Category: Entertainment

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Bootleg DVDs are actually Porn

The other day I jumped on a near empty V line car at 2nd Ave and noticed on the seat across from me a bootleg DVD of Kung Fu Panda. Eyebrow raised and a quick look around, I noticed there were actually two; one resting on a seat a few rows down with no riders in close proximity to claim ownership to either. Cool. I’ll check it out.

The package is like all you’ve seen: cover shot of the movie poster, inside a printed label as well on a burned DVD. KFP is not a flick I would pay for in the theater, mail home on netflix and I don’t buy bootlegs but a free option is gold right?

Last night with the woman, I throw together some dinner and get down to watch this vid. The first screen shot after a moment of darkness is of a giant black dick being sucked off by a wide eyed, sex starved skank, proceeded by 6 additional scenes of some hardcore gonzo action…

I won’t get into how long we actually watched this – but first I was shocked (this was not expected), then disappointed (I actually prepped myself to get into Jack Black’s stoner panda roll), then amused (at the bait n switch), and then pissed off (had I had kids and popped this in, I’d be hard pressed to explain this after jumping for the power off button).

Moral is, get your p0rn off the internet like everyone else?….no… you get what you pay for?… don’t buy bootlegs? well what ever.. it was an entertaining ruse I thought I would share…

Skidoosh!

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In your face advertising

Like most people, I feel we’re living in the most over saturated environments (home, work, TV, magazines, movies, radio, roadside and fashion). One of the areas where American’s have gone to escape has been the TV but with the invent of the DVR we’ve all been able to knock out one of the major annoyances of TV (besides the TERRIBLE programing), the commercials. I don’t even watch TV live any more if at all, so I just record the shows of interest and pass through the commercials or delete the whole show if it’s crap.

With one of the only reality shows I’ve watched, Top Chef, the product placement every week within the show is out of control. Still and hold shots on product, announcements of product focus and even forcing the cheftestants to cook with specific products (Uncle Bens give me a fucking break).

TBS has just introduced what I had suspected would happen but worse… commercials DURING the show – Here’s and example where they actually have the character “walk” on to the screen and pause the show to pitch their product. It’s directly focused to get eyeballs on the DVR crowd and it does not make me happy.

For the first time, I’ve made a complaint to a cable network but in reality, they won’t do anything, so I’ll have to just stop watching TBS. Their loss. Check out the commercial break here:

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24×7 dinner for the locals crowd locks it’s doors

Restaurant Florent, a namesake in the Meat Packing Districts, late night dinning scene – if drunken pommes frites, mac and cheese, and roulade of chicken breast qualifies as even “late night” – is closing its doors for good.

Florent was not a huge money maker, a landmark of New York, nor did Florent open his establishment looking to become a celebrity hot spot or institution; in fact quite the opposite. Florent Morellet opened 23 years ago, a reliable French bistro for all hours, welcoming all the transsexual prostitutes, nightlife kids freaking on tabs and weird sex pervs; and then the DB heaven of Meat Packing District moved in and swept the fun out of the hood. Florent continued to be that familiar afterhours joint to refill after a full on night of glory, similar to my youthful hangouts of Lyons in San Ramon, CA, Denny’s in Emeryville, or Nations in Daily City (only not nearly as good).

My few personal exploits at Florent were typically at unrespectable hours for any last drops of entertainment, character watching and imbibing I could squeeze out of the hole that is MPD. The closure of Florent is not personally lugubrious, but represents another death in the soul of a city that continues to clear established local merchants that support local art, culture and causes, by raising rents to house the cookie cutter clubs, big box pushing/high end conglomerates and stylishless touist traps. Only one more reason I don’t venture to far to the west side.

NY Times has a review of the restaurant people and history.

UPDATE: NY Times talks about the final days