The second podcast is up, simply click the link below. We've cut it down to about 30 minutes and now have segments! In this episode we discuss having doppelgangers that are more successful than ourselves, what pissed me off this past week and what crappy movie Joey saw over the weekend (it rhymes with Fast and Furious).
Enjoy,
Matt
mattmorales.com/audio/podcast_4_6_09.mp3
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All yall,
I've started a podcast with local comedians Sean Kean, Kevin O'Shea and Joey Devine. Our first podcast features many topics that are important to national security today, including Kippendorf's Tribe, Kamau not baking Matt a sweet potato pie, local comedy news and the rapey-ness of moustaches.
Enjoy!
mattmorales.com/audio/podcast1.mp3
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As part of their awesome morning show. Thanks to Al and Casey. Here's the link http://www.nerdnetworks.org/pcr/MorningShow-20090327.mp3. My segment is at the end but be sure to listen to the whole thing, Al and Casey do a great job and you won't want to miss Chad Lehrman, Jeff Cleary, Howard Stone, Tony Sparks and Joe Bartnick!
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I'd like to take a moment to post a movie review. Not for Watchmen, which is what you would assume, correct? No, I'd like to review a movie that I just watched on my laptop (thanks, Netflix) from the good souls down at Troma called Terror Firmer.
If you don't know already know who Troma is, well, then you probably won't like them when you find out. They make garbage. Period. Their movies are filled with bad jokes, terrible acting, nudity, sex (consentual and non-consentual) and lots of gore. And somehow, it sometimes comes out great. Troma's most well known hit is the Toxic Avenger and that stil remains my favorite Troma movie, but I must say Terror Firmer makes a close second, possibly tied with Class of Nukem High.
Terror Firmer is the story of, get this, the making of a Troma movie. That's right, it's a movie-within-a-movie! Now, most respectful movie hounds will cringe at such a plot because it is far too played out and completely lacks creativity. But lets remember, this is a Troma film, so the point is to make trash. So why not use the trashiest plot device around? And it works so well, way better here than in other movies trying to be credible with such a lousy premise. Throw in Lloyd Kauffman essentially playing himself as the director (except blind and prone to peeing on people), a band of misfits who work on the set and a serial killer who picks off members of the crew one by one and presto! Instant carnage.
Look, I'm not going to try and lead you astray with this one. People vomit in each other's mouths, eat feces, have their members pulled off, masturbate with pickles, get impaled, and run around New York City with no clothes on (specifically a 300lb dude). Its sick and disgusting and is neither a comedy nor a horror film because those two genres imply some sort of artistic vision and this obvioulsy has none (despite the director always calling on his crew to "make art!"). But in the end you can't help thinking about it. I find myself coming back to the use of forshadowing (yes an actual literary device) to signal how the killer would be caught and being impressed by its use. Maybe, just maybe there was something artistic in there after all?
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I'm pretty excited about Watchmen even though I know I shouldn't be. It's easily the greatest comic book ever made and deserves the recognition of a feature film but, lets be honest, it was never meant to be brought outside the medium of comics. You see, the reason why Watchmen is the greatest comic book ever is because it specifically utilizes the comic book medium to its maximum potential and then goes beyond it. Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons were not trying to make a good novel or screenplay, they were there to make a good comic book. And by tackling the project as such they managed to tear the genre apart, stretching it to places it had never been before. Therefore, a movie based on the book doesn't really add up; this was not a story meant to be told on a screen.
With that being said, I still want to see it. Badly. Why? Because I love those characters and I'm interested to see Zach Snyder's interpretation of it. Because as a fan it's exciting to see the two dimensional figures from almost 25 years ago come to life. And also, when done correctly, some of the greatest comic book stories make for some awesome movies. Batman Begins was heavily based on Frank Miller's Batman: Year One and it was fantastic (granted, Miller always wrote/drew in a style closer to film than Moore). So with that being said I'm anxious to check it out.
In case you're wondering, for those of you who are new or unexperienced to comics, my top three graphic novels are:
1. Watchmen
2. The Dark Night Returns
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FYI - if anybody plans on being back in the New Orleans Area for the Holidays I'll be around from the 20th - 25th, leaving bright and early on the 26th.
- Slidel Matt
Dec. 18th, 2008 @ 04:24 pm
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| » The Worst Music I've Ever Heard |
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I don't know how this happened.
I've been into music since I was a little kid and I've watched what is popular change oh-so-quickly (and sometimes not quickly enough). I remember grunge coming and going, nu-metal rising and falling, boy bands joining and dis-banding and the Spice Girls doing whatever it is they did.
So what's going on with music right now that is driving me crazy? Chances are it's not what you think. Could it be the vocoder / auto-tune frenzy that's happening in hip hop? Not really, I think its and odd choice for rappers considering Cher had the first overblown auto-tune hit years ago
and since rap is always innovating I don't see it being played out for longer than a year (unless Kanye's record sales pick up, of course).
Well, if it's not vocoder rap then what about Britney Spears? Surely her returning to music after we all thought she was finally gone for good must be maddening. Not really. I almost prefer having us recycle old garbage than hiring new people to do the same shit (Miley Cyrus and yes, Rhianna. Sorry, she sucks).
Ok ok, how about nu-metal's turn to pop? Eh, big surprise. I never liked Linkin Park anyway.
No, my beef right now is for this new ungodly vanilla, tapered-leg-pant-wearing, whiter-than-white hipster crapola that started with Modest Mouse and Coldplay and was recently celebrated at live 105's Not So Silent Night with The Killers, Bloc Party, Death Cab for Cutie, Franz Ferdinand and Jacks Mannequin (a lineup worth of killing yourself to). I'm at a loss as to why this music is popular. It doesn't groove, the vocals are lousy and often out of tune. It lacks any sort of soul. If you haven't heard these bands the best way I can describe them is take a bunch of white people at birth, drop them on an island isolated from any musical influence (this is important, any hint of the blues or jazz or anything done by sombody of color will ruin the experiment), give them a drum machine and some Korg keyboards and just witness the horror of pure, unadulterated whiteness.
And somehow the shit is flying off the shelves. Why? If you like metal, you'll hate this because its too soft. If you like rap you'll hate this because it doesn't groove. If you like country you'll hate this because it's weird and is over-synthesized. If you like dance you'll hate this because, despite the drum machine, you can't dance to it. If you like blues or jazz you'll really hate it because it has a linear rythm that goes no where and has no peaks or valleys. WHO IS LISTENING TO THIS? AUUUUGHHGHGHHGHGHGHGHG.
- Matt
Dec. 18th, 2008 @ 09:11 am
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| » People love RUN AMOK! |
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Here's just a few things that have been said about Run Amok:
"Fucking Metal!"
- Laurent Martini
"You guys don't suck at all!"
- Ben Feldman
"dude i like this music alot hell ya "
- Nick Casiopo
"I'm pretty impressed... nice riffage"
- othomas2
"It makes my ears bleed. IS that a good thing?"
- MoreCowbell
"it makes me want to smoke pot and drive really fast"
- Robert (OG)
"Me too"
- Aen (in reference to Robert)
If you haven't listened to the mp3's or added us yet, go to myspace.com/runamokrocks right now!
EVERYBODY RUN!
- Matt
Dec. 9th, 2008 @ 02:25 pm
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| » Fuck The Police |
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So my new place of work generally holds large meetings in their banquet room and today we're having the prestigious "Regents" here, which for some reason means there are lots of cops around. That's fine with me, I have nothing against cops, but one of them gave me shit when I tried to walk into the building through the normal entrance.
Tiny Cop: Hey, where do you think you're going?
MaMo: To Work?
Tiny Cop: (angrily) Not through here, you gotta use the side door (five feet away).
Fuck you you piece of shit, I work here. Don't talk to me like I'm a criminal at 8 in the morning, it was obvious where I was going. "Where am I going? To shoot the members of the board of supervisors and then blow up the building of course. I always dress in buisness casual and wear a name tag on a bright orange lanyard when I'm practicing domestic terrorism."
Suck a dick, eat my shit and tell the Regents to do their job properly so maybe they don't need two dozen cops to protect them.
Happy hump day,
Mamo
Nov. 19th, 2008 @ 08:15 am
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