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Jeff Rubin's Thoughts on Street Wars

Thanks again to Jeff Rubin for experiencing Street Wars for the first time with us in September. Below is a summary of his thoughts on the film. You can catch Jeff regularly doing awesome things for College Humor, or at his blog.

What separates the good-bad from the bad-bad? That’s a question you’ll have to ask your heart over and over again when you watch Street Wars.

Whenever I bring up this age-old question (usually on a first-date kinda situation), I find myself explaining the distance between good-bad and bad-bad by comparing Perfect Strangers to Full House. Though I was a fan of both when I was young, I am no longer able to tolerate Perfect Strangers. I can’t even take the 8 minute “Best of Belki” compilation currently sitting at around 50,000 views on YouTube. Conversely, I can still watch several episodes of Full House in a row, even those later episodes with Gia, even without drugs. Both Perfect Strangers and Full House are obviously terrible shows, not to mention they’re not intended for adults, so why can I enjoy one and not the other?

I posed this question to Movies vs. Humans host Nate while watching Street Wars (and also as often as possible) and he suggested that the magic ingredient was sincerity. I thought about it and he’s right. Belki is a C+ Urkel, but Full House was nothing if not sincere. Everyone loved each other, and you knew it because the music told you so at least once an episode.

It’s so obscure it doesn’t have a Wikipedia page, so you’ll just have to trust me when I say Street Wars may be the most sincere movie of all time. I’m not exactly sure what director Jamaa Fanaka was trying to say was trying to say, but he was definitely screaming it. They’re not quoting me on the DVD box or anything, but I would describe StreetWars as 100% watchable, and definitely good-bad.

BAM will be trying to get you to pay to see this movie. We’re showing it for FREE! And we’re funnier. Shhh! Don’t tell them, just your friends. OCTOBER 29th!

moviesvshumans:

We’ll be turning the month of October into the month of SHOCKtember, when we present the movie Hausu at the second Movies vs. Humans show!

You know how Japanese commercials are weird? What would happen if one of the weirdest of the Japanese commercial directors wrote a horror movie with the help of his 7-year-old daughter?

Well, what would happen is you’d get a feature film where this scene is nowhere near the weirdest thing that happens.

This free show is Thursday, October 29th at 9:30, at the Creek: 10-93 Jackson Ave in Queens, accessible by the E, G, or V.

Other Tumblrs You Should Follow

Nate Kushner: vanfullofwerewolves.tumblr.com

The Ground Williams Show: groundwilliams.tumblr.com

Movies Vs. Humans: moviesvshumans.tumblr.com

We now return you to your regularly scheduled reblogging and healthcare bitching (how did we let these fucking hockers run the country?).

BOOK GIVEAWAY STILL HAPPENING!

Hey guys,

I still have a bunch of books left! Check here for the list of what’s available. I’ll give it until next week, then they go in a box on the street.

I don’t want to put this many comics and books in a box on the street.

(THIS POST HAS BEEN WRITTEN BY SARAH MCLACHLAN WHILE “ANGEL” PLAYS IN THE BACKGROUND)

MASSIVE BOOK GIVEAWAY!!!!

Will Hines, consummate gentleman (that should be the title of his website), began giving his books away through his blog a couple years ago. Recently, I’ve found myself inundated with books that I have already enjoyed, yet have not cracked again in quite some time, and am unlikely to again. Therefore, why not spread the love? The ladyfriend liked the idea and tossed in some paperbacks as well.

Here’s how it works: Click on the title of each book to see the book itself. Some of them are upside down and shit, but trust me, that’s just the picture. The words are right side up if you hold the book correctly.

If you want one, or several, email me the titles: MATT (DOOZY) LITTLE (AZZY) GMAIL (DOOZY) COM.

First come, first serve! I will update as things are taken. NOTE: You must be able to pick up at my apartment in-person (in Williamsburg, off the Graham Ave. L stop), or arrange a reasonable meet-up in the city.

BOOK BOOKS:
The Inner Circle, by T.C. Boyle
She’s Come Undone, by Wally Lamb
The English Governess at the Siamese Court, by Anna Leonowens
The Bean Trees, by Barbara Kingsolver
The Shunning, by Beverly Lewis
Conversations With The Fat Girl, by Liza Palmer
Irish Girls About Town, by Maeve Binchy, Marian Keyes, Cathy Kelly
Good In Bed, by Jennifer Weiner
American Gods, by Neil Gaiman
Caught Stealing, by Charlie Huston
Six Bad Things, by Charlie Huston
~~The Fuck-Up, by Arthur Nersesian~~

GRAPHIC NOVELS/TPBs:
The Great Outdoor Fight (Achewood Collection Vol. 1), by Chris Onstad
Fun Home, by Alison Bechdel
Stray Bullets Vol. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 by David Lapham
~~The Walking Dead Vol. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, by Robert Kirkman & Tony Moore/Charlie Adlard~~
Essential Howard The Duck Vol. 1, by Steve Gerber & Friends
Teen Titans Vol. 4 - The Future Is Now, by Geoff Johns, Mike McKeone, and others
She-Hulk Vol. 1 - Single Green Female, by Dan Slott, Juan Bobillo, and others
Saga of The Swamp Thing Digest, by Len Wein & Bernie Wrightson
Good As Lily, by Derek Kirk Kim & Jesse Hamm
Essential X-Factor Vol. 2, by Louise Simonson & Walt Simonson (and others)
12 Days, by June Kim
~~Fallen Angel Vol. 1 (DC), by Peter David & David Lopez~~
~~My Dead Girlfriend, by Eric Wight~~
~~BPRD Vol. 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, by Mike Mignola, John Arcudi & Guy Davis~~

[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]

frankhejl:

I’d have to agree. Seriously guys. If you’re gonna give credit to some “one hit wonder” band from the 90’s, give it to a band somewhat credible. Semisonic > Third Eye Blind. BUT, Harvey Danger trumps them all. Just listen to King James Version.

OK, OK. I know. Technically Third Eye Blind isn’t a one hit wonder. I’ll admit, I liked certain tracks by them, but they were WAY overhyped and overrated. People are losing their shit over them now and their “reunion”. You heard that new TEB Non Dairy Creamer song, right? Quite possibly the WORST lyrics and song EVER! Seriously? To have a bridge shout “Young Gay Republicans”? No thanks. Semisonic had some great songs, y’all.

daveholmes:

thelastsemester:

for my lovely followers in the wee hours of the morning

FNT:Semisonic

I’m surprised that you’ve never been told before
That you’re lovely
And you’re perfect
And that somebody wants you

Can we shut up about Third Eye Blind for 30 seconds and give credit where it is due, i.e. to Semisonic?

3EB self-titled is the sound of a hundred nights drinking by campfires and in dorm rooms when I was 18, 19 years old. That album is front-to-back solid. The rest of their catalog sucks because Kevin Cadogan, the guitarist who made most of that album great, left partway into recording Blue. The less said about everything after that, the better, but Motorcycle Drive-By? GOOD GOD YES that belongs in the Awectogon (the 8-sided cage in which I toss all awesome stuff).

Semisonic’s Feeling Strangely Fine is probably the best $6.00 I ever spent on a new record (back when Circuit City used to sell on-the-cusp albums at sickeningly low prices). Singing In My Sleep, Closing Time, DND…those three songs alone most bands would kill to have written.

Harvey Danger is rad. We’ve covered this before.

However, you guys? FUCKING SUPERDRAG? HELL-O? Head Trip In Every Key? Regretfully Yours? Last Call For Vitriol? That’s where we should be focusing our 3EB hate: into love of Superdrag. Turn a negative into a positive!

Best part: they’re touring regularly! I saw them in 2007 and they were incredible.

chrisreblogs:

gordonshumway:

A Map of Your Village

If this makes sense to you, we’re automatically best friends. We could also maybe make out a little.

For WAY too long, I’ve needed to watch all of The Prisoner, in order. Way too long.

Ahhh! I’m actually doing this right now…Nate Kushner and I got halfway through in summer of ‘05, then I forgot. AMCTV.com has all the eps on their site for streaming. Go find your favorite running order on Wikipedia and do it before the miniseries this fall!!!

My Biggest Failure...

…will be never getting to see Nine Inch Nails live.

Despite being an obsessive, have-to-have-all-the-Halos fan, despite desperately hanging on every lyric Trent Reznor ever wrote, despite scouring the Earth (first) and the Internet (later) for any scrap of anything he may have had a hand in, despite obsessive analyzing of everything in the songs, the website, everything.

I really, really wanted to see them, at least once. When I was 14 (1995), I had a ticket to see NIN/Marilyn Manson/Jim Rose Circus about 4 hours from home. The week before, my mom found out how far the concert was, and that we were going with (GASP) girls! Without supervision! She made me get rid of the ticket.

That was the closest I got to seeing them. Any other time I had no money, or, in the case of the shows this week in NYC, wasn’t even close to being able to get a ticket.

Goodbye, NIN, and fuck you, StubHub. Fuck your stupid, legal scalping, now-advertising business model right in its stupid worthless fucking asshole. I hope your owners rot in hell.

“ …I’m starting to suspect the thing that sucked about Sterling was me. Everyone else’s memories are about building forts in the woods and sledding and going on weird adventures and having bike races…. Maybe the people who ‘escape from their shitty hometowns’ are less imaginative, resourceful and naturally happy than other people around them.

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Anger Management: Growing Up With Patton Oswalt

A really good article on Patton Oswalt talking about the myth of anger in comedy and the joy of embracing rather than rejecting.

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Years ago, when I decided to take standup seriously, I made a promise to myself: the phrase I would use more than any other would be “I love…” I spent too many nights in dark rooms listening to people say “I hate…” Everyone does that. I don’t want to wallow in anger. I got into comedy to celebrate life, as corny as it sounds. I want to be the conversation that people say “Hey, let’s listen in because this guy is damn excited about whatever he’s discussing” versus “Here comes bitchy bitcherson again.” Love, don’t hate, people. Hate makes wrinkles and fat.

Nicknames

rubysneakers:

healywu, healywurztburg, healy wurzburg, Werner Herzog, haley, wurzburg, wurtzburg, rubes, ruby, ruby sneaks, ruby sneakers, hot blonde katey (college, huh?), WUUUUUU, katie princess, boo, E.T. (thanks Mom), kate, and, technically, katey.

What are yours?

You forgot the two I use for you (that I’ve prob never said in front of you) - HW Plainview and H Dubs. Mine have been Little (obvs), Styles (after the dude in Teen Wolf), Kukoc (because for a summer I was the only white guy playing basketball with a bunch of great dudes), Matta (which is what my dad always called me), and Bud (which is what both my parents call me).