Nicholas Cage was born a Coppola. He changed his name to get away from the heritage of the family and start his own separate acting career. It worked in his favor because while Francis Ford has had to delve more deeply into his vineyards, Cage has been able to maintain his acting job no matter what movies he stars in. Nicholas Cage stars in terrible movies and good movies, once in a while great movies, but not often. His filmography is all over the map: Raising Arizona, Moonstruck, Vampire's Kiss, Wild At Heart, Con Air, The Rock, 8mm, Leaving Las Vegas, Gone in 60 Seconds, The Wicker Man, Knowing, Lord of War, and now Werner Herzog's Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans. I skipped a bunch of good and bad stuff in there, so feel free to check out imdb.com to see the rest of his peppered career.
I will tell you that Cage has some of the finest lines in recent movie history. "Put the bunny back in the box."; "I'll be taking these Huggies, and whatever cash you got."; "I came here to drink myself to death."; "I'm a chemical super-freak actually, but I still need a gun!"; "How about having sex WHILE boosting cars?".
Now we can add, "What are these fucking iguanas doing on my coffee table?" to the list of great Cage quotes.
Here's the trailer for Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans. It looks like Nicholas Cage at his Cagiest. I'm kinda excited...
A friend of mine who has her own blog, Scarlet Lily, posted a website called awkwardfamilyphotos.com. It's pretty damn hilarious. Sometimes you feel bad for laughing at the people who obviously are oblivious and can't help it, but mostly you end up dealing with your guilt and laughing your ass off.
This is my favorite. It's like Adam and Eve, but with tattoos, frosted tips and blue jeans. Classy.
Some of you may know, but others do now, that I started a second job and have been working 5 nights a week at a local bar in Ithaca called Level B. I'm managing it and have a great staff of crazy fucked up awesome folks. Some of these crazy fucked up awesome folks discovered a YouTube cartoon series called "Salad Fingers". They have started using the voice of Salad Fingers, especially when drinking, and calling everyone else names from the show. It's kinda weird. I couldn't really imagine what kind of video it could be to spark this kind of crazed behavior, until i saw it for myself.
"Salad Fingers" is a strange kind of fucked up mash of eerie weirdness and horror but mostly it's just strange. It's not gross or anything, just really really weird. I had to put the first episode up on the blog for those who are curious. Here you go.
I know I'm coping out by just posting videos, but fuck it, they're all good and you need to see them.
Dan Savage is one of my all time favorite people. I read Savage Love every week, and have two of his books. He's posting little videos on his Facebook page and they're great, as you can imagine. Here's one about how many is too many when it comes to sexual partners.
Think whatever you want of my arty movie credentials, but this new trailer for Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen gave me goosebumps. It looks f-ing awesome.
I just read this for the first time today. I'm not sure how old it is, but it's still funny and wry and apt. I also don't know who wrote the thing but it's been attributed to Michael Moore in the past. That's not the case, he didn't write it, but someone did and it's pretty great on a lot of levels.
