2 Quick Trailers

First of all here is the real trailer for Stardust. I don't think I need to say that I can't wait for this one.

And here is the trailer for Day Watch, which is the sequel to Night Watch. I thought Night Watch was cool and this one looks like it is going to step it up.

Oberon Release Events

With my recent obsession with beer events, I came across the news that Bell's will be celebrating the release of this year's Oberon at The Happy Gnome on Tuesday, March 27. I'm actually going to try to be at this thing. Seems fun. Larry Bell and others will be present. Bell's website describes the event: "Come enjoy a night of Oberon, pint specials, prizes and raffles, music, and friendly banter as Bell's launches another season of it's top selling beer." CChrist, I can't imagine why you wouldn't be interested in this. You do love the Bell's.

This will also be happening at Bryant Lake Bowl on Monday if you're in the Minneapolis area.

3D Beowulf

Small news bit about the upcoming Beowulf film: it'll run in 3D. Buried in an article on Variety.com about DreamWorks' decision to use a lot of 3D in the near future, it merely lists it in upcoming projects that will use it. Personally, I am excited for more 3D movies, especially after seeing The Nightmare Before Christmas last year.

Via: Neil Gaiman's journal

B[ow]log-Damn 7 pin...twice

X X X X X X 9/ X X X 9/ = 268
I left two solid 7 pins. Again I beat my previous high score by one, which is getting kind of old. About two months ago I bowled a 266 and then about a week later a 267 and now this. Will I ever break the 270 mark? I doesn't feel like it.

Mmm...Svankmajer

Wired recently did a gallery of stills from Jan Svankmajer's films. I'm a big fan of Svankmajer and feel that others should look through his work. And, no, I still haven't seen Lunacy yet. Leave me alone. I've been too busy playing SSX Blur.

Also, and I don't know how I missed this the first time I posted, Wired has an essay on Svankmajer's work as a whole. It's a nice intro if you don't know anything about him.

Idealism is guilty middle-class bullshit

Finally, finally one of my longtime favorite Linklater films, SubUrbia, is coming to DVD. I was really hoping that Criterion would pick this up after they did Dazed and Confused and Slacker, but, alas, Warner Home Video will be taking care of its transfer. Linklater says that Warner "is promising me they will try to out-Criterion Criterion's Collection. So we'll see, but I'm really happy that that'll be coming out." That about sums it up for me. I'm sick of not being able to watch it whenever I please simply because my VCR broke. And now, September has something for me to anticipate besides Labor Day.

Weird

Darth Vader has come back to life and resorted to armed robbery to fund a
3rd Death Star. Read all about it here.

A funny thing happened today at work. I was serving people coffee, like i do, and this huge fat
guy comes in, and I think to my self "God, I know this guy". Which was
weird because I don't normally pay attention to fat people. So we
started shooting the shit and he turned out to be supper funny. After
he left it came to me that he wasRalphie May from session 1 of Last Comic Standing...Weird.

In regards to Dan's last post (which was great) here is a picture of the next tattoo I'm getting...one of these days.

On Hamm's

The new VotM (video of the month), a Hamm's Beer commercial, combines three things I love: vintage cartoons, vintage ads, and beer. I was watching some TV earlier tonight, and on a commercial for WCCO News, they had a short bit about running the sports section with different local people. One of the "people" was the Hamm's bear, and the sportscaster simply turns to him and says, "Hamm's? Hamm's isn't a sport." While I tend to disagree, what I love about this is knowing that Hamm's, a once proud brewery started in 1865, is still remembered fondly in Minnesota today even if it's been bought out by the much larger Miller Brewing. With the thought of a new microbrewery hitting the area, it's interesting to think that Hamm's was once looked upon in much the same way. For the most part, my experience with people's reaction to Hamm's is, "Oh, they still make that?" It's pretty much been forgotten by everyone but a few loyal brand users, local historians, and, apparently, WCCO News.

And I can't get enough of these old commercials. I like thinking about a time in which it was okay to market a beer with a cartoon. And I absolutely love seeing the Hamm's presented in a nice weizen glass as the sun on the horizon.