Michael Jackson is still dead, at least for now anyways. Whereas his 11 year old daughter, Paris, apparently is real and normal looking – judging by the gratuitous photos of her shedding tears, like a hairy Parisian does a Speedo. The whole public funeral seemed extremely weird to me however, even in Michael Jackson terms. First, who has a funeral where [...]
I want to assure everyone that this site is not turning into a blog about movie trailers first and foremost. But given yesterday’s discussion about cultures, and the speculation that Russians may be the most disturbed, just think of this as Japan’s rebuttal. A little while back I profiled the film Big Man Japan; and at the time, I thought it was [...]
For the longest time, I didn’t think there was any culture crazier than the Japanese; their sense of humor and idea of entertainment is quite strange – and a little creepy. But in terms of crazy in the traditional sense, I think the good people in Russia have no equals. A little over a month [...]
As I sat down with my faithful laptop and started to wonder what the subject matter should be today, the TV was on a show called Nothing but Trailers. To my surprise, it wasn’t a new reality show about the secret town where Jerry Springer finds all his guests. It was actually fifteen commercial-free minutes of movie trailers; but that didn’t [...]
