Posts by Timmy Timerton

Warner Bros revs up live action Akira

Another Hollywood Mistake

I'm glad Otomo will be there to guide the thing, but the reality is that his producer role is merely a gimme to make him rich and willing to go along with the idea. Akira involves many apocalyptic elements buried very deep in the Japanese psyche. There is no possible way to accurately or dramatically portray a culture that has been bombed with a nuclear device unless you are that culture.

BTW where in the hell is my Elric movie? Now that's something worth talking about!

CompUSA goes titsup

Tech Vultures Unite!

During their initial store closings, this was a great opportunity to pick their rotting corpse clean and get unbelievable prices on memory cards! If there's one near you, they typically increase the percentage off items every day until the stores finally close.

Newly-homeless kids get free iPod

Wake up and smell the reality

I will also echo the point that the homes that burned in S. California in this fire and virtually every other one in the past are worth millions. Rich people live in the canyon lands, not the needy. These kids will be stealing music from the pirate bay for their free iPods in a European hotel during Christmas while most inner-city teens will probably just get a beating and carton of cigarettes.