The Wheel and Axle

I like horror, if that weren’t obvious enough, and recently I came upon an Indonesian short film that I had watched online a couple of years ago. Admittedly, I predicted the ending, but that’s probably because I read and watch too much horror. Regardless, it’s still freaky and quite well done, even upon re-watching.

See for yourself. Be satisfied.

You just set social progress back by two hundred years, and then you moved global annihilation forward instead.

Well, if we base it on Wikipedia or IMDB, not much in the last few years.

Too bad. I do think she was perfectly cast (a complete newbie) in the movie adaptation of what is perhaps my favorite musical, Hairspray. She’s since had a few appearances here and there, and I read that she’s also performed on cruise ships, but over-all I guess her career had never really taken off.

She’s a talented singer, though to be fair she’s a so-so actress, and perhaps that’s the reason for her lukewarm career. Then again, she seems trainable; perhaps she could’ve tried Broadway?

In any case, I do hope she’s out there, somewhere, still singing.

Happy birthday, Tracy Turnblad!

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Today, the United States will be electing their new president.

As I previously mentioned, no matter the outcome, the results will be historic: the USA will either elect its first female president, or a third party president (which is honestly unlikely), or its first orange president who is misogynistic, racist, Islamophobic, xenophobic, and a pathological liar of a scumbag who think sexually assaulting women is his right and privilege.

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When assholes tell women to “go back to the kitchen,” and yes, I still see some neanderthals making such misogynistic comments even against accomplished women such as doctors, lawyers, and presidential candidates, send the idiots a box of radioactive material with a regards from Marie Curie and hope they lose their hair and become sterile so as not to further contaminate the gene pool. (Don’t worry about brain damage; they don’t have brains to begin with.)

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It’s been a good week for a DC fan, what with the latest Wonder Woman trailer being released on the same day that the new DC Legends was launched. I’m still getting used to the gameplay, with some areas I’m still trying to fully understand, but over-all it looks promising.

For one thing, this game has Cheetah, Bizarro, Star Sapphire, Mirror Master, Dr. Fate, Black Canary, Huntress, and friggin’ Chemo on the roster. Yaaaasss!

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We’ve all been so busy admiring Johnny Depp and Meryl Streep for being such acting chameleons that another chameleon rarely gets the praise she so deserves beyond cineastes.

Of course, those in the know do know how wonderful Tilda Swinton is, who at the age of 56 not only looks much younger but has also accomplished much in her career that spans artsy indie films and huge cinematic blockbusters.

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So they just dropped the latest Wonder Woman trailer, and it is awesome!

Not only do we get more Wondie goodness, we also get to see more of Elena Anaya…

… and I’m pretty positive that, yes, she is classic WW baddie Dr. Poison. The gender-bending villain might seem odd to the casual viewer, but long-time Wonder Woman fans would know that Dr. Poison is actually a very appropriate choice; if I recall correctly, she was the first costumed Man’s World villain at WW faced in the Golden Age, initially appearing in Sensation Comics #2. With the film set in World War I instead of World War II, Dr. Poison also fits right in because modern chemical warfare became widely utilized during the first war.

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On this day in 2008, Barack Obama made history by being the first black person to be elected as the President of the United States of America. This was most certainly quite a victory, given the long history of racial tensions in the USA that stretches back to the days of slavery.

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I’ve always been more of a Star Wars fan than a Trekkie. This doesn’t mean I dislike Star Trek; I love the latter, too.

It just so happens that Star Wars was more of a fixture in my formative years: not only was I born on the same year that A New Hope was released, but Return of the Jedi was the first ever movie that I saw in a theater (to my recollection).

My oldest brother also had a collection of Star Wars action figures housed in a Darth Vader case, which I loved and was envious of – particularly since he rarely let me touch them. Moreover, I was extremely fascinated with the fantastic worlds that the “galaxy far, far away” presented: heroic Luke, sexy Leia, and dashing Han fighting their way out of Jabba the Hutt’s control as Boba Fett got consumed by the Sarlacc will always be etched in my mind as one of the most epic things, ever.

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