Slow-Mo Dinky Explosions

Man has always loved his precious toy cars, but when the cars say, 'No More!':



Anything in wide-screen, slow-motion and featuring Ode to Joy is a win in my books.

Two Simpsons Posts in a Row

Remember those Simpsons posters with a butt-load of characters on a yellow background, well here's another one. And it's updated!

It's gotten to the point where I don't necessarily recognize that many of the new characters, but who cares. At least I wasn't born in the 90's. Losers.

Click on the picture to see it in full. It looks like it's done by a fan and I'm a little creeped out by the addition of the ghost of Maude. Ah well.

Springfield Still Life

Here's a really cool T-shirt new from Threadless this week.

GET IT!?

More at Threadless

Iron Man 2 Trailer

Here's the trailer for Iron Man 2. I think it looks awesome. Here's why:

1. Robert Downey Jr. is hilarious
2. Sam Rockwell is in it
3. Scarlett Johansson is in it
4. Don Cheadle replaced Terrence Howard

I'm also a big fan of the fact that his secret identity isn't secret. It's a refreshing addition to all the super-hero movies of late. Now as soon as we can drop the use of the song 'Iron Man', this movie will be perfect.

I have no comment on this gold-toothed, laser-whipping, Russian Mickey Rourke.

The Bucks Hire Actors to Cheer for Them

Milwaukee Bucks big-man Andrew Bogut will be purchasing 100 seats in the lower bowl for every home game this season for fans who are willing to make asses of themselves:

"I saw a couple of fans in Houston singing and stuff,'' Bogut said of why he decided to form Squad 6. "I wanted to do something for the atmosphere at the Bradley Center. So we had auditions. It was basically the crazier and louder you are, the more of a chance you had of getting free tickets. ... But, if you're in the squad and somebody sees you're not doing what you're supposed to be doing, you don't get tickets for the next game.''

I think Bogut is a genius for doing this because there's nothing better than a badass home crowd, with the exception of the Boston Celtics. It reminds me of the gang with cowbells in Sacramento in the early 2000's. On the other hand, it is pretty much the same as hiring actors to play the role of fans for your team. They held auditions, they have wardrobe requirements (Bucks-wear), and they have an agreement that if you don't do your part, you're replaced. I guess the fear of being kicked out of 'Squad 6' is what makes the fans so crazy. Apparently they would sing 'Dude Looks Like a Lady' every time Joakim Noah touched the ball last time the Bulls were in town. Kinda funny.

Good for you Milwaukee, you've pushed back the sale of your team by at least a year.

Everyone's Happy!

...because they heard Focus Interruptus is back!

So, Jaws is Real.

Here's a video proving the existence of Jaws. This huge great white motherfucker bit another shark IN HALF! That's bad ass. He clearly doesn't give a shit so these Aussies are pretty much shark meat. Maybe it's just their accents but they seem eerily calm about the whole thing.

'OY! Shark is a funny name. I'd of called em chazwazzers'


So either that smaller shark got owned by Jaws or he swallowed a live grenade.

I'm Moving. Today.

There is a town in Colorado called Dinosaur. In this town, every street has a dinosaur themed name. For example, Brontosaurus Blvd.
This is the coolest thing I think I've ever heard of! It's like Stratford but for Jurassic Park fans instead of loser Shakespeare fans.

I'm going to assume this is their mayor:

"The Bride Will Fight Again."

Quentin Tarantino made that announcement during an Italian interview recently. He added:

“Kill Bill 3 will probably come out, I gotta wait a couple of years, but I want ten years to pass from the second one to the third one.”

Kill Bill Vol.1 came out in 2003 so that means he may make the third one in 2013. Why ten years you ask? QT explains:

“Two reasons. One, I think me and Uma needed a ten year break. And the second one, I loved the character a lot. I think she deserved ten years to relax. She deserved ten years of no fighting, she deserved ten years with her child Bebe, just of peace. I put her through a lot those first two movies, I want her to have a nice, peaceful life for ten years. I want her to set up her store, and have some peace. But after ten years we’ll make her fight again.”

Do you remember in Kill Bill Vol.1 when Bill calls Elle Driver at the moment she's about to euthanize the comatose Bride? Here's his speech, it's pretty similar reasoning to the previous quote, I think.

Elle:
Speak.

Bill:
Y'all beat the hell out of that woman, but you didn't kill her. And I put a bullet in her head, but her heart just kept on beatin'. Now, you saw that yourself with your own beautiful blue eye, did you not? We've done a lot of things to this lady. And if she ever wakes up, we'll do a whole lot more. But one thing we won't do is sneak into her room in the night like a filthy rat and kill her in her sleep. And the reason we won't do that thing is because... that thing would lower us. Don't you agree, Miss Driver?

Elle:
I guess.

It's basically the same theme of respecting the person enough to give them a break but holding true to your word. What's interesting is that this logic was used when speaking about both a friendship, QT and Uma, and an adversaryship, Bill and Bride.

I need to go back to school and write some essays...

KILL BILL VOL.3!

Glenn Beck Theatre

Welcome all to Glenn Beck Theatre.

Today's Feature: Logic


Thank you for joining this evening for Glenn Beck Theatre.

See you next time.

Song of the Day #19

This is 'She's got Standards' by The Rifles. Rog took me to see them at the Horseshoe on Monday and they kicked butt. Listen and like.

enjoi

Carousel

Here's a short film directed by Adam Berg and sponsored by Philips. It's a frozen scene with some clowns robbing and terrorizing a building while fending off police officers. It's all one shot and you float through like a fly listening to sinister music. It's also got some clear influences from The Dark Knight so it's got to be good.

I suggest watching it in high quality on YouTube.

In terms of special effects, it makes The Matrix look like Spawn.

Animalia Intricato

These are some crazy detailed images by artist Claire Scully. Her subject matter appears to be unimpressed animals. The wolf is wondering why you're looking at him, the owl isn't smart enough to be unimpressed, and that tiger just isn't having a good time, period.




They're pretty incredible though. I'm really impressed with the catch lights in the animals eyes. It prevents a flat look and personifies them, as I already wittily commented on.

Toss it on a light grey sweater and charge 180 bucks, you'll make millions off hipster scum.

Little People Making Music Inside You

The Zurich Chamber Orchestra in Switzerland recently released this advertising campaign titled 'Touch Your Senses'. They're classy illustrations of wee little people playing your tiniest body parts like instruments and causing you to feel stuff.



I'm going to treat this like I treat all media; very literally. This advertising is therefore telling me that if I go see the Zurich Chamber Orchestra I will experience:

1. Hair raising cellos
2. Heart wrenching percussion
3. And some broad playing a flute so well that I'll cry

That's an orchestra I'd be hard-pressed to turn down. Zurich Chamber Orchestra, you've convinced me with this advertising. I would like to purchase tickets.

Rory: How much is this free resort weekend?
Zurich Chamber Orchestra: It's free.
Rory: And when is this weekend?
Zurich Chamber Orchestra: It's this weekend.
Rory: Uh-huh. And how much does it cost?

They hung up on me.

Cultural Icons: Lego-ized!

Here's a Flickr gallery of a bunch of pop culture characters in surprisingly realistic lego form. Everyone's here! From Colonel Sanders to Robocop. I'm not sure why a Jackie Treehorn one was necessary though...

Here's a few more I like since I know what's cool:
Hellboy. The hell really shows.

Make your own pity joke.

Your foster parents are dead.

Son of a bitch is dug in like an Alabama tick

Wanna see more?! Click in this area.

Franks, frank_m

World Leaders: Barack's Fanboys

Here's a quick clip of all the world leaders Obama was photographed with at the most recent meeting of the United Nations. He's clearly had some practice on that smile.

It would appear as though everyone just lined up and then stepped in when it was their turn with Obama. Everyone except for Italy:

Michelle Obama: "Nice to meet you."
Italian P.M.: "Come-a close-a. I'm-a gonna touch-a yo face."
Barack Obama: *Pimp stare*

Song of the Day #18

Today's song of the day is Strife by the band Twisted Wheel. Another song shown to me by a Rudderham in a less than sober state.

Paintball Art: Icon Edition

This is a video of a group of paintballers/guerrilla artists who shoot into creation a portrait of Marilyn Monroe.
I'm curious as to how they recruited for this.

'Can you work with a team to create likenesses of people with a paintball gun in under a minute? We've got a job for you.'

It is fairly impressive, it just seems like an unnecessary bridging of hobbies. It's like when banging garbage cans was popular on Broadway for a while. I wonder what Marilyn would think of this.

Marilyn: 'So how are people remembering me nowadays?'
Rory: 'A bunch of rednecks just shot an orange and green picture of you onto a wall with paintballs.'
Marilyn: 'Oh.'

Sing Sang Sung

This is a cool music video by the band Air for their song Sing Sang Sung. The song's light and catchy and the video is what would happen if Sonic the Hedgehog stumbled into the Octopus' Garden.

Peter Funch: Cool Photographer, Great Name

This is a photo series by Danish photographer Peter Funch. He staked out a few locations in downtown New York and shot hundreds of shots of people passing by. He then picked out people with similar characteristics, like wearing red, yawning, or carrying a yellow envelope, and photoshopped only those people into the image. For instance, everyone in the 'wearing red' photo actually passed by that part of New York, it was just a separate times. Funch merely went through, found them, and put them altogether to create the illusion that they were all in that place together at the same time. It's fairly simple, which makes it such a great idea.

Here's a couple more,

Everyone who was wearing black:

Everyone who was walking a dog:
I think it's amazing because the shots are all so beautifully composed since he probably had so many people to choose from. It's like setting up an image of twenty people without having to direct them. The series is called Babel Tales.

Here's his website: Peter Funch: Photographer

Birdman Personifies New Jersey

Here is a post from Chris 'Birdman' Andersen's twitter page regarding The Nets' potential move to Brooklyn.

First of all, The Nets have been moving to Brooklyn since Blueprint 2 came out. New York probably told Jay-Z that he could build an arena right after they get around to that 9/11 memorial. Don't hold your breath, Jigga.

Secondly, Birdman's right. New Jersey is a shit hole despite Zach Braff's best efforts.

Muse-ical Chairs

This is pretty funny. For whatever reason, there are certain music shows around the world that request artists lip sync their songs when performing. Here is a clip of Muse performing on some European variety show and just to be assholes the lead singer and drummer switched places before 'performing' their single. It becomes pretty obvious as Matt, the lead singer turned drummer, hams it up.

Voici:


But wait! This isn't the first, or funniest time we've seen this happen. As per usual with rock nowadays, Oasis did it first:


Sticks his tongue out.

Bill Maher Gets His Way

Here's a clip from Bill Maher's show in which he takes it upon himself to kick someone out of his audience for screaming lunacies during a live taping. It's funny because he's more upset with his staff for allowing it to happen the whole episode than the acual perps.

Boom:


I like Bill Maher because he calls people assholes before meeting them.

Song of the Day #17

Who remembers this gem by journeyman Moka Only?!



Why did I post this?

100th Post!

Focus Interruptus is 100 posts old!
Congratulations to me. Also, you're all welcome.

Sublime's New Frontman

There have been rumours for a while about a Sublime reunion and apparently there is a smidgen of truth to them. Recently, former Sublime drummer Bud Gaugh and bassist Eric Wilson performed with a singer named Rome and recieved a very positive reaction. There are no concrete plans for a tour, but I can see this turning into Sublime 2.0.

Here's something to convince you; a video of Rome singing an acoustic version of T.I.'s Whatever You Like:

and here he is doing Beautiful Girls by Sean Kingston. Yeah, I like Sean Kingston, you wanna fight about it?


That's awesome. His voice is very fitting if they choose to bring him on to replace Bradley Nowell. While I'm excited to see Sublime back in action, it's clear that Todd Mason was overlooked.

Here is Rome's MySpace

Rog found Rome in a day.

Julian Casablancas: Solo Debut

The day has arrived.

Today Julian posted the first single from his solo album on his MySpace. It's called '11th Dimension' and I think you should go listen to it immediately.

Julian Casablancas MySpace

New favourite song. The album drops October 19, the same week as Where the Wild Things Are. That's a good week.

Andy Destroys Wolf and Some Broad

Celebrity Jeopardy was this week and, as you can see above, Andy Richter absolutely demolished Wolf Blitzer and a desperate housewife. Wolf didn't even finish on the plus side so Alex had to give him $1,000 to compete in Final Jeopardy.

The best part is, this isn't even the final score. After Final Jeopardy Andy finished with a staggering $68,000!! I'm ebarassed for Wolf, one of the most prominent journalists in news media. Oh well.

If you're up to it, here's the episode in two parts:

Gay People Can Quote The Bible Too

Better warm up that electric chair, right-wingers.

Good call, Caleb.

Steve & 50 Want Your Vitamin Water Ideas

Here's a video Lawrence just showed me of Steve Nash promoting a Vitamin Water contest on Facebook. It's obviously hilarious since Steve's the man, and it even has a very well-acted cameo by 50 Cent.

Check it!


"I smell like the vault, man!"

Obama Wan Kenobi

The force is strong with this one.

9/12 Tea Party: The Million Idiot March

So, on September 12, a bunch of Americans put down their KKK robes and KFC buckets to march in Washington D.C. in protest against Barack Obama. The march was made possible by the ramblings of Glenn Beck, the love-child of Bill O'Reilly and a box of Milk Duds. What Beck didn't consider was the amount of stupidity that is generated when this many butt-sniffin' morons get together. Luckily, this guy thought to go out and ask some questions of the protestors:

God Bless America:


It's hard to imagine the level of ignorance these people are required to practice just to get throught a single day.

Obama: "He's a jackass..."

To follow up my rant about the off-the-record incident with Obama, here is the audio clip of The President talking about Kanye's latest stunt:



I love Obama. I think he's the coolest dude. He tells it like it is, jokes about being a fly killing ninja, and even purveys a little disdain in his voice when referring to PETA. I appreciate how this isn't becoming too big of a news story as well. Probably because Barack's a pimp and everyone agrees that West is a jackass.

Plus, take a look and this and not fall in love with the man.

Black Dynamite

Here's a trailer for the upcoming 70's blaxploitation parody Black Dynamite. There's a few cast members you should recognize like Nicole Sullivan from MADtv and Scrubs, the black cop from Reno911!, and Michael Jai White (Spawn) as Black Dynamite himself. This movie should boast some good laughs, ridiculous action, and a killer soundtrack. Can't wait.

Dyno-MITE!

Rog found it!

Kanye West IS a jackass

This post is not about Kanye West. We've already established that he is a jackass.

Moving on, you've probably noticed a lot of stories regarding a supposed comment made by President Obama in which he calls West a jackass for his latest embarrassment. It's spreading like wildfire right now because Republicans all over the states need some ammo to fight against quality health-care.

Fact of the matter is, Obama is right. Kanye West is a jackass.

The part of this story that I don't like is how this news got leaked and how it was dealt with afterward. Here's the original place it was reported, Twitter:
Terry Moran, or Terry Moron as I've hilariously dubbed him, is an ABC reporter who overheard Obama say this during an interview. Problem is, the interview was not yet on the record. It was, therefore, off the record. The record includes Twitter, Moron.

So ABC came out with a statement saying how the Tweet shouldn't have been posted, and they apologized. I have a problem with that apology, though. All it does is solidify the fact that Obama did in fact say West was a jackass. I agree, and I think Obama is a pimp for saying it, but that apology is bullshit. The apology should have read something like, "These comments were made during an off the record session and therefore cannot be verified." Instead, they twist the knife in Obama's back by saying, "He totally said that bad thing, but we shouldn't have told you! Oops!" Fuck you, ABC.

Obama called that cop who arrested Prof. Gates 'stupid'. He was.
Obama called Kanye West a jackass. He is.
Why not embrace this new found truthiness in American politics?

The US Open: A Shit Show

This year's US Open was completely ridiculous.

I assumed it would be like any other US Open in that Roger Federer and one of the Williams' sisters would walk away with the title. Apparently assuming DOES make an ass out of you and me. You are an ass for another reason. You know.

Let's go over what happened:
1. Nadal came back after missing two majors and stunk it up hard.
2. Kim 'Baby Mama' Clijsters won the Women's title after coming out of retirement.
3. Federer lost to Del Porto, ending his 5 US Open wins in a row.
4. Hewitt, Murray, Roddick, and Djokivic were as disappointing as usual.
5. Serena Williams was eliminated from the tournament for a foot fault.

Here's video of how Serena was eliminated from the Open:
Make sure to watch for the lineswoman scurrying over to rat out Serena

As the announcers mentioned, calling a foot fault is stupid to begin with let alone on a second serve (the gimme serve), and when the match is a point away from completion. So Serena flipped out on the bitch, they hit her with her second unsportsmanlike of the match, and she was eliminated from the tourney. That's a rough way to go.

Especially when this used to happen with much less consequence:

Johnny Mac!

Point is, Serena should have been allowed to keep playing, she would have rallied, it would have been a classic Williams win.

On a lighter note, Roger pulled off a sweet Agassi:

Re-donk.

Denzel Impersonations

Here's a couple videos of comedians impersonating Denzel Washington.


and...

Hilarious.

Macworld Cover: Start To Finish

Here's a sweet time-lapse video of the making of a Macworld Magazine cover. It's interesting to see every stage of the process and it shines light on how simply something like this is achieved. I'm especially fond of the video because the photography portion is almost identical to my days as a photographic intern for Mark Burstyn. The average day with Mark literally looked exactly like that so it's pretty cool that methods are generally the same no matter what level you're at. Mark even has the same giant camera stand. Craaazy!

Video:

Don't Fuck With Obama

As the health care debate rages on in the US, President Obama is still pushing for major reform while the Republican party stands opposed. Their argument, of course, is that Obama's bill is socialist. The same argument they used when Obama announced that he would be giving a speech to every American student on their first day of school. I guess the Republicans have a point though, who in their right mind would want their child to be encouraged to learn and succeed while at the same time have access to effective health-care?

During his latest speech to congress about health care, Obama shot down rumours that the new health care would be used by illegal immigrants. While stating that this claim was untrue, a Republican from South Carolina named Joe Wilson yelled out "You lie!".

Here's the video. Note Obama's pimp stare right after he hears it:

That's funny, because here is a snipit from Obama's health care bill that specifically says there won't be anything provided to illegals:

So who's the liar now?

This dink has since apologized, to which Obama said, "We can disagree without being disagreeable."

Also, what's with the dumbass Republican wearing a 'What Bill?' sign on his chest? You're criticizing the tactics of the President, yet you spend your time in congress shading in block letters. Fuck You. Do your fucking job and propose something on the contrary or go stand outside with the rest of the picketers and their poorly made signs.