I have to say, I wasn't all that excited about the film prior. I mean, just a little bit with Amy Adams as Lois, but this really pushed my excitement into overdrive.
Peter Jackson did a sort of question and answer thing with a couple of Hobbit fans and this is well worth watching just to see how much of a nerd Stephen Colbert is.
With Iron Man coming out internationally before it does here in America, I just have to wonder why that is? I mean, let's face it, we're number one and all that jazz. Why do some foreigners get to enjoy Tony Stark before we do?
In any event, with the wave and wave of Marvel Movies that will come at us now that it's part of Disney, perhaps it's time for a new intro logo. Check out this one made by a fan.
Ah, another low content type of day. But fear not. This will get your spirits going as it takes the whole rube goldberg machine pointlessness and turns it up to 11.
If by now you haven't seen the new Iron Man trailer and dropped your jaw in wonderment at the sight of so many Iron Man costumes making an appearance, I don't know what kind of comic book cred you have left. Because let me tell you, the sight at the end of this trailer is amazing
So with the new movie coming out soon, it's about time Tony Stark got a new costume... or 15
One more warning — just reading these descriptions will give you a
pretty complete summary of the movie, and there are a few specific plot
details that will be spoiled as well (again, assuming this stuff is
real). Just so you know.
MARK XI - STEALTH ARMOR v.01
• A derivation of the MARK VI armor, TONY STARK configured it to have
built-in stealth capabilities, which allow him to infiltrate the TEN
RINGS' hideouts unnoticed.
• Slightly modified Mk.VI, with a dark blue color palette. Red eyes and Arc Reactor. MARK XXII - LAYERED PLATING ARMOR v.01
• Experimenting with various forms of armor formation, TONY STARK
designs this armor with the concept of retractable layers. This
technology allows this armor to fold into a more compact form, making it
more portable than the MARK V armor.
• Classic/Spandex Armor, v.01 has the horned face, v.02 has the rounded face with a different color palette MARK XV - STORED KINETIC INTEGRATED NETWORK (S.K.I.N) ARMOR
• Attempting to create a new form of malleable liquid metal that could
be configured into other shapes, TONY STARK creates the S.K.I.N ARMOR.
Unfortunately, the alloy compound proved to be unstable, resulting in
TONY STARK putting the project on hold.
• Looks like the comic SKIN Armor, but slimmer and more segmented. Huge shoulder armor. MARK XVIII - SPECIALISED AQUATIC ARMOR v.01
• Designed with the sole purpose of undersea exploration in mind, TONY
STARK builds the SPECIALISED AQUATIC ARMOR. Able to withstand greater
pressures than his standard armors, IRON MAN travels deep into the sea
to recover rubble from MANDARIN's attack.
• Hydro Armor. Resembles the comic Hydro Armor, but sans the glass fishbowl helmet. MARK XL - ASGARDIAN DESTROYER ARMOR
• Taking into account that Earth might face future threats from the
ASGARDIANS, TONY STARK set about designing an armor specially to take
down any invading ASGARDIANS. Using the DESTROYER's blueprints stolen
from S.H.I.E.L.D's HELICARRIER, STARK creates the ASGARDIAN DESTROYER
ARMOR
• A mecha version of the Destroyer seen in Thor. Incomplete prototype.
MARK XXXVI - HEAVY DUTY BRUTE ARMOR v.02
•
Designed for heavy duty tasks that his standard armors cannot handle,
TONY STARK creates the HEAVY DUTY BRUTE ARMOR with sheer strength in
mind. Equipped with state of the art hydraulic systems powered by a
modified ARC REACTOR, this armor enables IRON
• A.K.A the Hulkbuster
Armor. Not explicitly termed as the Hulkbuster though, since that's not
the intended purpose. It's prototype is the Mk. XXII / v.01, and is
smaller and more humanoid.MAN to take on the strongest enemies. MARK XLII - X01 - PARTICLE RADIATION CANNON ATTACHMENT
• Unable to deal with FIREPOWER's fiery attacks, TONY STARK designs the
PARTICLE RADIATION CANNON to absorb and channel TAGGERT's heat against
him
• A huge cannon that attaches to the Mk.XLII's chest. Based on Bleeding Edge's cannon. MARK XLII-R - RAPID EVACUATION SITUATION CONTROL UNILATERAL ENFORCER (R.E.S.C.U.E)
• A custom-modified variant of the MARK XLII, created by STARK to facilitate PEPPER's rescue from A.I.M after their experiment.
• Feminine version of the Mk.XLII. Has firefighting functions. MARK XLV - HYPERVELOCITY AUTONOMOUS PERSONNEL PROTECTOR γ (H.A.P.P.γ) ARMOR
• Mourning his dear friend HAPPY HOGAN's death, TONY STARK creates this
armor in the image of his deceased friend. Equipped with its on A.I.
programmed after HAPPY's neuro patterns, H.A.P.P.γ assists IRON MAN in
his battles.
• Looks like a hybrid of the comic Telepresence Armor, and the Mk.VII. Gets thrashed by Coldblood. MARK XLVIII - HEART BREAKER v.01x
• Created using various parts and components from his damaged IRON ARMY
suits, TONY STARK assembles a unique armor with high offensive
capability. Armed with a larger ARC REACTOR with higher energy output,
IRON MAN is ready to take on his most dangerous foe: THE MANDARIN.
MARK XLVIIIs - SPACE ARMOR v.01
• After
experiencing the CHITAURI attack in THE AVENGERS, TONY STARK has been
working on a suit capable of space travel. Crafted using a unique new
metal alloy that absorbs his ARC REACTOR energy signature, IRON MAN
travels into the far reaches of space to find the source of a coded SOS
he receives.
• White/black/gold armor, which has the concept art leaked recently MARK XLIX - HEART BREAKER v.02
• Having his armor badly damaged in his battle with the MANDARIN, TONY
STARK modifies and upgrades his HEART BREAKER ARMOR into its second
version. Equipped with more ARC REACTORS to increase its output and
offensive capability, this is the ULTIMATE IRON MAN.
• More cohesive version of the Heart Breaker armor. Color palette based off the initial Ultimate Iron Man armor. MARK L - EXTREMIS ARMOR
• Perfecting the EXTREMIS technology at long last, TONY STARK is finally one with the IRON MAN ARMOR.
• The true Extremis Armor. Hybrid of the comics' Bleeding Edge and Extremis Armors. MARK LI - ORIGINAL ARMOR [ REVISITED]
• After DR.HANSEN disabled all the EXTREMIS technology, TONY STARK is
left unable to tap on his newer EXTREMIS-based suits for battle. Having
no other options, STARK dons the REVISITED ARMOR to finish his fight
with THE MANDARIN.
• More techy, solid-looking version of the movie Mk.I. Based off the comics' first armor.
The last one prior to the teaser was about the West Coast inspiration of the new Daft Punk Album. This one is about the funk and soul that is getting injected back into it. Oh man, I really can't wait for this new album.
Nadia from Bitchin Kitchen is a little bit of Monty Python dashed in with Good Eats and Beakman's World to make a cooking show that is fun to watch and educational for keeping you fed. Well, it looks like tonight's episode will be catered to those who have no ability to feed themselves... the hipsters.
Here's a little musical ditty that was well worth sharing.
Disney And Iron Man 3 - Making Stark Industries A World of Tomorrow
I think everyone was huffing and puffing about Disney buying Lucas Film and to some extent Marvel don't realize the beneficial good that can come out of it. Take the fact that before this, the only way you could have a real life experience with Marvel stuff was by going to Universal Studios Florida's Island of Adventure. Now we have Disney giving Stark Industries a little bit of Innovations to show off and cross promote the newest Iron Man 3 film.
Fans of the franchise can go down and see many of the props and suits used in the film while in the Disney theme park. How cool is that?
Now I'm not into video games like I used to be. Hell, I'm even less into them when they're just thinly veiled bullshit inspired by Atlas Shrugged. But I have to admit this looks cool.
Now that I'm one year older, I have to consider my health concerns. And then now that I had a moment to think about that and completely toss that boring shit out the window, I need to go get myself a Pink's Hot Dog. it's one thing I do very soon after my birthday. My late uncle had a theory that you have to eat that sort of junk food every now and then or else one day when you take a bite into one, you'll just croak.
I guess I shouldn't be following the advice of someone who had a heart attack at age 49, but still. It's a solid bit of advice. I mean, the underlying truth of it is that you really only live once, regardless if that stupid internet slogan has ruined such wise words. But you only get one ticket to ride this wild ride called life once. Then it stops. Who knows what happens on the other end of the destination, but instead of sleeping through the entire ride, I'll be looking out the window of this passenger side car and enjoying every bit of it.
So here's a little clip of what Pink's is by the great Huell Howser
Ah, the dream of striking that Texas Tea Beverly Hillbillies gold right in your own back yard. I guess it's not always what its cracked up to be as you can see in the following video..
The first thing that comes to mind is wondering why Jack Black video taped an oil spill. I mean, did he run out of distortion pedals to tape? Anyhow, remind me again why building pipelines is a controversial topic? Yeah, I guess it's just bringing the oil right to you and cutting out the middle man! So who's to complain.... except anything that wants to, you know, survive in this new unlivable mess.
Maybe the oil companies were just not satisfied with destroying coastal wildlife. Exxon moves on and finds innovative new ways in their sector once again.
Oh, the beauty of this is that Exxon isn't on the hook to declare this a situation because of the amount of filler shit that is required to pump oil through a pipe. I'm pretty sure that just means that the land is filled with even more deadly fucking chemicals aside from oil.
Yeah, who wanted to live on planet earth in another 20 years anyway?
Over the weekend Daft Punk released a special teaser for their newest album Random Access Memories over in that hipster town filled with Jorts wearing douches called Coachella. Being that I didn't want to be asked by a doctor if I had visited a third world country again, I didn't go. But hey, the best highlight of the concert was replayed on SNL on that Saturday night. And here's a little hint of what you have to look forward to in this very much anticipated new Daft Punk album;
Hey remember that women who was prosecuted for enrolling her son in kindergarten using a babysitter's address? She got Twelve fucking years in prison
NORWALK, CT (AP) -
Tanya McDowell, the Bridgeport mother accused
of fraudulently enrolling her son in a Norwalk school and stealing more
than $15,000 in educational services from the district, has pleaded
guilty.
McDowell was sentenced to 12 years in prison, suspended after five,
and must pay back up to $6,200 to the city of Norwalk for stealing her
son's education.
McDowell's 12 year sentence also includes four counts of drug
possession and sale charges, which she pleaded guilty to on Wednesday.
McDowell was homeless when she was charged with felony larceny last
year. Authorities allege she enrolled her son in kindergarten in Norwalk
using a babysitter's address when he should have attended Bridgeport
schools, where her last permanent address was.
Darnel Crosland, McDowell's attorney said McDowell's son still thinks his mother stole the Norwalk school.
I'm in utter shock at this news. No wait, I probably shouldn't be given that this is America and, well, we're pretty awful. But the whole notion of stealing a son's education is amazing. You just have to wonder why everything is so horrible. I mean, of course the mother in this story is white and the school district is predominantly black, right?
No wait, the other more predictably depressing option applies here. But just a slight reminder that white parents do this shit all the time.
When I went to public school, some dude's family was millionaires, but since half of their family business was in Mexico, they only declared that they made 30k a year. It was funny that he got reduced lunches while I had to pay in full. Guess it just goes to show you that sketchy accounting goes a long way.
But this story does paint a pretty clear picture that the world is consistently, monstrously evil in all ways possible. How can none of the human beings, the dozens involved from the arrest to the sentencing, not have a moment of realization of how awful what they were doing was. And show some kindness? Why is it that this shit happens and will continue to happen in a crazy numbers all over the U.S.... okay, maybe not all over. But centralized in the predominantly poor areas.
There was another story I came across recently that was about a guy freezing to death on the doorsteps of an empty house thanks to our new anti-squatting laws. How truly fucked are morals and ethics of the nation - not because of violence in the media. But because we are truly apathetic beings that are so self centered that we can't possibly stop for a moment and think about helping out our fellow man. Be it in the form of allowing someone to go to a school system that may not be their own, but that will help their long term educational goals and even pull them up from the pits of poverty. To just saying fuck it to the banks and using the empty space we have to house those in need of it.
Though yesterday's tragedy in Boston happened, I would like to take a moment and not "Pray for Boston", but pray for sanity in America. We don't know who is at fault here. I would think that if some terrorist group was responsible, they would make themselves known and take credit for it. I somehow think that it's another enemy within sort of situation. And no, not some stupid false flag bullshit, but this does scream out crazy person.
Keep the folks in your thoughts, I'd like to believe that we can separate church and state. So no need for prayers. How about action in helping one another. Be if a mentally ill person who is behind this in hoping to prevent future situations like this or just being there for those who have loved ones who were directly effected by this.
Just a note to all people planning on giving blood, remember it only has
a shelf life of 42 days. After 9/11, so many people donated that there
was a glut of blood in the system and much of it expired on the shelves,
unused, because there was more than needed. ALso, if you donate right
now, you will not be eligible to donate again for 8 weeks, so about a
month after 9/11 there was a bit of a shortage, because many people
couldn't donate again for several weeks
Consider delaying your donation for a week or two to insure a good
steady flow of blood that will allow blood banks to replenish their
inventory. Most blood banks in the United States are part of an
emergency sharing system and will be shipping ready to transfuse
products to Boston if they are needed. Spacing out donations insures
everyone will have blood to provide their community in the coming weeks
On Friday Kobe Bryant ascended to mythical status as the immortal warrior fell in battle trying to drag his team to the playoffs.
How was he lain low? Hiw Achilles tendon popped in the great game of B-Ball.
Years from now, there will be tales told on B-Ball courts across the world of the great Kobe who willed the Golden Warriors of the Lake to 900 NBA Titles before having his life ended by the traitor D'Antoni.
Word came out on this day of Sol that a surgery was a success, but that Sir Kobe's tendons were blown and had to be sown together. Leaving the Golden Warrior of the Lake in a foreseeable six to nine lunar cycles.
I love science. I love it so much. Science is great. The only thing I love more than science is beer. Yes, beer. Mainly because it's very much like science. Don't believe me? Just watch this!
I'm rather busy today, but I do have time to watch some Doctor Who on good ol' GMT time. Up today is a rather interesting one;
Oh my, you can hear that reptilian clicking in there. And you're probably wondering if that is Davos Seaworth on that soviet sub... Oh, yes it is. It's Ser Davos Seaworth. You gotta pay some respect to the Onion Knight.
We live in a capitalist society, and yet we still like and hope for charity. Especially during this whole time of lent, you know when people are at their highest in trying to look good for the ol' G-man. In any case, I made the grave error of suggesting that Jesus was closer to a socialist when one of my Christian friends tied Christianity to the free market.
Now that I look at it, I was really wrong. I mean, if you think about it, Jesus was an end-times preacher. Well, an Amalgamation of several end-times preachers, to say the least. With a slew of other folk tales thrown into the mix. So I can't really say that his long-term plan for social stability was exactly all that meticulous.
Now don't burn me at the stake just yet, try to have an open mind about this. His lesson weren't "give away all your possessions because property is inherently wrong" it was "give away all your possessions because you don't want to be caught with anything sinful when dad gets home"
I can't see Jesus as anything but an amalgam of several different individuals. Especially since the amount of time between his life and when all this shit was written down was vastly decades upon decades apart. It's really sad how few people who profess to be Christians actually know very little about their faith or its origins even in terms of well documented things.
But then again, that's kind of a broader problem with religion. It's morality being based in what God said, rather than anything human. It is funny to think that the people of the day wouldn't think that God wouldn't be pissed about wealth inequality as he would be about growing to grains in the same field or eating creatures with hooves.
The FX show The Americans follows two KGB spy agents in a Cold War America, well, doing spy things. They get intel and all that good stuff. The whole Cold War stuff was indeed interesting, but so was the amount of propaganda that we received that ol' Boris wanted to nuke us at any minute. It sort of makes you wonder what Russians were being told on the matter.
How about you see for yourself
It really makes you think how much of what we were told during the cold war was just fear tactics - I'll give you a clue, the vast majority of it.
So we're only a few weeks till my birthday. I really should reconsider what I'm doing with myself at this ripe old age of 33. Perhaps I should live every day as if it's my last. You know, YOLO, brah.
Okay, this wasn't full of any sort of content, but it was honest. and that's what counts.
Fact. But hey, let's all pretend playing with little flying toys that have the ability to kill you for looking funny is just the same'ol, same'ol. This is 13 minutes well worth your time.
Here's a gun ownership fact you should probably be aware of;
- You're 17 times more likely to shoot a family member than a burglar if you keep a gun in your house and home invasions make up less than 2% of all break-ins, which are pretty rare crimes to begin with.
And in actuality, it's less than 2% in reality. That number is skewed because police have redefined interrupted burglary, which is thieves mistakenly assuming nobody is home and are suddenly surprised by the residents, as a 'home invasion', which used to mean someone forcibly entering knowing the resident is home and expecting or starting a gun fight.
The old definition of home invasion got redefined as 'drug or gang related shooting' because, well, that's what causes that. But the machine gets to have it both ways - the pigs lump things together or split them up in whichever way gives them numbers they want. Don't believe all the hype in "home invasions"
Besides, if it's a real "shoot and loot" they will be professionals, there will be a bunch of them, and there will be no defense or escape. You will be dead. But even if "kill the burglar" types understand this at an intuitive level, That's why their fantasy is always ambushing a guy trying to steal their TV and not defending against a surprise assault against a group of ex-black ops soldiers or cartel shock-troops. Which are clearly outfitted with automatic weapons and body armor anyway. So this whole shoot on sight everything that looks vaguely human first and not asking questions later group will still kill you before you know it.
Sure, you may be able to blow away a meth head who thought you weren't home, but there will be no Rambo, there will be no Dirty Harry nor Jason Bourne situation. You will just be going for the ambush. Besides, it's also pretty funny how society will consider a television more valuable than a human being's life depending on where that human is standing. But generally when you bring that up, they claim that it's always about protecting their home and family. Not at all about protecting their things.
It seems to me that once we divorce ourselves from the liberal fiction of "human rights," which laughably claim to dictate values irrespective of culture, the problems claimed against fascist theory immediately evaporate if we are willing to accept a little death and temporary oppression in the pursuance of a higher goal, what greater goal is there than the genetic perfection of the human race, and the reaching toward the Overman?
Just think about it, fascism is sort of unironically cool... That may be just my humble opinion.
The primary problem with fascism is it's nihilistic atheism. Humans are genetically hard-wired to believe in God and losing the richness of cultural faith would be a devastating blow to humanity.
America is by definition of a fascist state. And hey, you like America, right? I guess the problem most folks realize is that they like their imaginary human rights. Even if they are too much effort to maintain. True, it's a lot easier to trick people into controlling themselves than it is to actually control them. Humans are hardwired to believe in that sort of thing.
When you look at it, the so called evils of fascism, and the so called evil of communism are both fictions created by the western world in order to make itself look a bit more middle of the road. When in fact it exists at an ideological extreme. I have to reconsider all of it since you have to question Fascism being better than Neoliberalism when they're obviously the same thing.
Fascism A small group controls every aspect of society under the guise of "the will of the people"
Liberalism A small group controls every aspect of society under the guise of "the will of the people"
Socialism A small group controls every aspect of society under the guise of "the will of the people"
Communism A small group controls every aspect of society under the guise of "the will of the people"
and why each thinks it is the best for fascism because the others are not fascism, and for the others because everything else is fascism
The only thing left is just considering if this is freaky Mussolini and Franco death cult fascism here, because I'm a busy man and five hours a day praising my glorious leader is really too much time for me to handle.
In the long run, there are about a million things wrong with fascists that nobody cares to speak about because they don't realize how hilarious it all really is. The only reason they had any success is the rest of the world couldn't fathom another war so shortly after the last one grinded every able-bodied male on the continent into slush.
For some reason I just love this music video for its simplicity. Perhaps I just love black and white stripped shirt wearing free spirits who just bang on drums and light fireworks. I mean, they're fireworks...
I constantly have to remind myself that April 1st is probably the one day out of the year that I don't want to be anywhere near the computer or the internet because of the massive amounts of stupid April fools jokes. Many of which are beyond lame. But it seems like with spring here and everyone sort of refreshed from a long winter, it's all about making a joke or two. Maybe it's just the cabin fever finally settling in that the holiday takes its roots from.
Then again, maybe I shouldn't complain that the internet can take a day off of the serious business of posting cat pictures and getting hit in the crotch and have some sense of humor to it. In any event, I sort of have loved the actual creativity that is put into all these.
In unrelated news, turns out YouTube finally has enough entries and will be shutting down:
Thanks for all your great entries.
YouTube finally has enough videos to begin selecting a winner.
What do you think is the #bestvideo on YouTube?
We've been thrilled with all of the diverse, creative entries we've seen
so far, and we can't wait to begin the process of selecting the best
video. We'll be announcing the winner in 10 years.
And then there's the concept of having a Glass-bottomed plane Which, well. If you ask me is a bit strange. I have no clue why you'd want to be looking at everyone's bags for the whole flight, but sure. Why not.
How about some Skinny Skinny jeans?
And on Hulu, you now have the ability to watch episodes of Itchy and Scratchy, Inspector Spacetime and NumberWang! In short, it's starting to be a very unproductive April 1st.
Once was a writer, tho, you see words to your left, so I guess I'm still that to some degree.
You can find my scribbles and mind ranting on this and various other places as a means to keep the creative, satirical and costco talk muscles worked out.
Was once apart of the tv industry, but I'm sure the NDA's are still in effect so let's move on from that. Now I spend my time slinging beer and keeping a building in one piece.