SYMPTOM OF THE UNIVERSE

existential dread, subjective media and news reviews and opinionated but not necessarily well-informed commentary.

Friday, June 26, 2009

Remembering Michael Jackson


Ok, I won't front. The man had pipes, he was an impossibly gifted arranger, songwriter and as good a dancer as Vasalav Nijinsky (And when's the last time she's made a movie?)

His dad used to wear Halloween masks and climb through the kids windows at night to scare the shit out of them and we wonder why Micheal was "such a weirdo"

and to all you haters out there, You be quiet Elephant-Man Bones!

Friday, June 05, 2009

Peter Molyneux is an idiot.

the technology he self aggrandized with at E3 (XBox's Project Natal and Lion Head Studio's "Milo") that he claimed was never dreamed of by even science fiction writers was in fact dreamed up by Arthur C. Clarke in "2001: A Space Odyssey"
I'm thinking Mr. Molyneux may have missed this little footnote in science fiction that never appeared in any anthology, it had a small run of prints and there may have been a movie about it (With Flip Wilson and Doris Day as Astronaut Frank Poole if memory serves.)

I love when someone presents an idea of their invention and insight and they claim to have concived when it is as obvious they are full of shit. The book was written nearly half a century ago and was the keystone of modern science fiction.