Walking Dead- Dead on the highway

A few months back, around the time Season 2 of The Walking Dead started up, I asked this question concerning the dead folk in their cars on the highway. Everyone gave their insight on it and JohnLocke and Terminal got it just right. The other day after I was done reading issue 95 of The Walking Dead, I happened to read over some of the fan letters posted in the back of the issue (most comics don't even have this anymore, let alone have the creator and writer answer the letters), where one fan asks the same question and Robert Kirkman gives this repsonse.

Just thought I would share, no big news, just some clarification for anyone who wants some. Also, if you don't read The Walking Dead, it's well worth checking out, there are just five issues until 100 and I'm sure something is gonna happen and someone is gonna go.

Mood: Chillin'

xwing16 at 11:06 PM Apr 04

Cool pick up!

T.V.

Since the 13th of October I have been home sick, it started off as a virus, now it's pneumonia. I'm getting better but if you have ever had pneumonia than you know it's the worst you can get and if you haven't ever had it I pray you never do.
Being that I am home sick, I have been watching a lot of t.v., mostly national broadcast channels like Fox, ABC, CBS, NBS, CW, and so on.
I don't normally watch t.v. except HBO (which is beyond conventional t.v.), and some shows like S.O.A.,The Walking Dead, and Louie.
The shows I have been watching now are How I Met Your Mother, Big Bang Theory, Jeopardy, Wheel of Fortune, Law & Order: SVU, Last Man Standing, Mike and Molly, Two and a Half Men, 2 Broke Girls, and Man Up.
First off, How I Met Your Mother SUCKS! This has to be the most unfunny fuckin' show I have ever watched, I have been catching it on syndication and new episodes, and every episode I watch I laugh a total of none. The show is corny, boring, it's like Friends but not as sappy, but it's like Friends in that the jokes suck. I don't know why this show is on or what the hoopla is all about, but it blows.
Two and A Half Men is another show that with Ashton now sucks, I liked Charlie Sheen, he was funny, but Ashton and the new season blows, again not funny.
Last Man Standing, Mike and Molly, and 2 Broke Girls I can stomach, their not bad, 2 broke girls the least funny of the three but I can watch it.
I have to say it cause I don't know if anyone else has said it but what is going on with all the Law & Order type shows? There's Law & Order:SVU, and CSI everything out the ass, these shows have become annoying, their everywhere, taking up space on all channels, give me more Sienfeld, Cheers, King of Queens, The Cosby Show, anything but an hours worth of who dunits all day all night.
Finally, game shows, love them. Jeopardy and Wheel of Fortune have lasted centuries and I see why. I use to watch these game shows when I was a teenager and then stopped, I am now enjoying them all over again, and does Vanna White age?
That's my rant of t.v., wanna make somethin' of it?

Mood: Bored

cerealkiller182 at 02:42 PM Oct 28

Networks are about creating fast cash not pop culture icons. Years from now we will most certainly not be talking about big bang theory or 2.5 Men or how I met you mother no matter how long they go for, but people will still be talking about the awesomeness of Arrested Development which was cancelled early on.

MrsData at 03:13 PM Oct 28

Ok, Law and Order was cancelled in 2010 and Law and Order: Criminal Intent ended in the summer. episodes. SVU is the only one left airing new episodes. All three shows are in syndication airing on NBC Universal/Comcast sister channels and TNT, so it feels like they're everywhere. This almost applies to CSI except all three shows are still airing new episodes on CBS and reruns on any channel owned by Viacom/CBS.

King of Queens is in syndication airing on local network affiliates and has just been added to SPIKE and has been on TVLand and TBS for some time now. Seinfeld is in syndication as well and its on TBS. Cheers is on Hallmark channel and local affiliates. You have to go to tvguide or zap2it listings section type in your zip code and find out what time they're on. Reruns are cheaper for networks, that's just how it is.

As far as quality,whether a show has high ratings or a cult following, it can't please everyone. As cereal pointed out networks are about money but also recognition because NBC's comedies would have been cancelled if they were on any of the other networks, they're in last place when it comes to ratings. They receive critical acclaim and mainstream recognition, that's what keeps them alive.

Most of the shows that I and other schmoes watch are on cable because the content is better, creative, and innovative. Quality shows are there, you just have to look for them.

psykowrks at 06:11 PM Oct 28

MrsData I know there are quality shows out there, I just decided to just watch whatever was on national t.v., not cable, though cable doesn't offer much besides a slew of crappy reality tv such as Keeping up with the Kardashians.
I was just amazed at the crap that is on syndication. I remeber years ago coming home from school and there were so many cool shows on tv, I use to love watching tv, it was funny, not anymore though, all the funny is on FX now it seems, with It Always... and Louie.
CerealKiller your right, cause I still think of Arrested Development.

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Dream a little Dream

Last night I had this crazy dream that I have to share with all you schmoes.
I don't remeber it all but I remeber enough that makes it memorable.
I'm not me, but instead Heather Langenkamp, the girl who played Nancy in the Nightmare on Elm Street movie, and I live in this house alone, it's a rancher, no upstairs or downstairs, and next door to me is my son, the actor Miko Hughes, the kid who played Heather's son in New Nightmare and the kid from Kindergarten Cop "boy's have a penis, girl's have a vagina". But Miko is not as old as he is now, but like he was in Kindergarten Cop. I first go to the house next door, kiss Miko goodnight and tell him to get to bed, which is weird that he livesnext door, but even more weird is that he is wearing the clown costume the little girl wore in Halloween 5!
So I go next door, close the door, and then everything gets super quiet, so quiet I can hear myself breath softly, next thing I know, I go to lock the back door, when Jason comes bursting into the house.
I run out of the house and into the street, I start to think about Miko and if Jason is going to forget me and go after my kid next door. As I wait out in the street for about ten seconds, Jason comes out and he's walking super fast as usual and he's coming straight for me. I begin to run, cause I am scared. As I'm running down the street, it's dark, more dark then I would think it to normally be but as I continue to run it becomes daylight and then dusk again, and people start to show up here and there, but Jason is still after me. Once he has his mind set on you, he won't stop until he gets you.

I finally make it to this creek, there is a wooden platform over the creek and flashing neon signs and what appears to be some show going on. There are hundreds of kids there, and their there wearing Harry potter costumes becuase there is some movie ticket give-a-away/best costume look-a-like contest/actor meet and greet, something. Beause of all these people, there are cops there too. So I start to yell for help when I notice that becuase all the kids are dressed like Potter and they're carrying wands, that becuase Jason looks like he's in a costume and he's carrying a machete, that he just somewhat blends in.

I am standing at the dge of the creek and I decide to jump in cause Jason isn't going to come in the water, so I jump and yell for help. As I jump into the water, I turn into me, and Jason follows! The water is only about two feet deep, he's chasing me, we're both fighting the current, him better than me, the cops see what's going on, they shoot at him, he keeps coming, one cop jumps in, goes to pull out his gun, before he can, Jason stabs him upward with the machete, lifts him up out of the water, the cop drops his gun, I get it, shoot Jason in the shoulder and head, and he's still coming!
Bullets are flying everywhere, the water is rising, I can't swim, I feel like I'm going to drown, and then Jason rips off his hockey mask and it's fuckin' Rutger Hauer! Not old Rutger Hauer, but young Rutger Hauer with long hair and a demented Nick Nolte smile, he keeps coming for me and the last thing I see besides his demented smile is his ogre size hand reach for my head, and then I wake up.

Mood: Angry

Talkin' Movies: Black Swan

Ah, here goes. I didn't like this movie. I wanted to, I was into the hype and I paid the price of admission, walked into the theater, was sucked in for the first three minutes and then the vaccum that was sucking me in got weaker and weaker.
Like I said Black Swan starts off strong, close ups abound, which is perfect for this kind of story about the human psyche, but danm this story was uninteresting. It was a movie about a ballet dancer who wanted to be the Swan Queen and her life was simultaneously the same ballet she was performing in. Cool concept, just boring delivery.
Granted there were also many cool and amazing scenes, but overall I felt left down with the movie. I like Aranofsky's previous work, I'm a big fan, and Black Swan had it's moments, but it didn't leave me with my jaw dropping, except for when I had to yawn.

The soundtrack was amazing, beautiful choice of music. Clint Mansell is the man.

The morphing of Natalie Portmans character into the Black Swan was great, especially after the bloody hospital visit late in the film, where she returns home and feels like she is being chased by Winona Ryder's character. She baracdes herself in her room and begins a graphic morphing into a swan. That was kick-ass. I caught on early in the film what was going on and in what direction this film was going, so the surprise element was not there, especially since this was billed and filmed like a thriller. The only suprise was how far into the morphing Natalie Portaman was going into.

Another let down was the hyped up sex scene between her and Mila Kunis. Both women looked great in this film, very beautiful, but the sex scene was lacking intensity and eroticism, I felt that the masturbation scene by Portman was alot more sexy, she has a great body.

Another memorable scene in the film was the club scene. Portman and Kunis go clubbing the night before opening night of Swan Lake and Portman takes ecstacy. Her and Kunis are dancing in a crowd, while the screen goes from red to black and shows both women morphing into one, their bodies intertwinned, doing a ballet dance in the middle of the club.

I feel bad even giving a Aranofsky movie a bad writeup, but this movie did nothing for me as a whole. It had it's moments, but not much else. See it if you like Aranofsky movies. What else can I say?

Mood: Chillin'

Munson, Roy E. at 12:48 PM Jan 17

I agree

JohnLocke2342 at 04:10 PM Jan 17

I liked reading your thoughts on the movie, that was really well said and it takes balls to stand up for what you like.

Talkin' Movies - Until The Light Takes Us

This movie was very odd. Let me start by saying I am a fan of metal music, but death and black metal are just too hardcore for me, very rough on the ears. That said, I had no problem watching the movie or listening to the music over the movie, mainly becuase it was at most times interesting.
The documentary starts with Gylve Nagell a member of the band Darkthorne riding the train, on his way to Sweden to see an art exhibit. He's asked by train security or police, I can't tell which, to show his belongings and he is taken away and we later find out he was almost subjected to a strip search. He is finally just given a fine for having a small fire cracker or something. Right away you get an idea of what these guys and their look of all black, long hair, and tattoos go through all the time, the question is why?

For the first 40 minutes of the movie we are introduced to members of different bands such as Gylve, Varg, Faust, Frost, HellHammer, Euronymous, and Death. Some are available for the documentary others are just mentioned over and over.

We find out, that these guys just want to make their own music, that they don't feel as though they fit in with the mainstream pop culture and decide to record heavy black metal music using the worst recording techniques and selling lots of albums doing it.

Once introduced to the characters, you find out that they wanted to be more than just musicians, they wanted to be gods, they wanted to be the people they represented in their songs and music, these spirits of the underworld full of dark magic. This was espeically true of Death and Euronymous.

Varg, creator and member of the goup Burzum was filmed and interviewed while in jail for arson and murder. Euronymous, a member of a different band was apparently taking full resposibility for commiting the arsons across Norway of thousand year old churches, even though he didn't have the balls to do it, people in that underground music scene worshipped him becuase they thought he was doing it, the real arsons didn't want to come forward at first, but eventually did when others viewed them as heros, while the locals viewed them as a menace.
What follows is Varg questioning why Euronymous is the leader of this movement when in fact he has yet to burn a church, and Euronymous talks about having Varg killed. Varg heres of the plot to murder him and confronts Euronymous, they get into a scuffle, and Varg stabs him in the head. What's creppy about this is Varg is so mellow when explaining the murder he commited, what's even more creppy is he doesn't seem like the kind of guy you would peg as a psychotic killer/arson but the more he talks the more he comes across as that person.

The movie plays for the most part as a soap opera of sorts involving the whole underground balck metal culture. At times it's interesting to hear what these guys have to say about how they view society, especially living in Norway and being influenced by the west. I didn't know that there was so much hate against McDonald's in Norway. I mean there isn't much love for McDonald's here in America but we don't go shooting the front windows out with shot guns. We just attack the attendant through the drive-thru.

I liked this movie just for it's originality, the personalities of these individuals and how they view their Norweigian history, life where they live now, and their idea of realistic no frills music.

One of the leading and most influential personas of that whole underground movement was a young twenty something nicknamed Death who according to those that knew him, was depressed, and wanted more than anything to live a Transylvanian life of walking around at night, sleeping castles and in graveyards, and being dark.
Apparently he carried a unloaded shot gun with him, one day Varg gave him some bullets as a joke, for the gun, Death, used those bullets and blew a hole in his head. He was found by a friend who upon the discovery wasn't upset or felt the need to call for help or to let his friends know, instead he grabbed a camera and took pictures of his brain lying outside of his skull and used it as the cover to their next album.

These guys are disturbed, yes indeed, are we not in some way or another, I guess, but fuck this might be going far at times.
In the end, Gylve seems like he is the sane one of the bunch and is just having fun enjoying what he is doing with his music, becuase in the beginning that's what it was all about, the music.

Mood: Chillin'