Nice to see the lead singer of Twisted Sister getting work again. Here he is inexplicably on a billboard promoting the new Lady GaGa album
Looking at them side by side, I honestly think GaGa's make-up is based on Snyder's, and her teeth definitely are. Actually, Madonna + Twisted Sister + Cyndi Lauper, may be GaGa's entire secret formula to success.
P.S. Though "We're Not Gonna Take it" is about a million times catchier and more fun of a song, I have to say I like the music video for "I want to rock" better purely from a music video standpoint. Especially since it ends with Flounder from Animal House.
And the video for "We're Not Gonna Take It" since that song is already stuck in your head from me mentioning it before.
I've always thought Williem Defoe was a totally kick ass actor. I can't think of a movie I have seen him in where he doesn't give a completely fantastic performance. He is in a new Jim Beam ad which Is sincerely the classiest ad for liquor I have seen, possibly the classiest ad for anything which I have seen.
The Jim Beam "bold choice" slogan is pretty stupid at face value. I like Jim Beam a lot, but don't consider Burbon a "bold" drink choice. Though to be fire I was drinking, by choice, a Prairie Fire at a bar last night, so the problem probably lies with me and not Jim Beam's marketers.
For those of you who do not drink drinks that could also be used as effective nail polish remover, I should explain that a Prairie Fire is Tequila mixed with Tobasco sauce.
I also use Tabasco as a sports drink, and like Gatorade it comes in six flavors that all taste pretty much the same.
Getting back to Williem Defoe, I think the ad, especially with Defore seemlessly inhabiting every one of his roles in it, really sells "Bold Choice" as a slogan. I still think it is kind of a hokey slogan, but the ad is so well done from its cinematography to the makeup for Defoe, and has a really great flow to it. It would stand on its own as an exemplary short film if it didn't end with the Jim Beam logo. So the fact that they were able to use this theme of "Bold choice" to make an ad which is this down right inspiring does a lot to elevate my opinion of the slogan.
Advertising is inherently about commerce, but every once in a while an ad like this comes about which elevates the medium to exist as a form of artistic expression that just happens to be selling you a product.
Other things I have learned from this ad: The Swedish word for condom is "condom" but said with a Swedish accent and probably spelled cøndæöm since my understanding of the Swedish alphabet is that everything has more vowels, and all of those vowels have crazy shit added to them like umlauts or this halo thing: Å. What I'm saying is: I'm jealous of Latin based alphabets that get to have these fun flourishes on the letters. I understand that they indicate pronunciation, but I prefer to think of them as just languages that let their letters play dress up.
Thor's Hour of Thunder: Episode 15: Leprechaun In Space
Also in podcast news: we upgraded out podomatic account so we now a customized webpage for the podcast over at podomatic take a look at its sexy self here:
Here is what happens at this at bat: The historical origins of 13 being an unlucky number, A spoiler free review of the episodes so far of series six of Doctor Who, Why Matt Smith is the best of the 21st century Doctors, Why Stetsons are cool, Mark Webb directing the new Spider-Man film, The White Stripes, Look at the fucking hipster, WWE, WWF, "Surfing the Edge of Sanity", Wrestling, James Bond, Jinx, Stagecoash, Back to the Future Part 3, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Westerns, Silverado, Kevin Kline, John Cleese, Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, jon pertwee, William Hartnell, River Song, The Master,
and: Why Scream 4 is why better than all the reviews are saying it is, and brief reviews of all 4 scream films, Eric Roberts, Emma Roberts, Hayden Panettiere, Rory Culkin, Scream, Scream 2, Scream 3, Scream 4, Halloween, Jamie Lee Curtis, David Arquette, Alison Brie, Courtney Cox, Neve Campbell, Friday the 13th, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Saw, Paranormal Activity, Babylon 5, The Twilight Zone, Dead Silence, why Brad Dourif is awesome, Steve Dorff, Steve Zahn, Zach Galifianakis, intermezzos in opera.
Thor's: Episode 14: Jason Takes Manhattan: Friday the 13th Special & Thor Movie Premiere Special
This week Thor and Balder talk about the new Kenneth Branagh directed Thor film, The Friday the 13th films, Cowboys and Aliens, The Green Lantern, Ryan Reynolds, why Jon Favreau is kinda a dick, Shitty 80's 3D Films, (back when it was spelled 3-D, or often "Part 3-D", because apparently every 3rd film in a franchise in the 80's was shot in 3D, a oppose to now where every film is post converted to 3D afterwards so they can charge five dollars extra for tickets.), and as always many other things.
Thor's Hour of Thunder: Episode 13: In The Claws of the Scavenger!
In Honor of our 13th episode we do NOT discuss: the films 13 Ghosts, Friday the 13th, the 13th Warrior, Thirteen, or the shitty board game 13 Dead End Drive.
But we do discuss:
Doctor Who, Hellboy, Clockwork men, More on the upcoming Thor Film, The Green Lantern Film, Karl Ruprecht Kroenen, Shitty post stan lee 1960's x-men comic books, "Im the Juggernaut Bitch", Vinnie Jones, Shitty X-men vllians like: The Locust, Count Nefaria, the Eel, Porcupine, Morkubine Porcupine, and more on B-List Marvel villians, Crank 2: High Voltage, Crank 3, Jason Statham having sex with amy smart, Dennie O'Neal, The Savageland. Aquaman, Captain America
