It is here.
Alleged fans of Star Trek the world over are shitting themselves with fury right now. The message boards of movie news sites are strewn with profanity. Their main complaints seem to be that the cast is too pretty, the effects are garish, and the dialog is silly, which makes me wonder if they have even watched an episode of Star Trek in their lives. As for myself, there's nothing I didn't like in this trailer. This appears to be the big-budget, no-fucking-around cinema vision that Trek has always deserved. The actors look game, and it feels like my Star Trek.
Best moment? Naturally, it's McCoy's line: "Space is disease and danger wrapped in darkness and silence!" McCoy looks to be a miserable, complaining bastard, which is perfect.
I like; May can't come fast enough.
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[This is post #42 of NaBloPoMo]
Drunk Duck, where I have my Deadwall comic, is a free hosting site that contains 11,686 comics, according to the comics-browsing page. I've been looking for comics to read, but I hate both manga and sprite comics. When I clicked off those two options on the search page, it reduced the number of available comics by almost 4,000. My attempts to find any comics that are similar to mine in either format or content have been completely fruitless.
It's just all very sad.
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[This is post #41 of NaBloPoMo]
(This list is in no particular order.)
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9. Severen (Bill Paxton)--Near Dark
Why He Belongs: Even for a vampire, Severen is scummy. He genuinely loves killing and sowing chaos. He's a filthy animal.
Scummiest Moment: Slicing a bartender's throat open with his spurs.
Scummy Dialog: (Before biting a man's neck) "I hate 'em when they ain't been shaved."
10. Budd (Michael Madsen)--Kill Bill
Why He Belongs: He is far and away the scummiest member of the Deadly Vipers Assassination Squad. He lives in a trailer. He sits on his front steps with chewing tobacco and a spit-can. He has skin mags on the tank of his toilet, which means that he jacks off on the can, which is just gross.
Scummiest Moment: Blasting The Bride with rock salt, then shooting her full of sedative before spitting tobacco juice on her face.
Scummy Dialog: "I'm a bouncer in a titty bar, Bill. If she wants to fight, all the has to do is come down to the bar, start some shit, and we'll be in a fight."
11. Henry (Kevin J. O'Connor)--There Will Be Blood
Who He Is: A man presenting himself as Daniel Plainview's half-brother.
Why He Belongs: He's lazy, not too bright, fond of whores and liquor, and it turns out (SPOILER!) he wasn't even Daniel's brother: he was just scamming him.
Scummiest Moment: Laughing from drink while asking Daniel for more money to spend on floozies.
Scummy Dialog: "I met a man in King City who said he was your brother. We were friends for months, working in King City... and he wanted to make his way to you, Daniel, we didn't have any money... He died of tuberculosis. He wasn't harmed, wasn't killed, nothing bad, but he told me about you and I just took his story, and used his diary... Daniel, I'm your friend... I'm not trying to hurt you, just survive..."
12. Paul Snider (Eric Roberts)--Star 80
Who He Is: Boyfriend and manager of doomed Playboy Playmate Dorothy Stratten.
Why He Belongs: Ambition, perversion, jealousy, and violence: these are the ingredients for the perfect scumbag. Roberts is so despicable in this role that I was prejudiced against him in other movies for years.
Scummiest Moment: Killing Stratten, then himself.
Scummy Dialog: "I found her, you didn't. I found her."
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[This is post #40 of NaBloPoMo]
You may have noticed (or may have not: I honestly have no idea how much attention you guys pay to my blog) that I did not put up a post yesterday, thus breaking the NaBloPoMo rules or dictates or whatever. Thing is, most of the badges people have on their blogs only read, "30 posts in 30 days", and I've put up 38 posts of varying quality and effort over 14 days. So, you know what? I think I deserve to take a day off when I'm not feelin' it.
Maybe I'll have something more substantial up later. Maybe I won't. Life is unpredictable.
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[This is post #39 of NaBloPoMo]
To those readers who are enjoying my current comic "Deadwall", I've started a Drunk Duck page to hold it from here on out. If you go there now you'll see that I've posted an improved version of the first comic. I'm going to cycle through the ones I've posted here, then in about ten days you'll start seeing new ones.
The comic page will be the only place to see "Deadwall" from now on, so if that matters to you, bookmark the page and visit daily, please. It'll be one more quick 10 second visit to add to your normal daily routine. It won't kill you, in other words.
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[This is post #38 of NaBloPoMo]
The husband & I will be in Mexico City for one day, while we're making our way over to our honeymoon destination. We will only have time for one major outing - does anyone have any advice on what we should do?
When I'm wrong, I'm wrong. It's a pretty rockin' song. I miss the Slash/Izzy guitar sound, but something I always tell myself is to take everything on its own merits rather than comparing it to the past. I forgot that. The song's fine. I just pre-ordered the album.
I do wish that Axl wasn't calling his band Guns N' Roses. It's disrespectful to all the guys that came before. But you know what? A name is just a name; consider this Axl's solo album.
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[This is post #37 of NaBloPoMo]
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[This is post #36 of NaBloPoMo]
(This list is in no particular order.)
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5. Archer Maggot (Telly Savalas)--The Dirty Dozen
Why He Belongs: As played with sneering menace by Telly Savalas, this is not a man you would want to let babysit your daughters, let's just say that. If there is any confusion, his name is Maggot. That's his actual last name. Oh, he's also a creep religious fanatic for good measure.
Scummiest Moment: Right there to your left you will see the evidence of Maggot's scummiest moment. That's a bayonet sticking out of that woman's stomach.
Scummy Dialog: "Sir? Do we need to eat with niggers?" (Didn't I mention? He's also a racist)
6. Carter Burke (Paul Reiser)--Aliens
Why He Belongs: He is sneaky, manipulative, cowardly, and everything reprehensible about the '80s
Scummiest Moment: Letting two alien egg-layers loose in the infirmary in an attempt to impregnate Ripley and Newt so that the resultant alien embryos, potential bioweapons, could be smuggled back to earth.
Scummy Dialog:
Ripley: "I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure."
Burke: "Ho-ho-hold on, hold on one second. This installation has a substantial dollar value attached to it."
7. Warren Toomey (Dennis Franz)--Psycho II
Why He Belongs: He was running the motel as an adult hideaway, complete with pornography and drugs. When he gets fired, he comes by the diner where Norman works part-time to verbally abuse him.
Scummiest Moment: Look at the man: his whole LIFE is a scummy moment.
Scummy Dialog: "At least my customers have a good time! What do yours get, Bates? Huh? Dead! That's what! Murdered by you, you loony!"
8. Duane Duke (Jeff Fahey)--Psycho III
Why He Belongs: This was during the time that Fahey specialized in playing sleazeballs and psychos. He wears jackets with no sleeves, also a dead giveaway. In his first scene, he tries to force himself on an ex-nun, and it's a debate as to whether or not that's the scummiest thing he does.
Scummiest Moment: The aforementioned near-rape, or maybe the scene where he bangs a broad and then kicks her naked out into the cold night. But for sheer scumminess, you have to go to the scene where Duane finds evidence pointing to the fact that Norman is back to his killing ways, and his first instinct is to blackmail him.
Scummy Dialog: "Stupid bitch! You could have been comin' instead of goin'!"
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[This is post #35 of NaBloPoMo]
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[This is post #34 of NaBloPoMo]
