school dressed up as Iron Man as part of a graduation ceremony. Doing my own rough translation this occurred at what is called The Best School Ever. The principal didn’t just stop there though, he used the superhero metaphor to crack eggs of knowledge on the kids’ faces.
Hit the jump for the video, and some knowledge, brah.
First Images Of Martin Freeman As Bilbo. Plus Gandalf! OMFHobbit.
EW, god love their soulless husks, has brought the world the first pictures of Martin Freeman as Bilbo Baggins. They always have such righteous first glimpses, and all it costs them is their journalistic integrity! Still though, we win!
Hit the jump for some pictures from the set of The Hobbit, featuring Gandalf, Petey Jackson, and most importantly Bilbo.
New ‘Captain America’ Poster Is Less Emo, More Ideal.
The first Captain America poster that was released to promote the movie was brooding and emo as fuck. It looked like a background leftover from Batman Begins or some shit. The new one makes more sense. The Aryan Posterchild-turned-Representative-of-America staring into a glorious sunset.
Hit the jump to check it out.
Deconstructing Deconstruction
Thanks to the mind-warping that occurred while obtaining a Literature degree, there are times in which I can’t keep seem to keep myself from engaging in textual analysis. Whether I’m at the movies, in front of the TV, or curled up with a book, there’s no escaping the temptation to ruminate further, to dig deeper, to figure out what’s really going on. For better or worse, several analytic seeds have been planted in my brain-bone: authorial intent is irrelevant, structure is never as sound as it hopes to be, and genuine meanings must be extrapolated.
Truth be told, approaching texts this way can be frustrating as hell, capable of usurping all the pleasure that makes us want to experience them in the first place. But given the right piece, and the right circumstances, textual analysis can be fresh to death. Alas, I suppose it’s the academic equivalent of the `ole Peter Parker conundrum!
After giving it a few solid listen-throughs, I’ve come to the determination that the Devin Townsend Project’s Deconstruction is an album rich with meaning. So engorged is this album – sonically, lyrically, musically – that it almost demands to be subjected to an in-depth interpretation. And in an effort to entertain myself, and perhaps stumble upon something worthwhile along the way, that is what I’ve attempted.
Join me as I deconstruct Deconstruction.
DEFEAT. 038 – Cola-Flavored Love
[DEFEAT. is Rendar Frankenstein’s unabashed love song to the very things that’ve kept him alive – sci-fi, heavy metal, fantasy, war epics, and pop culture. Accompanied by original art by B. Galiano, each weekly episode continues the tale of Daryl Millar – a hero guaranteed to die upon the novella’s conclusion. All are welcome, but nerds are encouraged]
It was three o’clock in the afternoon. Daryl’d been sitting on top of the Pepsi machine for a half an hour. Perched above, he had clear view of the three suburban blocks in front of him.
It was a perfect panorama of suburban chaos.
Station wagons and vans whipped around corners, providing the day’s only excitement for their middle-aged drivers. Youngsters fleeing their elementary schools chased one another with no regard for their surroundings. Husbands rushed out of their front doors with their mistresses, returning to their offices after extended lunch breaks. Mailmen, finally shaking off their hangovers, swore at the ten-year-olds running through their paths of delivery.
All of these islands interested Daryl, but the makeshift crow’s nest had been designed in the hopes of spying one legendary continent. It was lush and full of life, capable of invigorating those few and far between who reached it. Daryl had ventured further into its jungles than any other, exploring the uncharted darkness that no man had ever before braved. Since leaving, it’d been Daryl’s desire to return as soon as possible. And return he would, for he could see his El Dorado on the horizon.
Vanessa.
The ‘DC Relaunch’ In One Sexy Diagram.
Joe Stone has created diagrams functioning as the family trees for the X-Men, Avengers, and Fantastic Four. Now he’s done as the solid of trying to explain the DC Relaunch in one diagram. It doesn’t save the relaunch, but it certain is cute.
Hit the jump to check it out.
Mom Accused Of Killing Son After He Breaks TV While Playing ‘Wii.’
This is like one of those goofy ads where the guy throws the Wii remote and breaks the TV. Except it’s real and horrifying and my buzzkill of the day.
