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Archive for December, 2007
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BRING IT BACK!!!!!!
In other news..
Kp and I recently watched a movie called “Fido”, which is about a 1950’s world where the zombie outbreak has already happened and has been dealt with. The zombies were not killed… instead a company called Zomcor invents these collars that allow normal people to keep zombies as personal assistants and whatnot. Most houses have at least one zombie who does the yardwork, cleaning, and serving. However (as you can probably guess), the collars sometimes malfuntion and the zombies get mad crazy and start eating people. This isn’t in any way THAT kind of movie though. It’s actually a very refreshing take on the played out zombie movie. The atmosphere of the flick is very good, but personally, I feel that the movie suffers becuase it was made by Canadians.
The story revolves around a little boy who is kind of an outcast and his new friend, their zombie servent. I recommend checking it out. It’s at the movie rental store.
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Nitrocellulose Fun
Published by December 27th, 2007 in Uncategorized, Art, culture, movies and exhibits. 2 Comments
Last year around this time I decided that it was my mission to finally get into films and really start collecting DVD’s. After a few months of grabbing as many Criterion Collection, Masters Of Cinema, Kino Video, and classic releases I decided that I must find a way to see foreign films and older films on the big screen. While cruising the net I discovered the “Pittsburgh Filmmakers” and their two theaters in Pittsburgh. The Harris Theatre is located downtown on Liberty Avenue and the Regent Square Theatre is in Edgewood. The reason why I bring this up now is that I’ve noticed the quality of films being shown has increased dramatically in the past few months. Hitchcock, David Lynch, Fellini, and the best in Indie Cinema are on tap in January at both theaters. I’m very excited to finally see the Ian Curtis film entitled “Control” which tells of the tragic life of the Joy Division front-man and his sudden suicide. BTW: That pic is from Eraserhead.. maybe the craziest film of the 70’s which plays this weekend.
FoxBoro Hot Tubs
Published by December 27th, 2007 in Advertising, Music, Rock and celebrities. 2 Comments
In one of the most Boner inducing moves in quite a long time, Green Day has yet again released a brand new CD under a different name.
A few years back Green Day teamed up with Devo, and under the name “The Network”, released an entire album of skull crushers. This time around, it seems to be just them under the name “Foxboro Hot Tubs”.
Best of all, the 6 track EP can be downloaded entirely for free by going here:
http://www.foxborohottubs.com/noflash.html
If you try to visit the site without the noflash.html part, you’ll be stopped by a big stupid clock on the page. F that.
Anyways, go download them because Green Day is the shiz-nite!
P.s. I’m writing and uploading this from my new Ipod touch. This thing is seriously amazing!
Disregard the extension number.. I put that on there so people from work could ask about it. Just shoot me an email if you’re interested or leave a comment.
P.S. yes i’m selling things on my blog. F Off 
I hope everyone has a great christmas! Be safe and have fun!!!
MERRY CHRISTMAS!
Ways to keep yourself happy at work
Published by December 24th, 2007 in Gondek, Advertising, Artist, advice, computers and celebrities. 0 CommentsHere are some things you can do to your computer at work to make everyone think your weird.
Go on the company hard drive and hunt for the photos for the most recent holiday christmas party. Save a photo of the fattest co-worker you can find, then crop out everything but their head in microsoft paint. Save
Re-set your recycle bin icon to your saved image, so that every time you go to delete a file you can imagine them eating it.
Go back in those holiday photos and now snag the pic of yourself. Open up microsoft paint again and get the pic of just your head again. Save.
Right click and open up your screen saver options. Go to that stupid annoying maze one and set your face so that it’s the walls, floors, and ceiling. Set your screensaver to one minute. Save.
In other news, if you’re a shameless self promoter like I am, you’d probably tell people about a new Interview up about yourself. Then you’d tell people where they can read it..
http://theoddnotes.blogspot.com/2007/12/gondek.html
When I was about 14 or 15, and the game Mortal Kombat was at the height of it’s popularity, a live show came threw my home town of Johnstown, Pennsylvania. My mom wouldn’t let me go at the time for some reason or another, and I was pretty furious about it.
Then my friend Benny (another native of Johnstown) sent me this link today. It looks like Mortal Kombat came through my town AGAIN and once again I missed it. Boy am I mad. Anyways, click the link below to read about the event that I missed. It sounds pretty grusome and WAY more intense than the first live show. I must really be out of the loop too, because as I was reading the article, I wasn’t familiar with any of the characters it mentioned. At least they still do the fatalities.
http://www.wpxi.com/news/14895703/detail.html
p.s. no seriously, click that link and read it.
New Albums of 08′
Published by December 20th, 2007 in Fun, culture, Advertising, World, Violence, Capitalism, Tourism, Rock, future, china buffet and facts. 1 Comment
There are alot of new albums coming out next year, but only one you’ll need to care about. The band Doughnuts in November will be releasing their MUCH anticipated record here on American soil early next year. Up to this point, all their releases have only been available in their native land of Mexico. That all changed last month, when a merger between two of the biggest record companies in the business took place, allowing music from other countries into ours.
These actions did not come without sacrifices. Already losing two band members in the past, (Freddy Loser in a vicious knife fight outside a local club, and Dead End to malaria) Doughnuts in November had to be literally sneaked out of the country due to a public outcry of traitorism when they found out they were coming to America to record. The day before their 4 week burro ride across the border, the lead singer of DIN, Doug Dickens, almost was fatally wounded when an unknown assailant rigged his burrito with explosives. Fortunately, Doug was to busy pleasuring one of their numerous groupies and had skipped on lunch. The burrito detonated in his refridgerator and no one was injured. Another account saw their drummer, Astella Dios, with a three day hospital stay due to an attack from a moltov cocktail, which was dropped from a bridge while he was passing underneath in his camaro. The attacker was caught two days later by fellow band mates Finish Line and Maximum Buick, and was severly beaten. Courts ruled in DIN’s favor, and Finish and Maximum were let two with a paltry fine of 40 pesos and three hours of community service. The last, and most outrageous feat to stop the band was to their sole roadie, El Roadie Diablo Negro, from foreign dignitaries. While America and Mexico were discussing the merger, Europe, whom also wanted rights to DIN, invited El Roadie to an “all inclusive” vacation celebrating their success. However, upon arriving to Europe, El Roadie was quickly siezed and his four groupies (which is the standard number which accompany any member of DIN at all times) were shot on sight. Taken to a remote location, El Roadie was tortured within a mere fraction of his life for nearly four weeks for any information that would result in the inner colapse of the band. Standing fast, El Roadie endured hours of beatings, water torture, and starvation daily but never broke. He finally escaped after a clumsy guard forgot to re-tie one of his hands. El Roadie managed to untie himself and escape, but not before taking the lives of no less than 14 European guards, 3 horses, and 18 children.
Through much struggle comes much benifit however, as predictions claim that their album will be no doubt, the smash success of 2008 and possibly the first quarter of 2009. With a very grueling tour lined up of “at least 7 shows” next year, the album is expected to make the band 10’s of dollars. Stay tuned for further updates on the release of the album.
