that behind the scenes clip is actually just a preview for the 15 minute behind the scenes clip that will air next sunday, btw...
yowza. first i found this while refreshing nell's newsfeed:
john is a musician who is part of john_lee_hooker
no s**t sherlock.
then came something sinister:
dick_cheney is a politician who holds the office of president
we are all doomed if nell thinks dick is the person most qualified to be the president!
john is a musician who is part of john_lee_hooker
no s**t sherlock.
then came something sinister:
dick_cheney is a politician who holds the office of president
we are all doomed if nell thinks dick is the person most qualified to be the president!
HQ quicktime fantasy porn: [hbo.vo.llnwd.net]
edit: when i re-read this it seemed a bit too much :) so, the above link will take you to the HQ teaser in all its glory...
edit: when i re-read this it seemed a bit too much :) so, the above link will take you to the HQ teaser in all its glory...
Natasha Alam (according to IMDb): Born in Tashkent, Uzbekistan...
i'll just get this out of the way: best sex scene ever!
@SJ_Edwards_2.0: wow... i've never met anybody so hyphen-happy before... kudos
once again HBO deserves props:
they have picked up a show that has just shown its outer layer to the viewers (and saying david simon's shows are like onions is an understatement) and is even less story-driven (and hence accessible) than its bodymore-set predecessor.
i do have to say that this was probably the most amazing and overwhelming premieres that i've seen in a looong while...
@Micah Brown: three words: full. metal. jacket.
@mordicai: because other than the great storylines, believable characters, isanely amazing dialogue and gritty-to-the-bone realism, it had two things going on for it:
a) it didn't, in fact, tell a story about cops and robbers. it told a story about a city and the people inhabiting it. it (almost) never veered into a caricature of that city and rather made the city itself the protagonist of the story being told. and, in a way, thus managed to tell the story of ANY city anywhere in the world. there are not many stories that can pull this off (Lee's "25th Hour" and Coppola's "Lost in Translation" are amongst them), but when it is done correctly the payoff is a truely memorable and heart-wrenching experience.
b) it was an intelligent series - something that is so rare on television these days that the whole species could be called extinct. it needed you to get the clues, to be patient, to have an attention span that was closer to a human being's than trout's, and, first and foremost, it asked YOU to make up your mind who was black and who was white. it didn't promise to have a plan or had endless mysteries that only sprouted new questions in order to keep the viewer's mind away from the fact that what they are watching is actually just an empty shell. what it had was a real story that was convuluted as hell but eventually got to conclusions that were logical, understandable and (well, yes) real.
for me, if a series has only one of these two qualities, it is already a blessing. but to have them both is ... a sign of true greatness...
so that's that...
those women still exist? i thought they all went down with the Dallas and the 80s...
btw, kudos to the cheap-sounding movie-trailer-voice-guy on his mad skills of putting words in other peoples' mouths!
@mordicai: can i offer you another candidate? it is not as... erm... 'classical' and it has definitely not proven the test of time (which i'm not sure about TP either, because i just haven't found the courage to watch it again, because i'm afraid of ruining it), but to me The Wire is probably the pinnacle of television (well, maybe not the last season). it's probably the most humane, heartfelt, and intelligent thing i've seen on tv. ever.
am i still banned?
edit: or am i only banned on gizmodo? can anybody explain because my profile tells me that i was banned by almighty jesus himself...
@kama001: hear-hear!
@Zantor: nope, my idea exactly ;)
this is what i would like to do to earn my living....!
go and check out vancouver olympics site and some of their live event coverage. it doesn't use flash but a clever mixtrue of html, javascript and images and manages to do things that i couldn't have thought possible 4 years ago without flash. a really good experience and something that is worth inspecting....however, i can only assume how much more work went into it than building that in flash or how much more cool and streamlined a flash version could've looked. the only good thing we get from this (other than less cpu usage, although i'm sure the more javascript the more we are feeling it cpu-wise) is the searchability and accessibility (of the last, i am not totally sure, and the first doesn't matter with live results anyway). so, all in all, i do like the new trends of non-flash sites, but the people who advocate them are surely not thinking about the same (excuse me the pun) flash and pure coolness of flash-based apps, that should be the norm by now.
@electrolemon: my idea exactly. try putting it in your pocket between the swipes. or doing anything ohter than unlocking, for the matter of fact...
for the love of man-kind, if you have shown the kick once already, STOP SHOWING IT OVER AND OVER AGAIN!
for europeans, free an legal and without commentary: [www.eurovisionsports.tv]
@TailsNZ: thank you for a perfect valentine's gift :p
