EEEE.T. New Mexico: The Atari Video Game Burial

Roswell isn't the only final resting spot for crashing Aliens.
From Wikipedia:

"the Atari video game burial of 1983 was an infamous event in video gaming history, in which Atari dumped thousands of video game cartridges, allegedly including a large number of copies of its video game adaptation E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, into a New Mexico landfill. It was one of the consequences of the North American video game crash of 1983. "















E.T. is widely considered on of the biggest video game flops of all time and may have caused the crisis within the industry. I can tell you, the game play is terrible. But has anyone taken it upon themselves to go and seek out this treasure? Let's do it next time I'm down there.

DUENDE!

I have duende fever. If you don't know yet a duende is a house spirit that looks just like a common garden gnome. And for some reason garden gnomes terrify Latin American teens...Well, at least on Youtube they do. All of this has been going on for a couple years now and as far as I can tell this is the video that started it all:

I LOVE THAT TINY MAN! He just crab waddles out of the bushes, gives the crowd a little wave and that's enough to send these kids into hysterical screams and panic.
The rest of the videos that followed(of the one's that weren't obvious fakes.) all kinda adhere to the same formula. Kids playing, talking, and laughing in Spanish/Portuguese then at the end of the video: DUENDE! Followed by pandemonium. That and the duendes seem to be a bit smaller than the first one.

DAMNIT! He was just lounging there the whole time. oh brother. This one's pretty good:

Hackysack? no,no,no DUENDETIME!

From Brazil:

Is that guy in fatigues? Not even army men are immune to the Micro-terror that is DUENDE! I wonder if some South American film company is gonna make a Crittersesque, direct to DVD horror franchise out of this craze. They SHOULD!
Lastly, there does seem to be one American duende clip. The title of the video cracks me up. I bring you: I Know Gnomes Arent Real, But Can Someone Please Help Me

NEW POST!!! I'm back on this shit. Ghost poem

Sorry, I had a busy summer.
Hey you know what's weird? THIS: Every time I open a new document in my Microsoft Word this poem is there, and i have to delete it to get started. Google searches have returned no info as to the author's identity . I cannot figure out why this would happen. anyway here is the poem: I kinda like it in a high school gothy way.

AND NO ONE EVER FOUND ANY REMAINS (a success story)

Restraining order, this morning’s edge around

The bed comes in closer, pours in

To send the regular capacity for muddering.

The mildew from your scr eamy cuff glitters

Under an average glass as you turn the vehicle.

The crank screech of worn down windshield wipers

With all the usual shortcuts.

Being a multifrailty of impetuous renderers, listen

Closely now, maintain distance

From your cohorts. Hear

L’esprit l’escalier, even

The continent rumble of the dryer as

An airplane. For she never heard the advice.

Jets

Lingered with traces of tambourines

Under shaded foreign tunnels.

It covers our words in lurid echoes.

I turn and choke in bed on those muffles councils.

Beg strenuous more light rain to aid

Study that same fence from this angle day after languid day.

Three weeks ago

I came home early, two weeks ago, the bedroom

Door slammed. Thus began one endless session

Of brushing hair

And crumpled sleep and

All is calm

And all is bright

Except this slut who knocks around

The bedroom window, late low-cut

Teetering for some favor or other. We learn

How to say no. Queue nostalgic train whistle.

The base of things

Comes in

Pockets between her

And that sound

Or a woman packing

In New York and me here, plagued with pinching myself

Next to the stereo

With no interruptions. The end will be

A series

Of burns followed by a dogfight. A camera will flash without film.

Someone

Will be seen running away

That no one ever knew

Was there. And I will cough and stare at the ground,

Afterall, I did sign an alias.

I saw one third of Transformers 2

It was the first third and I walked out. I went with a good friend with the intention of making fun of it the whole time. This started off ok; we even had the whole theater to ourselves. Then we fell silent upon feeling guilty; realizing it was kinda like teasing your friend's mentally disabled little brother. jerk move. So FUCK YOU DOUBLE Michael Bay for making a retarded movie for stupid idiots and then making me feel bad for making fun of it. bite me.
Everyone should see the original cartoon movie for a million reasons but here's just a taste: It's got an amazing soundtrack (including Stan Bush's "The Touch"), it was Orson Well's last movie(voice of the mighty planet sized Unicron), and Optimus stays dead.
Heres a couple of Transformers jokes my friend Nick told me:

I just flew in from the Transformers convention, and boy are my arms tires.

So this Decepticon turns into a bar...

Eee New Mexico: Breaking Bad

I just finished reading the list of nominees for the Emmys this year and am psyched that my favorite high concept show set in ALBUQUERQUE has landed three:
Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series: Bryan Cranston who plays Walter; A pathetic failed chemist turned high school teacher that upon being diagnosed with terminal lung cancer decides to cook meth with one of his former students to get some extra skrilla for his family before he kicks it. Bryan Cranston is amazing and gets extra points seeing as he played the dad in Malcolm in the Middle, a show I absolutely detested.




















Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series: Aaron Paul who plays Jesse: the meth cook/head sidekick to Walter. He does wannabe vato white boy pretty well and they even throw in some good colloquialisms for him to embarrass himself with (I heard him utter "a la vergas." once or twice).















and
Outstanding Drama Series!!!
The show is so great at using Albuquerque's sprawl and surrounding parched earth to convey the mood of extreme desperation. One of the meth head motels they use for a scene I delivered pizzas to and I tell ya, it was one of the most demented and scary places I have ever been. Later they blow up the top floor of one of my favorite coffee shops(Downtown Java Joe's has a stupid name, bodacious breakfast burritos, and apparently a crystal meth dealership above it). Man, I hope to see some South Valley action in future episodes. Anyway, the pilot in it's self has been better than 95% of the movies I've seen this year so check it!

Vanity Chest: Cartoon Characters I Fell in Love With.

Gadget from Chip 'n' Dale Rescue Rangers. Chip and Dale and I think just about every boy I knew had it bad for her. She's just got it going on despite not being human. moving on..

Dr. Blight from Captain Planet was an evil cosmetics tycoon voiced by Meg Ryan. The Planteteers had it out for her cause she tested her products on animals/humans.

Half her face is hideously scarred from some freak accident but I don't care cause it's covered by her amazing hair. Also..the jumpsuit? Daaaamn.

I know she was only from commercials but Snaps of the Burger King Kids Club was totally bangin'. When I was nine I once fell asleep clutching a greasy paper sack graced by her image. I'd always imagined Kid Vid as this Warholesque leader of the club. He discovered Snap's photography while she was living on the streets and took her into his fast food commune.
Anyway, Snaps is arty, cute, rocks overalls and is probably the only straight female in the BKKC. Just sayin', Boomer has roller blades on ALL THE TIME. I could go on forever about these guys, but nah.



Mike Rowe from the Discovery series Dirty Jobs is not an animated crush of mine but apparently in the early nineties he hosted QVC at two in the morning and was hilarious.
Here's his thoughts on the subject:

man down: Billy Mays

I used to think this guy was Al from Home Improvement. He's not and now he's dead.
Someone dubbed over his commercial for Kaboom. funny.

Annie are you ok? Michael Jackson's patented "Smooth Criminal" leaning shoes.

I was trying to avoid posting about MJ cause everyone else is but then I came across this. 'Member in Moonwalker; that crazy leaning from smooth criminal? Turns out dude had special shoes! I thought they were really tilting the room or some Hollywood warlockary.


Droppin' the science: Boingboing gadgets
Here it is in action(fast forward to 3:50):

LIST: Male celebrities that have girls first names as their last names.

Help me make a list! I'll start.
1. Thomas Jane
2. Raul Julia
3. Billy Crystal

Do we blog drunk on monday nights? apperently.

I was wondering if this was gonna happen. that's really all i wanted to say... that and a mister Jimmy Fallon has a show now...AND ITS A FUCKING THIRD TRIMESTER ABORTION! despite this man appearing on the show:


A.D. Miles: normally a very "funny dude" as Fallon likes to say. fuck you Fallon. I am very fond of digging hard for redeeming qualities. you sir have none...and please don't be a voice for my generation..and let the can of pepsi take over. over. over and out.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lrq0rTRqOoE

old blog: double features

This is the weirdest DVD double feature I've found at the video store I work at:



I can't figure out why they would skip Substitute 2: Schools Out. Instead it got a separate release.

2 and 3 both have Treat Williams. Why wouldn't they release the first one alone and then 2 and 3 as the double feature??? They could have given it a goofy name like the The Substitute: The TREATment Set. or whatever.

Blog Title Origins: high five with pizza.

High five with pizza is a term coined by my friend Hari in high school. We were eating pizza in the cafeteria when outta nowhere he just chucks his slice over his head. It soars across the room right at our friend Miles who very gracefully bats it outta the sky with the palm off his hand. Hari turns to me and says "High five with pizza." and my mouthful of Sprite evacuated through my nose. Hari remains a good friend of mine.
Here's me and Hari(and Jesus) around when we met each other(I'm wearing my Space Camp shirt and Hari's wearing one of those basketball shirts that they started remaking at Urban Outfitters)

Eeeeee New Mexico: Spaceport!

Not content with have having an airport oddly named The Sunport (I used to work there) New Mexico has gone ahead and decided build the worlds first Spaceport. They broke ground today and should be done in 18 months. Then that crazy rich Virgin airlines guy and his other lunatic friends can kick it in space like all the time. Except you don't really go anywhere but back to New Mexico until another Spaceport opens I guess. It's all about the ride. I did go to Space Camp in Alamogordo N.M. every summer when I was a teen so this holds particular interest to me. I'm just glad they're keeping the priorities straight down there. Space is important to New Mexico. I think New Mexicans think they own space with all that alien shit and not acknowloging the de-promotion of Pluto.

blog warren time

hello ladies.

I've been doing this for a while of at the old myspace but since that exploded into commercial cacaland over the last year I figure it's time to make a real one of these.  Facebook head lines aren't cutting it either. I have a lot to say.

Here are some features I plan to keep going(we'll see): 

Eeeee New Mexico!  

That's where I'm from and my family and friends still live. I grew up in Santa Fe and moved to Albuquerque for college, so I keep my eye on the state and love watching it get into trouble(from afar; there are many reasons I don't live there anymore.) It is a mystical land of wonder and is my favorite place in the world.  I just can't live there.

Lists!  

I like making lists with you.

Survey!  

I need your help with these too. (there's an example in the previous post that I just copy and pasted from my blog at myspace.  I didn't know you could do that. Super easy.)

Vanity Chest!

Stuff about me.  Because you fucking love me.  

Misspelling shit!

That's what I do.  Just except that.

I work at a video store that is excellent so expect a lot of Hollywood related posts.

Also I'm working on a video/live performance piece over the summer so expect to hear about that.  

Alright.  Let's do this shit!

SURVEY! Will.i.am not. But WHO?

Which celebrity looks most like this guy? will A: Jonny Lang? B: Jeffery Donovan? C: Guy Pierce from Memento? or D: Lewis Smith as Perfect Tommy from The Adventures of Buckaroo Bonzai...? CAST YER VOTES!