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Help Fund Ringo Deathstarr’s Next Album

By Chris Trash | May 15, 2012 | Meta | No comments

Hey, gangstas. Ringo Deathstarr is currently recording the follow-up to their début album, Colour Trip. You can help finance this by pledging a minimum of 10$ to help record it. Every pledge gets a digital download of the album before it’s released to the general public and you get to listen to it knowing that you had a small part in making it. Neat. Also, 10% of the money raised goes to Girls Camp Rock Austin. Neat neat. From the page:

Finally… After a great year of three European tours, a USA tour, and three trips to Japan in support of last year’s Colour Trip album, Ringo Deathstarr is ready to get the next album recorded! We NEED another excuse to hit the road and this time we want to go more places!

If you’d like to help with more than 10$, you can still get the album plus some crazy good incentives like these:

Note: I’m kind of dumb and have a short attention span so I don’t actually understand when the campaign ends so pledge now.

Let’s Play “Ask Jodie Sweetin!”

By thisismynightmare | May 14, 2012 | MOBFD Magazine | 7 Comments

As most of you know, we were supposed to have a Monster Tinychat with TV’s Jodie Sweetin a few weeks ago. Due to certain circumstances the chat did not happen, and unfortunately, it will not be rescheduled. Instead of chatting I will be conducting a Skype interview with Jodie on May 28th. I know many of you have questions you have been dying to ask her like “Are you still friends with that delinquent bitch Gia?,” “Which Olsen twin is your favorite?,” and “Where do you get your ideas?” If you have something you want to ask her, now is the time to submit the question! I will be conducting the interview based solely on Monster questions. If you want to submit a question, please leave it here in the comments or tweet me @dismynightmare.

Bookgum: Dafs on A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius.

By Chris Trash | May 7, 2012 | bookgum | No comments

[By Dafs. Dafs is currently in treatment after nearly a year as a brony. He lives in Myrtle Beach, SC.]

It’s not so much a problem of disliking the protagonist, or finding the protagonist distasteful. Two of my favorite books in the world feature extremely distasteful main characters. Both Ignatius J. Reilly and Patrick Bateman are men you would never want to spend any significant time with, for wildly different reasons. But one of my challenges as a reader has been my inability to get fully behind a story whose protagonist walks that line where I am unsure of the author’s intention.

Take Salinger’s Holden Caulfield. Certainly he appeals to somebody other than former assassins. He’s the poster child for mid-century teenage rebellion. He’s Jim Stark in Rebel Without a Cause, always falling into trouble regardless of his intentions. He even comes complete with his very own Sal Mineo, only in the form of his little sister.

And this is just another of the ways that Dave reminds me of Holden. Dave’s little brother Toph is his motivating force throughout much of the “memoir” (oh look how pretentious I can be!). Toph stands as a testament to the fact that YES, Dave does have a nurturing and loving instinct that helps offset how generally terrible and condescending he is to everyone else that he interacts with. Like Holden, Dave is simply above it all, and no one can really comprehend him: not his friends, not the rest of his family, and certainly not television’s Adam Rich.

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This Is My INSANITY (Journey): Introduction

By thisismynightmare | May 7, 2012 | MOBFD Magazine | 4 Comments

Last week, I ordered the INSANITY workout DVDs. This is my journey.

If you don’t know what INSANITY is, basically, it is “the hardest workout ever put on DVD.” It is a 60 day program that is super intense cardio. According to some of the online reviews it will #literally make you puke the first few times. Check out the video after the jump to get you up to speed.

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Bookgum: girlphilosopher on A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

By Chris Trash | May 6, 2012 | bookgum | 1 Comment

[By: girlphilosopher]

Hi everyone, I’m Allie, or girlphilosopher. I know there are people who haven’t heard of me. Nice to meet you! I’ve been pretty busy with law school, so I haven’t been around so much. But I’m about to graduate, so maybe I’ll be back around some more now. We’ll see how the whole bar studying/finding a job thing goes. What are you up to nowadays besides reading A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius? Did you like it?

I didn’t. I didn’t like this book. I do not recommend it. End of discussion. Kidding! But not about not liking the book. I didn’t. I actually didn’t even finish the book. Because I didn’t like it. So I’m sorry, you guys, I know that makes my review incomplete, and probably my opinion complete. But I honestly just disliked the book so much that I had no desire to finish.

I should have liked this book. I’m at the perfect time in my life to read it – I’m 26, I’m a graduate, people in my family are dying of cancer, I’m trying to find a job where I could feel like I matter (fuck it I’ll just take a job), I’m broke as hell and I’ll probably never pay back my student loans completely, I am anxious, and I talk a lot. But somehow, I just couldn’t love it.

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Opposites Attack

By Patrick M | May 4, 2012 | bookgum | 3 Comments

Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Dave Eggers
Or: Leggo my Egg-no, no guys, just kidding, no one should make that joke, ever

My wife’s book club just read Zeitoun and everyone liked it and afterward the question What Else Have You Read by Him? was raised and the assessment of Heartbreaking Work broke down like this:

All the People Who First Read it in Their 20s: “Great!”
All the People Who First Read it in Their 30s: “Terrible!”

I read this book when it came out in 2000; I was in my 20s and I lived in Brooklyn a few blocks from Eggers when McSweeney’s was getting under way and the book was just coming out. It seemed great! And now I have just read the book again.

Um. It was strange? To read it again? There are books that you need to read at certain ages for their impact to be formative, and I definitely read this one at the “correct” time. But I have no idea if the necessary context is “Being 20” or “Being in Brooklyn in 2000”. But as you know from my linked short story cycle, I Lived in Brooklyn for Ten Years and Literally Can’t Stop Talking About It, oh what’s that? You haven’t read it? No problem, I have it memorized.

Come with me, youngsters, to a time when alt rock was featuring a lot of cello for some reason…

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Monstery Science Theater 3000 – Alvin And The Chipmunks:Chipwrecked

By Ian | April 28, 2012 | Recaps and Reviews | No comments

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So remember when I was going to do Jack and Jill for this? Well I saw it and it was too boring for me to write about. However I watched the latest chipmunks movie, even though I haven’t seen the first two and I’m sure I missed a ton of stuff (jk), and this was something I can write about.
First of all David Cross spends the entire movie in a pelican costume. If you haven’t read his thoughts on this you should. pelican Of course his comments are crazy, but he is right this is a giant commercial for Carnival cruises, at least in the beginning.

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Paul Merton: In India, Kicked in the Groin Scene

By Chris Trash | April 23, 2012 | MOBFD Magazine | No comments

The most important scene from Paul Merton in India with some stupid edits.

Monster Games: Part Seven

By babyfriday | March 19, 2012 | Meta | 5 Comments

Part Seven: A Widow of This, a Widow of That

The Blogitol anthem blared throughout the Whoops Arena as Freideigh and Breeah looked to the skies to see who that day had claimed. They knew from the blasts of the cannon that more than a few monsters had been downvoted that day, Birdie’s searing gaze blasting them out of the arena forever. When she saw her husband Teech’s face projected into the sky, a strange look came over Freideigh’s face.

“Well, I guess that means I’m a widow now. Hmm. I guess you’ll have that, these being the Monster Games and all. Wonder if the baker has realized I’m single?”

“What did you mean when you said, “tick tock, the Blogmakers post on the cwock?” asked Breeah in an effort to get Freideigh to concentrate on something other than the goddamned baker for a change.

“Hmm? Oh. Well, I just mean that some posts are better opportunities than others for upvotes. For example—first post of the day, usually just a video and a punchy joke. The citizens of the Blogitol aren’t even awake yet. It’s a waste of time and precious gifs,” she explained. “You want upvotes, you gotta go for the ‘issue’ posts. Other good opportunities are your caption contests, Best New Party Game…but if you’re going in there, you’ve gotta be prepared. Not for the faint of heart. After all, those are the posts where you’re most likely to run into…the downvote troll.”

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Nicholas Sparks Celebrity Family Weekend

By concert_addict | March 19, 2012 | Uncategorized | No comments

You know how you spend every weekend watching all the Nicholas Sparks movie back to back? Remember when you made your bucket list and item #1 was: “Have Brunch with Nicholas Sparks at his waterfront home” and item #2 was: “Visit all the Historic Sites in New Bern, North Carolina that were highlighted in the Nicholas Sparks books”? Well, guess what… your dreams have come true!!

The Nicholas Sparks Celebrity Family Weekend 2012 is taking place April 20-22. The highlights of the weekend include:

A 3-day Film Festival showing all of the Nicholas Sparks movies
A Red Carpet Sneak Preview of the new Nicholas Sparks movie: The Luck One
A Live Auction with autographed memorabilia from Nicholas Sparks movies
Lunch with Nicholas Sparks and his “celebrity friends”
See firsthand many of the hometown sites Nicholas Sparks includes in his novels by taking, “A Walk to Remember.”
A Family Fun Night with Nicholas Sparks, his family and “celebrity friends” including a magic show
A golf tournament
A 5K & 1 mile Fun Run with celebrities to recreate Nicholas Sparks’ first moments of celebrity as a Notre Dame track star
For ONLY $1250 a person, you can Brunch with Nicholas Sparks and his family at their waterfront home. (This includes an autographed novel and a photo with Nicholas Sparks and his wife)

All of this takes place in New Bern, NC where most of Nicholas Sparks’ novels are set. Tickets are available for individual events here but of course you will want to attend everything by buying a $5000 ticket here instead (includes hotel room). See you all next month in NC!

Happy 3-11! Time to get dizzy-dee-down with Omaha’s premier Rap/rock/reggae/metal band.

By Chris Trash | March 11, 2012 | MOBFD Magazine | 1 Comment

If I had to pick a favorite member of 311, I would pick S.A. Martinez. Sure, P-nut has the signature party-animal ethos and the sweetest dreadlocks of any 90s rock hero. Nick Hexum has the rockstar looks and bleached blonde hair, but S.A. has a special kind of mystique.

I often wonder how the character S.A. was born. For one, his initials are not S.A., his full name is Douglas Vincent Martinez. S.A. is a play on the Chicano term “ese“. I imagine–much like Dave from Flight of the Conchords–Martinez running into a young rock band and finding them eager to learn of his worldly ways. SA, probably surprised by the band’s willingness to accept him as a mentor, started making up facts about himself.

“Yeah, I’m pretty Mexican dudes, so Mexican my nickname’s S.A.”

“S.A.? Do you mean ese, like in that movie?”

“Yeah, dude, but like I’m the ese. All my homies decided to call me that in the barrio.”

“Why did they do that?”

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Bookgum Giveaway Winner Announcement

By Chris Trash | March 8, 2012 | bookgum | 1 Comment

After weeks of careful deliberation* we are finally ready to announce the winner of the signed copy of Katherine Chloë Cahoon’s The Single Girl’s Guide to Meeting European Men giveaway. The winner is:

DUSKY PANTHER

Congratulations, Dusky Panther, the random chaos of the universe earned it for you. Please contact me so, I can mail it to you.

Reminder:

Lolita book discussions will be held on the week of March 26 to March 30th

*I forgot about it for a bit, got really busy at work, then went to random.org

Lord Vader, King of Zamunda

By Chris Trash | March 7, 2012 | MOBFD Magazine | 1 Comment

Monstery Science Theater 3000- Jack And Jill Announcement

By Ian | February 26, 2012 | Uncategorized | 2 Comments

So I’m sure a lot of you heard this by now but Jack And Jill was nominated for 11 Razzies yesterday, so many Razzies. To put into perspective it’s more than twice as much as the previous record holder Norbit had. Because of that there was no way this couldn’t be the first movie we did, even if it didn’t get the most likes, don’t worry we’ll do Dungeons and Dragons at some point I promise.
Now this is coming out on dvd and blu ray next Tuesday, we all knew that, we preordered it months ago, so that’s the soonest we’ll all watch it.