Hey guys. Just a quick update here. Check out my Tumblr blog here: http://mrbildango.tumblr.com/ I'm going to be using that to make quicker, off the cuff posts. I'll still use Bildango.com for longer articles and things like that. One of the things I'm working on right now is an audio podcast with a friend of mine FROM THE INTERNET where we choose, watch, and then discuss some random crappy movie that we find on Hulu, Netflix, or other free site. The first episode it up in which we talk about Captain America (1990). I hope you like it, because I had so much fun making it. It's silly, it's stupid, but considering most of the people that read this blog know me personally, it should also come as no shock. Thanks!

I took some time earlier today to look at the planned movie releases for 2010 and I noticed something that was not terribly surprising, but existed in a larger quantity than I expected. Apparently 2010 is going to be the year of the Remake and the Reboot. There were a couple more listed than the 7 I'm discussing here, but these ones just happen to be the ones that stood out to me. Some of them I knew about, most I heard rumors about but hadn't seen anything solid until today. Just in case people aren't clear on the difference, let me give you an idea on what I believe the difference between a "Remake" and a "Reboot" is. A Remake is when a filmmaker comes along, sees an old film that works just fine as it is, but wants to update it either with new actors and actress or new technology that wasn't available at the time the original was made. Usually the remake uses the original movie as a reference and somewhat resembles the original content. "The Fog" (2005) was a remake of "The Fog"(1980), for example. Sometimes the remake changes the setting or transplants the idea from the original into ...

There are many reasons why I would not make a very good film critic. Let's take a moment to put aside the fact that I have no professional training in journalism or film. Let's take from the equation that I can barely get out the theater to see new movies that I really want to see let alone multiple movies per week. Finally let us try to divorce from the fact that there are hundreds, probably more like thousands, of amateur movie critics on the internet who do exactly the same thing when it comes to reviewing movies, with only a handful standing out as original or entertaining enough to follow. The biggest and best reason that I would be terrible as a film critic is a simple matter of taste: I like everything. It's not to say that my top 100 movies of all time would be much different from anyone else's. When I say that I like everything it's not as if all movies are on the same level for me. They certainly are not. What I mean is that I find it very difficult to flat out hate movies. When I watch a film I tend to look ...

When I was younger my mother used to set meals in front of me that I didn't understand. How could muscles be food? How was cabbage or turnip supposed to actually be something I'd want to eat? In what way are crabs legs and lobster not just some frightening creature waiting to come alive in my mouth? "I don't like it." I would tell her. "How do you know you don't like it if you haven't tried it?" She would answer. Well. I just know. That's how. - This December there are two movies that are coming out, both which I am very excited to see, that have inspired many hours of debate on whether they will be good. This consequence of the internet, where speculation and fear of disappointment breeds contempt, it's nothing new and it's not surprising in the slightest. These two movies of course are Sherlock Holmes, starring Robert Downey Jr. and Avatar, starring dozens of blue Manutes Bol. Take a moment and sit with me if you will because I'd like to explore the range of emotions and opinions that I felt for these two movies before I finally reached out for my mom's old adage "How do you know you don't like ...

As I write this post it is 11:30. I've got a vodka and sprite in my hand (classy drink) capped with more vodka that was intended, a French bottle that is either actually French, or just distilled over French grapes. Needless to say it doesn't taste much like grapes. It might as well have been distilled over gravel and stuffed raccoons for all I know; I'm not a cultured vodka drinker if there is such a thing. I'm starting off this night by watching an old sci-fi horror movie called "Teenagers from Outer Space" without the MST3000 treatment. During this film I will begin the brainstorming process. My goal is to jot down at least 5 novel ideas by the time I go to sleep. After that, I'll pass out probably at 2 or 3 AM and wake up hopefully with a clearer view of the genre and short synopsis of the novel. I want to get a summary and genre chosen from the 5 ideas before the middle of the day on Sunday and then hopefully just start writing. In order to meet the goal of 50,000 words in 30 days, you have to write anywhere between 1650 and 2000 words ...

Starting on Sunday November 1, National Novel Writing Month kicks off. The challenge, as described HERE is to take one month out of the year and push yourself to write a novel of 50,000 words, from scratch, in one month. Essentially it is a novel writer's equivalent of 24 Hour Comic day. It also serves to set a goal for people struggling to get something together from a story perspective, a little competition, and a way to mark an accomplishment sized notch in one's belt. For the past several years I have watched the NaNoWriMo come and go, often remarking that I'd like to participate in it. My biggest problem when it comes to writing is that I tend to hyper prepare to write, rather than just writing what's on my mind. This kind of style doesn't really work for this kind of "competition" and in fact it has yet to work outside of competitions also. This year, I'm hoping to change that. After gaining a surge of creativity thanks to my beginning collaborative work on www.zombiegardens.com, a webcomic that I'm working on with Jeff Wells, I have felt overly creative all of a sudden. Thanks in part to a rather inspiring audio book I've been ...

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Though I am a little behind. I've been wanting to get back into gaming lately for a couple reasons. I think it would go a little something like this: The First one, and the biggest reason, is because I recently purchased one of these: A brand spanking new gaming computer from www.doghousesystems.com. Mainly I purchased this to increase my World Of Warcraft playing capabilities. Soon after purchasing it though, I became instantly sick of the game. So I turned my attentions elsewhere. It would be silly of me to not use this amazing system, so I started downloading every game I could get my hands one from Peggle (website) to Left 4 Dead (website) to Penny Arcade: The Game. I know what you're thinking: None of these games require such a crazy system. Don't worry! I'll be buying more games soon. I promise I won't let this thing go to waste. The Second reason that I want to get into gaming again, is that I realized that I'm in possession of a PS3, Xbox 360 (Giant Hard Drive Edition), and a Nintendo Wii. In addition to that, I have a massive 61 inch television. Not taking advantage of this amazing media construct that resides ...

1920's Note Found In Museum Wall The Note Reads: Help! I'm walled in! The construction crew continued to smash through the wall to find a man who had been trapped during construction with only a typewriter. They suspect he was a mute, and tried to slip the note through the wall to ask for help. Since the workers only got paid 74 cents an hour back then, they decided to just keep working and continued with the wall. Man Lives In Tree To Save It Douche Elm Disease He's also started a letter writing campaign featuring Wood Woodpecker, Chip and Dale, and Slappy Squirrel. China Accuse Google of Spreading Porn Japan Still Fine With It The internet is full of porn (I've heard.) China, like many elderly people, think that a service found within the internet is the internet. I know it's confusing, China. Do you call Google when the internet goes down? If you can't get your e-mail is it because of the Google? Teen Wins National Marbles Title Wins Title, Loses Friends I guess I'm going to have to dust off my "shootin' glove" and go reclaim my title of National Huge Loser w/ Marbles. Surgeons Reassemble Man's Skull Ewwww Unfortunately for the family, when they were done reassembling, they realized they ...

Another thing that I've been up to over the last couple months is my slow immersion into webcomics. A few years ago I kind of realized that webcomics were out there and I took my time wandering around the net, not very serious in my pursuit of new and interesting things to check out. I was far too engrossed in playing World of Warcraft and trying to get my fictional band "Indecipherable Madness Complex" off the ground. We were kind of a mix of The Beatles, Skunk Anansie, and Daft Punk with kind of a folk-tronic electro-snooch kind of feel, but that's not important right now. Once my dream of rock super stardom was shattered by my untalented reality, I began to go after webcomics once again. I started slow, reading the (what I considered to be) the two heavy-hitters: PVP and Penny Arcade . Essentially those were the only two that I could remember from my previous jaunts into the genre. Upon revisiting them, I realized that it might be time to look into these things again. One of the best things about coming in as a new fan/reader with these two behemoths is that there are years worth of back catalog ...