It has been soo long since the Wang's last post, that even the Wang himself don't remember much. But since u gentle readers all sit patiently glued to ur RSS feeds of WWW, The Wang figures its about time for another infamous update. Of course, like a good blogger, the Wang keeps notes for things he wants to blog about. But as a bad blogger the Wang will dump the entirety of 1.5 month of stuff in one giant post. This might get long... That's what she said!! (and it might include a lot of random links like that one there.)

First off, the almost two month old post that the Wang should of wrote for Coachella 08'. Since it is very late, The Wang will cut it short.

It was fun.

Here are more photos than u can shake a stick at:
-The Wang's Flickr Coachella 08 Set
-Sunggnus' Flickr He Haz a photo pass.
-Ourcommon's Flickr stuff, very pretty.
-Miss Black's I'm w/ the Band Set
-Girl from Long Beach
-Jackiebutler's Coachella Group.
-Lastnightsparty's photoset (some NSFW stuff)
-LAist's coverage Day 1, Day 2 & Day 3
Damn it, I truly miss the LAist. They were nice enough to post a "where to eat" @ Coachella list. That's right SFist u've been warned, shape up or u r losing ur spot in the Wang's RSS feed.

Some of the memorable moments include The Flogging Molly Mosh out, the Gogol Bordello Mosh Out, which lead to famous drum riding, and yes, you r right, one of those hands holding up the drum is, in fact, of the Wang. The Wang was up front and right. When the the drum flew, the Wang brought forth his super human strength and carried the Gogol Bordello Dancing girl, by himself with the aid of a few. The Wang and friends, camped this yr @ Tent City which basically involve staying up late and waking up tot he heated tent fighting for a shower spot. Mr. Starfizzy did battle with the electronic charging wall daily. He is an avid documentor with a very small battery.

Other things of note:
-Best Video Ass Shaking.
-Roger Water Lost his Pig and then found it.
-Prince did his "Second Coming" thing and played for like 3 hrs. The Wang Squad enjoyed it from a distance, safe from the rabid fans. But we did miss the epic music momemnt of him covering "Creep". being Prince, he proceed to remove every video on Youtube of it... thank god the internet is beautiful place. So here it is: Prince Covering Creep.
-The Wang does regret not being able to be at multiple places at once... or to have the willingness to stay late enough to see Fatboy Slim




Of course the rest of today's Giant Panda Post will be paw style... one after the other. A lot of crap. Feel free to skip around or go back to your pron. Also, some of these things might be month old news.

The Wang has almost been in the City by the Bay for 1 year now. The relocation and new gig is one of the reason that the blog is getting less luv than its glory days of daily posts. The other of course is laziness. As with all great blogs, the reason for today's post is of course bitter ranting. SF is great city by most parts, but today the Wang will bring two of the most irritating things plaguing the Wang's peaceful and happy life. The Giants and "Limited Releases".

 
(photo by Antman)

First of, the Wang takes a nice and laid-back drive to work, daily via the beautiful stretch of the east side of the SF proper. This involves passing through the middle of tourist travel routes to the pier 39, the Ferry Building, The Infamous Giant Spider, and the Hell of Pedestrians, (The Chinese have like 18 Hells...) AKA Pacbell Park SBC Park AT&T Park. Now the Wang isn't one to comment on baseball. He was rather bored at that one game which he was invited to go see the SF Giants @ the park, he really could care less about Berry Bond's "allegations" of steroids use (though the whole Elk semen thing is rather funny.) and he clearly wasn't impressed by the famous hot dogs at the park. So, pretty much the whole Giants and AT&T park existence has brought nothing to the Wang's happy life, but misery. This bring us back to the Hell of Pedestrians.

The AT&T park is located in a nice stretch of the 2nd largest freeway exit area for Downtown SF. Basically, the cooler hipper 280 exits right on to the street that leads to the ballpark. This is also the gathering spot for the Caltrain and the end of the line for a pretty well used Muni light rail. So with all this, this means that the none-car-loving SFians love to walk fill up the 3 small intersections that spans between the park and the Caltrain station. This of course, backs up all the cars trying to exit the 280 freeway. Now this is going one way. The other way of the street is jammed packed with people trying to park, more pedestrians, and the general slowness of the cars in the area. So come baseball season, (and why cant they play on Sundays like the football ppl do? They r nice enough not to bother me...) the whole area in front of AT&T park becomes an even lower level of hell, The Hell of Slow Traffic. One can see an example of this on the 405 between the I10 and El Segundo in LA, but then LA is like a whole other lvl of Hell. (That's needs an entire blog post of its own, one day... Don't get me wrong, I luv and miss LA, no hate man) So baseball season, though happytime for some, utter chaos on the Wang's schedule. And this is the main reason why the Wang has the Giants Schdule as a bookmark, just so he can keep track of the times where baseball becomes the national traffic time.

The 2nd wine and cheese moment for today's post is the whole issue of "Limited Releases". Now when a foreign, indie, art house, or early release of film gets a "limited release", they usually mean LA/NY. So being once a melancholy citizen of the greater LA metro, the Wang was happily partaking in the early release of films that others won't see for weeks to come, or at all. With places in LA like Laemmle chain, the Arclight, and other art house theaters, LA was pretty much a Mecca for films that the studio won't market to large Cineplexes. It took awhile before the Wang discovered all the art house theaters in SF, but they r there, just buried in neighborhoods less traveled. Most of the time the Wang isn't a rush to catch films early, but the Wang has like 2 favorite directors from the 90s, and 1 of them is Wong Kar Wai. Mr. Wong's latest film after his epic 2046 is his English debut, My Blueberry Nights. So the fact that its Limited release means that its is shown in LA RIGHT AT THIS FRAKKING MOMENT and not in SF till 4/18 is pissing the Wang off, only slightly less than the fact that the Giant's baseball season has started.

Now we move to the less whining and more comment portion of the post.
 


The Wang has always been a fan of Wong Kar Wai, even though some of his films r truly hard to digest. But as w/ 2046, the Wang followed and waited for all the rumors and news about My Blueberry Nights. Much like the matrix and any other esoteric things, Wong Kar Wai's movies are best experienced. So here's a beautiful clip from the My Blueberry Nights... I guess it might be a spoiler since it shows who and who hooks up, but I doubt any of his movies really lives story progression. The Kiss This of course is a scene between Jude Law and Norah Jones. Yes Ms. Jones not only lends her sultry voice to the soundtrack, but also her debut-acting gig. This movie is supposedly done in parts, dealing with difference couples and their stories of love, relationship and companionship. As with all Wong Kar Wai films, he enjoys slow slow editing, saturated lighting, layering of subjects and defining music. And since the lucky folks of NYC and LA have alrdy have their limited releases... (note rant above), the Thighmaster has alrdy graced the web with his review. The Wang hasn't seen it, but much of Wong's films do not disappoint if u r in a certain mindset to absorb all his stuff. Though slow and chaotic, he tends to shine in scenes, characters and ambience, rather than grand stories and plot. So if u don't live in LA or NYC check ur local weeklies or movies showtime sites and see if u r lucky enough to be graced by My Blueberry Nights.


Here's another one Wong Kar Wai's latest work. He did a series of short movie/commercials for Philips Aurea HDTV:

There's only One Sun
 

A nice collection of clips from the Wang's favorite Wong Kar Wai film, Fallen Angel.




And in case u still haven't gotten enough, here's a great MTV for the Nationals' Fake Empire, which really carries a Wong Kar Wai feel, and should have been directed by him anyways:

 


THANKYOUs:
Achtung Baby!

Are you ready for the final season of BSG? Don't forget, tomorrow night will be the 2nd coming.





And the best way to recall last season is this:






And in case need more reasons to watch BSG, here are 10 more, delivered by the cast on Letterman.


In case you missed te first three seasons, here's Sci-Fis very own "What the Frak is going on."

So this past weekend was the end of the big GDC event which blurred right into WonderCon, the tiny sister of ComicCon. The Wang wasn't really involved with the GDC, cept by proxy of a visiting WoW friend. But the WonderCon did lure the Wang with some panels, that were minorly related to the Wang's work. Which turned out to be completely unrelated. But the whole potential lead the Wang to learn about professional free pass for WonderCon. So free cons = good cons.

We're not really going into a WonderCon review, but the Wang will note that he sat in a J. Michael Straczynski panel. JMS is most well known for Babylon 5, which is a legendary TV show. It had some of the best television seasonal arcs. But unfortunately due to crappy art design and dated special effects, it might be really hard for anyone to pick up the DVD sets and start watching it these days. JMS now is doing a lot of comic work and might be involved with a lot of future movie scripts. Specially with all the new comic to movies that are coming out, all these famous comic/TV writers are getting great exposures.

Now back to the main topic of today's post, the Oscars. Yes, here at WWW we're looking at the Oscars. Normally we flee from this type of direct media coverage reserved for The Daily 10, Defamer, or any of Perez Hilton's blogs. But this last year was actually a pretty good year for film. So in old school style, we jump right in to the paw listings.


Mahalo Daily's Monday post: Oscar in 60 sec. A great list but they miss a few important gems, one of which is the win by Glen Hansard & Markéta Irglová's for their great song "Falling Slowly". Here is their Oscar live performance, which the Wang thinks that Glen toned down his usual vein popping performance during the high climax of the song. This of course lead to the best moment in Oscar history where John Stewart brought back Markéta Irglová to let her finish her cut-off-ed speech. She proceed to give one of the evening's most memorable speech about how hope unites us all. Here are the texts to the full speech for both Glen and Markéta, from Firstshowing. And if all this coolness isn't enough to convince you to go see this gem of a indie film then you are dead to me and might as well take you RSS feed for this blog off you readers. So go watch Once, or prepare for the burning wrath of the Wang.

Here's the FirstShowing, Full List.


I hate transformers, but really Visual Award? At least thanks to the Onion, Michael Bay gets his Oscar @ the cost of a $120m digital production. He did make that "AWESOME!" commercial. how the frak did Golden Compass win this? Really? I mean the Wang digged the airships, but it was clearly no match for the 10,000 pieces of moving metal fighting another 10,000 pieces of moving metal that is Transformers. And Bourne ran off with 3 technical awards. Great movie, but it felt like they gave it to Bourne for the trilogy, not Ultimatum.


I was rooting for Ellen Page for Juno. But since every prediction and their mother's prediction was for Julie Christie and the fact that the movie, Away From Her, was directed by Sarah Polley, The Wang was swayed... But I guess it is good that Tilda Swinton got it in the end, which shocked everyone. And ended the Wang's internal struggles. Because there's enough Wang for both Ellen Page and Sarah Polley. Email me. (makes phone gesture.)


Sure I like Johnny Depp in his myriad of characters, but really? How did that Sweeney Todd clip even fit with the others?!


Great Speech Quotes: Joel Coens: "...letting us continue to play in our corner of the sandbox"


Plus who knew, Clooney was the man. He predicated most of the acting nods. He's truly as they say, "old Hollywood". He's got it all, class, style and devilish smile. The Wang aint gay, but if George showed up an bought us diner, hey u never know... I'm just saying, not gay.


Ebb and Flow of Movies:
 

NYT gives us this wave-like visualization of movie grosses in the last few years.


On Monday night, the weekend ended in a really fun concert with Missy Higgins @ The Independent. She was rather funny with a few Aussie/American jokes, some humor about how her Target bought Bra kept falling of her shoulders (ZING!!), how she finally got her song into Grey's Anatomy and the overall comments on the American accent, which she demo-ed for the audience. Fun times were had and the Wang probably had the fun-est time at a "Pop" concert. There was something about the happy upbeat energy that Missy Higgins was going off on.


And in the end all this seemed make a really fun music weekend for the Wang. And in the recent artistic posting line, we end the day on a grammy winning music short dedicated to Johnny Cash:



THANKYOUs:
My Extra Life, Firstshowing.net, Vulture

"I was the shadow of the waxwing slain
by the false azure of the windowpane;
I was the smudge of ashen fluff -- and I
Lived on, flew on, in the reflected sky.
And from the inside, too, I'd duplicate
Myself, my lamp, an apple on a plate:
Uncurtaining the night, I'd let dark glass
Hang all the furniture above the grass,
And how delightful when a fall of snow
Covered my glimpse of lawn and reached up so
As to make chair and bed exactly stand
Upon that snow, out in that crystal land!"

picture: (via)
words: (via)

( photo by: [Zakkaliciousness])


This of course is the artistic mindset left by the music of one of the Wang's favorite movie of the year, Juno. The general gist of the movie is that 16 yr old, sarcastic high schooler, Juno finds out she's pregnant and goes on the movie length journey of understanding love and maturity. Director Jason Reitman of Thankyou For Smoking fame, brilliantly delivers this indie darling of a film with a witty script and slightly off-the-wall comedy.With Quotes like these gems:

Rollo (Rainn Wilson): That ain't no etch-a-sketch. That's one doodle that can't be un-did, homeskillet.

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Juno MacGuff: You should've gone to China, you know, 'cause I hear they give away babies like free iPods. You know, they pretty much just put them in those t-shirt guns and shoot them out at sporting events.

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This movie comes around the corner with its witty, brilliant acting from everyone; from Allison Janney, J.K. Simmons, & even Jennifer Garner, in seemingly small role that turns a whisper of a character into a pretty nice side plot of the story, that seems to comment on the whole question of maturity and relationships. J.K. Simmons as the funny and understanding dad has got to be one of the best dad's in movie history. The Wang only wishes that his future father-in-law would have that kind of humor and open minded-ness. Of course seeing that the title character Juno is pretty much the witty equivalent of a wet dream center fold, plus indie guitar playing skills.



This leads us to the soul of our musing, the soundtrack. The sound track is mainly filled with the works of Kimya Dawson, in her many guises. She's either performing with her old claim-to-fame, The Moldy Peaches, or her solo stuff, or her recent co-lab with The Antsy Pants. Kimya Dawson is labeled as Anti-Folk. Which at first, the Wang was lost to the labeling and genre. Of course after an evening with the Moldy Peaches titular album, smack the concept home in its wordy, witty, & experimental sound. Though overall, the music used in Juno tend to be what the Wang originally felt as some sort of kiddie-folk or twee-folk. With lyrics about love, life, hamburgers and vampires all fueled by Kimya Dawson's childish voice. Her seemingly young and innocent voice is instantly shattered when one noticed the lyrics and topics that smartly flow off her folk-style guitar like verbal syrup.

Also included in the Juno soundtrack is a few songs the movie use to hammer home the character's love of music. Juno of course prefers the 1977 punk era, as her counter point, Jason Bateman defends the grunge era of 1993. Songs include "All the You Dudes" by Mott the Hoople and "Superstar" by Sonic Youth. Check out this great entry by Indiemuse.com which include a few tracks. (SPECIALLY check out Kimya Dawson's Loose Lips) Kimya Dawson really adds to the movie, from its title-opening track to the ending song which cements the movie, "Anyone Else But You" cover by Ellen Page and Michael Cera, originally a Moldy Peaches song by Adam Green and Kimya Dawson.

This leads us to the interview with Ellen Page by Pitchfork, where we learn that:

Ellen Page: [Juno director] Jason Reitman and I were meeting for maybe the second or third time and he simply said, "Well, what do you think Juno would listen to?" Immediately I said the Moldy Peaches, and he, I guess, wasn't familiar with their work, so I hopped on his computer and I played the Moldy Peaches for him. The next thing I knew he'd fallen in love-- rightfully so, they're awesome-- and he was in contact with Kimya Dawson, who is the female in the band, and he added the song at the end of the film, which is a Moldy Peaches song. That song's been in my life for years, actually; there's a lot of sentimental value there. And the next thing we know Kimya Dawson is doing the music for the film. It was really incredible how that all worked out because it just feels perfect.

So the Wang puts two paws up on Juno, and the soundtrack which is now available on iTunes, and in Jan. in hardcopy. Of course you can just get some Kimbya Dawson stuff to work you over till then.

The Moldy Peaches - Nothing Came Out (MP3) : Inspiration for the opening pic..
The Moldy Peaches - Anyone Else But You (MP3) : The song that sets the mood for Juno.

And just to catch up on the old days of WWW glory, a few recent things on the Wang's RSS reading list, paw style:
Tad Safran of the Times stirs the British Hen House with this Op-Ed on how American Women groom themselves better. Of course this lead to a nation-wide (British Nation) fervor and scorn by the ladies, which earned a second article.


Tabula Rasa may not be the best MMO around, nor may it be top dog, but the Wang donated some time, and gives it its just deserves. But what really hits the sweet spot is the fan base that took Richard Garetts new world to heart and created more fanfic and roleplaying than any Tauren cow cosplay will ever do. Here's an example from Massively on Remembrance Day. And from tabularasaroleplayers.com of their fan gathering on Dec. 21, Remeberence Day, basically a memorial honoring the day when Earth fell to the alien invaders, The Bane.


The year end round up video games and games of the year is too long to keep track of. But the Wang was sorely entranced by the Gaming Club on Slate.com.  The Gaming Club is a mimic of Steven Totilo of MTV's Multiplayer Blog and N'Gai Croal of Newsweek's  Level Up Blog 's usual vs Mode. Its normally a series of emails that would debate/discuss a specific game or video game related subject. This time for their big year end round up they included Seth Schiesel of NYT and Chris Suellentrop (most currently of Slate) into their mix. They brought forth an email roundtable that talks from everything from game design to the criticism of video games. Specially in the light of the recent events involving Jeff Gerstmann, which promoted the entire industry a new to critically comment on the field of Video Game Journalism. None the less, this was a great read about video games, industry, and and what it means to be critical.


Also related to video games, the MTV Multiplaer Blog's Tracey John also wrapped up last weeks great series of article of Women Working in Games. Tracey goes off and interviews Morgan Webb (X-Play/G4TV), Janet Pickard (Game Girl Advance), Elspeth Tory (Ubisoft), Brenda Brathwaite, and Tali Fischer (Sega). Of course hidden under the subtlety of the general interviews is the questions about the recent Jade Raymond incident. But overall it's a great set of interviews about the whole industry from journalists to developers to PR. Sure the topic is about women, but it gives a nice view of the field and the people in it. Personally, the Wang comes to the conclusion that the industry seems to be embracing the female influx, but the it's the webtard players that seems to be dumbing it up for the male populace by scaring off most of these women from forums and comments.


On that note, here's a nice review of Bioshock from the Mighty Pony Girl. Yes it has a female perspective. I give her credit for reading Fountainhead before playing the game, just to get the full experience.


And since the Wang hasent been blogging about everything that was cool of recent, here's a cool link to the semi-spoiler-best-ending-ever-for-a-video-game-credit-sequence of Portal: GlaDOS - Still Alive (Youtube link). Of course if you have not experienced it, please give it a try, Portal is one of the best games this past year. Plus its short, fun and well written. It comes in slightly around 3 hrs. (without the repeatable time trials) and packs a great subtle story telling all wrapped in witty dialog. Of course the entire Orange Box is pretty worth it, for it contains Portal, Half Life, HL: Episode 1 & 2 and Team Fortress 2. TF2 is the bastard child of The Incredibles and online multiplayer mindless fun. Plus if you have the time, you should check out the "Meet the ____" videos on YT. Some of them are hilarious.


THANKYOUs:
Level Up Blog, Massively, MTV's Multiplayer Blog, [Zakkaliciousness]

There were never any good old days
They are today, they are tomorrow
It's a stupid thing we say
Cursing tomorrow with sorrow.

Gogol Bordello -- Ultimate

Photo: John

So the Wang usually does drop album reviews. Specially since the Wang enter the music scene rather late in life and is still sending half of his time catching up on the old rock legends and classics. So seeing stuff about the upcoming movie about Bob Dylan, "I'm Not There", the Wang was naturally happy to see the story of another musical icon via some indie film introduction. Since the late arrival on the English music scene, the Wang had to had most of his musical experiences with the icons like the Beatles via movies like Across the Universe and with Walk the Line for Johnny Cash. And for a new generation, the Wang included, these things may be an insult to some of the older hardcores, but there r a great way to get the new folks a slice of these icon's greatness. Covers songs re surge a interest about the original singers. Though the Wang have this weird theory that the first version of a song u listen to, tends to be the one u like more. But that's just personal opinion. Since "I'm Not There" isn't released in the US till Nov. 21, the Wang has very little to say about it except links to the Wikipedia entry and a Youtube trailer. The movie does have some strong actors/actress portraying Bob Dylan at different personalities. Amongst those are Christian Bale, Cate Blanchett, and Heath Ledger.

So the topic of this post is mainly about the Original Soundtrack of the said movie. Never having much encounter with bob's music cept maybe the closest would be The Wang has heard some Wallflower songs... (yes, I said Wallflowers) Which of course is no where close to Bob Dylan's music, cept being from the same gene pool. So there Wang was, a collector of sound tracks and random music. The "I'm Not There" soundtrack pops out with names like Karen O, Sufjan Stevens, Iron & Wine, Jeff Tweedy, Yo La Tango and even the duo from the Swell season, Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova. Amongst many more. U might as well just check out the Wikipedia entry for the full list. Not to mention the super guitar group called the The Million Dollar bashers, which includes the guitarist from Sonic youth and Wilco. Some of the guitar in the songs smack of old school rock classics and brings a modern twang to some of these songs. Not the Wang has much to compare to with the old, original Dylan stuff. But he's definitely going to be on the lookout for some old tracks just to get a mix and feel for things. If one thing he's learned in his old age is that, any experiences is perceived differently, at different ages. So a song u heard when u were 12 probably means something completely different to u at age 30. So the Wang recommend all u old Dylan purist to give the album a try also. Why not, some of it can be good. I mean Karen O, Iron and wine really brings their own flavor to some of these really good songs. Even Mark Lanegan of Queens of the Stone Age brings a Johnney Cash esque cover of The Man in the Long Black Coat.

There r just too many good tracks, so the Wang will post the first one that came up in the random shuffle which caught the Wang's attention:

Sufjan Stevens Covering Ring of Bells (MP3)


P.S. Rabbit! Rabbit!

Sometime in the future, we'll all look back, and some how realize that 2007 was the year the network exec, decided to target the geeks. The Wang has always been saying for the last 7 yrs, that Geeks are the nerds of the Aughts. In the 90s, it was the decade for nerds to shine in their dot com bubbles of the late 90s, where every computer nerd could of ended up with a trophy wife from their IPO stock boom. But some how that bubble popped a bit for most of the latecomers. So then the mosaic-esque web techniques gave birth to the Web 2.0 of today's interweb where every geek can have their own blog, Youtube pages, mySpace, Facebook, and even a webcomic if u r up to it. All u need is a sense of humor and some spare time, there's a website out there that built just to host ur Web 2.0 content.

Of course, Hollywood, being ever the trend whore, wanted in on the geek-pop-sphere. I guess one too many Kevin smith movies makes Hollywood think that they can hit up any geek culture with the right amount of humor. But why they seem to forget is that, they need directors and writers that know their material, not a Hollywood intern given a laptop and a Myspace account and asked to go "research" geeks. The Wang cant proclaim any great amount of geekdom but does know shit when he sees it. And by Shit, I mean this new crop of fall shows that seem to somehow target the geek-mass.

So somehow during the Fall season of 07, networks decided that, "hey have u heard about this internet thing, my daughter is talking about? Or whats this wow?" And of course, 8+ million users later, ever one in it for the cold hard cash is trying to link themselves to WoW.... But I digress, thought that new Toyota commercial with wow is pretty funny... (I AM THE LAW GIVAA!!). So Hollywood, who thinks computers can do everything... discovers the internet and go hey, we need to target these so-called geeks, because, u know, they work and have money. Things that Men's magazines like Maxim and FHM have know for decades, is that men around our age have a lot of money and we don't fall for the usual crap of advertisement. But funny thing is that we really do... I mean why else would every geek out there be buying the same LCD monitor they read about on Engadget? We just didn't want to be main stream. So things were geeky cool when they weren't mainstream. Back when Gizmodo and Engadget was only known in the inner circle. Still, the point...SO Hollywood targets geeks. SO this fall, the Wang does his usual, check of the fall season and what does he notice... we get shows like, NBC's Chuck and CBS's Big Bang Theory. Thought there good stuff too, the Wang is happy to see Sci-fi making a come back in primetime... but don't get me started on Heroes... a poor excuse for a superhero show.



So back to the shit @ hand: We have Chuck, Best Buy wannabe geek squad sale dude turn into super spy because he opened an mind altering email. Well he didn't turn into a super spy, more so he became a super geek, a walking knowledge base with super hawt protection in the name of Yvonne Strzechowski , aka hawt aussie. Though Adam Baldwin (not related to THE Baldwins) does pack in his usual quirky strongman role. The Wang thinks that Josh Schwartz, after finishing his comic geek character on the O.C., now he claims knowledge over all geekdom, and gives us Chuck. As crappy as Chuck's portrayal of a geek, it gets worst in Big Bang Theory.

 

So the big bang theory seems to be a sitcom about 4 caltech researchers. The theme is about a super geek character trying to go after the new blonde neighbor across the floor. That's about it. Throw in some physics/math jokes and a jab at MMOs here and there and u have it. How Hollywood views geeks. Though the show is from Chuck Lorre, of Dharma and greg fame. But the Wang isn't a vegan yogan chick, so I have nothing to complaint about his previous show. Still, somehow I think the attempt at the geek populace just isn't as smooth as the attempt on the Slacker populace. With shows like the Reaper and movies like Knocked Up they seem to hone in on the slacker generation in the riding on the tail coats of older movies/shows of the past. Reapers aint great yet, but at least Kevin Smith himself is doing a few episodes, hopely he, being of his Cleric/mallrat/Chasing Amy fame should know a thing or too about slacker comedy. Mean while writer director Judd Apatow does seem to have his genre and humor down. The Wang has heard good things about Superbad...

So in general, this was more a rant of Hollywood typecasting/stereotyping ppl as usual. I guess u can do humor on that easily, as comedians have always proved. Still, its achingly painful to watch some of these shows... not knowing if the writers of these shows are making fun of geeks, or they just don't get it. While the slew of Sci-fi shows are pretty much riding some sort of Lost/Heroes fame also. Hopefully they don't fall down the same Hollywood exec-hole, in where they just become mystery novel with no revelation, hooking u like an MMO timesink.

BTW. Comments seem to be still weird... i'll still be looking into that. Anyone know anything about mySQL?

And ya, I've been lazy to post crap.

Two of my favorite musical institutions teamed up recently to do some sort iTune special track. I must disagree with the iTune bit, but this piece if from Youtube, a fine way to listen to stuff in my opinion. Not to mention this serene video of birds.

Traveling Birds