You guys GOTTA check this video out. Just beautiful.
http://massiveattack.com/blog/2009/12/15/paradise-circus/
(Totally not safe for work)

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Dec 19th: Off-duty cop with power issues and a huge hummer brings a gun to a snowball fight. Crowd of people having fun in the snow resent it.

Honestly, you would think that this guy would have more important things to concern himself with (say, crimes?) during a massive snowstorm. He created the incident, not the people tossing snow.

I love the one guy: "SNOW IS FALLING FROM THE SKY! WHAT ARE YOU GONNA DO? SHOOT THE FUCKING SKY?!" hahaha awesome.

Also quotable... the guy who commented: "the cop should have built a snow fort in the road and held his position". Priceless. ^_^

UPDATE:
Police initially claimed that the officer did not draw his gun, but are now rethinking their position now that they have since received "additional images and statements that would seem to support the allegation that the off-duty member did pull a gun," a police statement said.
http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/12/20/snowball.fight.police.gun/index.html

80s horror-comedy fans will know what the jig is with this two special requests.

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Rebecca has a total girl-boner for Michael Cera, so we watched YEAR ONE, and PAPER HEARTS. They were both actually pretty entertaining in their own ways, and we had a "tiny time" (as my Mom says). You gotta give it to her: Rebecca's girl boners are usually pretty cool and well-placed. My attractions and turn-ons are more like buckshot, blasted all over the spectrum.

We spent the day today in bed, with the covers up to our chins. Just lazing around and watching movies and the Capitals/Oilers game, and doing crosswords and just goofin'. We haven't done that in such a long time... so it was really nice! It was initiated by the fact that Rebecca was mysteriously inflicted with nausea for most of the day, and I got jealous that she looked so cozy in the bed, all snuggly warm.

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GOD dammit, why did THE FANTASTIC MR. FOX have to be so good? Now I have to revise my best of 2009 list (not to mention my best of the decade list) in order to fit it in.

Although the studios made the funniest, most screwball mistake somehow, and put the trailer hype ("Will change the way you watch movies") for the FANTASTIC MR. FOX onto the preview for AVATAR instead. hahaha! What a silly mistake! Between guffaws I mentioned the gaff to one of the ushers at the theatre, and I am told this idiocy will be rectified right away. Thank goodness!

I mean, clearly yet more overblown cliche-ridden technicolor videogame graphics (which appear in every single big budget hollywood FX movie) are not anywhere as original as wicked-ass stopmotion puppetry, the highly skilled use of which is treasured by anyone with any modicum of interest in filmic artistry (as well as awesomeness). AVATAR, with its plot cribbed from FERNGULLY (1992), and said videogame graphics depicting imagery about as fresh as a 1979 issue of Heavy Metal Magazine could never seriously, with a straight face, be considered the catalyst for "changing the way you watch movies".

Oh Hollywood hype-machine! You're just adorable! Haha, one day you'll get it right.

Did you know? My print collection is large. http://sayunclecomics.deviantart.com/store/

That's the last page of this chapter. We're gonna take a tiny break over the holidays, the next chapter will star in January! Read archive!

Some holiday comics! The Kiss Elves return.

Oh and I am posting journal type comics on twitter sometimes. If you are on twitter I am @beatonna

You know, it's starting to look more and more like CINEMA SEWER time! Check out the cover art by Bob Fingerman:
http://bobfingerman.blogspot.com/2009/12/cinema-sewers-noir-issue.html
Feb. 2010 is when #23 drops. It's only a couple months away. And I still have so much to doOooooooo! (runs around, flailing)

I've been doing dozens of drawings in books in the last few weeks, but I haven't been able to show you guys any of them since I didn't have photoshop and all my scans without it look like yak dung. I downloaded a 30 day trial version of CS4 for the time being, so hopefully I can get something going with PS by the end of the month. It's a band aid, but I had to get something.

So yeah, ass-spread. I draw variations of this pose a lot, I know. But you draw what you're passionate about, right? Of course you do. And ladies asses are pretty much the main thing on my mind most of the time. I'm guessing my sex drive will die a little by the time I'm 60, but until then you get 25 more years of this:

25 YEARS. That is a lot of assholes.

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if you are in dallas i will be there seeing family for christmas and doing a signing at lonestar comics on dec. 23rd. okay

i will be closing book orders on thursday morning i think so i can finish shipping and not think about that over christmas. i will reopen them early january

animal tropical - 20 miles

Holy shit. This list was *hard* to do. I spent about 8 hours on it. Just remembering everything was a total bitch. I'm still not totally concrete on the placings, and it could well change quite a bit when I print it in Cinema Sewer in Feb. Haha, shit, I spent hours just moving the placement and rankings around... mostly ranking stuff higher depending on how eager I am to watch it over and over. Amazing movies that I only need to see once got ranked far lower. "Black Book" and "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" are good examples of that.

The only 2 rules I gave myself was that it had to have had a theatrical screening (which unfortunately knocks out 99% of the great porn DVDs that came out, and a lot of awesome BBC documentaries such as "The Dark Side of Porn" and "Planet Earth"), and it had to been released from Jan 2000 to Dec 2009. Needless to say, there are still many terrific movies which I have not seen (Let the Right One In, Anvil, The Fantastic Mr Fox, Little Children, etc) but I don't care how much of a film nerd you are, there are only so many hours in the day. You never get to see everything that is good.

1. Cocaine Cowboys (2006. Usa)
2. Spirited Away (2001. Japan)
3. Team America: World Police (2004. Usa)
4. Inglourious Basterds (2009. Usa)
5. Guerrilla: The Taking of Patty Hearst (2004. Usa)
6. Mind Game (2004. Japan)
7. Kamikaze Girls (2004 Japan)
8. Sexy Beast (2000. UK)
9. City Of God (2002. Brazil)
10. Wonderland (2003. Usa)
11. Capturing the Friedmans (2003. Usa)
12. Old Boy (2003. Korea)
13. There Will be Blood (2007. Usa)
14. Battle Royale (2000. Japan)
15. No Country for Old Men (2007. Usa)
16. Not Quite Hollywood (2008. Australia)
17. Ghost World (2001. Usa)
18. The Road (2009. Usa)
19. Wall-E (2008. Usa)
20. Punch Drunk Love (2002. Usa)
21. Aachi and Ssipak (2006. Korea)
22. Death Proof (2007. Usa)
23. Sukeban Boy (2006. Japan)
24. Man on Wire (2008. Usa)
25. O Brother where art thou? (2000. Usa)
26. Paprika (2006. Japan)
27. Save the Green Planet (2003. Korea)
28. Lost In Translation (2003. Usa)
29. Amelie (2001. France)
30. Ratatouille (2007. Usa)
31. Irreversible (2002. France)
32. The Royal Tenenbaums (2001. Usa)
33. Clavaire (2004. France)
34. Tekkonkinkreet (2006. Japan)
35. The Man who wasn’t there (2001. Usa)
36. Eternal Sunshine of the spotless mind (2004. Usa)
37. Shaolin Soccer (2001. HK)
38. Grizzly Man (2005. Usa)
39. New Tokyo Decadence: The Slave (2007. Japan)
40. Inside Deep Throat (2005. Usa)
41. The Princess And the Warrior (2000. Germany)
42. Requiem for A Dream (2000. Usa)
43. Ny77 (2008 Usa)
44. Adaptation (2002. Usa)
45. The Dead Girl (2006. Usa)
46. Hard Candy (2005 Usa)
47. Borat (2006. Usa)
48. American Splendor (2003. Usa)
49. A Lonely Cow Weeps at dawn (2003. Japan)
50. Bowling for Columbine (2002. Usa)
51. Suspicious River (2000. Canada)
52. Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired (2008. Usa)
53. Mulholland Dr. (2001. Usa)
54. Machine Girl (2008. Japan)
55. Ponyo (2008. Japan)
56. The Incredibles (2004. Usa)
57. LOTR: The Two Towers (2002. New Zealand)
58. The Wrestler (2008. Usa)
59. Planet Terror (2007. Usa)
60. Eagle Vs Shark (2007. New Zealand)
61. Triplets of Belleville (2003. Canada)
62. King Of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters
63. Sympathy for Lady Vengence (2005. Korea)
64. Jonestown: the life and death of peoples temple (2006. Usa)
65. Trouble the Water (2008. Usa)
66. Children of Men (2006. UK)
67. Ichi The Killer (2001. Japan)
68. Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004. Usa)
69. Reign of Fire (2002. UK)
70. Dogville (2003. Denmark)
71. The Bridge (2006. Usa)
72. Sympathy for Mr Vengence (2002. Korea)
73. Hookers At the Point (2002. Usa)
74. In the mood for Love (2000. HK)
75. Kung Fu Hustle (2004. HK)
76. The Cat Returns (2002. Japan.)
77. Donnie Darko (2001. Usa)
78. Storytelling (2001. Usa)
79. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000. HK)
80. Soul Power (2009. Usa)
81. 28 Days Later... (2002. UK)
82. Vinyl (2000. Canada)
83. Slumdog Millionare (2008. UK)
84. Hell house (2001. Usa)
85. Kill Bill (1+2. 2003/04. Usa)
86. Tyson (2009. Usa)
87. Foul King (2000. Korea)
88. King Kong (2005. New Zealand)
89. Dark Days (2000.Usa)
90. Rambo (2008. Usa)
91. Freeze Me (2000 Japan)
92. The Devil’s Rejects (2005. Usa)
93. Jackass the movie (2002. Usa)
94. Bug (2006. Usa)
95. Ong Bak (2003. Thailand)
96. Wendy And Lucy (2008. Usa)
97. Zoolander (2001 Usa)
98. Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs (2009. Usa)
99. The Decent (2005. UK)
100. Up (2009. Usa)

****Honorable mentions:
Almost Famous (2000 Usa)
Black Book (2006. Netherlands)
Tokyo Gore Police (2008. Japan)
Standard Operating Proceedure (2008. Usa)
Waltz with Bashir (2008. Israel)
White Diamond (2004. Usa)
Survive Style 5+ (2004. Japan)
Metropolis (2001. Japan)

I saw a stage production of A Christmas Carol today. I love Dickens, I will always love A Christmas Carol. Even if they don't do smoking tricks in it.

1. Inglourious Basterds
2. The Road
3. Not Quite Hollywood (It's technically 2008, but only people in Australia got to see it last year)
4. Ponyo (ditto, except in Japan)
5. Soul Power
6. Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs (easily my biggest shocker of the year. Was not expecting to like this so much)
7. Tyson
8. Drag Me To Hell
9. Up
10. District 9

Honorable mentions:
2012 (...as a theater experience. I don't really think it'd make my list as a dvd)
Moon
Last House on the Left (Also a surprise. Was not expecting this to be any good)
A Serious Man

(Still need to see: Fantastic Mr Fox, Anvil, Hurt Locker, and Black Dynamite.)

So what is your top 10?

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PS:
Stay tuned for tomorrow. I am gonna put together my (drumroll......): TOP 100 FILMS OF THE DECADE!

I'm into 60s girl groups, and even moreso the really obscure ones that I've been finding out about thanks to amazingly well put together CD compilation series such as WHERE THE GIRLS ARE and GIRLS IN THE GARAGE. One of the groups that I like the most are this Shangri-Las sounding group called THE PUSSYCATS (also sometimes credited as "Puss'n'Boots", but I think that is a grievous error). You can find "The Rider" on Girls in The Garage vol 7, "I Want Your Love" on Where The Girls Are vol 5, and "Dressed in Black", on "One Kiss Can Lead To Another: Girl Group Sounds Lost And Found".

There is next to no info available on these girls, and to date only 4 songs (on two singles recorded by Columbia Records in 1965) have ever turned up. It's probably all they ever recorded. There are no photos of the group to be found, and no one knows their names. We do know that they were produced by Shangri-Las guru Artie Butler, which would explain the similar arrangement and sound. I guess the mystery is kinda what makes them so cool, but the music goes a long way towards doing that as well. These kittens had CLAWS.

Seriously. Their music is just fantastic. I mean, "I Want Your Love" is just mind blowing and sexy -- music to play while you give a hand-job in a hot-rod, if you're prone to such lascivious activites. And check out the cold weirdness of "The Rider" and that oddball abrupt ending it has. Both these songs are just so fantastic, so have a listen:

http://zoizoi.com/mp3/thepussycats_therider.mp3
http://zoizoi.com/mp3/thepussycats_iwantyourlove.mp3

This artchick in New York, Tara Sin, put a buncha work into a fan-vid for THE RIDER, so that is kinda neat. Nice going, Tara! She does a lot of cool stuffs: http://www.babydinosaureyes.com/


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Also: sorta-related... Scarlet Johannson as trampy trailer-trash.
http://katrenka-jr.livejournal.com/473297.html

The special deal I had to celebrate the launch of the new store was such a success, I'm going to do another one until midnight, Dec. 25th. Until then, every single order (excluding subscriptions) equaling $20 or more (before shipping costs) will get, at no charge:

The RETARD O TRON 1 dvd! FREE! Retard-o-Tron is a mind-melting 90 minute compilation of the most insane, unbelievable, awkward, cheezy, hilarious, painful and shocking footage EVER put on tape in the history of mankind!

That is a $15 value, at no charge, and included automatically with your order when I mail it out! And each ROT dvd comes with an original filthy Bougie personalized drawing, right on the disc! SO YES! GET YOUR ANUS OVER TO THE BRAND NEW CINEMA SEWER SHOP AND SPEND THAT PAYPAL MONEY! GO GO GO!

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