an icepick through the keyhole

For the Hokkien speakers out there...

The voice of the singer is awful, but the song is hilarious.

Well, to anyone who's gone through first year tort law, that is.

Ladles and gentlemints, "Snail in a Bottle" (YouTube clip).

In case people haven't noticed this, the best damn superhero comic book story of the last five years — hell, the last decade, maybe — is being adapted into an animated movie. The sad, sad part is that because of the time constraints, a lot of the best bits had to be cut out. I can only hope that the ultimate product doesn't completely screw up Darwyn's story.

This is the teaser trailer, made up of excerpts from the comic book and snippets of animation.

Happy Independence Day to my friends in the United States.

And now, a word from Keith Olbermann.

The text for those who don't want to watch it.

Here's another version of the earlier video (showing two female fans going nuts while watching the Doctor Who episode "Utopia"), which has a P-in-P that shows you what they were reacting to at the time.

The reactions of two young female fans while watching "Utopia". My reaction was a little, um, lower key - but not by much (and even though I knew what was coming).

You see, this is what I miss when I don't have you guys around to watch these shows with. :) I feel so embarrassed squee-ing or talking to the LCD screen on my own.

From the latest episode of Doctor Who Confidential, a mashup of Doctor Who clips set to the music of Fall Out Boy's "Thnks Fr Th Mmrs".

I'm a sucker for these things (remember the 40th Anniversary montage set to the Orbital Doctor Who theme remix?) because they showcase the long legacy of a show I love so much I want to hug it to sleep.

Yeah, I'm that sappy. What of it?

April 23: It's Time To Save The World

"This is the usually the part when people start screaming."

For a while, Heroes felt like it was cruising a bit, even with the introduction of Christopher Eccleston and George Takei. But the last two episodes... "Company Man" which was so incredibly awesome and emotional, and "Parasite"'s multiple cliffhanger endings, well... I am this show's bitch, I really am.

It's going to be a long wait.

So, I'm looking at Penny Arcade's latest offering, a relatively funny piece about the Zune, and when I hit the last panel my mind automatically tries to fit the lyrics to "Sometimes When We Touch" — taking me to a dark in my mind where I never wanted to go again lest I scream out in terror at the memory of countless covers of this — before I realise it's not that song.

Turns out it's a new kind of terror entirely: "Everytime We Touch" by Cascada, someone who I've never heard of (and that's when yet another example of my encroaching old fogeyness hits me), and when I watch the music video I sit, slack-jawed in amazement at the banality of the music, although I admit the video does have some mild amusement value.

Two thoughts collide almost simultaneously, reminding me of my popular culture contamination by both sides of the Atlantic.

First, Natalie Horler, the lead singer of Cascada, looks like a young Camille Coduri, so if they want someone to play a younger Jackie Tyler, that's your girl.

Second, listening to the electro-pop melody of the song, I keep expecting Mr Six, that wrinkled old guy from the Six Flags commercials, to jump out and start boogie-ing down. I mean seriously, it's the same bloody instruments.

This is what it is like to live inside my brain. It hurts.