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The comments function is still broken. It's been for-fucking-ever. It's been over a week since people could leave comments, and we are getting pissed. B. Alec tried to leave a bunch of no doubt caustic and funny replies to our last post, and he was prevented. This switch to a new server cannot come quickly enough. Hey, host server - get some fucking balls, brah. You suck shit. Love, Planetarium
Apologies to Planetarium friend B. Alec, but The Superficial is supplanting Superficial Blog as our favorite site primarily designated by the word "Superficial." What with its wonderful ability to be extremely mean to celebrities in a very funny way, and its regularly updating mon-fri, we are somewhat falling in love with it. Just check out a recent fave, wherein Ashlee Simpson are Paris Hilton are both slammed in one tidy swoop:
"With her new nose and giant sunglasses Ashlee Simpson is starting to look suspiciously a lot like Paris Hilton. Although if she's planning to take her identity and inherit her fortune, she's gonna have to work on looking less like she just saw a unicorn dancing on a rainbow, and more like she thinks poor people should be ground into soap and used to wash her car."
Hey folks, anyone considering going to see Poseidon this weekend might want to head over and check out the review of it that just went up over at Ain't It Cool News. It sums up nicely whether you'll enjoy it or not (hint: if you enjoy using your brain, you will not), but it's also got a great list of "Survival Tactics learned by watching Poseidon" that are pretty awesome. For example:
1) In the event of an emergency do not, I repeat, do not heed the advice of the captain or person of authority nearest you. They will only get you killed. They clearly have no clue what to do under dangerous circumstances of any kind, and while willing to die for their profession, are only eager to do so if they can take as many people with them as possible.2) Once you have avoided the advice of the aforementioned authority figure, seek out the nearest adventurous white person you can find. They’ll know what to do. Little Known Fun Fact: White men are actually given special classes in disaster training (usually during high school), and should always be trusted in these matters.
So let us know if you end up seeing it, and what you think of it, because we're frankly curious. We still refuse to watch Titanic on general principle, but we caught the last 40 minutes of it on TV the other day, and maaaaaan... it's really fun to watch that boat sink.
So, in the category of things you already know if either A) you read this blog regularly or B) are in possession of half a brain, we can tell you that Mission: Impossible III is pretty awesome. That J.J. Abrams fellow, he may not know how to end a movie very well, but man, he can sure put together some great action scenes. And, of course, Phillip Seymour Hoffman does bad guy better than just about anyone. And how can that music not kind of make you excited? Unless you're soulless, of course. In which case - bigger fish to fry than seeing a movie, we suppose.
Seriously, it is kicking our ass. They haven't sounded this fresh since, well, the last record, but this new one is out for blood. They sound angry, which is something that hasn't been heard since Vitology. Lots of loud, fast, pissed-off songs that reverberate with a new urgency. Apparently, being freed from a major label has given them a new sense of purpose, and they're out to carve a new stake in the musical landscape. Hopefully it will keep sounding this fresh.
Today's Dino comic about zombies is really awesome.
Any day now, Panetarium will be going offline for a couple of days to switch to a new server. This will be very exciting.. Our new exciting sexy website will have all sorts of new features, and it will become super-famous really soon. We're pretty sure about this.
Other sexy exciting news:
-The new Pearljam record will be arriving soon. It's going to be awesome. If you don't know this, it's time to get hip to the new, reinvented Pearljam. Bye-bye grunge, hello awesome rock and roll.
-Soon it will be summer, and Planetarium will be relocating to Minneapolis for a few months. If anyone wants to play tennis, we're always looking for an excuse to get out of the office.
-Planetarium staffer Buffyscribe passed Bill and Hillary Clinton on the street today, and Bill smiled at her. We are totes jealous.