A little bit of Popeye, just for fun. Here we have Popeye the Sailor in “Parlez Vous Woo”, a cartoon from 1956.

Olive is so captive by "The International", a radio personality with a French accent, that she’d rather stay home than go out on a date with Popeye. Bluto, overhearing this, comes to the door as the character. Popeye does his best to get Olive back, to no avail. Finally, Bluto challenges Popeye to a duel, ultimately stabbing him in the chest where his can of spinach was. Popeye unmasks Bluto, then eats another can of spinach to give himself a French accent.

How wonderful! A lot of my favorite TV shows are back. I think I’m going to spend a lot of time watching TV (online mostly) during the next few months.

House is back and strong in its sixth season. The season premiere was great, entertaining, fun and sad all at the same time. I love this show, and it looks like it’s going to continue being awesome. I just hope Olivia Wilde continues in it. She’s so gorgeous.

Casstle came back as well, and I’m happy about it. The show is great. Nathan Fillion is awesome, funny and charismatic, and Stana Katic is such a great actress and so enjoyable to look at.

Flashforward’s first episode was pretty interesting, and it seems like it’s going to be a great show, so I’m really hoping it becomes one of my favorites this season.

Ghost Whisperer is my guilty pleasure. The show is so cheesy sometimes, but I just can’t do anything else but love it. Maybe it’s because of Jennifer Love Hewitt. She’s so cute and sexy, and her laugh is so contagious. And she’s great in the show.

Heroes and Smallville are back, too, but I’m not sure if I’ll continue watching those shows. Heroes has been a constant disappointment from season to season, and I’ve just kept watching hoping they could start doing things right. The season premiere was the usual Heroes thing, a bit interesting, and setting up the plot for future episodes…and that usually is a very bad sign. Smallville, on the other side, used to be great, and now I find it boring, specially since Kristin Kreuk left the show. The only reason I keep watching it is because I love Superman, so I keep expecting that Clark Kent finally becomes Superman.

How I met your mother is here again, and it’s as funny as always. I have to say all of the actors in that show are pretty good and pretty funny. The writing is nice and the storytelling is cool. It never gets boring.

Finally, I think I’ll give Fringe another chance. I didn’t like the first episodes from the last season, but I’ve been hearing good comments about the show now. I guess it got better.

So, what are you watching this season?

Go rent both movies, or buy the dvds (The Astronaut’s Wife for about $9 and Devil’s Advocate for about $7). I think Devil’s Advocate is a way better movie, and Charlize is better in it, too. Nevertheless, I enjoyed watching Charlize Theron as the wife of an astronaut.

There are four things that come to my mind when I think of Charlize Theron: She’s a great actress; she is an absolutely gorgeous woman; she isn’t afraid of nude scenes; her roles are a bit repetitive. Case in point was the two movies I just talked about, but you can also see her playing a sort of depressed woman with lots of psychological baggage, usually haunted by her past: see Sweet November,  North County, Sleepwalking and The Burning Plain.  She plays a woman with issues even in Hancock and The Italian Job. I haven’t seen Monster, but I suspect she also plays a very messed up woman there, too.

On a more positive side, go see some really great photos of this beautiful woman at the FB Gallery, and then go buy Aeon Flux (DVD) and see her running around in tight clothes.

Mondays usually suck. I had the simple idea of making it a little better by posting a cool photo of a pretty lady in some lingerie. Now you need to thank Catrin Claeson for this amazing view.

That’s it, you can continue working (are you working now?).

I know the commercial is a bit old, but who cares, right? Here we go:

I just noticed that we’ve featured some photos of the beautiful brazilian models Adriana Lima and Alessandra Ambrosio, but there’s nothing about Miranda Kerr. I’ll have to fix that soon.

Link to video: here
Bonus: another Victoria’s Secret commercial

I like browsing around imdb looking for old and new things to watch. I probably spend as much time on that site as I spend time watching movies (or even working, ha!). For example, I just found out about this young hottie named Lisa Marcos who is one of the protagonist of a Tv series called The Listener, which apparently has already been cancelled in the US.

Stephen McHattie appears in one episode of that series. He is in a movie I saw a few months ago, called Pontypool (which is also a town in Wales, but the movie doesn’t have anything to do with that). I thought that was an interesting movie, I’d even suggest you try to go see it (the DVD hasn’t been released yet, so I don’t know if you’ll be able to watch the movie in theaters for now). I found it to be original, and a bit entertaining. But, I have to warn you that this movie is not for everybody. Some might find it boring, because nothing really happens. It’s a zombie movie without zombies. It’s a dialog movie (in fact, words are one of the protagonists of this movie). In conclusion, it’s a movie that you’ll either love or hate; there’s no in-between.

Actually, I’d say that this is a movie that you don’t really need to see, but you need to listen to. Considering the entire movie happens in a radio station, and the star of the movie (Stephen McHattie) spends 70% of the time talking into a microphone, trying to figure out what the hell is going on.

It was directed by Bruce McDonald, who’s also the director of The Tracey Fragments (starring Ellen Page), which is a completely bizarre and confusing movie (I’ll have to watch it again to see if I like it). The movie is based on the novelPontypool Changes Everything. I’m interested in reading that book, although I don’t know if it’s any good.

Zombies aside, let’s talk about cheating wives for a bit. I recently decided that Nastassja Kinski is gorgeous, and now I’d like to see as much of her work as possible (there’s a reason for that, but I might talk about it in future posts). I just saw one of her movies: Cold Heart and it is a bad movie. I mean, it’s not that bad if you have nothing else to do, but it’s not original at all, you’ll have the feeling you’ve seen similar movies a thousand times before.

Why then should you see it? Reason one: you get to see Nastassja Kinski without any clothes (that always adds points to any movie); she’s also in a couple cool sex scenes. But, if that doesn’t convince you, let me ask you something: are you a fan of LOST? If so, this is a must see for you, because the movie has two of the stars of your favorite Tv shows in it: Josh Holloway, the crazy guy who seduces Nastassja Kinski, and Jeff Fahey (you know, he’s Frank the Pilot in LOST), who is the cheating husband. You see, everybody’s cheating everybody in this movie, so Nastassja Kinski is the cheating wife (the title of the post makes sense now). If you’re a woman, let me tell you this: Josh Holloway and Nastassja Kinski have a couple of very steamy scenes here.

Will you see any of these two movies?

My initial intention with this post was to show the cool photo above, say that it’s an sculpture (I doubt it is a real person) by japanese artist Odani Motohiko, and then go on with my life. It catched my eye. It’s a bit weird, and eerily cool.

One of the things I like doing is searching for the sources, researching for more information, and not just trust what a blog says. And this is the perfect example of why you all should do the same.

I first saw a post about Odani Motohiko at a chilean blog named Bold.cl. The post is in spanish, and the author says the female artist is 26 years old. The text is an almost exact translation of a post at Design You Trust, where they also mention the artist is 26 years old. They, however, don’t mention if the artist is male or female. I’m assuming the Bold.cl poster assume it was a female, based on the photo. Following the sources, Design You Trust links to a post at Look in art. It’s in another language (I believe it’s georgian? I’m not sure) so I couldn’t translate…the only thing I understood is the first two characters in the post: 26. Look in art links to a post at Agitatto, but there there’s no mention of the age or genre of the artist.

The orginal post and information traveled through several blogs and each added a little bit of information. In the end, we know Odani Motohiko is a female japanese artist and she’s 26 years old, which is completely wrong. The funny thing is that all posts (except the original one) link to this page, where you can clearly see the artist was born in 1972 (it’s below the name), which means he/she is about 37 years old. That’s quite a difference from the other age everybody says he/she was. It took me a few seconds in google to find a bit more information about the artist. Art-it has a nice article, with a photo of the artist, where you’ll confirm he was born in 1972, and you’ll realize the artist is male.  Assembly language has another article on the artist, where you can again confirm the artist is a "he". They mention he’s 25 years old, but the article was written in 1997, which by then was correct.

I guess it’s very easy to pass the wrong information around. I think bloggers should be specially careful with this, even more when a lot of them consider themselves journalists.

That’s it. Now you have a nice collection of links about Odani Motohiko, so go read about him, and if you can, go see his art. Oh, and keep in mind that everything I wrote might be wrong…you have to do your own research.

I always thought that girls playing football in lingerie is a great idea. I’ve never seen that before (I think they’ve been part of the half-time show in the superbowl? but I’ve never watched it). The video above looks nice, and the girls are tough.

But then, I was watching another video of them playing in a real match, and the truth is, it isn’t as nice as I imagined it (and I’ve imagined that a bunch of times). So many protective gear ruins the fact that these girls are playing football….in lingerie. Well, it’s better than nothing, right?

What the girl in the video says at the end of it is nice: "if a bunch of girls playing football make you nervous, just imagine them in their underwear"

Oh my, oh my. Bar Refaeli sure looks good, doesn’t she? I usually see photos of her in bikini, and posing for fashion photoshoots, but here you have her looking natural in a simple dress, few make-up (or no make-up at all) and still looking awesome. I guess it’s because she’s got an awesome figure and an angel face.

This photo is from Fashion’s Night Out. As a kick-off to New York Fashion Week, stores across the city — and in participating cities all over the world — stayed open until 11 p.m. to entice shoppers with entertainment, flowing refreshments and sometimes even their wares to would-be buyers. (more info here).

Anyway, if you want to see more photos from this set, you know what to do, go to the gallery, and enjoy!

And, if you prefer to see her wearing something more revealing, like a bikini or even less, then go visit this other gallery.

I’d say Kate Beckinsale is one of the most beautiful women in Hollywood. If you make me choose between her and Megan Fox, I choose the gorgeous Kate. I mean, she’s beautiful, her accent is hypnotizing, and she’s got style and elegance. As an example, look at this photo of her at the premiere of Whiteout, a movie I didn’t know existed, but now that I do, I’ll definitely go see; not only because it has Kate Beckinsale in it, but also because it looks interesting.

I guess she’s wearing a really good perfume? Even her friends are going crazy for her. I don’t know. I really don’t know what’s going on…I know it’s a great photo. I love it.

I wonder what happened a few seconds after the photo was taken? Do you guys think they started making out? The girl on the right looks like she’s ready for more…

This is the perfect example of why everybody will need to carry around one of the new ipod nanos with video camera at all times: this is a great photo, but it could’ve been a better video.

I recently started watching the first season of Mad Men (I’m just up to episode two). I haven’t watch enough to say if it’s any good, although so far I do like it, and most people seem to go crazy for this show. Something I find funny is that everybody smokes in this show.

I have to say that the girl above, Christina Hendricks, really really impressed me. Wow, she’s good looking, and has quite a presence, if you know what I mean.

For know I’ll keep watching the show, maybe some day I’ll go find some photos of this cutie and post them here.

Being happy doesn’t mean that everything is perfect. It means that you’ve decided to look beyond the imperfections.

These types of photos seem to be everywhere nowadays…you know…write a "deep" quote, and take a picture of it. One is cool, two are nice, but fool me once…you can’t fool me twice. Why are these type of photos everywhere? Or is it just me? Anyway, I still love most of them.

Ok, let’s forget about that. I know I like writing nonsense, but what am I supposed to do? Post beautiful photos like the one below? I can’t always do that you know, I have many other things I want to share with you.

Either way, you know what I hate? I hate it when you find a cool photo in some site and it doesn’t point back to the source or offers any attribution. I always try to do that, I don’t know why a lot of people don’t. I mean, for example, I love this photo right here, and I wish I could know who took the picture. I can’t, because I found it in some random site with some other random photos (like the first one in this post). Can you tell me, who is the author of the portrait of that girl?

I’m desperate! What should I do! Tell me! TELL ME!

I think I’m getting old. How do I know? Because I don’t like most of today’s music…you know…I dislike the young people with their T-pains and their Justin Timberlakes and their Lilly Allens. I prefer my Tool and my oldschool Pearl Jam.

I do listen to all kinds of music though, and from time to time, there’s a band that rocks my world. The latest example is Company of Thieves, a Chicago trio with a female singer that is absolutely awesome (and cute), two other guys that smile and play some instruments, and a nice folksy rock style. So, they are not entirely rock, but they are cool, and their music is cool, and the singer is cool. In conclussion: they’re a good band.

It looks like they have a lot of fun on their live shows, it’s a shame it’s very unlikely I can see them live (I live in a third world country in South America), so I can only listen to them on my Zune (actually, I listen to music on my N97; my Ipod is gathering dust somewhere).

Back to topic now, what was I talking about? Company of Thieves? Well yes, you might like them as well, check out their latest video of their song “Pressure”

The voice of Genevieve (the lead singer) melts me, it’s so amazing. Also, check out their first video for the song Oscar Wilde, it’s a really nice one.

Finally, if you did like them, go buy their album Ordinary Riches

Are you wondering what movie did I watch yesterday? Let me tell you: Happy Feet, which I can’t believe was released back in 2006 (that’s like so many years ago, like 3 or so years, wow!).

It’s a cute movie. It’s a fun movie. It’s about penguins…dancing. You already know. You’ve probably already seen the movie a hundred times. I actually saw it 3 times yesterday (I left it playing while working, to keep me company).

The actor that does the voice of Mumble is Elijah Wood, who’s also lending his voice to the main character of 9, a movie that I definitely am looking forward to see. Here’s a sneak peak:

That movie isn’t out yet, but you might want to see Happy Feet again. If so, and you still don’t own the dvd, go buy it …now!

I’ve been posting more photos at fb spin, but I’ll think I’ll return to the habit of posting some cool and interesting photos over here. Why? Because you deserve it, and because the sky is blue and roses are red….I mean, because I have no idea why…happy now?

Today we have this gorgeous photo of a woman with her tattoo of two butterflies (or is it two tattoos of one butterfly each). I love everything about this photo, the color, the dress, the tattoos…

You can check out more of the work of this photographer at suo-me’s deviantart gallery. If you prefer flickr, then go to his gallery at flickr. And if you’re a Livejournal kind of person, then go to his blog.

Other cool photos by cool photographers:

• Yuta, by zemotion.
• October Day Song, by retrodiva88
• Fashion is Image, by hakanphotography

Also, check out mirabilia images (art photography), the portfolio/blog of a very talented photographer, but watch out, people are not wearing clothes in some of his photos.

Anyway, it’s a nice rendition of a song by Safka Melanie. Don’t ask me who she is, I never heard of her before until now; the rumors say she’s a singer-songwriter born in New York City in 1947, and is best known for her hits “Brand New Key”, “Lay Down (Candles in the Rain” and “What Have They Done To My Song Ma”.

The video below is a cover of her song Some say (I got devil) (listen to it here), which is on the B side of Brand New Key. Ha, were you born in a time when there use to be B sides?

Ok, enough words, check out the video.

While you were watching the video, I was doing my own research (you lazy bastards), and found out that this specific version of this specific song is is sang by the very specific Bonnie “Prince” Billy (and Tortoise). Go To horse latitudes where you might be able to listen to the same song without the weird fashionably cool video you just watched.

That’s why I love the internet. I didn’t know about this two artists, now I know, and so do you, unless you already knew.

Are you wondering what movie did I watch yesterday? You probably aren’t, but I am. I’m still trying to figure out what the hell did I watch, and whether I liked it or not.

Bug (2006) is definitely a weird movie, not for everyone.  It’s crazy, and it’s about crazy people. Actually, it’s about people with delusional paranoia and schizophrenic tendencies.

The movie was directed by William Friedkin, who’s made a couple great movies like The French Connection,  the original The Exorcist, and To Live and Die in L.A.. So you can’t deny that the movie’s director is bad, because he isn’t. Ashley Judd stars in this crazy little movie, which is another good thing. She’s a good actress, and she happens to be naked in a couple of scenes (it seems I measure how good a movie is by who appears naked in it ).

Anyway, I’m not trying to convince you to watch Bug, because you probably don’t want to. As I said, the movie is not for everyone. I’m just telling you what I watched last night.

Anyway, maybe, just maybe, you still want to see it, so you might as well go buy the dvd

Surprise surprise, I watched another movie yesterday, and it was good. It was Five Fingers. It’s kind of an old movie (2006), but I never heard about it before. I didn’t know much about it, either, which I guess was an advantage.

Anyway, the plot is pretty simple: Ryan Phillipe’s character gets captured by Laurence Fishburne’s character and friends. Then he gets tortured (the title of a movie is a big tip of how….five…fingers?). The whole movie is about that, but what makes it interesting is the dialogues and the interaction between the characters. I think Ryan Phillipe did a great work here.

Anyway, I liked the movie, maybe you will, too. Maybe you’d want to buy the Five Fingers DVD.

I saw Horsemen yesterday. I have to say that I did like the movie. It’s quite entertaining, it has some cool scenes, and above all, Dennis Quaid did a great job as the cop looking for the killer. It’s not a masterpiece, and it doesn’t get to be a great movie. It’s just good.

The movie is full of bad things, too. Ziyi Zhang is one of them. I like her as an actress (she’s magnificent in House of Flying Daggers, which is one of my favorite movies), but her role in Horsemen wasn’t convincing at all. One thing I found quite funny/weird was the casting decision. She’s 30 years old now, but she’s supposed to be a 17 or 18 year old girl in the movie.

The plot is the usual cop after serial killer as we’ve seen in other better movies (Se7en comes to mind). The end was completely predictable and a bit dumb. What bothered me the most was the revelation of who the killer was; from my point of view, that was done too soon.

Anyway, as I mentioned before, the movie is not free of issues, but it’s entertaining and watchable, so I don’t think you will be disappointed if you see it knowing that it won’t be that great.

Buy the Horsemen dvd!