Wednesdays are tough. Have a Leia cat.
Oh sure, you’ve thought about what your favorite tabletop character might wear, or how they might look, or how they would react to things. But have you considered how they would smell?
Fortunately BPAL, the popular gothic-inspired scent house, is here to help you find out! Their new RPG line has three different series of scents for races, classes, and alignments that are meant to be combined to represent your character (or mood). Fashionably Geek seems to think they’re pretty good, but mostly I just like the idea of going around all day smelling like Evil.
The new big name sports and pop culture blog Grantland got off to a roaring start this week, with one of my favorites being the HBO Recycling Program article and infographic. I’ve often commented on how Oz was the show that launched a thousand character actors*, but I see The Wire has it handily beat. (Many of these actors also appear in random episodes of Law & Order and Criminal Minds, too, but that is a story for another graphic.)
Do you recognize this man?
This article also reminded me of Željko Ivanek, who I believe may be the ultimate “hey, it’s that guy”. At one point last year he was appearing on my screen on a weekly basis in True Blood, Big Love, and reruns of Homicide: Life on the Street. I love seeing him appear on a new show — you know Ivanek is going to act the heck out of his character, and he’s probably playing a shady scumbag.
For more on character actors of past and present this blog has a really excellent, detailed list along with biographical details.
* A thousand character actors, but only one precariously placed tiny hat.
I am a huuuuuge fan of zombie movies, but even us fans have to admit that there’s been an over-saturation of zombies in the last decade. A few of these movies have been really good or at least fun to watch — like [REC] and Resident Evil! — but we’ve also been inundated with complete crap — like [REC2] and Resident Evil 2!
As a quality control measure, I swore off English language zombie movies a couple of years ago. It’s not that aaaaaaall English movies are bad and aaaaaaaall foreign movies are good, but usually avoiding English movies weeds out the worst of the Zach Snyder-esque “movie-as-music-video” pieces*. At least with a foreign movie I’m likely to get a little sense of another culture and some scenery at worst, and a neat intellectual piece at best. (Yes, basically I am just a huge movie snob.)
The point of all this is to say that I plan on breaking my pledge for The Curse of the Buxom Strumpet, starring Ian McKellar, Dame Judy Dench, and Gillian Anderson. The movie will “follow a 1700s town in England that becomes overrun with zombies”. Period costumes! Strumpets! JUDY DENCH KILLING ZOMBIES. Yes. Please.
On the topic of zombies, here’s someone’s list of the 15 most badass deaths in zombie movies, which is amusing if not entirely accurate. (A tree is not a zombie.) And if you’re a zombie over-preparer like me you might be tempted to buy this “Z-SAT Zombie Survival Aptitude Test” from ThinkGeek.
* The intro sequence for the Dawn of the Dead remake is absolutely stunning. The rest of the movie is terrible. Like, zombie baby terrible.
This is amazing. That is all.
Dear Internet: I promise to give you amusing Star Wars related photos if you promise to stop spittling “MAY THE FOURTH BE WITH YOU” at me, okay? (via the totally fascinating and not-at-all-porny thisisnotporn.net)
Kenny Baker enjoys lunch on the set of Star Wars.
Every Monday I like to post a couple of YouTube links to ease us all into the work week, myself included. Today is a sick day for me (boourns!), so I took the opportunity to scour the internet looking for the best remix of the Portal 2 theme. Oh, the sacrifices I make! Anyway, this one was the clear winner thus far:
Are you feeling all futuristic and cerebral now? Then I guess it’s time for Nyan Cat:
Wait! That KILLS brain cells, not stimulates them! Oops. True masochists might enjoy the Super Extended Version or the website version. If you’re tricky you can time both to run at the same time for STEREO NYAN, but I’m pretty sure that would open a portal for the Old Gods.
Witness the Evolution of April O’Neil.
I was a fan of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles as a kid, but mostly based on the old NES game and the Saturday morning cartoon, not the original comics. (“When the evil Shredder attacks, these turtle boys won’t cut him no slack!”) I recall deciding that Donatello would be the turtle I’d most like to hang out with based on his sassy attitude — not this kind of sassy though — but I didn’t care one way or the other about April. She was okay, I guess. Humans are just not as cool as turtles.
At least my April, though, was firmly in the jumpsuit era and not armed with “lipstick nunchacku” and “detachable skirt”. Tee hee, I’m a journalist!
Wow, I must be getting old — I don’t remember this all happening in the movie at all….
Now THIS is how nerds invite people to their wedding! (via The Gloss)
