June 12, 2008

20th Century Boys - the first long trailer


I am all emotional and excited like a leeeeeetalll guuuuuurrrrrrl after coming across this first longform trailer for the live action adaptation of Naoki Urasawa's 20th Century Boys manga (which I've already written about). With one of the biggest budgets in Japanese film history and spread over three, 2-hour films, this looks like it may just live up to its hype. Having read the full series, I watched the trailer and just kept nodding my head: yep, they got that right...uh-huh...yes...good choice...so-and-so looks exactly like the character...etc.

The question is: how long until I get a subtitled copy in my sweaty, greedy hands?

Posted by Ted Mills at 12:33 AM in Film | | Comments (0)

May 29, 2008

m:lls 1999 - CD mix for your ears

Mills 1999
Since I posted this cover of my 1999 m:lls CD compilation on Flickr, I've had some requests, so I've posted the 2-CD set to Megaupload. Feel free to download the mix and check out some still pretty good tunes from nine years ago. (148 mins in total, 31 tracks, 160kbps.)
Track list is here:
Mills 1999 back cover

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Posted by Ted Mills at 10:52 PM in Music | | Comments (0)

May 27, 2008

I made Fleshbot, and I didn't have to get naked


I know, *phew*, right? Anyway, I don't usually blog the porny stuff, so when I found this very WTF (and NSFW) video on YouTube...and then found 18 of the same thing, I sent in a tip to Fleshbot.com. And waddya know, they ran with it. First, BoingBoing, then the New York Times, and now Fleshbot, the number one adult blog on the web. I'm everywhere, folks. Excerpt:

A very confused tipster writes to us asking for an explanation of the following YouTube video. It starts off innocently enough, with footage of a random girl-on-girl makeout session: nothing confusing there, but then things take an abrupt turn when the show is interrupted by footage from late-70s schmaltzfest "Eight Is Enough." Then it's back to the lesbian makeout, accompanied by some adult contemporary/soft rock background music. Then you see the opening credits for CSI: NY. Then back to some more Dick Van Patten, then it abruptly ends. In other words, it's a big heaping spoonful of WTF?
When the boss isn't looking, click through to the link to see the clips. You know you want to, especially with that hot Van Patten action going down.

Posted by Ted Mills at 04:59 PM in Web | | Comments (0)

May 25, 2008

3 Cities: 3 Choreographers


I went to Center Stage Theater to review the dance recital "3 Cities: 3 Choreographers" and encountered the choreography of S.B.'s Misa Kelly for I think the first time. What's even cooler (in lieu of my review that I am still writing as on this post) is that a lot of the work is online. Used to be that dance was impossible to see outside the live experience, but YouTube changed that.


Gypsy Dreams by Misa Kelly. Erika Kloumann danced this tonight instead of Shari Brookler in the video. Same idea though. Music by Iva Bittova.
Nadar Sabe Mi Llama el Agua Fría (Part One)
Nadar Sabe Mi Llama el Agua Fría (Part Two)
This was danced by Kaita Lepore this evening. I don't know who that is in the vid, but it may be her.

Le Jardin Rouge by Misa Kelly. Anaya Cullen danced tonight instead of Gwenna Devries.

I couldn't find any vids by choreographer Kerstin Stuart, tho' I'd love to see her dance with Ana Flecha set to Massive Attack's Teardrop, which was brilliant. However, I did find the above rehearsal vid of Louie Cornejo's Weathering. But its' very hard to see what's going on and it's not very representation of the finished piece.
Kelly's work is great, though. My job is writing about dance...not always the easiest of things.

Posted by Ted Mills at 11:10 PM in My Life | | Comments (0)

You gotta have Seoul!

Me and the mural
In 1995, I went to Seoul, Korea, with this new friend I'd met in Japan called Jonathan Crow and another English teacher called Katy. The full photoset of all five days (well, three main days) is now up on Flickr for your perusal.

Posted by Ted Mills at 10:48 AM in My Life | | Comments (0)

May 22, 2008

Colin Hay live at SOhO, 05.22.08

Colin Hay!
Men at Work was the first concert I saw back when I was a wee lad. Tonight at SOhO I got to see Colin Hay play solo and I got a photo with him at the end. Cool! In this setting he's very funny and tells a lot of amusing anecdotes. For a sample of what that sounds like, check out this mp3 of a TV interview with him on Andrew Denton's Enough Rope show from ABC Australia.

Set List:
Going Somewhere
What Would Bob Do?
Who Can It Be Now
Melbourne Song
Conversation
Norwegian Wood
Get Over You
Maggie
Death Row Conversation
Beautiful World
Looking for Jack
Down Under
Overkill (yes! my favorite!)
Are You Looking at Me?
Waiting for My Real Life to Begin

Only 15 songs, but understand that with all the storytelling, this was a two hour plus concert. If you get a chance to see him play in this kind of setting, I highly recommend it, even if you're not much of a Men at Work fan.

Posted by Ted Mills at 10:58 PM in My Life | | Comments (0)

Santa Barbara makes CNN news with Cat, Dog, and Rat guy

This guy on State Street has trained a rat, and cat, and a dog to sit on top of each other, in that order (well, the dog stands on the ground, but you get the point.) And now CNN has the video. It's good that we're known for something other than unaffordable rents.

Posted by Ted Mills at 03:00 PM in Web | | Comments (0)

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