news and notes

Apparently the new Quentin Tarantino movie, Inglorious Bastards, has already jumped the shark. I was very excited for this movie since day 1 with Brad Pitt playing the lead role, and Diane Kruger getting cast recently which was a smart move but something that makes my stomach turn is that.....none other than... Mike Myers... has been cast in this film. Myers is coming off the abortion that was the Love Guru and will probably ruin this movie as well. The guy is known to be extremely difficult to work with on set and his comedy is totally unfitting for this movie. I really hope this is a bit part or cameo but something tells me if it was Myers wouldn't have signed up.

Sad news in the world of movie voiceover's as Don LaFontaine has passed away at 68 year old. He was the voice of thousands of movie trailers and tv ad's. His most famous is probably the Geico ad that ran last year:



Finally, Google has decided to further its battle with Microsoft as it will launch "Chrome" tomorrow (Tuesday 9/3). Chrome is a new web browser from google designed to take away a chunk of Internet Explorer users. It'll be interesting to see how this browser does as Firefox and IE are very hard to compete against but if anyone can do it, its google. You can read more about Chrome as it already has a wikipedia page at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Chrome. I should have a review of it up over the next few days too.

Labor Day

Slow weekend on the blog as everyone is participating in Labor Day festivities. Enjoy your holiday weekend and I'll be back on Tuesday.

Palin named VP pick for McCain

John McCain has selected the Governor of Alaska, Sarah Palin, as his running mate for the 2008 Elections. The official announcement is expected to come momentarily at a rally in Dayton, Ohio. This is coming off the heels of Obama's historic acceptance speech last night at the final night of the Democratic National Convention.

Personally, I feel that a woman VP is not a bad choice to help balance McCain's image as a conservative old man. Unfortunately, I don't think Palin is quite the right choice to be this woman. She is VERY inexperienced as she has only been governor for a year in Alaska. The democrats will have a field day ripping into her as they have already unearthed that she is under investigation for trying to get her ex brother-in-law fired from a committee position. When she is debating against Joe Biden, she will be slaughtered like a lamb as he literally has 35x the amount of experience as her. McCain is already looking weak coming off the DNC and this pick will not help him enough in the long run.

Bill Clinton at the DNC

Last night former President Bill Clinton gave his speech at day 3 of the Democratic National Convention. It was a tremendous speech that reminded us why Bill Clinton was the greatest president in my generation. Tonight Barack Obama speaks in front of a crowd estimated of 80,000 people. Only the second time a candidate will accept a nomination in a setting - the first was John F. Kennedy. Here's the full vid of Clinton's speech:

Citizens Beware

I plan on buying this fine piece of machinery, the lancer from Gears of War 2 and walking around the city fighting off any locusts that dare show their face. Amazon has begun taking pre-orders for the low price of 139.99 which gets you the gun and the game. I am now accepting donations.

Ted Kennedy at the DNC

Senator Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts, kicked off the Democratic National Convention last night in Denver. It was believed that this would be the first convention that he would miss in 40 years as he recently went under surgery for a brain tumor but he still made it and gave an inspiring speech. If there is one person to bring the party together, it's probably Ted Kennedy. Tonight Hillary Clinton will be giving a speech, check back tomorrow for video of that.

T.I. and Rihanna sample an internet hit

Here at the blog we have been chronicling the upcoming, much anticipated release of T.I.'s new album "Paper Trail" due out September 30th. Another song has leaked off the record, this one is a duet with Rihanna and features a sample of the Numa Numa song featured on a viral video from a few years ago. Take a gander:



http://www.zshare.net/download/1764333928aae7e8/

and here is the internet vid: