I posted a while back, that an Arrested Development movie was in the works. Since then not much more news has come of this, as the world has slipped further and further into the lower levels of hell.
As American super-legend commentator Keith Olbermann said:
“In these perilous times, Arrested Development was more than a comedy series sir, it was the promise of blessed relief from the nightmares that envelope us”.
Well, now star Jason Bateman has confirmed they are a cooking a movie up. Hoo-ray! A beacon of light to guide us through the dark times. Bateman and Olbermann and everyone involved in Arrested Development Off The Meatrack celebrates you with a 21 Flixonase nasal spray salute.
Ah, sure fuck it! Apres Match is on YouTube! Here the boyos take on Jeff THE LEGEND Stelling and the Soccer Saturday team. Hopefully someone will put up Saturday’s sketch soon, it was another classic.
Edit: As National Disgrace points out they are all on Rte.ie. Took me a bit of wrastling with Real Player to get it going but hooray, I got to watch the aforementioned Saturday night sketch, Bill O’Herlihy going nuts.
“I found hidden in the Book of Kells a little note saying Marilyn Monroe loved biscuits…”
I was just watching Prime Minister’s questions there on Sky News, and some shit-nosed Tory just got up and said “Three Cheers For The Irish!” and all the half-dead men around her managed some kind of sympathetic collective grunt. I almost dropped my can of Harp. I’m so fucking confused. Now Sinn Fein and the Tories are on the same fucking side? What the fuck! I hope you No-heads are happy, you’ve plunged us all into a paradoxical conundrum of epic proportions.
To quote Dr. Pete Venkmen when he was describing the apocalypse, “Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together… mass hysteria!”
Note to self: Stop watching Sky News during the day.
Attention nerds! Today the world’s greatest web browser Firefox launches its latest version, Firefox 3! And to celebrate Mozilla (them what make it) are trying to break the world record for downloads in one day. Didn’t get off to a good start with the site falling over earlier, but they seem to be rocking now, claiming over 1.3 million downloads so far. Amazing!
As for the browser; it does definitely seem quicker (one of Mozilla’s claims), it looks shinier and more whizz bang and the address bar does all sorts of bonkers things involving your history / bookmarks. Oh! And the zoom is all super fancy, it actually zooms in rather than just increase the text (It also does that if you want). The future is now.
Unwisely, I stuck on Sky News just now and was greeted by the ghastly presence of some pasty looking man with a standard issue Public Boy haircut and without an ounce of soul in his eyes. Nothing too strange there, but then the caption on screen informed me that he was the “Shadow Chancellor”. Egads! I thought some Tolkien-esque forces of darkness had risen to power in Britain. I half expected to see trolls and dragons and other such shit flying around London, eating dwarfs. Sadly, he’s just the Opposition partie’s fella who handles the economy.
Seriously though, “Shadow Chancellor” is a cool job description. If I were him I’d hope to God I never get into power because then you’d become the “Chancellor of the Exchequer” which makes you sound like some boring old twat with a briefcase. But the “Shadow Chancellor”, well, he gets to rule from a throne made of skulls on top of a lake of fire. Frankly however the dude on telly doesn’t look like much of a “Shadow Chancellor”, he at least needs a black cape, and maybe get dubbed by James Earl Jones.
As we sift through the rubble of Thursday’s referendum result, we come across a whole range of opinions of what happens next, what went wrong etc. One of the many sound bytes I have repeatedly heard since Friday is that the “No” verdict was the result of “a disconnect between people and politicians”. As a “Yes” voter this word “disconnect” has resonated with me, but for different reasons than someone like Patricia McKenna might think. I too feel a “disconnect”. Not only with politicians, but with my fellow countrymen and women who voted differently to I.
This is not to say that I don’t respect people’s wish to vote “No”, its just that I feel ‘disconnected’ when so many people in my nation voted in a way that I don’t really understand. I don’t feel what they felt, or saw what they saw. I read the same stuff, heard the same arguments, and understood the Treaty as best as I could as they did too. Yet the overwhelming difference of opinion between myself and fellow “Yes” voters and my friends, colleagues and fellow Irish people who voted “No” has left me a bit bewildered. Again, it is not to say that I want everyone to think like I think. Lord knows what would not be good for anyone! Differences are what makes democracy healthy, what makes human life so rewarding. But when a decision is taken that moves your country in a direction that you are not comfortable with you cannot help but feel a bit out of place. Disconnected.
As readers will know I do not take much stock in the current post-millenial trend in the mass-media to make us constantly fear an impending doom is around the corner which is waiting to decimate our way of life. So I don’t spend too much time fearing any kind of doomsday scenario as a result of this; I just feel disappointed that we couldn’t have carried on with a project which I feel was not sinister or malign in any way. I dare say theres no point in going over the minutiae of why I feel a “No” decision was wrong,there’ll be time enough for that in the months and (unfortunately) years to come.
The net result of this is a kind of general fatigue about politics. Its not that I was a militant “yes” crusader and am now crushed beyond repair, I have an interest in politics on a global level as a sort of “history unfolding” thing, I’m not aligned to any party or movement or anything, I generally don’t feel comfortable with any labels. I’m certainly not conservative, but I don’t know if I could be considered completely liberal either. I guess I take everything on a case-by-case basis. I see people who call themselves “anti-war”; well, yeah, I guess most people are by default averse to wars, but to say you are against all wars is naive. Sometimes, regrettably, you need to fight. People align themselves to parties, movements, and organisations but I can’t say that anyone out there reflects fully enough my world view. I don’t go for cynicism however, I think its a trait which has become cast as something to be proud of when it is not.
What is interesting about this result is what it says about the Irish voting public. When Fianna Fail were returned to power last year, alot of Irish bloggers lambasted voters as ignorant, greedy, zombified idiots. Yet some of those bloggers now applaud this apparently courageous decision. It seems odd that we would vote in Fianna Fail to run the country, then decide to teach them a lesson with such a crucial decision. Frankly, anyone who uses a referendum with such far reaching implications to teach the ruling government a lesson is beyond contempt.
So, where was I again? Ah yes, “disconnect”. Its a word which just seems to sum up how I feel at the moment. Not depressed or sad or down, life is far to short for that, just this feeling that I am out of step with how alot of people feel, and again, the result is a general aversion from matters political.
I had the perfect antidote however to post-Lisbon disconnection syndrome when I went to see Jinx Lennon in Dundalk on Saturday night. As usual Jinx’s powerful message of positive energy amidst the gloom of the universe was delivered with passion, humour and surrealism like only Jinx can. An added treat was a collection of new songs which should be on his new album, all of which are classics in the making. If you ever feel emasculated by the toils of our modern world, you can do alot worse than go to a Jinx show.
As Jinx says, you must forgive the cunts.
Added bonus: WordPress is now letting me post videos!
Any one know whats up? I am using HTML mode, sticking in the code and poof – it vanishes. If I hit save, or preview it just goes. If I switch over to Visual node I get a big yellow box where it should be and an Adobe Flash symbol in the middle; but when I got to preview or save this it just goes.
Maybe this is the internet’s way of telling me to stop constantly posting YouTube’s, but god damn it, I WANT TO.
Apparently they are remaking RoboCop. Fucking hell.
This boggles the mind; RoboCop, a strikingly entertaining, original and thought provoking film is just over 20 years old, hasn’t aged much at all, yet those grave-robbing bananaheads are going to remake it. With WWE wrestler The Rock. What a pack of tards.
Why not make a sequel? Sure, its almost mandatory to make a sequel this weather to classic 80s films. Wouldn’t that satisfy your lust to suck the last few dollars out of any idea you can get your filthy hands on.
Even better, WHY NOT MAKING SOMETHING FUCKING NEW. I think the Matrix was the last original thing to come out of Hollywood; and they fucked that up with their stupid sequels. Frankly I’ve wasted enough time and energy on this blog whining about those monkey-nosed cock-horses and their inability to come up with anything new. I said it last year and it fits again this year: take a look at all the major releases coming out over the next 12 months; 90% of them are based on old films, TV shows, comics, toys, fairground rides or are sequels. I mean this week alone we are getting the Incredible Hulk a re-boot of a film series based on a comic, that was out just 6 years ago.
Soon every film you see will be remade within a year, until all entertainment is composed of one self-immolating loop of rehashed imagery.
