Shorts, volume 2

It's that time again, my loves. Time to check out my shorts...

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SARAH PALIN


The website www.AlaskaReport.com was the first to report that Sarah Palin was running for governor of Alaska and the first website to report that Sarah was picked as John McCain's VP candidate. It is also the first to state that Todd and Sarah Palin are filing for divorce after a National Enquirer story exposed previous affairs on both ends. Sarah, my love, you're entire empire of lies is falling down around your ears. At least that will ruin your chances to run for president in 2012 and that is good enough for me. But apparently you recently signed a book deal worth an estimated 11 million and that really shows the stupidity of the American people and what they choose to feed themselves with. Personally, who WOULDN'T cheat on Sarah Palin? I mean, she's a hot piece of ass and all but for Gideon's sake, could you let up on the holier-than-thou attitude? If you came out and said you just want to be EMPEROR of the WORLD I'd respect you more than I do you're constant demanding for respect. Respect is like sex appeal: you either have it or you don't. Respect is bestowed on people who are not LOOKING for it. Sex appeal is not necessarily based on looks but either way you have to have SOMETHING radiating from you. You can't demand people to get a hard-on for you (though in your case, you've given us all US males a woody since you arrived on the scene two years ago), sexually or otherwise. But you played the part of the MILF beautifully and even pulled the wool over the GOPs eyes for a while. Thank God the drugs are wearing off...

(And regardless if this story is true or not, it fucking should be...)

Here she is talking shit yet once again. Cool lighting though...


Sarah Palin on "hurt feelings" from Dennis Zaki on Vimeo.


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THE MARS VOLTA


The Mars Volta has a new release entitled Into the Octahedron. The first video is called Since We've Been Wrong and is just amazing. Though not yet on YouTube it can be seen here:

Since We've Been Wrong

A blend of prog-rock, post-punk, jazz fusion, and Latin influences,TMV, won a Grammy in 2009 for "Best Hard Rock Performance" for "Wax Simulacra". They formed in 2001 by guitarist Omar Rodriguez-Lopez and vocalist Cedric Bixler-Zavala. Cedric sounds like the hip re-incarnation of Freddie Mercury with an english degree. Intense conceptual lyrics over a cacophony of progressive instrumental mastery with all the cock-rock posturing and frizzy afros you can take, the Volta is praised for their energetic impromptu performances as much as their brilliance in the studio. You probably won't hear them at the next family barbecue but do your inner music snob a favor and check them out.

Here's "Wax Simulacra" live. Dig it.

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JENNIFER'S BODY


And this looks like an interesting offering: teen temptress Megan Fox playing the part of a possessed high-school girl with a taste for blood... And how far from the truth do you thing THAT bit of type-casting is?? I would venture to say writer Diablo Cody (who, there is no doubt, if given the slightest chance, I would fuck into oblivion) didn't even have to make any of it up. The director is Karyn Kusama who wrote and helmed the indie pseudo-hit of 2000 "Girlfight" and the beautiful but useless "Aeon Flux" in 2005. It should be interesting, if you're into possessed vixens with a distaste for clothing...

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CORALINE

Neil Gaiman's gothic child's nightmare"Coraline" was released this last week on DVD. It's a frightening animated tale of a young precocious girl who finds a door in her family's new house that leads her to her OTHER life where everything seems to be wonderful. The key word in that sentence is 'seems'... This film is not for children under 12 but is a wonderfully scary trip to the other side of your imagination. JC says "Check it out."



And I suppose that is it for the shorts this week... Look for my review of Russ Pond's "Fissure" this weekend on Casanova Shrugged. And that means TOMORROW.


♠ JC