This weekend I hooked up with some good friends and checked out a private screening of THE FOOT FIST WAY at the Archlight. It was just as funny this past Sunday as it was when I saw it in 2006! This is a must see that's coming out on the 31st of May!

Anyhow, it was great times. I got trashed and laughed my ass off. Will Ferrell and Adam McKay opened the screening with my friends Jody Hill, Danny McBride and Ben Best. We tried to get a picture of Ferrel and McKay, but missed the opportunity. Anyhow, we have tons of other great pictures...

And here are some pictures from that night that I took (click for larger versions):


The one sheet at the Archlight. The tag line is genius: "A story of a man who teaches people how to kick other people in the face."

I know e'rybody on here has an aversion to the memes of the intertubes, but the lolzcats videos kill me every time. They never get old (to me). Anyhow, this is a pretty funny lolzcat video, though the only part you really need to watch is up until the 3rd image. That took me by surprise. Hilarious.

What compels people to make crap like this and post it for the world to see?


Flash Dummy from charliesteadman on Vimeo.

From IO9.com: "In Deadpool #11, the eponymous main character gets lost in time and ends up trapped in an 1960s issue of Amazing Spider-Man (#47, to be exact), interacting not only with that era's characters but also actual dialogue written by Stan Lee way back when. The result is a "Forest Gumping" of a fan-favorite era that parodies the excesses and stupidity with genuine affection mixed in with a healthy amount of snark, unlike the more usual cynical ripping off and trashing of fondly-remembered reputations."

This looks amazing! Read more here: link

Last night the Egyptian was playing a 70mm print of 2001: A Space Odyssey, so I headed up to Hollywood with a friend to check it out. I have never seen a 70mm print of 2001, so I was really excited. Unfortunately, the print was aging poorly. It had a not-so-obvious pink glow to it and most of the reels had dirt and scratches on them. At the beginning of the screening, an announcer warned of a slight clicking that would be heard during a portion of the movie before the intermission. It was there but not distracting enough to ruin the experience for me.

Speaking of ruining the moviegoing experience, I really hate seeing movies in Los Angeles, because the audience almost always does just that. They're either talking or texting or on the phone or kicking backs of seats or something that detracts from the moviegoing experience. And, this screening was no different. Behind me, a father brought his young boy to see this Kubrick classic, and throughout almost the entire picture the little boy talked to his father, and the father never told him to be quiet. Not once. This isn't odd behavior in LA, because people out here tend to believe the theater is their living room.

Now, if you're familiar with 2001's opening, you know there's a short overture at the very beginning before the movie starts. During this overture there's only a black screen with white type that reads OVERTURE (and of course music is playing). The projectionist being a romantic for classic theatrical presentations kept the house lights up at a dim level and turned the projection lamp off so the white on black overture screen was not visible, yet we could still hear the music. This is how they used to do intermissions, as well.

Well, immediately, the annoying LA audience members who were not familiar with the movie's opening started pointing fingers at the lights and started looking back at the projectionist window as if to make aware the issue to some oblivious usher. Eventually, someone in the row directly behind me (I think it was the father of the boy) yelled, "TURN OFF THE LIGHTS AND TURN ON THE SCREEN!" As if this was as simple as hitting the power button on the remote in his living room. Suddenly, some audience member yelled back, "It's the overture, you asshole!" Half of the theater (the half who knew of the overture) whistled and clapped and roared, including me. I actually held up my hands as I clapped so the douche behind me could see how much I enjoyed seeing him taken down a notch or two.

Anyhow, I just felt like sharing. I laughed pretty hard about that for the rest of the night. And even thought it wasn't a beautiful print of 2001, it was still 2001 and it was still in 70mm! Fun times.

Tonight on Conan, the great Fred Simmons will be demonstrating Tae Kwon Do. This is for the upcoming film THE FOOT FIST WAY, which is one of the most ingeniously funny movies to come out in a long, long time. Set your TIVOs!

Because I was giving MarineGunrock so much shit for not looking like what I expected, I thought I'd upload some pictures of myself from my recent film shoot. It was a 18 day shoot. We shot using the Panasonic HVX200 HD camera, which is a pretty amazing pro-sumer camera for the money. I'd list the title of the film, but we're in the process or retitling it.

Here you go, MarineGunrock. Here's your chance to make fun of me!

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A new teaser trailer is out for the upcoming Indiana Jones movie.

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I know Grimm posted up snippets of this, but here's the entire interview for all to enjoy. This interview was only released on the internet. ABC News refuses to air it on 20/20.

I thought this was an interesting video. Someone should consider sifting it. Man, it feels good to watch those Ron Paul numbers rise and rise and rise. I donated twice and it felt great. Enjoy.