Joaquin Not Joakin'

I'm not going to bother to say anything... Joaquin, I'll let you handle this:

"There's not a hoax," Phoenix tells the Associated Press of doubts about his sudden conversion from movie star to hip-hop artist. "Might I be ridiculous? Might my career in music be laughable? Yeah, that's possible, but that's certainly not my intention."

People Magazine has more.

Also, I think I totally subconsciously stole this headline from Film Drunk. Sorry everyone.

Dan

Studio Notes on Capucine...

Last year we shared a video of a little French girl telling a crazy story. Check it out here.

Then we saw this online:


Studio notes on Capucine's "Once Upon a Time" from Jason Ginsburg on Vimeo.

And this being the new year- and one of our new year resolutions being to stop accusing everyone of plagiarism, we won't say how this sort of reminds us of our post about Cappucine.

We won't say that. And it's funny.

Dan

Surrealism Hijacked 2! Empire 2!

INT. SOME TRENDY BAR IN NEW YORK CITY - NIGHT

Surrealists Dan and Vince bust through the door and begin flipping over tables.

Poe! Amos Poe! Is Amos Poe in here? Where is he? Somebody bring me that No Wave motherfucker! He's on my list! And not my Christmas list- my other list- my shit list! It's right here. It says:

1. LA Times
2. Amos Poe

End of list. Anyway we're here to talk to Poe about his 2007 film Empire 2. The trailer's embedded at the top of the page, give it a watch, we'll wait...

When I watched that trailer I felt like I had already seen it before- but, c'mon a sequel to Andy Warhol's Empire- I know I haven't seen that before- unless... I saw it inside my own brain!!!

I present EXHIBIT A in the trial of Dan and Vince vs. Amos Poe. Here is a clip from an interview I did in 2001...



You think you dada, Poe? You ain't dada! You ain't nothin'! This ain't over Poe!

Dan

Surrealism Hijacked! Shame on the LA Times

I wake up this morning, squeeze a little coffee onto a toothbrush, brew up some Colgate, and put it in a mug for Dan, and then I e-zip on over to the LA Times online. And what do I find there? BLATANT THIEVERY!! MISAPPROPRIATON OF SURREALISM!! And the FAILURE TO GIVE PROPER CREDIT WHERE DUE!!!

What am I so mad about? I'll tell you (although, admittedly, it would be far more Surreal to not tell you...):

As many of you saw, the other day the Internet Movie Database prominently featured a link to our previous blog posting Let Hollywood Be Your Super Tuesday Guide (thank you, btw), in which Dan and I used movies and TV shows to predict the future efficacy of either our nation’s first Black or female president. Thousands of people read our blog – we have the stats from Google Analytics to prove it.

And then this morning, a full six days after our original post, the Los Angeles Times has the effrontery to blatantly rip us off without even sticking a picture of Rene Magritte in the article to throw us a bone. They ran a piece called Real Lessons from Fake Presidents, in which they used the exact same premise as our blog, except across racial, gender, and genre lines. They even used the same movies and TV shows we did (including 24, Deep Impact, and Commander in Chief), and made the same Geena Davis joke. As if that weren’t bad enough, they promised zombies in the tease, and then DID NOT DELIVER ZOMBIES.

You don’t have to take our word for it, though. You can read the article here.

First The Onion, and now this. Rest assured, notice will be paid.

Vince out (grrr).