James's Journal

11/18/2008 11:58 #46738

All the World is Rotten

There is no more pleasure left in the world. Everything is just a shadow of what used to make you happy. Turn on the faucet to slake your thirst and ash pours out. Close your eyes for sleep and you will only dream of the grave.

And why?

Because Thomas Kinkade is making a movie.

The Painter of LightTM is directing Thomas Kinkade's Christmas Cottage. Which stars... Peter O'Toole? Seriously?

This makes me like two things much less
1)Christmas
2) Peter O'Toole

This is based on a true story in which an old, reclusive painter takes on a young painter under his wing. Making this movie a big ego masturbation session for Kinkade. Grind out a big one Tommy. Just don't shoot your load all over our holiday.

This is not the first monstrous bastard child between Kinkade and anything else. Take a look at this painting.

All that is left is to pray for a quick death.

james - 11/23/08 21:45
I believe he immortalized the talking fish in a biblical illumination once. The man is a genius.

fellyconnelly - 11/23/08 18:40
oh man... i gotta get that painting for my parents! that will look awesome between the talking fish and the talking deer head above their tv!

(i'm only half kidding-they took down the talking fish a few years ago)

metalpeter - 11/18/08 19:43
I'm not a Racing fan but that Painting is pretty amazing. His art does have its own look and he has made it. So what is so wrong about a movie based of his life that is a love story, sounds like an independent movie to me. I won't go see it because it isn't my thing, but I be it is a lot of other peoples thing.

jenks - 11/18/08 18:21
does that painting come in couch size?

zobar - 11/18/08 17:51
That painting is a big slice of Real America with buttercream frosting.

- Z

11/17/2008 23:44 #46729

Princess Di Funeral ReMix

Chris Morris, as I have said before on this site and others, is a genius. I just found this clip from his show Jam in which he remixed the funeral service of Princess Diana.

Favorite line: "We pray for the royal family as they discharge their members."

11/16/2008 09:51 #46702

They Just Don't Get Buffalo

There was a piece in the Friday Times about Buffalo's architectural history and our future. I just don't think the authors understand a damn about our city.

1) There are some very significant large structures, yes. Darwin Martin, Richardson complex, all great. But the gems of Buffalo are in the homes where Plebes like us live in mansions. The omni-presence of beauty was missing and the author did not get it.

2) Richmond Avenue is not "one of Olmsted's grand decaying parkways". If there have been any successes in Buffalo it has been on Richmond. I can't think of a home that taints the whole avenue with the air of decay.

3) The author thinks that the Mayor's plan to knock down 5,000 is a failure of the preservationist movement. However, they do not mention Buffalo Re-Use will get to sack these homes for architectural goodies like stained glass, copper pipes, etc. Nor does the author mention that 20% of the homes in the city are vacant and will always be vacant. There are no plans in the works for a revitalized economy that will fill those homes. There are some plans to revitalize the neighborhoods in which they are situated. But we just do not have the resources to restore 18,000 homes and we do not have the people to put in them.

blah!

metalpeter - 11/16/08 11:32
Yes He did get the Richmond Part wrong sort of. I have seen a few boarded up houses on Richmond and you have those Parish Condos across from that building that I wouldn't say is ghetto but has had some problems in the past so if that was what he was exposed to I could see how he got the wrong Idea, I miss read that part the first time so I had to reread it and I agree he got that part wrong.

In terms of Point 3 you make. The guy doesn't tackle that but if he did it would be a 7 page article. Well no you would have to get into Politics and talk about PUSH and How people put pictures on doors and I don't think that was the point of the article. I think he wasn't really blaming Brown or the Presvationists, to me it sounded like he was saying they have to work together. I don't think he got into any of the political stuff and to do so would have been wrong so the writer summed it up the best that he could.

I think it is a very positive article and maybe it will get people to come to Buffalo. I think that most of it was pretty much right. You can't expect someone who isn't from Buffalo to get it. It would like if I flew to Chicago (I would like to go see a Black Hawks game and go to Millenium park) To go to Millenium Park and I wrote about there history and that cool reflective globe thing and I acted as if that was the only thing there.

11/14/2008 14:54 #46689

Welcome to My Evil Twin

Deven Green does my favorite series on youtube. She just uploaded this one and it fills me with happy.

"Now will him over here with garbage-bag eyes!"

11/13/2008 21:32 #46682

OMG I MUST KNOW!!!

gardenmama - 11/14/08 17:51
I think some of mine are almost as old as I am. My mom passed them on to me - maybe I should be concerned that she's trying to do me in.

hodown - 11/14/08 09:38
I don't thinkI want to know the answer to that.