What would you do?
That young guy punched him first.
Little coward like yourself would probably do nothing.
Or, you’d be the thug instigating the situation.

I’m amazed that there’s someone (you) trying to justify the young dude.

I was actually thinking of her too, but i think shes too old.

Thanks for the headshots. This is going to be great.

What about poor little Rickon?

Admittedly, I cringed when I read that Mark Addy was playing Robert Baratheon as I always pictured Brian Blessed when reading GoT.
But thinking it over, he might actually pull it off as he seems to be taking more serious rolls these days.

I don’t see any problem with the Lannister twins, they are just as I pictured them.

Just checked IMDb again and see Brian Thompson has been added but doesn’t stated who he’s playing. Maybe Gregor Clegane at the tourney perhaps?

As for Brienne, hmmm…
Missy Pyle from Dodgeball comes to mind. lol

P.tM is runner up for “P”, behind Phantogram.

…ryan

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…ryan

The answer seems to be DELGO! But you have to admit, before the film came out and you had hindsight in your favor, the AVATAR trailer looked a little suspect. Or do you deny this?

…ryan

Same thing for Cersei–I was confused at first by Lena Headley, but put a blond wig on her, and she has that icy arrogance down. She can also play crazy really well, and Cersei is certifiable in my opinion.

I’m also thrilled about Maisie as Arya. PERFECT casting. She’s definitely not a “horseface,” but there’s something wickedly precocious about her, and she’s not classically beautiful. I can totally buy her as Arya.

Also love Alfie Allen as Theon. Alfie was born to smirk, and that’s all Theon is.

FANTASTIC casting. Mark Addy is my one question mark, but considering how well the producers picked everyone else (all the way down to Maester Luwin), I’m going to trust them on this one.

Is it possible that the Mp3s for Raekwon and Real Estate are backwards?

I like the V.

Speaking of Y, thanks for not picking the Yeah Yeah Yeah’s.

Is Raekwon really considered indie?

And your “V” graphic needs a little work.

153. Pioneers! O Pioneers!

tj is my hero

nice call

*(assuming the series are sucsessfull enough to get enough seasons)

Yes, a good idea. I will break them apart once the pilot is picked up. That way I can more easily keep it updated.

Thanks!

…ryan

- When you are that obvious, you go to hell.

(if anybody needs me, I will be in the purgatory,)

For we cannot tarry here,
We must march my darlings, we must bear the brunt of danger,
We, the youthful sinewy races, all the rest on us depend, Pioneers! O pioneers!

O you youths, western youths,
So impatient, full of action, full of manly pride and friendship,
Plain I see you, western youths, see you tramping with the foremost, Pioneers! O
pioneers!

Have the elder races halted?
Do they droop and end their lesson, wearied, over there beyond the seas?
We take up the task eternal, and the burden, and the lesson, Pioneers! O pioneers!

All the past we leave behind;
We debouch upon a newer, mightier world, varied world,
Fresh and strong the world we seize, world of labor and the march, Pioneers! O pioneers!

We detachments steady throwing,
Down the edges, through the passes, up the mountains steep,
Conquering, holding, daring, venturing, as we go, the unknown ways, Pioneers! O pioneers!

We primeval forests felling,
We the rivers stemming, vexing we, and piercing deep the mines within;
We the surface broad surveying, we the virgin soil upheaving, Pioneers! O pioneers!

Colorado men are we,
From the peaks gigantic, from the great sierras and the high plateaus,
From the mine and from the gully, from the hunting trail we come, Pioneers! O pioneers!

From Nebraska, from Arkansas,
Central inland race are we, from Missouri, with the continental blood intervein’d;
All the hands of comrades clasping, all the Southern, all the Northern, Pioneers! O
pioneers!

O resistless, restless race!
O beloved race in all! O my breast aches with tender love for all!
O I mourn and yet exult—I am rapt with love for all, Pioneers! O pioneers!

Raise the mighty mother mistress,
Waving high the delicate mistress, over all the starry mistress, (bend your heads all,)
Raise the fang’d and warlike mistress, stern, impassive, weapon’d mistress, Pioneers! O
pioneers!

See, my children, resolute children,
By those swarms upon our rear, we must never yield or falter,
Ages back in ghostly millions, frowning there behind us urging, Pioneers! O pioneers!

On and on, the compact ranks,
With accessions ever waiting, with the places of the dead quickly fill’d,
Through the battle, through defeat, moving yet and never stopping, Pioneers! O pioneers!

O to die advancing on!
Are there some of us to droop and die? has the hour come?
Then upon the march we fittest die, soon and sure the gap is fill’d, Pioneers! O
pioneers!

All the pulses of the world,
Falling in, they beat for us, with the western movement beat;
Holding single or together, steady moving, to the front, all for us, Pioneers! O
pioneers!

Life’s involv’d and varied pageants,
All the forms and shows, all the workmen at their work,
All the seamen and the landsmen, all the masters with their slaves, Pioneers! O pioneers!

All the hapless silent lovers,
All the prisoners in the prisons, all the righteous and the wicked,
All the joyous, all the sorrowing, all the living, all the dying, Pioneers! O pioneers!

I too with my soul and body,
We, a curious trio, picking, wandering on our way,
Through these shores, amid the shadows, with the apparitions pressing, Pioneers! O
pioneers!

Lo! the darting bowling orb!
Lo! the brother orbs around! all the clustering suns and planets,
All the dazzling days, all the mystic nights with dreams, Pioneers! O pioneers!

These are of us, they are with us,
All for primal needed work, while the followers there in embryo wait behind,
We to-day’s procession heading, we the route for travel clearing, Pioneers! O pioneers!

O you daughters of the west!
O you young and elder daughters! O you mothers and you wives!
Never must you be divided, in our ranks you move united, Pioneers! O pioneers!

Minstrels latent on the prairies!
(Shrouded bards of other lands! you may sleep—you have done your work;)
Soon I hear you coming warbling, soon you rise and tramp amid us, Pioneers! O pioneers!

Not for delectations sweet;
Not the cushion and the slipper, not the peaceful and the studious;
Not the riches safe and palling, not for us the tame enjoyment, Pioneers! O pioneers!

Do the feasters gluttonous feast?
Do the corpulent sleepers sleep? have they lock’d and bolted doors?
Still be ours the diet hard, and the blanket on the ground, Pioneers! O pioneers!

Has the night descended?
Was the road of late so toilsome? did we stop discouraged, nodding on our way?
Yet a passing hour I yield you, in your tracks to pause oblivious, Pioneers! O pioneers!

Till with sound of trumpet,
Far, far off the day-break call—hark! how loud and clear I hear it wind;
Swift! to the head of the army!—swift! spring to your places, Pioneers! O pioneers.

I will actually pay for HBO if I must, just to see this series.

Sometimes an actor is one character in a pilot, then re-cast as a different character when that show goes to series.

Just sayin’.

…ryan

As for the age thing, I think they can probably do that too. There are very few physical features that can’t be faked impressively well. (Height is one that can only be fudged to a limited degree.)

What we should be speculating about is how well these actors will play their parts. I’m not familiar with all of them (some, of course, are newcomers, especially quite a few of the children) but I’m thrilled with several of the choices. As for the unknowns (and the unknown-to-mes), I have faith in HBO based on the casting for previous miniseries. They don’t need to get the most famous actors, the Brad Pitts and the Catherine Zeta-Joneses, to put together a brilliant cast.

[warning:spoilers below]
As long as we’re discussing how the actors look in these photos, though, I think Jennifer Ehle looks way too perky for Catelyn, with that smile! Catelyn’s all melancholy: she’s always grieving over this, that, or the other. If she ever smiles in the entire series, it’s probably fake. (And let’s not forget, Ehle will have to be able to morph into Zombie!Catelyn, if — as I hope — this is successful enough to breed multiple sequels.)

Peter Dinklage… best choice ever!!! As well as Sean Bean, Lena Headey and Jennifer Ehle. I don’t like Alfie as Theon and Nikolaj as Jaime… but we’ll just have to see how they play the part.
Cant wait for the pilot to be released!

So why is it the other way around?

Thanks for posting the review. Hope I get a chance to see them live myself sometime.

*singing* One of these posters is not like the others. One of these posters just doesn’t belong.

…ryan

The dude for Sandor Clegane looks awesome for the part.

Dawn, I totally feel you on the Sean Bean/Ned thing.

I can live with the Lannister twins not looking too much alike, but I agree that this Jaime doesn’t look “pretty” enough. Personally I like to picture Jesse Spencer, but that might just be my inner House nerd talking. Cersei should be a good, meaty role for Lena Headey, in any case.

…. apologies to Milton Glaser.

Number 5 alive! No disassemble! No make dead!

Amazing movie.

(Is it me or does Jack Gleeson look a little like Geddy Lee’s unclaimed son?)

I’m surprised more sites didn’t use these headshots.

That really depends on which Theon we’re talking about here. I like this one.

…ryan

Coming soon: Game of Thrones on HBO.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0944947/

Time to get the lawyers involved!

http://fedsmixedtape.blogspot.com/

http://d-kitchen.com/projects/True-Blood-Main-Title

http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?zadnl2tyod1

they are coming over to my small town of london next month, and playing a venue called “the social”, where i have been a few times – it is absolutely tiny, it’s like an oversized corridor. 150-200 people at a push – it’s heartbreaking.

Sorry, but management wanted them down. I thought I could get away with it for a little bit. Album isn’t out until July, so they felt it was a little early for Mp3’s to be floating around.

The band did, however, post one of the two songs I had up here, “People Say,” onto their MySpacepage.

http://www.myspace.com/portugaltheman

I’ll get songs up here as soon as I get the green light, I promise.

…ryan

BTW, have you seen this? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iAaX8Aq6smQ

…ryan

“AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!”

ohoi! //
Vidar

I love the one you’ve shown here.

…ryan

she is adorable! i hope all is well.

-meg

i agree, my friend and i both marveled at chris bear’s drumming. it’s very defining of the band’s sound. well many things are.

however, the songs i listed as boring just didn’t move me, that’s what i’m saying. i fully understand how someone else may have loved the show, but what can i say?

BY THE WAY, the more i reflect upon the show, the more i like it, isn’t that funny?

excited for veckatimest…

…ryan

p.s. you forgot to list easier and deep blue sea. where do you place those ones? i thought both of them were GREAT.

EPIC:
Central and Remote
He Hit Me
While You Wait for the Others
Reprise
Two Weeks
Colorado
Campfire
Ready, Able

GREAT:
Dory
Plans

GOOD:
Foreground

I agree that Daniel Rossen stole the show, however, I thought that Ed’s vocals were possibly the best I’ve heard live. Period. Grizzly Bear’s music is full of nuanced vocal layering and the guys managed to capture and expand upon that with the assistance of the effects on his mic and with the addition of the arrangements (the horn section in particular floated my boat) by the Always-Great Nico Muhly. BAM’s refined and flawless acoustics, rich history, and the phenomenally respectful and attentive audience added to the overwhelming specialness of the performance. Chris Bear never seems to get enough credit, and I just wanted to say how fantastic he was last night. He and Daniel had a very special give-and-take throughout the show and in their records, something that was very interesting to see live.

May 26th. Veckatimest. Brooklyn waits with bated breath.

…ryan

The other half, as I listed in my top 5 later this afternoon, I found to be gorgeous and at times spine tingling. So yeah, not a failing grade by any means, but everything seemed so dang reserved and tense on stage, didn’t you feel that? In no particular order…

GREAT:
easier
central and remote
ready, able
two weeks
colorado
deep blue sea

OK:
plans
he hit me

BORING:
reprise
campfire
dorys
while you wait for the others
foreground

That’s my story and I’m sticking to it.

…ryan

Iit’s totally cool if you didn’t love it, but I had shivers.

That said, I will say my friends in other seats had TOTALLY different sonic experience. Very strange how different areas of that space sound so different.

I think maybe if I was a new Grizzly Bear fan and not familiar of their work or seen them a bunch I might have been confused as this was definitely not the “crowd pleaser” set, as they didn’t play things like Knife, but for me this was a really dense magical awesome time and the vocals were GLORIOUS

Totally respect your review even though yOU IZ WRONG

…ryan

I stand by my 50% elevator music opinion, however, whether it offends Grizzly Bear’s three biggest fans or not.

And a side-note, this was my first Grizzly Bear concert, so I was not aware which songs they never played before, and which they have stricken from their set-lists. Cut me some slack.

…ryan

My points may not have made sense to you, but Jonny Greenwood does his own arrangements, Grizzly Bear, last night, did not. And to me, it showed. How does that not make sense?

Maybe next time you can see the show for yourself, and then post some educated rebuttals, instead of blind fan-boy garbage.

…ryan

And I’m not bashing you because you gave them a bad review, we all have freedom of speech. Your points just didn’t make sense and it seemed like you were basically just comparing them to someone that they aren’t even in the same category as. And the gay comment was just a little off-putting. It just wasn’t a well-written review of a concert, that’s all. Sorry.

Try going out more often and not be such a psychotic fanbot. Ryan’s comment was a fair and knowledgeable. Maybe not down to every psycho detail, but Im pretty sure he doesn’t suffer from obsessive grizzly disorder. You should spend your days on yelp.com bashing everything that isn’t perfect in your indie utopia and get the fuck of Ryan’s blog…

-vince (my real name)

You forgot the hyphen in “well-written”.

Life’s little ironies.

…ryan

P.S. Sorry we didn’t get to enjoy the concert together, maybe next time you can save up and fly out and we can be concert buddies.

So what you guys are saying basically, is that I’m a homophobic asshole who only likes to watch Radiohead live. I also apparently have no right paying $100+ to support a band and see their show, simply because I’m not the world’s single biggest Grizzly Bear Fan. Oh, and also my misspelling of someone’s name, and lack of an eidetic set-list memory means I am unqualified to appreciate music.

Got it.

And here I thought I was just a guy with a blog who thought last night’s show was okay and not pure perfection. My bad.

I WILL, however, apologize for my Ed Droste comment, but not because I said he was gay (who cares if he is or not?). I just realized that the original song title WAS, in fact, “He Hit Me (And It Felt Like a Kiss)”. Totally my bad, and my apologies to any of you if my human presumptions gave offense. My comment was truly benign.

Okay, I have to get back to my all-day shuffle session of Radiohead’s entire catalog. It’s going to be so sweet.

…ryan

And I couldn’t disagree with you more about Rossen/’Deep Blue Sea’. Reverb drenched or not, Droste’s voice was astounding, and he stole the show. (And he didn’t re-title the Crystals song – it was always “He Hit Me (and it felt like a kiss)”).

I apologize for the snarkiness.

great going there.

and it’s JONNY greenwood. no “h.” since you love namedropping him so much.

sad that you didn’t enjoy it. sure, not top 5 concert, but wow some of this was really once in a lifetime experience. central and remote and reprise live? come on now.

Simmons’ work is interesting, but I agree with Nia. Although there is a slight similarity in style, Walker’s message carries much more weight.

HOW WOULD YOU DESCRIBE YOURSELF? “Lonely-Tom Waits”

WHAT DO YOU LOOK FOR IN A GUY/GIRL? “Absolutely Cuckoo-The Magnetic Fields”

HOW DO YOU FEEL TODAY? “Gobbledigook-Sigur Ros”

WHAT IS YOUR LIFE’S PURPOSE? “Red Tape-The Circle Jerks”

WHAT’S YOUR MOTTO? “Hang On- Dr Dog”

WHAT DO YOUR FRIENDS THINK OF YOU? “It’s Summertime-The Flaming Lips”

WHAT DO YOUR PARENTS THINK OF YOU? “Somebody’s Gotta Do It-The Roots”

WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT VERY OFTEN? “2:45 A.M-Elliot Smith”

WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT YOUR FIRST KISS? “A Century Of Fakers-Belle & Sebastian”

WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR BEST FRIEND? “Grey Gardens-Rufus Wainwright”

WHAT IS YOUR LIFE STORY? “Red Steady Go!-The International Noise Conspiracy”

WHAT DO YOU WANT TO BE WHEN YOU GROW UP? “Soul Meets Body-Death Cab For Cutie”

WHAT DO YOU THINK WHEN YOU SEE THE PERSON YOU LIKE? “Down Like Me-Ken Stringfellow”

WHAT WILL YOU DANCE TO AT YOUR WEDDING? “A Simple Desultory Philippic-Simon and Garfunkel”

WHAT WILL THEY PLAY AT YOUR FUNERAL? “Virginia Avenue-Tom Waits”

WHAT IS YOUR HOBBY/INTEREST? “Before Hollywood-The Go-Betweens”

WHAT IS YOUR BIGGEST FEAR? “Are You On My Side-Rogue Wave”

WHAT IS YOUR BIGGEST SECRET? “Obstacle 2-Interpol”

WHAT DO YOU WANT RIGHT NOW? “(Nice Dream)-Radiohead”

WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR FRIENDS? “The Wanderer-Johnny Cash”

WHAT WILL YOU POST THIS AS? “In Particular-Blonde Redhead”

HOW WOULD YOU DESCRIBE YOURSELF? STILL IN MY CORNER

WHAT DO YOU LOOK FOR IN A GUY/GIRL? ONE WAY WIDOW

HOW DO YOU FEEL TODAY? GET A FUCKING HAIRCUT

WHAT IS YOUR LIFE’S PURPOSE? BEL AIR

WHAT’S YOUR MOTTO? WE ONLY COME OUT AT NIGHT

WHAT DO YOUR FRIENDS THINK OF YOU? W32.MYDOOM.AU@MM

WHAT DO YOUR PARENTS THINK OF YOU? FROM THE COAST

WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT VERY OFTEN? ILS

WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT YOUR FIRST KISS? I GOT SPEED

WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR BEST FRIEND? PARK IT IN THE SHADE(AUDIO AIN’T GO NO FRIENDS MIX)

WHAT IS YOUR LIFE STORY? TAKE YOUR TIME

WHAT DO YOU WANT TO BE WHEN YOU GROW UP? MELODY DAY

WHAT DO YOU THINK WHEN YOU SEE THE PERSON YOU LIKE? WHAT IT’S ALL ABOUT

WHAT WILL YOU DANCE TO AT YOUR WEDDING? CANDY CASTLE

WHAT WILL THEY PLAY AT YOUR FUNERAL? THA CROSSROADS

WHAT IS YOUR HOBBY/INTEREST? ANDREAN SAND DUNES

WHAT IS YOUR BIGGEST FEAR? CRIMSON AND CLOVER

WHAT IS YOUR BIGGEST SECRET? WAITING ROOM

WHAT DO YOU WANT RIGHT NOW? AD CAMPAIGNS

WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR FRIENDS? NOT A GUN

WHAT WILL YOU POST THIS AS? HAPPY HOUSE

HOW WOULD YOU DESCRIBE YOURSELF?
“Hello” Oasis

WHAT DO YOU LOOK FOR IN A GUY/GIRL?
“Nerves” Sahara Hotnights

HOW DO YOU FEEL TODAY?
“Elle s’en va” Camille

WHAT IS YOUR LIFE’S PURPOSE?
“Shaking Paper” Cat Power

WHAT’S YOUR MOTTO?
“Lets Spend The Night Together” David Bowie

WHAT DO YOUR FRIENDS THINK OF YOU?
“極楽寺ハートブレイク” ASIAN KUNG-FU GENERATION

WHAT DO YOUR PARENTS THINK OF YOU?
“Transcendental Suicide” The Soundtrack Of Our Lives

WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT VERY OFTEN?
“Visions Of Johanna” Bob Dylan

WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT YOUR FIRST KISS?
“Sunset Soon Forgotten” Iron & Wine

WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR BEST FRIEND?
“Sunday Sun” Beck

WHAT IS YOUR LIFE STORY?
“わたしを返して” 小谷美紗子

WHAT DO YOU WANT TO BE WHEN YOU GROW UP?
“Subterranean Homesick Alien” Radiohead

WHAT DO YOU THINK WHEN YOU SEE THE PERSON YOU LIKE?
“I Will (No Man’s Land)” Radiohead

WHAT WILL YOU DANCE TO AT YOUR WEDDING?
“Let’s Summer Sail” Takagi Masakatsu

WHAT WILL THEY PLAY AT YOUR FUNERAL?
“Rose Parade” Elliott Smith

WHAT IS YOUR HOBBY/INTEREST?
“Je ne suis pas ta chose” Camille

WHAT IS YOUR BIGGEST FEAR?
“MECONOPSIS” Hiroshi Fujiwara

WHAT IS YOUR BIGGEST SECRET?
“Disorder” Joy Division

WHAT DO YOU WANT RIGHT NOW?
“uter 2″ Takagi Masakatsu

WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR FRIENDS?
“いろは” スピッツ

WHAT WILL YOU POST THIS AS?
“She’s Leaving Home” The Beatles

How would you describe yourself?
Rodrigo: Concierto De Aranjuez

What do you look for in a guy/girl?
Himura Kenshin

How do you feel today?
Where This Love Goes

What is your life’s purpose?
Nightclubbing

What’s your motto?
You Don’t Love Me (No, No, No)

What do your friends think of you?
Heartless

What do your parents think of you?
Mistaken I.D.

What do you think about very often?
Clarke: Trumpet Voluntary

What do you think about your first kiss?
Give’er

What do you think of your best friend?
Are You Awake

What is your life story?
Handel: Sarabande

What do you want to be when you grow up?
Les Barricades Mysterious

What do you think when you see the person you like?
Grieg: Piano Concerto In a Minot

What will you dance to at your wedding?
Just Forget

What will they play at your funeral?
Mary Jane

What is your hobby/interest?
Track 36

What is your biggest fear?
PLaya’s Only

What is your biggest secret?
Pilots

What do you want right now?
Billie Jean

What do you think of your friends?
Foxey Lady

What will you post this as?
Typewriter, Tip, Tip, Tip

How would you describe yourself?
“California One Youth and Beauty Brigade” The Decemberists

What do you look for in a guy/girl?
“Strange Attraction” The Cure

How do you feel today?
“Ride My Llama” Neil Young & Crazy Horse

What is your life’s purpose?
“It’s My Job To Keep Punk Rock Alive” NOFX

What’s your motto?
“Look Over Your Shoulder” Dinosaur Jr

What do your friends think of you?
“Hell Awaits” Slayer

What do your parents think of you?
“Burnin’ and Lootn” The Wailers

What do you think about very often?
“Another Perfect Day” American Hi-Fi

What do you think about your first kiss?
“Idioteque (Live)” Radiohead

What do you think of your best friend?
“There For You” Flyleaf

What is your life story?
“The Past and Pending” The Shins

What do you want to be when you grow up?
“Slow Dancing” Willie Nelson & U2

What do you think when you see the person you like?
“The Insanity” Red Animal War

What will you dance to at your wedding?
“Surfin’ Safar” The Beach Boys

What will they play at your funeral?
“Handy Man” James Taylor

What is your hobby/interest?
“Busting Brothels” Black Black Ocean

What is your biggest fear?
“The Prisoner” The Clash

What is your biggest secret?
“Quiet Houses” Fleet Foxes”

What do you want right now?
“God is in the Radio” Queens of the Stone Age

What do you think of your friends?
“Now You’re Mine” Mix Master Mike

What will you post this as?
“Pretty Girl From Cedar Lane” The Avett Brothers

HOW WOULD YOU DESCRIBE YOURSELF?
“Lucky Dime” Calexico

WHAT DO YOU LOOK FOR IN A GUY/GIRL?
“Lost Boys” Shearwater

HOW DO YOU FEEL TODAY?
“Grown in California” Idaho

WHAT IS YOUR LIFE’S PURPOSE?
“A Single Wish” This Mortal Coil

WHAT’S YOUR MOTTO?
“En Gång I År Kom Det En Tår” Dungen

WHAT DO YOUR FRIENDS THINK OF YOU?
“E-Type Joe” Tindersticks

WHAT DO YOUR PARENTS THINK OF YOU?
“Keep it Hid” Dan Auerbach

WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT VERY OFTEN?
“Melodies From Mars” Aphex Twin

WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT YOUR FIRST KISS?
“The Transaction” The Sea and Cake”

WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR BEST FRIEND?
“When You Say Love” Over the Rhine

WHAT IS YOUR LIFE STORY?
“Obstacle 1″ Interpol

WHAT DO YOU WANT TO BE WHEN YOU GROW UP?
“Disconnected” Idlewild

WHAT DO YOU THINK WHEN YOU SEE THE PERSON YOU LIKE?
“Seasons of Illusions” Ladytron

WHAT WILL YOU DANCE TO AT YOUR WEDDING?
“Wishes for Kisses” The Rosebuds

WHAT WILL THEY PLAY AT YOUR FUNERAL?
“Cellar Door” Michael Andrews

WHAT IS YOUR HOBBY/INTEREST?
“Save Your Scissors” City and Colour

WHAT IS YOUR BIGGEST FEAR?
“Tensile” Idaho

WHAT IS YOUR BIGGEST SECRET?
“Lonely Old Lies” Neko Case

WHAT DO YOU WANT RIGHT NOW?
“Panther Dash” The Go! Team

WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR FRIENDS?
“There is a Light” Great Lake Swimmers

WHAT WILL YOU POST THIS AS?
“Lines” Tapes ‘n Tapes

…ryan

…ryan

http://www.pbs.org/art21/artists/walker/index.html

Seems a pretty benign, and truthful statement.

…ryan

…ryan

go get ‘em,
….k.

best…

tim

enjoy.

The Uglysuit-S/T has been my favorite album of 2008 so glad to see it make your list. Very recommended!

Department of Eagles and Dr. Dog would have been a tough decision for D’s, as well as Bon Iver or Blitzen Trapper for B’s, The Walkmen or Wolf Parade for W’s. It must have been a tough list to build.

Thanks!

my friend told me: “dude, you have to read this book, it’s about a house that is wider on the inside than it is on the outside!”

he was right, and i highly recommend it. i recommend red house painters even more though.

…ryan

THE TROGS

Time has brought forth, the offspring of our schism
Reason divorced from Spirit, breeds alone in this world
Overcome with selfish indulgence, he slew his softer half
Goodness is now greed, and beauty is now power
Lost is the conscience on the road to prosperity
Oh! that you could see where your unfaithfulness carries!
Devolving your posterity in to creatures of darkness
Youth raised on vices where virtues once nurtured
Ties that once comforted now severed and broken
Enslaved to the urges of the flesh and the mind
Stand the offspring of Reason that the Spirit knows not

Golems of darkness impervious to the light
Overcome by the machinations of reason so cold
Ravaging earth’s plenty, mindless locusts thus feed
Gone is restraint, in spite of its need
In desperation some cry, “Where is my Spirit!
No more of this Reason for Reason is not enough!”
Grace then arrives to the soul that has quickened

La tierra comun

I also don’t trust Wickes Furniture by association of its name.

XO,
Viv

What a doll!!! Grace is such a cutie in her Holloween Penguin
suit.

How could you ever say no to those beatiful big brown eyes of hers. Grace has certainly grown up to be such an adorable little
girl.

With all that hair, I see pig tails in the future and I love the dimples.

Have a happy and safe Holloween and say Happy Birthday To Scout.

Patty

well, he was the first coach to beat 32 different nfl teams. first black coach to win a superbowl. and one of the winningest active coaches in the league.

what’s not good about that?

…ryan

Pete Rock… Hells yes.

Dre… Ehhhhhh… Maybe. But he does get bonus points for being the producer of Supersonic. Summanummaleemmanummasummanumma yeeeeeeeah.

Premier… “Ya’ll thought this shit was over with?” And Come Clean = pure awesomicity.

Rza… None higher.

http://maready.squarespace.com/blog/2008/1/14/why-i-will-never-eat-at-taco-bell.html

“DJ Spooky’s Rebirth of a Nation is a film project based on a remix of D.W. Griffith’s infamous 1915 film Birth of a Nation.”

normal people see a monkey dressed as famous people look simply cute and funny.
do you seriously consider a chimpangee dressed as President Bush is demonstration of racism?

btw, this monkey is a mascot of e-mobile.
s/he appears in every commertial of e-mobile.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=1zKWSZAiXZc

I appreciate the pride, but two things.

First. It might be wise to avoid making references to historical data when over 95 percent of the talent that conceived, directed, and posted the work are no longer employed at Digital Kitchen.
It rubs people the wrong way.

Secondly. Producers (even Executive Producers) are generally privy to just part of the creative process. The right to defend the company is valid, but please ease off on the “this how creativity works” stuff. It tends to fall flat to those that actually make the work.

http://www.imetthewalrus.com/trailer.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXsmNGD3qqw

Looks like DK is just “subconsciously homaging” all over the place.

-John Milton

-Salvador Dali

I don’t think this posting is about jealousy, I mean yes of course who wouldn’t want to work on cool projects, with inspiration directors, thats a obvious and kinda “silly” excuse. I also think that this is all about bashing DK, or hating on them, and for those who worked there, I’m sure they left and don’t regret it. In fact most of the people who left went on to much bigger and better things. No one left regretting working there, I’m sure their really much happier now. Except for those who got sued in the process of leaving.

About DK’s emmys and success.
DK’s nominations began with Six Feet Under, which Danny Yount (Ex-DK very talented) lead the creative front on. Im not taking anything away form their success but..The scenes form this first big success were highly inspired if not ripped of from a single photographers work. (trying to find- will post) Not to mention that the DP / Director (Christian Loubek) that actually made those amazing scenes was forced to never show the titles, actually he was sued for using them, which is another topic all together, from what i’ve heard that has happened to other ex-employees. In the film world as the director you are allowed to show your work, DK doesn’t do this because then you would see the emperor wears no clothes.

As far as plagiarism, none of their titles except maybe Ghost Whisper was an exact rip-off, but they at least contacted the artist from what I hear. But, you have to understand how that looks to people who make work like this, work for DK and or compete against DK. If you want to be the company who has great success by knocking off other peoples work thats fine, but in the critical world of making art you have to expect to get called out on it. So thats where my last point ended, DK isn’t an single artist with a voice, they are purely a business model that farms talent to make commercials, etc. If it was an ad agency they would probably have been sued by someone by now for replicating other work.

As far as 65 shots vs 5, I agree w you 100%, not every shot is stolen, but when you watch the two with a objective eye its really hard not say that it one wasn’t derived from the other, they look, feel, and come off with the same tonality.

Im not sure how long you guys have worked there, sounds like your newbies, but DK has a very well-known reputation of acting like this, especially in their past. Their egos allow them to keep bulldozing through the industry without much repercussion, until know? I think this open forum has been very fair and honest, no one is making false accusations, just pointing out what’s there.

Lastly, yes silly rabbit, the titles are really great, outstanding execution, from the audio to the visuals, doesn’t change that fact they feel really derivative.
For example, the film “The Cell” by acclaimed director Tarsem, was a visual reproduction of many famed artists work. Almost every scene was ripped-off or inspired from numerous artist, from the surreal Dali-esque forced perspectives to the horse being sliced ala Damien Hirst. The script was original but it didn’t change the fact that the movie felt cheated by its derivative parts. In the end was it unique, sure. Was the film outwardly critiqued by many, absolutely. Did Tarsem go on to make more good movies, of course. So its not about jealousy its about critique.

pheewww…

What you described is NOT how “creativity works”. It’s how you make the most money for the least amount of developmental work.

This is a business, we understand that. But don’t make yucky ridiculous justifications… take your big invoices and your golden statues and just stomach all the very-relevant criticisms.

The tonal and stylistic similarities to the WEJ trailer are obvious and seemingly conscious to me. Anyone who understands the process and the varied avenues of craft involved in a project like this knows that such a thing does not happen by coincidence. In addition, DK has an already less than stellar track record in this regard.

Plagiaristic arguments aside, the True Blood titles were fairly well crafted.

So if part of the methodology is to “reference” other people’s work or use imagery found elsewhere; sourced through Google, coffee table books and art house movies and all you’re trying to do is hit the target the client provides …

You don’t see anything wrong with that?

This isn’t an academic exercise.

it feels more like you put it in the blender, but had a really dull blade in it, so we got a bunch of chunks that looked the same as they did before they got mixed up.

i’m not sure i’m buying the incidental similarities between WEJ and these titles. once i saw the baptism similarities, which are undeniably an imitation, it didn’t take long to unearth the other similarities.

on their own, they are certainly just inoffensive southern bayou slice of life images, but with the baptism scene in your cut, the others are too mysteriously coincidental.

and i’m not sure i’m comfortable chalking up the baptism similarity as a “subconscious homage”. you’re going to have to either ‘fess up, or sleep with your own version of events at night.

and cunningham did not invent undercranked nudes, but you guys clearly used his ‘flex’ film as close reference. do you deny that?

…ryan

DK chiming in. Thank you for the mostly kind words, heated dialogue and too harsh accusations. The accusations are not at all unfounded insofar as “Wrong Eyed Jesus” was one a myriad of other influences – features, docs, material found online, in print, somewhere in the deep recesses of our collective cobwebbed psyches. That’s how creativity works – we put these pieces in the blender, press the eviscerate button and then see what comes out in the pour. Everyone in this forum knows that. So our remaining peace goes something like this:

You’re picking on 5 shots. Out of over 65.

The tone of the “True Blood” title – in audio, coloration, dynamics, editorial style, etc – is so obviously different from the WEJ trailer as to make accusations of plagiarism obviously nitpicking. It’s tantamount to claiming the opening of “The Sopranos” is ripped from “Night Court” – look it’s New York!

3 of the 5 shots called out are standard southern bayou fare – car in the woods, evangelical church, honky tonk bar.

Chris Cunningham doesn’t own nor did he invent undercranked nudes.

On the 5th shot we have to say good catch. There was no specific intent to match the shot from WEJ specifically. We knew we wanted a midnight baptism shot b/c the concept was so perfect for “True Blood” – midnight+baptism+vampires? Holla! It’s like bacon+lettuce+tomato. We researched the midnight baptism subject quite a bit and in this case one of several shots in that scene came out remarkably like the one in WEJ. A subconscious homage? Apparently. Plagiarism? Absolutely not. We’re influenced by the work that’s come before us. Everyone in this forum is, and sometimes elements share striking similarities because of it. This is fairly described as one of those cases.

Lastly, DK has received 10 of the last 36 Emmy nominations in the Outstanding Main Title category and been nominated therein 6 of the last 7 years. DK’s made a name in main titles and beyond based on our originality and execution. We don’t need to steal from anybody. Then, now, or ever.

Thanks for paying attention to our work and this thread and feel free to get in touch directly anytime. And by all means please have fun continuing to argue these points but if you do so try to mix in a little more humor. With all the election banter in the air this too serious tone is too much – design should be fun, people!

Dave Skaff
Executive Producer
skaff@d-kitchen.com

however – in this case I could see the scenario being a bit of demo love on the client; they loved the framing and feel of the ripomatic. In that situation, it DK would be morally obligated to either make the finished piece as far removed from the actual shots ripped, or ease back on making ripomatics in the first place; cause we all know how it snowballs.

i want to make it clear that i am not blanketing DK with being plagiarists. rather, i am specifically pointing to the process of this particular job. they have done great work in the past, and there are many talented people who started here, and moved on to become successful artists (myself included).

i put the oneness on those in charge of the production of the true blood titles themselves. remember there are 4 offices at DK, which are mostly autonomous as the company grows.

just wanted to clarify, so that the artists working at DK who had nothing to do with this job don’t feel accused.

…ryan

Now, some of these sources aren’t film, There paintings, photos, etc. DK even worked with some of these artist to license there images. But in the end, Jerry Uelsmann and Maggie Taylor were both left with a bad taste in there mouth…Maggie didn’t get any credit after they barley paid her and bastardized her work, and Jerry’s lawyer forced DK to remove a shot from Kingdom Hospital cause it was to blatant of a rip off.

DK isn’t the only place that appropriates ideas, plenty of artist, film makers, designer have done this. But the thing here thats more important is the execution. DK isn’t filled with true filmmakers looking for their voice, their isn’t a mentality or work ethic that is promoting original ideas. They are service bureau, plain and simple.

I think for the most part the people that have original voices leave DK, and DK still feeds off the work they did for them for years to come, never crediting them and basically ripping them off as well. This isn’t just DK’s fault, its the fault of this fairly new business model. DK is a empty shell, its just a machine of young talent that are under contract to make work for the company.

Ripping people off is actually built into their business model, its not a malicious act, its pure business. Other companies with this business plan have a figure head that loves to make work and their integrity keeps the company honest and original. Motion Theory has Mathew Cullen, Logan has Ben & Alex, Prolouge has Kyle, etc, etc…..At the end of the day, DK wins because it isn’t a auteur with creative integrity or a passion for it’s on voice, its just a couple offices with
a business plan.

I’m not saying that this is the case for DK but I’ve worked on jobs, not worth mentioning, where the client literally will ask you to rip something off. Usually goes in the “Reference” folder ; )

You try and sell them on a fresh idea or something a little different but in the end they HIRED you to do a job. Sometimes you gotta swallow your pride and give them what they want.

What YOU get in the end is a client that is happy and willing to return with more work and all you can do is hope that the next time they bring you a project you can have a little more creative freedom.

On a side note I think what DK did still looks really cool, treatment was great and some of the shots were cut just right. Regardless of where the original idea came from you still need talent to make something look good and they definitely have talent.

but if you aren’t bringing anything new to the casting, the lighting, the action, the composition, even the lensing, that’s plagiarism. we are all creatures of inspiration, especially in this creative field. every one of our ideas are reimaginations of previous ideas we’ve had or learned about, so i get that. but to not bring anything new to evolve or recontextualize your source of inspiration, then it becomes imitation, and something no longer creative at all.

there are at least a dozen shots in the true blood titles which suffer from this problem, and that’s why i posted it up.

…ryan

Everyone wants that award, accolade or some other kind of pat on the back for doing some slick work that they ripped off in some shape or form from someone else.

When you’re hardly given the time to think of a concept and finesse it and give it some real quality, then the only other alternative is to appropriate some other look, image or otherwise to make your own stuff.

Use Flickr to do your boards? I see that as no different.

some of my best friends are from or at DK. so it’s not a personal vendetta. but i do think it’s worth pointing out several blatant rip-offs, in a piece that will be seen and well-liked by many who won’t know where the original material was first created.

the indie filmmaker who did the original documentary, what’s it going to be like when he watches an alan ball show and sees basically his own shot in the titles? or if chris cunningham checks the show out and sees virtual recreations of a project he did for aphex twin?

it crosses the line, and that’s why i posted it. plain and simple. i think you’re giving them a pass here, and i’m not interested in doing the same.

…ryan

I laughed so hard I ended up crying. I will forever recall the mental image of the guy on the ground crying like a little girl whenever I feel down.

This. Was. Priceless.

Thank you. I needed this today.

Toni

hope your feeling better erin.

xoxo,
…..aunt kathy

Smile.

I love the others you listed, but if I had to list JUST the top 5 which have had an impact on me, this would have to be the list.

I couldn’t find out who directed “Debbie Does Dallas”, so that’s how Kurosawa managed to creep into the top 5. ^____^

But – uh – it looks like you already removed him. So scratch that.

I think Miyazaki should be on the list (at the top). He’s young at HEART.

Zidane – Original Soundtrack by Mogwai
Sigur Ros – Agaetis Byrjun
Great Lake Swimmers
Team Sleep
Mazzy Star – So Tonight That I Might See

Original article: Obama is a Monkey in Japan?

In addition, if the CM was a parody of the character from the TV show, then why use an imitation of Obama’s voice – and not the character from the show?

>the marketing team should know better

I agree with you…
They might not consider how the CM will be looked by the people in other countries when they made it..

The TV drama “Change” seems to be a really nice drama.
http://wwwz.fujitv.co.jp/change/
In this drama, an average elementary school teacher had changed and pursued to be a politician when his great politician father died. He eventually became the Prime Minister and he is trying hard to change the politics and Japan.

Many preferable comments were posted on the bulletin board on its site saying they wish to have a Prime Minister like him.

I don’t know why they named this TV drama “Change” but I think it’s a good title because the theme of the drama is “change” and we Japanese prefer to use English for titles of movies, TV dramas, products, etc.
They might think it’s also good to use the word “Change” because it’s included in Obama’s slogan. (I really don’t know about it, though)

So the TV drama is OK but the CM of Emobile does have a problem…

Well, we don’t have that much racial or religious issues in Japan…
I.e, we tend to be careless about those issues…
Emobile might be too careless about international issues…
Any video can be posted on Youtube and watched by the people all over the world now.. They should know better..

But I guess they decided to use human-like monkey first to let consumer know they were going to release some epoch-making products or services. Then they wondered what kind of role to be played by the monkey… They might want to make consumers stick in their mind about the great change in their service… So their keyword might be also “change”… They might be better to ask Takuya Kimura to appear in their CM but as he is a famous actor, his endorsement might be very expensive…(I even don’t know if they asked him about it, though…)

The monkey’s name is “Riku.” He is so cool and loved by Japanese people…
http://emobile.jp/movie/2008/EMCM2008-5making.html

This CM itself is not bad but they should have not released it while the election of American President is ongoing..

I really hope American people don’t mistake about this CM and hold bad impression on Japan…

I asked my friend to make Emobile realize this dispute. They should offer clarification and apology.
I don’t know how it works, though… Let’s see.

if that is true, then japan needs to be up on its world politics and understand that obama is our first african american presidential elect, and his slogan is “yes, we can change”. the marketing team should know better, just my opinion.

…ryan

THE WHITE OR THE BLACK PILL. Its up to you Keanu.

The person that SHOULD be top on your list is Steven Tyler, He’s like 90lbs and has a bigger voice than all these men.

i think we should move on to BIG men, with LITTLE Voices. Ill start.

#1 Antony and The Johnsons

the rest of your names are pretty good ones though.

…ryan

Jarvis Cocker, Conor Oberst, Patrick Wolfe, Nick Cave, Tom Smith (editors), Marylin Manson, Richard Ashcroft (verve), Peter Doherty, too name a few

your assessment of my assessment is basically correct. what it all adds up to, is that for one of the most visually original directors of our time (luhrmann), it’s underwhelming to see several highly derivative shots in the trailer. and what it adds up to is a movie that i wish i wanted to see based on the trailer.

and yes, i should be able to preemptively judge a movie by its trailer, since the trailer is the primary sales tool for any marketed film.

…ryan

Oh. Well, I think I’ll wait to actually see the movie before I decide if it’s good or not. This propensity to pontificate about movies that haven’t even been released is annoying.

…ryan

…ryan

Lucky charmses?