Thursday, March 30, 2006

Another damn sad attempt at regularity

Two days=two posts!? Surely the seas are running red with blood...or some other harbinger of the apocalypse.

Anyway, the cheese is back with a vengeance! Well, really he was simply motivated to do some shiznit up on the blizog thanks to spending half his work day reading the ol' Penny Arcade in book form. Damn! If only the cheese had half their talent and/or follow through he might have a reasonably successful online comic staring his own alter ego...or he might have a finished novel...or at the very least some finished homework.

Of course, it's hard to get shit done when all you want to do is sleep, or play Football Manager. Especially when reality involves stories about blind disabled father in-laws taking midnight strolls on the freeway....seriously, you can't make shit like this up!

But the cheese digresses (is that even a word?). At least baseball starts for real on Monday, cause the Dodgers can't possibly be as bad as they were last year, right?...right?!...OH GOD, they're gonna be even worse this year!!!!

Wednesday, March 29, 2006

Bow down in AWE heathens!


ALL HAIL PRINCESS ISABELLA KATHLEEN



Defender of the Realm
Bringer of Joy
High Seat of House Munster
First of the Cheese
Blessed of the Light
May she reign for 1000 Years

Wednesday, March 15, 2006

X-men 3: The Last Stand

As many of you have seen or not seen, the trailer for the latest installment of the X-men movie series was recently released to the basement dwelling net community. Previous to the actual release of any footage, the basement dwellers have been in fervor about quality of direction, make-up and costuming. So I would like to know what the loyal citizens of the land of cheese think about this trailer.

Monday, March 06, 2006

Oscars: some afterthoughts

With last night's handing out of the 78th annual Oscars the awards season has now come and gone. The cheese would like to personally commend the Acadamy one of the better years in recent memory. With that in mind here are the cheese's thoughts on the night...

-The biggest surprise was the lack of no favorite. In all six major categories not a single movie won more than one award (though Brokeback Mountain and Crash both won in Adapted and Original Screenplay respectively). Especially nice was the fact that the Director and Picture awards were split, something that doesn't often happen. The Acadamy, with no huge box office picture in the mix this year, actually voted for performances rather than revenue, making for some very deserving winners.

-John Stewart, while not loved by critics, was his dry calm self, and seemed to bring a little reality into the evening, which was a nice change of pace.

-You can say whatever you want, but after a Blame Canada nomination, and 8 Mile win, the 36 Mafia winning best song was not a big surprise. Plus, Dolly Parton, come on!

-Stephan Colbert should do voice over work for every ad every made, period!

-Watching Tom Hanks getting darted in the neck and then hit over the head with a violin...priceless.

-Why do period pieces always win Costume and Cinematography? OK, the cheese didn't see Memories of a Geisha, but there is no way a bunch of Kimonos and Tuxedos are better than Tim Burton's latex leaden world of Willy Wonka. And it is nigh impossible the cinematgraphy was better than both Brokeback Mountain and Good Night and Good Luck.

-George Clooney, while not winning the Director race, has firmly followed in the footsteps of Eastwood, Redford, and Gibson as the newest actor turned great director. He'll win that statue eventually.

-Nick Park, 5 lifetime nominations, 4 wins. Who knew plasticene characters could be so accomplished?

-And finally, let's all start a petition to have Joan Rivers executed by the state. Last night on the red carpet she mistook Lee Majors (the 5 million dollar man) for Larry McMurtry (co-screenwriter of Brokeback Mountain)...need I say more?