Cheezit! The cops!
Feb 12In honor of the Police reunification performance at the Grammys last night, and especially because no punches were thrown, I’d like to share my favorite Police tune, as performed by my favorite non-Police band, The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets;
Tank Girl to return. Hooray!
Feb 08Having tripped into Tank Girl accidentally, while visiting the UK, well prior to her arrival on North American shores (and super well before the movie. sigh. The movie…) I became a life-long fan of Jamie Hewlett, and an on-again, off-again fan of Tank Girl. Loved it early on, enjoyed it later, not quite as into it near the end. Then she went away.
Now, 12 years later, Alan Martin, the series co-creator and writer, if bringing her back. Hewlett is apparently fantastically wealthy from Gorillaz, so, Australian Ashley Wood has been tapped. The coolest thing about the new series, thus far, besides the use of Wood, is Martin’s comments on her new look;
What was alternative, upsetting, anarchic, and just plain odd-ball back then has since become common place. Mainstream media smothers us daily with punky chic, and modern day babies can be seen sporting spikey hairdos and Travis Bickle T-shirts. The uniform of the cultural revolutionary has been sold to The Man.
So how to rebel? How give the finger to the fashion fascists? Normal is the only way ahead. Dress like a high school teacher from the mid-eighties, or pick clothes from your boring aunty’s wardrobe. The only way left to rebel is to dress like you’re not rebelling.
I’m not sure I’m completely convinced that this is the case, but there does seem to be a fairly clear deliniation between a world with and without Suicide Girls, and one could argue it was roughly the time Lori Petty shaved her head into a mohawk. I any case, I’m keen to see how this pans out.
Argh. Whedon off Wonder Woman
Feb 02For whatever reason, Warner Brothers has bought a World War 2 based Wonder Woman movie, scripted by a freshly minted background actor and a personal assistant on the set of Beerfest.
Whedon confirms he’s off the movie as writer/director. And yet again, we can blame Joel Silver (even if he isn’t planning to direct.)
DC should pull a Blue Beetle on that guy. Don’t worry, he won’t know what that means.
It's just like being concussed!
Jan 30…Only not as painful! Marginally!
C.I.Boys
Jan 25
I was trying to post this last night, but Flickr and WordPress weren’t getting along. Given Sarah’s post, I thought it appropriate to try again.
They’re kind of hard to explain – their name is a reference to their grimace, which is supposed to be one of going to the bathroom. Let me put it this way – there was one series that was modeled after Capcom’s Street Fighter characters and was name "Shit Fighter." So… y’know.
Anyhow, as is popular with Japanese/Hong Kong vinyl figures, artists and designers are invited to create their own series, and this series is all 80s inspired, including Tattoo from Fantasy Island, Flavor Flav, Tron, and The Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man.
Well, in three boxes (at $9 a pop I might add), I got my Stay-puft. Why three boxes? Well, also popular with these toys is to package them in blind boxes – you have no idea what’s inside. So, to get one in three is pretty good. And the Tron you see, is one of the rare chase figures, so I made out AOK.
