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I have been sent this three times already, it clearly has to be seen. The Karl Rove thing is the best because I expect him to be a little slicker than this. Dick Morris and Bill O’Riley are hypocritical assholes anyway, so it is expected. Still this video is amazing. Send it to a conservative friend.

Oooh.  So I told you I would have video from the fight Tuesday night.  It is pretty blurry and I wasn’t looking in the camera when I was filming so I miss a lot of shit, but the audio is nice.  This is after the fight and this dude is just threatening the bouncers that he will be back.  There is also a little surprise at the end!

What the fuck? I remember Sesame Street pretty well… or so I thought. I guess I did not realize how many of their jokes are completely over little kids heads… and probably most normal adults. After seeing a very strange episode of Monsterpeice Theater on YouTube I decided to search out some of the strangest episodes. Each episode is a parody of Masterpiece Theater, only they mostly focus on obscure movies and they don’t really have anything to do with the movie. But it is pretty mind blowing. Just watch.

The 400 Blows
Ah, the Truffaut classic. French New Wave at it’s finest… Although this script is adapted slightly more literally… I think Grover does a pretty good job as Antoine Doniel… or maybe not. At least it has subtitles.

Monsters With Dirty Faces
Anyone who knows me should know that James Cagney is my favorite actor. One of his classic gangster films has been parodied here. I am not sure how many adults have seen Angels With Dirty Faces, much less little children, but other than the rough demeanor of the monsters and the Irish cop, they don’t have much in common. The quality on this video sucks, sorry.

Twin Beaks
This is how I found these videos and is probably one of the weirdest things I have ever seen. It features an interview with “David Finch” and thanks to an actual talking Log we find out the mystery of the town “Twin Beaks”. And I don’t want to ruin the surprise or anything but it has nothing to do with Laura Palmer.

There are a bunch of these online, but these three have to be my favorites.  And they teach us valuable lessons that we should remember always.  Remember that 400 is a really big number, always to wash your face, and that asking questions is important even if the creepy two faced birds wont tell you, you just keep asking and keep asking and eventually an anthropomorphic log will tell you everything you need to know.

This post was brought to you by the letter I and the number 7.

If you have seen me recently I have been packing a video camera. I have been working on a web show for DayRobber.com. I shot a bunch of footage in May and that led to three episodes of the show the first of them is up now. Hopefully, things will go well and there will be a lot more videos to come… So if you see me out, think of your best stories of sex, drugs and rock and roll. I will be looking. Let me know what you think of the first episode.

Senator Joe Biden of Delaware is going to be the next Vice President of the United States. Let’s give him some dancing music.

This video is pretty great. It just affirms something I learned years ago by telling people I was the manager of a band. Usually it was true, but I have snuck into countless shows and movies basically by acting like I belong. I have found that it is pretty easy to get in anywhere if I am holding my camera above my head and acting annoyed.

At SXSW this year I couldn’t get into the Blender party despite being pretty much a guest of honor the year before. I decided to try the VIP entrance and as my friends and I walked up with authority they simply lifted the rope and let us in. It ended up not even being an entrance to the party, but just a VIP lounge full of all the DJ’s and performers from some SPIN party. It was slightly awkward since it was such a small room and we didn’t know anyone. But we did get free food, and at least Kid Sister was really nice.

My friend Ross used to sneak into everything with a VIP badge he had from a show he played years ago. He once walked into a 311 show that was going on a few blocks from his house. He used to love them as a kid so he tried to sneak in. He grabbed the badge and walked inside. After a while hanging out backstage a security guy grabbed the pass, looked at it and said “Where did you get this?” He replied “Amy gave it to me.” The guy left him alone. A bit later, 311’s manager came up to him and tried to kick him out. He said “But Amy gave me this pass!” The manager did not buy it, but thought it was hilarious and let him stay, but he did kick him out of the backstage area.

Anyway, watch this video, it is great. You can get into any club using a DJ bag and head phones. But you don’t have to Sneak into Rebel tomorrow (Saturday) for the PopOff party. You just have to say “I am on Igor’s list” and they will let you in and I will actually get paid for hosting, which I sort of hate doing. Okay, bye.

I have not left town without a real purpose since I moved to NYC two years ago. I am always working with a band or taking pictures of something. Well I am leaving my camera (at least my digital one) and computer (okay, maybe not my computer…) at home and going fishing with 3 of my friends that I have known for nearly two decades. I met them all in 1991 in the same 5th grade class and amazingly we are still friends. Our fishing trip should be sweet, and I am not going to do anything else but relax. So, since it is still Not Safe For Work Week, but I am out of pictures from the Hot Movies party, you are going to get one special celebrity nudity update tomorrow that I have already planned out and then I am out of service until Tuesday.

So enjoy you weekend… I will because I will be in…. DELAWARE!

You may have noticed I have not posted many photos recently. I took a break last week and this week I have gone out, but haven’t shot a lot. This is due to the fact that my camera is fucked, and using my old one is too hard of a step backwards, it feels really uncomfortable. I also have been trying to go home earlier and get a bit more sleep so I don’t get so worn out. I am taking an actual vacation next week. I am going to leave town and not do anything. No photos, no website, no work, nothing. It will only be for four days but I am going fishing and it is going to fucking rule. Hopefully when I get back from that I will be in full force again. In the mean time, I will still be shooting. I am going to Philly for some insane porn thing tomorrow so expect to see photos from that Sunday.

Anyway, the point is, to hold you over, I am looking for some original content. I found this old video I shot of some grits wrestling. Every year at the Meridian Coffeehouse in Williamsburg, VA (Not Brooklyn) they hold Grits Wrestling. At least they did when my friends went to school there. It has been years since I have been there or seen any of these people. I think this was shot in 2004 or something. Maybe 2003. The teams are my friends Judge and Nathan aka Team Slayer against team Stairway To Freebird featuring Maria and some girl who’s name I don’t know. It is a pretty exciting match and you can see Maria’s ass a lot, but it is mostly safe for work. Enjoy?

The Fall Guy is now online for Free! This was my FAVORITE show when I was a kid, and probably the greatest TV theme song. It was the only song Lee Majors ever recorded, but if I had my way he would be releasing album after album. I haven’t watched one of these episodes yet, so I am not sure if it lives up to expectations, but I will tell you this, if I had to choose between Bo Duke and Colt Seavers, I am picking Colt every time. From the Hulu synopsis:

Colt Seavers is a Hollywood stuntman by trade… but work in Hollywood is sometimes hard to come by. Fortunately, Colt’s other job is as a bounty hunter – and there’s never any shortage of bail-jumping bad guys to hunt down. Colt is helped by his young and enthusiastic cousin Howie – who knows a little bit about everything and not enough about anything – and Jody, a stunningly beautiful stuntwoman. The trio use the tricks of the stunt trade to catch the criminals.

Of course. This makes total sense and is amazing. God damn I loved TV. Anyway, Hulu is pretty amazing. They have tons of Simpsons and Family Guy Episodes, Colbert and the Daily, and tons of movies. They just released Hoop Dreams which is probably the best sports documentary ever made. Get on it.

This Gawker article got me thinking… Thinking enough to bring back “A Few Of My Favorite Things”!

A Few Of My Favorite Things is a series that sometimes appears on weekends on Driven By Boredom. Each week I talk about three of my favorite things from a specific genre of film, music, or something else all together. Each favorite thing is accompanied by a video and a description of why it is one of my favorite things. Click here for more favorites.

I have never really been scared of movies in my life. I like a lot of horror films, but usually the ones I like are just really creepy or gory, I am never really scared by them. I remember when I realized this. I had just watched The Blair Witch Project on it’s first run. I am not sure if you remember, but before it became a big hit, it played only in a few cities. I think it was only playing in one theater in the DC area and I had to drive quite a ways to see it. At that time people were saying that it was real. Of course by the end, it was pretty clear that it was fake, but going in I thought I was watching some sort of documentary or something. By the end of the movie all my friends I went with were freaked out, and I wasn’t. I just kept thinking, “The worst thing that is going to happen is that they are going to die.” I sort of realized then I don’t fear death. This of course is bullshit, I just don’t fear theatrical death. I am sure that put in an actual life or death situation I would pee myself. So anyway I started thinking back to the movies in my life that did scare me and I came up with three. Keep reading to find out which.

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Vacation is going okay.  I haven’t seen anyone in three days, and I have gotten a very minimal amount of work done, but I have been waking up early in the morning and I have been getting a reasonable amount of sleep.  I cleaned my room a bit and submitted some photos to a web project.  Still, I have really have not accomplished much.  I think that if I can keep this waking up early thing going on, I will have no choice but to get some shit done this weekend.  Tonight I am going out, hopefully I will see you guys at Rebel as I need a little bit of adventure.  Then it is back to solitude through the weekend.  Anyway, I keep watching this video of Burt and Ernie rapping to M.O.P. so I guess you should probably watch it too… at least once.   Ante up motherfucker.

I dreamed over and over again that when Giraffe’s were born they were almost humans and then as they got older their necks get longer and they slowly become giraffes.  But when they are first born you can teach them english and hang out with them and stuff.  In the dream I knew this was not the case and I kept waking up realizing that this was not true, but then I would go back to sleep and people would assure me that this was true and kept introducing me to giraffemen who I would talk to.  Once they became giraffes they lost the ability to speak.  After broing down with one of these giraffes it made me not want to kill animals for food, which I was really pissed off about because of how much I like meat.  Luckily when I woke up, it was early in the morning and McDonalds was still serving breakfast so I got acouple bacon egg and cheese biscuits and a sausage McGriddle and everything was okay.

So here is actual proof that when giraffe’s are born they don’t look like people.  They mostly just look like a mixture of baby Alien’s mixed with regular giraffes.  Still, pretty spooky.

After my spell of exhaustion or whatever, I spent most of today asleep. This was not the plan, I had things to do. But I didn’t get out of my house until 5PM and then I was up until 8 and I took a nap and woke up at 1130PM. So, now I am pretty sure I will be up all night, but at least I will be able to get some shit done. Anyway, I start my week break from partying and girls and any sort of social life today. I will be spending every night, save Wednesday, working on getting my life together. Working on my Polaroid book, cleaning my apartment, working on the next version of this website, getting a portfolio together etc. I need to get some regular photo work so I can quit my day job. If anyone has any ideas, please let me know. Anyway, I would NEVER post something like what I am about to post, but it has to be done. I am allergic to cats and I have never been a fan of such things as this, but it just has to be done. This is the best funny cats video I have ever seen, so rejoice in its cuteness. Embrace the fluff. I love you all.

PS. I will be updating this site, just not with party photos, except the BYTE photos from last week that will be up tomorrow. Sorry for the delay.

Barry has not sent me anything in a while.  If you forget who he is, click here.  He is important.  He sent me a bunch of videos of people fighting each other.  The first one is pretty graphic and insane and the second one I don’t really care about.  I included his comments with all of them below the video.  I also posted one at the very bottom that I found while looking at his video.  I saw a fight last night too, but it was incredibly pathetic.  But the good thing was after that the Annex/Darkroom bouncer Ro told me this amazing story about the last time he got into a fight. He was drinking in some club and the bouncers throw this dude out and he pull out a knife and starts stabbing the bar’s owners car tires.  The bouncers are doing nothing about this.  A few minutes later someone runs in and tells Ro that the guy is now stabbing Ro’s tires.  He runs out and starts yelling at the guy who threatens him with the knife.  Ro simply goes to his car and pulls out a golf club (I would kill to see Ro golf) out of his trunk and charges at the guy with it.  The guy throws a knife at Ro.  It bounces off Ro’s chest and then he proceeds to beat the living hell out of the guy.  Then the cops start stomping Ro with their clubs and such.  They were going to take Ro to jail until the knife guy pulls a second knife on the cops.  When they finally get him under control they find 12 knifes on him in total.  They let Ro go.  Fucking crazy.

Anyway, fight videos… no knives.

I’m not sure whether or not I’ve sent this to you already, but my goodness.

Martial artist’s skills actually work in street fight! Headlock takedown followed my side control, a full mount, and raining elbows results in an easy victory.

Who starts a fight with a backhand? A bad, bad boy.

When I write up movies, I tend to write up ones that you probably aren’t going to see on your own. So when I talk about them, I have a weird dilemma. I want to talk like the film nerd I am, name dropping directors and films and such like I would to other film nerds, but at the same time, I have to talk to an audience who probably does not give a fuck about Asia Extreme or German New Wave or Exploitation film. So I guess for this movie I will do a little of both. Let’s start with answering the question: What is a Spaghetti Western?

Spaghetti Westerns were Westerns made by Italian’s shot in Spain, primarily in the 1970’s. They used Italian actors to play Mexicans in the west. They also employed international actors and had them all speaking different languages to each other. The most well known of these movies were the Leone/Eastwood “Man With No Name” films… A Fistful of Dollars, A Few Dollars More and Good The Bad And The Ugly. In these films Clint Eastwood spoke English to the Italian actors speaking Italian. When the film was released in the States, Eastwood’s dialogue remained his own, but the Italian actors had their voices dubbed into English. This was reversed for the Italian releases. These films were generally low budget, but often ultra violent making them especially interesting to American audiences. These movies gained significant influence in the world of American filmmaking.

So the next thing we need to talk about is Yojimbo. Yojimbo was a samurai film made in 1961 staring Toshiro Mifune made by the legend Akira Kurosawa in 1961. It was about a samurai who comes to a small town that is stuck in a war between two rival gangs who run gambling houses. Yojimbo convinces one gang to hire him for protection and then plays the two gangs against each other, getting money on both ends. Despite my love for Kurosawa and Mifune it is not one of my top 5 favorite Samurai films… however two of it’s remakes are two of my favorite movies of all time.

The first of these was the previously mentioned A Fistful of Dollars in 1964. This put Spaghetti Westerns on the map and made both Eastwood and Sergio Leone famous. That trilogy might be my favorite of all trilogy. Sitting here thinking about that seems insane, but I cannot honestly think of a three movie series that I like better. Maybe if you count Park Chan Wook’s Vengance films as a trilogy… or discount Planet Of The Apes 2 and 5… or Nightmare On Elm St 2,4,5,6 and Freddy Vs Jason… Or started watching the Godfather series and started taking a shot every time someone got shot and by the time you got to the third film you were passed out drunk and you woke up to the credits. Or quite possibly if you consider Wayne’s World Bill And Ted 3. But I don’t think you can do any of these things, so let it be said that The Man With No Name Trilogy is my favorite Trilogy ever. Apologies to Bruce Campbell.

Let’s move on… Only 2 years later a bad ass motherfucker named Sergio Corbucci decided to remake A Fistful Of Dollars… only this time he added more blood. You know that scene in Reservoir Dogs when Mr. Blonde cuts off that cops ear? Well he stole that from Corbucci’s remake 1966 Django. Corbucci, while not as well known as Leone, is probably just as amazing, and definitely way more fucked up. I will go right ahead and say that the ending to his film The Great Silence is one of the top 5 best endings in film history. (I blogged about it here.) Anyway… Django is probably not as good as A Fistful Of Dollars, but it is certainly bad ass, and Frank Nero could probably take Eastwood in a fight… or a gun fight.

Okay so let’s see what we have here…. Japanese samurai film, turned into Italian western, turned into ultra-violent Italian western… Fast forward 40 years and meet Takeshi Miike. Miike is a revolutionary Japanese Asian Extreme director who has made at least 3 of the top 10 most fucked up films I have ever seen. He decides to turn this Japanese samurai film turned ultra-violent Spaghetti Western into… An ultra-violent Japanese Sukiyaki Western with a hint of samurai swordplay. Sukiyaki is a Japanese noodle dish which is I guess the closest thing Japan has to spaghetti. This is hilarious. The film is called Sukiyaki Western Django and is a remake of… well… Django… and A Fistful Of Dollars… and Yojimbo…

The film is extremely fast paced and out of control and makes very little sense… like pretty much every Miike film. It is completely fucking insane and is very different from the other films. The plot line is basically the same as the other films… this time the main character comes between two rival treasure seeking gangs and according to little text tags at the beginning and end of the movie it takes place a few hundred years after Yojimbo and a few decades before Django. (UPDATE: I was wrong about this.  Check the comments on the post for details.) There are clear references to Django and a sword fight scene that references Yojimbo. One of the characters is names Akira which is assumed to be a reference to Akria Kurosawa until in his second of two cameo appearances Quentin Tarantino explains that he called his son Akria because he is a big Anime nerd. The film veers off course from the original plots as well, as the hero does not really play both sides… he mostly just fights against everyone for no real apparent reason. There is also the addition of an ass kicking female character which is completely absent from all the previous films. And lastly, instead of being dubbed into English or Subtitled, all the actors speak English… completely marred by thick Japanese (and in some cases Chinese) accents. It is pretty impossible to tell what they are saying some times, especially when everyone in the theater is crying laughing. I think this just adds to the confusion and bewilderment of this hilarious action packed remake of a remake of a remake of a remake. That being said, I can do nothing but recommend this film whole heartedly when it comes out in wide release later this summer.

Lastly, I must mention that there is another A Fistful Of Dollars remake (well it is closer to Fist than it is Yojimbo) called Last Man Standing (directed by Walter Hill of The Warriors fame) which was a Bruce Willis bomb that is actually pretty fucking awesome. Excluding Deer Hunter it is probably the best Christopher Walken film that features Walken in anything much more than a cameo. Sorry this is another tangent in a way too long post, but Christopher Walken has been in some of the worst movies in history. I know everyone loves him, but look at his IMDB. Outside of True Romance, Pulp Fiction and Waynes World his film career is fucking embarrassing. What does it say when the thing you are most known for is a SNL sketch?

Okay, I have ranted too long. Just watch all the trailers… in reverse chronological order after the jump…

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