Shatner, My Dad Says

Shatner, My Dad Says

I'm not sure whether to be jealous of this, or congratulatory, but some guy's Twitter feed has been adapted for television...with BILL SHATNER playing his dad. Apparently the Twitter feed was called "Shit My Dad Says", where he posts quotes and bits of wisdom from his 73-year old father (btw, the poster is 29).

Thomas Jane thankfully has some balls!

I thought The Punisher was decent. Not great but decent. But what was great about the film was Thomas Jane as Frank Castle. He was The Punisher, by the end of the film you knew he was a fucking bad ass among bad asses.

Well Aintitcool brings us word that Jane has dropped out of The Punisher 2 from Thomas Jane himself.

You can read the whole article here but the important quote is the following.

"What I won't do is spend months of my life sweating over a movie that I just don't believe in."

Bravo Mr. Jane, wish there was more people like you in Hollywood. I loved Jane as the Punisher but if the movie is going to be a piece of crap I'd just prefer it not to happen. Like League of Extraordinary Gentleman, love the concept, comic book, cast, director, sets and effects but the script was bad and even all of those things could not save it from being a bad movie. I wish Sean Connery had seen it like Jane does and said "I love the idea but I ain't making it unless it's right."

It's Bruce Campbell's world, you're just living in it!

Ahem.... to quote Peter Griffin Freakin Sweet!

"Cultural Commons"

I don't know if it's the program that I'm in that has made me more aware of my New Media 'language', but being that I already read some of Howard Rheingold's "Smart Mobs" and have read countless articles about similar subjects, it kind of annoys me when someone misuses the term "Cultural Commons".

Boing Boing used it in this article.

"So there you have it: the MPAA has ripped, mixed and burned a phrase out of the cultural commons -- they appropriated it, reversed the meaning it had been imbued with by its copyfighting popularizer, and put it out there, not even bothering to credit Lewis or Barlow. Sly old MPAA."

My understanding of "Cultural Commons" is that it represents a common good that many people contribute to, and a large number of people benifit from, whether they contribute or not. Like for instance, Bittorrent (and this comes up a lot): many people download but not everyone uploads or seeds.

Given this, although I can understand the context (a quote from a famous IP abolitionist), does the song necessarily describe that? The song isn't part of "Cultural Commons"- it's a song. And even if it was, the irony is, it would technically be okay for anyone to quote from it..? I think it was just his phrasing that got me, but I understand his frustration.

It reminds me of that commerical I saw once (might have been a car commercial- I can't remember) that was very patriotic and it used a clip from CCR's "It Ain't Me"- the irony here being that the song was railing against how easy it was for the upper class to be patriotic. I remember Doug went crazy when he saw that 'cause he's such a CCR fan.

Anyway just blabbing some thoughts down.

ps, if you wanna see the MPAA in action, here ya go.

Chris Crawford quote of the day:

"The cardboard people in games do for drama what inflatable dolls do for sex."

Lovin' the book. The book is great.

A quote

"And I have known the eyes already, known them all-
The eyes that fix you in a formulated phrase,
And when I am formulated, sprawling on a pin,
When I am pinned and wriggling on the wall,
Then how should I begin
To spit out all the butt-ends of my days and ways?
And how should I presume?"

-T.S. Eliot, "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"

A Memorable Quote that I always tack to my wall

"Life, for which we are responsible, encounters, at the same time as great motives for discouragement, inumerable more or less vulgar diversions and compensations. A year doesn't go by when people we loved haven't succumbed, for lack of having clearly grasped the present possibilities, to some glaring capitulation. But the enemy camp objectively condemns people to imbecility and already numbers millions of imbeciles; the addition of a few more makes no difference.
The first moral deficiency remains indulgence, in all its forms."
-Guy Debord
From Les Levres Nues #6, Sept. 1955

Courtesy of Harmony. Wherever she is, she's probably blowing somebody's mind. ;)

How to annoy people

Step one: Give them the link to the 'unanwserable' quote of the internet

Step two: Wait.