The Asylum...

In the fine tradition of Roger Corman style knock-off and cash ins, The Asylum has been pumping out poor relations of current Hollywood blockbusters but what they lack in money and special effects knowhow and stars they make up for in bonkers titles.

Here's TransMORPHERS(2007):




Other gems include

AVH: Alien versus Hunter
I Am Omega (2007) a kinda I Am Legend

Monster (2008) their version of Cloverfield

full list of titles here

Wiki entry here

Zig and Zag do Patricks day

hawld yer whist...captain shamrock

Poor auld Seinfeld, poor auld Pat (in the brains department)

Not poor in the monetary sense obviously, but his enthusiasm for Bee Movie meant that he had to endure, in the parlance of Irish media, "insuferable arseholes" first there was Larry King




Then there was Pat "the plank" Kenny, a certain dumb riffer pointed me to the existence of this clip and then the man Linehan put it up on his blog, altogether now...Seeefeeeld or whatever, what, like giving Seinfeld a Superman action figure is a big great gift? he's proabbly already got about ten of those dolls...did they really scour Dublin for such and item or did they just go into the nearest toyshop and get one. When have we had elephants?, I presume Kenny is thinking of Dumbo, "not having known bees intimately" wtf!!

biggest stand up and sitcom star in the world and Kenny has no clue who or what (or dare I say it*) he is!?...



*"and she did, and she's here, and she' gorgeous"...see how Gaybo (the main proper Late Late Show host did it!) bit of background, Pat Kenny once referred to Dana International as "he, she, or it"



part 2




and for the laugh (excuse the politically incorrect imagery):

Oooh...

I may have done a little poo of excitement despite my best efforts....

Roger A. Trevanti Explains The AMPTP's New Proposal

Happy Birthday Caitrin!

It's my sister's birthday so here's some Killers videos she might like and some old pictures she mightn't but I think they're really nice...especially the one of her laughing at something, can't remember what, and it might have been the ginger beard and proof that I made someone laugh...once.

Another slice of Garfield slagging,

found by Brenda, cheers, from the great Achewood

You're not one of them...

How can you refuse a comic with the tagline:

The Good News: Superheroes are real.

The Bad News: You're Not One of the Them.


official site here



read the first issue along with a load of other image titles here.

After the great Invincible, you need seriously moxie to do a similar 'my parents are superheroes but I'm not yet...or am I?' book but this is a more complex book with Alan-Moore-esque retro-style sections ala his run on Supreme
Nice article on related complicated messes
Much as I love the whole superhero meta-post-moderno-world-where-superheroes-are-real schtik it never really progresses much further than Watchmen. You have you Batman type, your Wonder Woman type your Superman type etc. and becomes a nerd parlor game for those who haven't parlors to guess the in-jokes. When somthing like Invincible or Grounded comes along it's fun and great for the first few books, but their popularity mean that they surprisingly quickly get weighed down with their own continiuity, gawd I sound whingey, I do enjoy these books but how many Squadron Supreme knock-offs must we suffer as background characters in these books.

Thanks bastard internt...

for realising another dream I didn't realise I had, a site of live action versions of Garfield strips with accompanying music tracks!!

I Want More Porn ( Original Song ) Tom Willett

A message from future Jimmny when he moves to America, lives in a RV and gets a new accent

Stand Up Madness explosion, Laugh Out Loud, Earlham's Dirtly Little Secret, Smoking Mic...

A new year, a new chance for people to hear me tell embarrassing stories of geekdom, teenage bullying, dead seagulls, pornography, She-Hulk...you un/lucky* people
First up is Laugh Out Loud a the Rose on Monday January 21, 9-11pm. Laugh Out Loud Myspace

Tom Moran MC
Andy Leitch
Giles Derrington
Christian Ancliff
Lorcan Mcgrane
Jon Brittain
John Kearns

Then It's The Workshop/Earlham's Dirty Little Secret on January 30th:

MC Carrie Anne Guthrie
NORMAL FOR NORFOLK
Andy Palmer,
Kirsty Hudson
and other great supporting acts


Then the beginning of Richard Melchior's Smoking Mic comedy tour on February 4th:

With

Richard Melchior, Jonathan Brittain, Dan McKee, Greg Powles and some ranting Irish geek


Smoking Mic Comedy Tour

Thursday 14th Feb:York Tavern, Norwich

Saturday 16th Feb: Kings Head, Dereham

Wednesday 20th Feb: The Swan, Loddon

Thursday 21st Feb: White Hart, Swaffham

Saturday 23rd Feb:London Tavern, Attleborough

Tuesday 26th Feb: Railway Tavern,Holt

Wednesday 5th March: White Horse, Trowse

Saturday 8th March: Silver Fox, Taverham

Thursday 20th March: Queens Head, Wymondham

Wednesday 26th March: Fisher Theatre Bungay


they had a press shoot on sunday that I couldn't make because I was making roasts

but if I had been available, here's how it might have looked

Smoking Mic...dare I say it...Smoking Mick?...

*delete as applicable

Three Great Virgina Plains

Peanuts....peanuts....peanuts....

You had me at Kinegad..Diet of Worms

Not that they'll need the exposure after been mentioned by the legend man Linehan, but I'm loving the video work of Diet of Worms, their Dublin Stories is great Office-esque in a good way skillfully observed character comedy. Especially episode 9: Orflaith (it's a lot classier when you spell it that way) & Vincent does for Temple Bar what Nathan Barley did for Shoreditch



"There's no reason why I left Kinegad"....

Their site is here
and their blog has loads of great comedy clips.

They'll definitely be in my next top ten Irish Comedy heroes!

The Feminists and Fancy Dancer

Whilst doing this post on I Am Legend a while back I found the great blog Posthuman Blues via which I found io9 Strung Out Science Fiction and this great post on The Feminists:

He must escape or die.. . . Almost instantly the shrill sound of a whistle broke to his right and a street guard stepped from a doorway, struggling to free her rifle from her garments. "Male Pig!" she screamed. "Halt!"

Welcome to the world of The Feminists, a pulp novel published in 1971. It's the story of cubicle drone Keith Montalvo, who has been caught consensually slipping the pink torpedo to a female co-worker. Unfortunately, it's 1992 and the Big-Sisterish "Committee" has outlawed all unauthorized heterosex, and his crime is punishable by death. Peek below for the cover in its full, unexpurgated glory.

This of course is a great excuse to to share some of my bad pulpy covers over at the old lost stepchild of the Jimmny Homunculus 'empire' The Culture Cocoon

First up The Deviates:

Next up The Sexual Outlaw!

And my personal favorite, The Fancy Dancer...are you a fancy dancer? have you had a fancy dancer in your home? has a fancy dancer asksed you bring a parasol or some perfume on a flight to Stansted?....

My Damn Channel

Whilst looking at TomGreen.com, (his show has been syndicated for TV! congrats) and caught Andy Milonakis who was in one of my all time fave guilty pleasure movies Waiting in a quasi Jay (of Jay and Silent Bob Fame) style role.



He's currently on great online comedy site MyDamn Channel which also includes some great videos see below!

It's no Tim and Eric but it's ok...

Ma in Refugee Care !!

I got an email in my disused UEA account saying "MA in Refugee Care" [click on pic to read] and my first thought was eck! where is she? lets save her. (or him obviously, but my first thought was a sexy prisoner of conscience prisoner lady ala Caged Heat, crossed with the Derrida documentary...






but on further inspection it was a course where you can do an MA in Refugee Care...oooh...

Bye 2007! Bye Shitty Year...

Off you pop...in the bin...

Clerks 2 LOTR Vs. Star Wars scene - good quality

"What the fuck happened to this world..."

Southland Tales -

bonkers