Now that Iron Man 2 has dropped upon us all, is it safe to say that it was not quite the level of awesome that it was hoped to be? Don’t get us wrong, it was a solid film, but it wasn’t exceptional. In fact, compared side by side next to its predecessor, is one really better than the other? Are they really any different, aside from the villains, both of which employ the same tactic (of stealing the “Arc Reactor Technology” embedded within Mr. Tony Stark)?
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Not quite. The thing about Comic-Con that you have to understand, is that over the 10 years I have been going, attendance had been trending up, while the existence of actual paper comics has been heading in the other direction. This might be a hard thing for people who don’t attend Comic-Con to understand: they see the words comic convention and immediate jump to the cliched image of nerdy fan boys, overweight and sweaty, digging through bins of old comics, and standing in line for autographs from their favorite super heros. While this does constitute a portion of the attendees and activities at Comic-Con, to define the whole event but such standards would be an error. Comic-Con has been taken over: Hollywood is the new show and digital copies of your favorite comics on your new iPad is only a drop in the oceanic pool of money to made. Comic-Con is going nowhere….well, maybe to Anaheim.

Romain-Gavras doesn’t make music videos on the regular. In fact his last was two years ago for Justice’s “Stress”. At the time, it had created quite the commotion and his latest work for M.I.A. has just about topped that.
“Born Free” is a very heavy, distorted, punk-ish single off M.I.A.’s upcoming June 29th release. It’s a departure from her normal infusion of world music & effects, however it still keeps within her boundary-free style. One could only imagine what kind of shot could come of this song and it appears no …

The new LCD Soundsystem is turning out to be another banger. I would have chose lead off track ‘Dance Yrself Clean’ for my first video, but ‘Drunk Girls’ is pretty stellar too and maybe the 4 minute track length was easier for Mr. Jonze to deal with. Who really wants to watch an 8 minute music video anyway? That’s a lot of paying attention!

Thought we’d mess with you real quick. What’s up 2010? Yeah, this place is pretty cobwebby these days. No, that’s probably not going to change. If Conan can’t keep a show then we sure as hell have no business with a website. Did you see his last episode? The fact that a man like him, a truly funny and talented man, can’t make it just kills me, but then he starts getting teary eyed and tells me that the last thing he wants is for anybody to be cynical, which …

After watching the Matt Daniel’s directed video for Damien Jurado’s “Caskets”, I’ll watch anything he sends over to me. That video should have been on everyones ‘best of’ lists last year and it would have been on ours too, if we would have compiled one. Water under the bridge, as the saying goes.
So to my delight, Matt’s new project is for Mt. St. Helen’s Vietnam Band. Quirky name, I know, but they make some beautiful yet haunting music and the video fits nicely into the same adjectives. Again we are …

Don’t think we forgot about our monthly mix since we started updating with videos again. I know there’s someone out there listening to this and it’s you that we keep making it for. Enjoy the fuck out of it. I know we do.