by Nicole Powers
“I’m a weird motherfucker.”
-Dave Navarro
I first became aware of Dave Navarro’s penchant for cute things bearing the likeness of Sanrio’s Hello Kitty character while doing the SuicideGirls Radio show. We broadcast each Sunday out of Indie1031.com’s studios, which at the time also served as home for the wild living and hard rockin’ Jane’s Addiction and Camp Freddy guitarist’s Wednesday night Dark Matter show (which has since moved to Moheak.com’s Silverlake base). In the Indie studio, there was a shrine of sorts, where people left various Hello Kitty offerings to Dave.
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by Aaron Colter
When I was asked to write a weekly column for Suicide Girls, my immediate questions was, “About what?” Because, truly, I didn’t know what the fuck anyone reading this would want to hear from me.
“Anything,” they said.
Well, alright. But I’m pretty sure they didn’t mean How to Make and/or Buy Weapons Grade Narcotics: A Guide In Multiple Parts, which is what I wanted to write about. But court sucks, and you know it. So instead, I’m calling this “Things I Like That You Might Like Too.” It’s exactly what it says it is.
Let’s get started:
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by A.J. Focht
The movie industry thrives off of innovative and unique ideas. When those are nowhere to be found, they turn to milking their original storylines with sequels, prequels, and remakes. Now it looks like producers at the Warner Bros. distributed Alcon Entertainment (The Book of Eli) are seeking to disturb the sanctity of Ridley Scott’s sci-fi classic Blade Runner.
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by Ryan Stewart
“I was absolutely out of my mind in this relentless pursuit of erection.”
-Robert Downey Jr.
What’s left to be said about Iron Man? It opens today and has a leisurely two weeks to prove its mettle before Disney’s Prince Caspian lands in theaters on May 16th and Indiana Jones muscles in a week later. Should the film do as well as Paramount and Marvel Studios secretly hope, there are, of course, plans afoot to turn this solo outing into a trilogy. Although at last week’s press junket for the film, the four writers on hand all offered different takes on where they’d like the potential franchise go next and director Jon Favreau insisted that he has not been signed for any further films, that could change on a moment’s notice. The film’s leads, Robert Downey Jr. and Gwyneth Paltrow, were both directly asked if they’d come back for a second and third helping and … well, what do you expect them to say? SuicideGirls was on hand for the roundtable discussions as Downey and Paltrow took questions from the peanut gallery.
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by Ryan Stewart
“He’s like Keyser Soze, everywhere and nowhere.”
-Morgan Spurlock
Morgan Spurlock’s 2004 documentary Super Size Me made enough waves to provoke the ire of a major corporation, so for his next act, the filmmaker is upping the stakes and taking his rabble-rousing to someone far more villainous than the Hamburglar – Osama bin Laden.
In his new documentary, Where in the World is Osama Bin Laden?, Spurlock leaves his heavily pregnant wife behind and goes on a multi-country odyssey as an average citizen trying to do what the CIA apparently can’t – find out where the terrorist mastermind is actually hiding and slap the cuffs on him.
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by Erin Broadley
“Sarcasm is probably the lowest art form.”
-Rob Corddry
Last time we met Harold and Kumar, they journeyed across the state of New Jersey in search of the ultimate White Castle burger to satisfy a case of the munchies. Over the course of one, extremely long night, the pair triumphed over adversity, got their burgers and emerged Americas coolest bong-ripping duo since Cheech and Chong.
Now Harold and Kumar are back with a new adventure, except this time the stakes are higher as they hop a fight to Amsterdam – the weed capital of the world – and find themselves imprisoned as suspected terrorists after trying to sneak a smokeless bong on board.
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by A.J. Focht
Omni Consumer Products is helping to ensure that the city of Detroit will always have a Robocop to watch over them. In lieu of an active cyborg patrolman, they are settling for erecting a statue of Robocop in Detroit. Omni Consumer Products is a real company, which takes its name from a company of the same name featured in the Robocop franchise. When Pete Hottelet, owner of OCP, discovered there was a fund-raising effort in the works to build the statue in Detroit, he matched the $25,000 already raised, bringing the grand total of funds to in excess of $50,000.
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