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For Orchestra Lady Gaga “Poker Face” I already posted this on my facebook, but I figured I post it here. Given my ten years in music and playing instruments, I’m almost certain a real orchestra plays this cover of “poker face”. (not 100% sure) There may be some computer editing here and there but the instrumentation is real. I have to say this version is better than the actual version. Then someone came along remixed the real version with the orchestra in what they call “Orchestra Remix”. That means they mixed Lady Gaga’s voice with the orchestra. I have to say this guy did a really good job matching the two together.

Strange Fantastic Four music From 1994, Marvel produced a combo of two comic book series to the small screen. They formed a cartoon block named The Marvel Action Hour . One was the Iron Man cartoon and the other was Fantastic Four. The most memorable thing about the FF series was the goofy theme song from the first season. The other thing was that they had cornball Brian Austin Green play Human Torch/Johnny Storm in the first season. (Quinton Flynn replaced him in the second season. Remember, he played Raiden in the MGS games.) Fantastic Four intro By far the worst thing ever created on the show was the Human Torch Song. (He actually raps!) Who knew the Human Torch could “throw down” like that? I think I just lost a few years off my life. Brian Austin Green did the voice of the Human Torch, and it looks like he's the blame for this lame-ass rap song. BAG released a few 'rap' albums back when he was still popular . I can see him forcing them to let hi...

Melissa Joan Hart vs. Jimmy Kimmel Jimmy Kimmel mentions Melissa’s (MJH) past career on the sitcom Sabrina the Teenage Witch . It’s just a little joke, but Melissa’s reaction to it reveals that she’s a little bitter about her career. Of course, Jimmy snaps back with a clever comeback. Here’s the best part; she got the year right on the nose. She started playing Sabrina in 1996 with a TV movie that lead right into the show. To be fair to Kimmel, she’s the one showing up on Dancing with the Stars, which is basically a graveyard for careers. I like MJH because of her roles in the DCAU series, but she comes across as a little snappy here. I love the awkward moments after that little hang up. Side note: She played the villain teenage twins on Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker . (Voice acting) She even reprises her role Justice League Unlimited .

A woman offers sex for World Series and finds herself arrested for it . Wow, thank you so much Philadelphia vice squad for arresting a woman for 'prostitution'. From CBS news, ((they say the 43-year-old suburban Philadelphia woman posted an ad on the Web site Craigslist in which she described herself as a "gorgeous, tall, buxom blonde diehard Phillies fan" desperately seeking Series tickets, according to CBS station KYW-TV in Philadelphia.)) Sounds normal enough right, but wait it gets freaky. Read on, ((Price negotiable - I'm the creative type! Maybe we can help each other )) Yes, she offered her body for tickets to the big game. Here's where it gets stupid. The cops actually set up a damn sting to arrest her! ((What sealed the deal was when an undercover officer responded to the digital ad, and Finkelstein allegedly offered to perform various sex acts in exchange for the coveted tickets. Police did not say precisely what this Phill...

Bakery shop: Stupid driver drives right through the shop! I guess this woman really wanted her doughnuts, so she decided to make her own drive-thru. I like that the woman continues to step on the gas after the crash. It is also lucky that no one was standing there waiting for their cake. At least no one was hurt. Because waiting for doughnuts can be dangerous. Like what happened to this guy. Tough break there, buddy. (Crap, I didn't mean it that way.) I feel bad for him. So, what I am trying to say is "Don't go to the bakery!"

Microsoft Pulls out of Family Guy Special In a move that should baffle in the biggest MS supporter, Microsoft pulls its support from the special. Way to open up to the young minds of the demo you want to take away from Apple, MS. I find this whole move to be the most hypocritical thing Microsoft has ever pulled. The software company had “content concerns” over some of the Family Guy material. Holy crap… F rom Variety, (("We initially chose to participate in the Seth and Alex variety show based on the audience composition and creative humor of 'Family Guy,' but after reviewing an early version of the variety show, it became clear that the content was not a fit with the Windows brand," said a Microsoft spokeswoman. "We continue to have a good partnership with Fox, Seth MacFarlane and Alex Borstein and are working with them in other areas. We continue to believe in the value of brand integrations and partnerships between brands, media companies and talen...

Superman: "Bruce, what are you watching?" Batman: "Superman IV: The Quest for Peace" Superman: "I think I have Batman and Robin on my Netflix Que" Batman: "Great, I'll get the popcorn." ________________________________________________ Superman/Batman: Public Enemies Based on the Superman/Batman comic book arc of the same name, Public Enemies is fun action-packed animated movie. Despite a few flaws, this fast-paced film moves along with ease, sometimes too fast. There are some fight scenes that every comic book fan would love to see. Watching Batman and Superman fight together is truly the best part of this movie. Due to the economic downturn, Lex Luthor is able to run on a third party ticket and successfully become the President of the United States. One of Luthor’s first orders is to regulate superheroes and bring them under the rule of US government. Superman and Batman both don’t agree with this and refuse to ...

Wal-mart: Low Prices and even lower customers. Make sure to check out this video of two men going at it at local Wal-mart. Just another day at Wal-mart. Chalk this up to Ignorant black people making us all black people look bad. How about using sense and walking away from the situation? It should be know that this is one of those N-word moments that the Boondocks talks about. We need to act better than this.

A shlee Simpson loses a gig on the new Melrose Place Check it, ((CW confirms that Ashlee Simpson-Wentz and Colin Egglesfield, who play Violet and Auggie on CW's struggling "Melrose Place" remake, are being written off the show, for which we are grateful. )) Wait a second, I had no idea she even had a steady acting gig on that new show. A while back, I wondered where the hell Ashlee, Jessica Simpon's talentless sister, scuttled off to. We all know she can't sing and let alone lip-sync, but I had didn't know she had a leading role on Malrose Place. What compelled the producers to give her a role anyway given her talent record? The last things I remembered hearing about Ashlee were that she got knocked up, and she defended her sister on rumors of being overweight. From what I gather, Malrose wasn’t exactly lighting up the screen with this version on the CW. Ashlee had this to say about her “departure” ((Having the chance to play Violet on Melros...

P aul Haggis breaks away from the Space Church (Scientology) It took you long enough, Paul. However, it is good to have you among the sane. Unlike some that leave the Church of Xenu, he didn’t go quietly. Not by a long shot. He wrote a freaking letter ripping into the damn organization. And, he wrote the letter to Spin Master Tommy Davis. For those that don't know, Haggis is a famous screenwriter/director that has won many awards and has made many huge hits over the years. Besides having a kickass last name, he wrote Quantum of Solace , Crash , Million Dollar Baby , and Casino Royale . Here are a few quotes from Hollywood Reporter and Haggis’ letter. Paul was pissed with the Church’s stance on Prop 8. ((I called and wrote and implored you, as the official spokesman of the church, to condemn their actions. I told you I could not, in good conscience, be a member of an organization where gay-bashing was tolerated.)) He had enough of this. ((The church’s refusal to ...

What Boys Want (WTF) ( First Source ) ((Now we also know what she wants in her film roles: a girl who can magically read the thoughts of guys. That's the premise of "What Boys Want," the New Line project to which Gomez is now attached to star, according to a report in Variety . She'll play a teen who is gifted with the nifty ability to hear what the opposite sex really thinks but never actually says. )) It is kind of a remake to Mel Gibson' s What Women Want. The Gibson movie was very good because it did capture how women's minds worked. Shocker, women have a more complex set of thoughts and feelings. And, the movie caught that. For me, I'd spend the whole movie bedding as many women as I could, but I'm an asshole. But, I liked the first movie. It turned out to be a sweet little movie, and I hate using the word sweet. Now, this What Men Want flips it around and a 17-year-old chick can read the minds of guys. Sorry, girls, we're not tha...

Nightline's “Inside Scientology” Here is Nightline's amazing story about getting inside the church and its ideas. Well, done, Nightline. Part II Part III Space Church Spokesman Tommy Davis is pretty delusional. However, this story really rips into leader David Miscavige.

Random Thoughts ~I’ve been mildly depressed these past few days. People that know what has happened this week know what I’m talking about. I’m hopping everything will turn out okay. I don’t have religion to fall back on, but I think everything will turn out okay. ~ Polanski could see two years if he comes back to the US. I'm guessing more like 6-months to 1 year. I wonder how many Hollywood elites will be up in arms over this? You're in your 70s Roman, just give up the fight and admit you did something wrong and take the sentence. Be a man for once and stop being a coward by running away. ~True Blood: There is a young lady at work that has been reading the The Southern Vampire Mysteries and she's been enjoying them. I told her that there is a TV show based on the books True Blood. I told her how much I love the TV series. I tried to get her to admit that Southern Vampire stories were better than Twilight books. She got angry with me. If you want to piss off Twilig...

Where the Wild Things Are (This movie has nothing to do with that lesbian film with Kevin Bacon Neve Campbell , and Denise Richards .) Spike Jonze added a layer of adult issues into an otherwise children’s book. Because of this, the movie actually is geared toward adults and teenagers than say children under ten. Before gameboys, kids from my generation played in the streets and threw snowballs. Spike made an interesting choice with the design of the Wild Things. He decided to go with actors in full-body suits with hair. The cool thing about this was that he added CGI faces to the creatures. That meant the monsters had a wide range expressions and the CGI did a great displaying those emotions. You simply can’t get that range of emotion from a damn puppet. The set design needs to receive some credit as well. The set designs from the scenes really feel like they’re straight from a book. And, there is a ‘castle’ that is just amazing, and words can’t express th...

Crazy Carjacking Incident at U of L From the CJ, ((A woman was hospitalized Thursday after a University of Louisville student allegedly pushed her from her car and than dragged her while he was stealing her car, university police said. )) Then here's where it gets strange. The student that allegedly stole her Mazda 6 was supposedly an engineer student at the U of L Speed School. This guy has to be incredibly smart in order to be in Speed School. The woman, who was on her way to a religious conference, is now in the hospital. I'm not saying smart people can't do stupid crimes like carjacking, but it just seems odd to me. However, that's not the end of this story. He allegedly popped two of the wheels on the Mazda 6. He was later discovered by police hiding in an underpass. Given the area, I'm surprised he would even bother hiding there, because there are far more better places to hide. I'm not going to say he did it or not, but it just seems odd...

Iranian Guy calls a chick (and it goes down hill) I like how this goes from being a nerdy guy just wanting a booty call to just cussing Ashley out. Why did he have to bring family into it? If she was a prostitute, why are you calling her? If a girl doesn't call you back after the second call, she's just not into you. I'm 100% sure this is real, but it is damn funny as hell.

Since all my blogging folks have done one, here are the bad movies I’ve seen. 100 Whiteout (2009) 99 Glitter (2001) : Mariah Carey trying to act is just laughable. I think the girl can sing, but she can’t act. Avoid this movie. 98 Cheaper By the Dozen 2 (2005) 97 Boat Trip (2003) : Crap on a boat. Crap and crap. 96 All About Steve (2009) 95 Lost Souls (2000) 94 The New Guy (2002) : Dumb as movie with no real plot even for a comedy. 93 A Sound of Thunder (2005) 92 Babylon A.D. (2008) : I liked it when it better when it was called Children of Men . This is the Fast and Furious version of Children of Men. 91 Surviving Christmas (2004) 90 Dragonfly (2002) 89 Basic Instinct 2 (2006) : This movie is an embarrassment to all involved. Plus, you get to see Sharon Stone naked even though we don’t want to. There was no reason for this movie 88 Kaena: The Prophecy (2004) 87 Testosterone (2003) 86 Pavilion of Women (2001) 85 Larry the Cable Guy: ...

Photo-shopped Failed! ______________________________ The Ralph Lauren and that creepy Filippa Hamilton photo Ralph Lauren, I’m pissed off at you. From telegraph , ((Filippa Hamilton, a former Ralph Lauren model whose body was digitally altered to appear thinner in an advertisment for the brand, has claimed that the company did not renew her contract because she was "too large.")) Model Filippa Hamilton found out that her services were no longer needed at Ralph Lauren after the whole photo-shop-gate. Here's where it gets a little creepy. RL release a photo that they severely altered in a Tokyo Mall. The promotional photo makes Hamilton look like either Plastic Man or Mr. Fantastic. I mean it looks down right cartoony. Who were they going to trick with this photo? This goes into something deeper with the fashion and modeling industry. It is their force-feeding the public an image of ‘their’ prefect woman. In no way is this lovely woman too big for modeling...

Bill Murray doesn't like McG ( Source The Movie Blog ) There's been many stories of Murray behaving not in a becoming manner, and some of them are infamous. The biggest one I can think of was his time during filming the first Charlie's Angels film. He got into a fight of some kind with Lucy Liu. Then, there was the report of director McG claiming the Ghostbuster headbutted him. Maybe McG is confused. Headbutting is the Klingon way of greeting people. Perhaps, Bill was just doing that with McG. Bill had this to say about the head incident. From Digital Spy . (("That's bulls**t! That's complete crap!" said Murray in an interview with The Times . "I don't know why he made that story up. He has a very active imagination." The actor continued: "No! He deserves to die. He should be pierced with a lance, not headbutted.")) Some people would say McG doesn't have an active imagination if you look at some of his movies. Murr...