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TV season is here again

September 27, 2009 — Leave a comment

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How wonderful! A lot of my favorite TV shows are back. I think I’m going to spend a lot of time watching TV (online mostly) during the next few months.

House is back and strong in its sixth season. The season premiere was great, entertaining, fun and sad all at the same time. I love this show, and it looks like it’s going to continue being awesome. I just hope Olivia Wilde continues in it. She’s so gorgeous.

Casstle came back as well, and I’m happy about it. The show is great. Nathan Fillion is awesome, funny and charismatic, and Stana Katic is such a great actress and so enjoyable to look at.

Flashforward’s first episode was pretty interesting, and it seems like it’s going to be a great show, so I’m really hoping it becomes one of my favorites this season.

20090927-3 Ghost Whisperer is my guilty pleasure. The show is so cheesy sometimes, but I just can’t do anything else but love it. Maybe it’s because of Jennifer Love Hewitt. She’s so cute and sexy, and her laugh is so contagious. And she’s great in the show.

Heroes and Smallville are back, too, but I’m not sure if I’ll continue watching those shows. Heroes has been a constant disappointment from season to season, and I’ve just kept watching hoping they could start doing things right. The season premiere was the usual Heroes thing, a bit interesting, and setting up the plot for future episodes…and that usually is a very bad sign. Smallville, on the other side, used to be great, and now I find it boring, specially since Kristin Kreuk left the show. The only reason I keep watching it is because I love Superman, so I keep expecting that Clark Kent finally becomes Superman.

How I met your mother is here again, and it’s as funny as always. I have to say all of the actors in that show are pretty good and pretty funny. The writing is nice and the storytelling is cool. It never gets boring.

Finally, I think I’ll give Fringe another chance. I didn’t like the first episodes from the last season, but I’ve been hearing good comments about the show now. I guess it got better.

So, what are you watching this season?

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Charlize Theron as a wife who might be crazy

September 20, 2009 — Leave a comment

20090920-1 I saw The Astronaut’s Wife yesterday. It’s a good movie, with a big of a disappointing plot and ending, and with two great actors (as you can see in the photo: Johnny Depp and Charlize Theron). It’s weird to see Johnny Depp playing a normal person, sort of. Charlize Theron did well in the role of a wife who apparently is going crazy while bad things happen to her due to her husband. Sounds familiar? I thought so, too. It seems as if Charlize decided to reprise her role in The Devil’s Advocate, except this time she’s not married to an advocate (Keanu Reeves), but to an astronaut. There’s a lot of parallels in the story of both movies: a young couple living in Florida decide to move to New York as the husband gets offered a great job over there. The wife gets pregnant and she suddenly realizes something is not right; something is happening, and her husband is to blame. You see? I’m describing both movies there!

Go rent both movies, or buy the dvds (The Astronaut’s Wife for about $9 and Devil’s Advocate for about $7). I think Devil’s Advocate is a way better movie, and Charlize is better in it, too. Nevertheless, I enjoyed watching Charlize Theron as the wife of an astronaut.

There are four things that come to my mind when I think of Charlize Theron: She’s a great actress; she is an absolutely gorgeous woman; she isn’t afraid of nude scenes; her roles are a bit repetitive. Case in point was the two movies I just talked about, but you can also see her playing a sort of depressed woman with lots of psychological baggage, usually haunted by her past: see Sweet November,  North County, Sleepwalking and The Burning Plain.  She plays a woman with issues even in Hancock and The Italian Job. I haven’t seen Monster, but I suspect she also plays a very messed up woman there, too.

On a more positive side, go see some really great photos of this beautiful woman at the FB Gallery, and then go buy Aeon Flux (DVD) and see her running around in tight clothes.

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Zombies and cheating wives

September 12, 2009 — 1 Comment

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I like browsing around imdb looking for old and new things to watch. I probably spend as much time on that site as I spend time watching movies (or even working, ha!). For example, I just found out about this young hottie named Lisa Marcos who is one of the protagonist of a Tv series called The Listener, which apparently has already been cancelled in the US.

Stephen McHattie appears in one episode of that series. He is in a movie I saw a few months ago, called Pontypool (which is also a town in Wales, but the movie doesn’t have anything to do with that). I thought that was an interesting movie, I’d even suggest you try to go see it (the DVD hasn’t been released yet, so I don’t know if you’ll be able to watch the movie in theaters for now). I found it to be original, and a bit entertaining. But, I have to warn you that this movie is not for everybody. Some might find it boring, because nothing really happens. It’s a zombie movie without zombies. It’s a dialog movie (in fact, words are one of the protagonists of this movie). In conclusion, it’s a movie that you’ll either love or hate; there’s no in-between.

Actually, I’d say that this is a movie that you don’t really need to see, but you need to listen to. Considering the entire movie happens in a radio station, and the star of the movie (Stephen McHattie) spends 70% of the time talking into a microphone, trying to figure out what the hell is going on.

It was directed by Bruce McDonald, who’s also the director of The Tracey Fragments (starring Ellen Page), which is a completely bizarre and confusing movie (I’ll have to watch it again to see if I like it). The movie is based on the novelPontypool Changes Everything. I’m interested in reading that book, although I don’t know if it’s any good.

20090912-3 Zombies aside, let’s talk about cheating wives for a bit. I recently decided that Nastassja Kinski is gorgeous, and now I’d like to see as much of her work as possible (there’s a reason for that, but I might talk about it in future posts). I just saw one of her movies: Cold Heart and it is a bad movie. I mean, it’s not that bad if you have nothing else to do, but it’s not original at all, you’ll have the feeling you’ve seen similar movies a thousand times before.

Why then should you see it? Reason one: you get to see Nastassja Kinski without any clothes (that always adds points to any movie); she’s also in a couple cool sex scenes. But, if that doesn’t convince you, let me ask you something: are you a fan of LOST? If so, this is a must see for you, because the movie has two of the stars of your favorite Tv shows in it: Josh Holloway, the crazy guy who seduces Nastassja Kinski, and Jeff Fahey (you know, he’s Frank the Pilot in LOST), who is the cheating husband. You see, everybody’s cheating everybody in this movie, so Nastassja Kinski is the cheating wife (the title of the post makes sense now). If you’re a woman, let me tell you this: Josh Holloway and Nastassja Kinski have a couple of very steamy scenes here.

Will you see any of these two movies?

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An artist and how wrong information travels in the net

September 12, 2009 — Leave a comment
20090912-1 ERECTRO(clara), 2004 / Photo:KIOKU Keizo

My initial intention with this post was to show the cool photo above, say that it’s an sculpture (I doubt it is a real person) by japanese artist Odani Motohiko, and then go on with my life. It catched my eye. It’s a bit weird, and eerily cool.

One of the things I like doing is searching for the sources, researching for more information, and not just trust what a blog says. And this is the perfect example of why you all should do the same.

I first saw a post about Odani Motohiko at a chilean blog named Bold.cl. The post is in spanish, and the author says the female artist is 26 years old. The text is an almost exact translation of a post at Design You Trust, where they also mention the artist is 26 years old. They, however, don’t mention if the artist is male or female. I’m assuming the Bold.cl poster assume it was a female, based on the photo. Following the sources, Design You Trust links to a post at Look in art. It’s in another language (I believe it’s georgian? I’m not sure) so I couldn’t translate…the only thing I understood is the first two characters in the post: 26. Look in art links to a post at Agitatto, but there there’s no mention of the age or genre of the artist.

The orginal post and information traveled through several blogs and each added a little bit of information. In the end, we know Odani Motohiko is a female japanese artist and she’s 26 years old, which is completely wrong. The funny thing is that all posts (except the original one) link to this page, where you can clearly see the artist was born in 1972 (it’s below the name), which means he/she is about 37 years old. That’s quite a difference from the other age everybody says he/she was. It took me a few seconds in google to find a bit more information about the artist. Art-it has a nice article, with a photo of the artist, where you’ll confirm he was born in 1972, and you’ll realize the artist is male.  Assembly language has another article on the artist, where you can again confirm the artist is a "he". They mention he’s 25 years old, but the article was written in 1997, which by then was correct.

I guess it’s very easy to pass the wrong information around. I think bloggers should be specially careful with this, even more when a lot of them consider themselves journalists.

That’s it. Now you have a nice collection of links about Odani Motohiko, so go read about him, and if you can, go see his art. Oh, and keep in mind that everything I wrote might be wrong…you have to do your own research.

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Bar Refaeli's night out

September 11, 2009 — Leave a comment

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Oh my, oh my. Bar Refaeli sure looks good, doesn’t she? I usually see photos of her in bikini, and posing for fashion photoshoots, but here you have her looking natural in a simple dress, few make-up (or no make-up at all) and still looking awesome. I guess it’s because she’s got an awesome figure and an angel face.

This photo is from Fashion’s Night Out. As a kick-off to New York Fashion Week, stores across the city — and in participating cities all over the world — stayed open until 11 p.m. to entice shoppers with entertainment, flowing refreshments and sometimes even their wares to would-be buyers. (more info here).

Anyway, if you want to see more photos from this set, you know what to do, go to the gallery, and enjoy!

And, if you prefer to see her wearing something more revealing, like a bikini or even less, then go visit this other gallery.

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Kate Beckinsale in black for Whiteout

September 10, 2009 — Leave a comment

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I’d say Kate Beckinsale is one of the most beautiful women in Hollywood. If you make me choose between her and Megan Fox, I choose the gorgeous Kate. I mean, she’s beautiful, her accent is hypnotizing, and she’s got style and elegance. As an example, look at this photo of her at the premiere of Whiteout, a movie I didn’t know existed, but now that I do, I’ll definitely go see; not only because it has Kate Beckinsale in it, but also because it looks interesting.

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A fun night

September 9, 2009 — Leave a comment

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I guess she’s wearing a really good perfume? Even her friends are going crazy for her. I don’t know. I really don’t know what’s going on…I know it’s a great photo. I love it.

I wonder what happened a few seconds after the photo was taken? Do you guys think they started making out? The girl on the right looks like she’s ready for more…

This is the perfect example of why everybody will need to carry around one of the new ipod nanos with video camera at all times: this is a great photo, but it could’ve been a better video.

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