breakin the wall

i havent been watching tv lately, i only use it for the playstation2 and as a place to put thing on top of. what's good to watch now anyways? nothin but stupid same old crapanovelas. boy meets girl, one of em is rich and one of em is poor, there's a villain out to destroy their relationship, someone finds out he/she is adopted, someone dies, someone who's supposed to be dead comes back alive, and the villain does some sht on a wedding or a party. over and over and over again. now there's an over-abundance of chinovelas, koreanovelas and japanovelas, which im pretty much sick of as well. they do present a different take on this telenovela thing, but im just so tired of it. and it also proves that the people writing crap for these networks are out of ideas. which is why we got the smallville rip-off captain barbell. what's next? bollywood?! this "trend" of importing foreign entertainment can lead to something positive though... the french! come to papa...


did i hear someone say "get cable!"? no? sorry. i hear voices in my head. sshh. anyways, layla and i do not have cable and wont be able to get cable for a while because the owner of the house we're renting doesnt like... um, cables. says it looks ugly. this, according to the all-round boy who is ugly. if they dont like seeing ugly, why are they letting this horrible creature roam around in and out of the house parading his facial errors? keep him locked in a cage within their side of the premises out of my line of vision and i'll zip it. (i know im not good-looking but im not the one complaining about ugliness). wish moving out aint as easy as pancakes, so layla and i must survive that sht for a while. anyways, some posts ago i mentioned takashi miike's imprint, an episode on the acclaimed tv series, masters of horror. it's on a channel called showtime and the whole show basically shatters the limit of what can be shown on television, horror-wise. gore and nudity are served in huge doses. apparently, sensei miike abused too much of this freedom and imprint was banned from hitting the u.s. airwaves. it's such a shame how we arent as blessed with quality programming as americans. or europeans. and by the way, on a related note, there's a new series showcasing episodes based on stephen king's short stories, and it's called nightmares and dreamscapes, which is also the title of one of maestro king's compilation books. hope my bootlegger buddies do their job...

okay. movie mode time. any of you guys seen pirates of the caribbean: dead man's chest? did you like it? a number of folks didn't, churning out some pretty cruel reviews. most of these unhappy campers failed to see the the first one, the curse of the black pearl, so do the math and we'll arrive at the same answer. i take no offense, i am not a die-hard fanatic of the series, but i just hope that the people attacking the movie like a helpless ant know exactly what they are saying and could justify their review on a debate against me. this goes for all movies and all reviews, i mean, i have written some negativity in my reviews as well but i kept them constructive and never personal (which is why i do not review pinoy films which i unfortunately get to watch every now and then, mostly in buses. i have a pre-viewing hate that would get in the way). anyways, i have seen dead man's chest (and part 1 too) and if you wanna know if i liked it or not, you'd just have to read my movie review. written as spoiler-free as i can. read it here

oh and apropos... before dead man's chest came on, there was the sweet kick-ass holy mother-effin spider-man 3 trailer!!! wooho!!! ive seen like around 10 times already in apple.com and still i had those geekboy goosebumps. this was supposed to be attached to superman returns, but hell, with spidey, any time is a great time!

skizzy want new holographic spider-man 3 poster!!! (see it in action)

the other morning, layla and i were having a hard time falling asleep and we got to talking about some good songs from the past. we focused mainly on dance tunes and basically went through most of the songs that soared to outrageous popularity during the 90's. we sang em out loud, hummed/improvised the unknown lyrics but never finished one. some of the songs we covered were the sign, mmm bop, ice ice baby, raggamuffin girl, and of course, the macarena (when we slept after, i had a mafia-themed dream). it was so much fun, we laughed a lot. anyways, in this regard, i have below the latest batch of web links that piqued my interest which i hope you would cause you an amount of delight as well, including a site that list 50 one-hit wonders. im sure there'll be at least one song in there that you have a memory tied to. click on, baby!

one-hit wonders - funny math answers - cool mini cooper ad - kaleido-mouse - nude vacations - grammar myths - happiest place on earth - funny unintended urls

and with that i bid you adieu, and may all of your dreams come true. especially the ones you have when you wake up and the bed sheets are soaked. this is your friendly neighborhood skizzy, signing off... for now.

p.s. breaking the wall is a tv/movie term used to that realism-defying action when a character looks at the camera or talks to the audience. ka-chow!