Links of Interest 11/23

Speaking with Viggo Mortensen about his movie The Road.

So Oprah Winfrey is retiring. Which means (according to the media) someone has to take her place as Queen (or King) of the later afternoon talk show.

Werner Herzog on his new film, Bad Lieutenant.

If you’re a gamer, this list of the top video games of the decade will interest you.

A Pepsi plant in Cambodia – that shut down in 1975.

A list of actual, awesome Lifetime movie titles.

Unintentional sexual product names.

A look at underrated superhero movies. And if you didn’t immediately just say to yourself, “I’m sure Unbreakable is #1,” then you don’t know how these lists work.

Carl Sagan – pothead!

Cryonics. In Britain. At least it isn’t about Ted Williams head.

Links of Interest 11/20

Yup, Nic Cage’s Bad Lieutenant is coming out…

A collection of some of the better photos from the Hubble telescope.

While I find this idea hypothetically ingenious, as in it would make for a great CSI: Miami plot device, I’m not sure bringing it into real life was the greatest idea. Can you imagine getting a DVD that shows you’re being stalked? Ha ha! It’s all for a movie festival!

Forget 2012, the real end begins in 2019.

Cooking for Thomas Keller (and of course promoting his book).

Cool artists we should probably keep our eye on, as I’m sure one or more of them will be adapting a Chuck Palahuinik book into a movie in the near future.

Those dolphins are kinda smart.

Off to find a real, honest to god, zombie.

A real Die Hard (no, not Under Siege, because this guy wasn’t a fully trained CIA super dude) situation.

Comic book characters that would do well with a reimagining.

Tim Burton is a weirdo, but his concept art is awesome.

Links of Interest 7/29

If you haven’t seen this movie, you really should rent it. Especially before the crappy Nicholas Cage remake comes out, because I’m sure it won’t go as far as the original.

Want a list of songs NPR thinks are the best of 2009 so far?

Allegedly, these pickup lines were actually uttered, without irony on a random Saturday night in a bar in Northern New Jersey.

Some might say these underwater statues are cool; I’m going with creepy.

Crazy things left in hotel rooms.

So where exactly was Ghengis Khan buried?

Interview with Somali pirate.

Ever care what happened to the cast of Night Court? (I know Larroquette just got mowed down in The Storm on NBC Sunday night).

Environmental messes are a bitch.

So this is what Pluto looks like.

Links of Interest 5/14

Can Beck be considered underrated? Probably not with the critics, but I don't think he gets the credit he deserves with the buying public. And that's a shame, because I can't think of too many artists out there right now to rival him. So you can imagine how excited I am to hear his new album might be coming out in June.

What kind of idea is this. I remember being horrified when I saw 'Bad Lieutenant." But that doesn't mean I didn't respect it. For lines to be crossed, there are few that come close to this one. And now they're remaking it. Are they going to water it down? Because if so, then what's the point really?

It probably says a lot about who you are if you're known for "bathing in blood." And I'm not even sure that's the worst of this list! I do like the fact that neither the Taliban nor Al Qaeda are on this list. I guess they might be considered terrorist groups and not gangs, but where's the line that divides the two? And I'm guessing it's a minor quibble to try and classify these groups in either of those two.

So the National Archives over in Great Britain decided to start releasing its records on UFOs. So far, it seems like all it is is a bunch of stories from people out in the country talking about how they were abducted. Hey, if I wanted that I would rent Communion.