Fresh off the streaming site goodness of [adult swim].com, comes our first look at the fourth season of The Venture Bros.
I’ve been a fan of Venture Bros since it started, but I truly think the series hit it’s stride last season, taking a show that started mostly as a Jonny Quest parody and turning into a complete analysis of growing up as a failure and dealing with one’s own mediocrity…while battling super villains, of course.
Season 4 looks to be just as great, and I can’t wait for it to air this fall!
With the return of Mad Men to television this past Sunday, another of my favorite hobbies returned…endless speculation and research of Mad Men!
And now, it just got a whole lot easier with this new website, The Footnotes of Mad Men. Essentially it breaks down different references from the series, either elaborating on background detail, character name origins, the real advertising referenced, or any number of infinite minutia packed into the series. Simply put, for an OCD nerd like myself, this is heaven.
I mean, where else can you find elaborate discussion of a painting showcased for 15 seconds of a TV program? And what makes this even better is having this knowledge in hand only further illuminates the rich world built around the characters, and underlines how much the creative staff at Mad Men truly “get” their universe.
The website is only credited to “the friends of dick whitman at gmail dot com”, but whoever’s behind it, I’d like to personally salute you. You do the nerdy legwork, so we don’t have to.
Congratulations, Minnesota! You now have a reason to exist.
What is it?
ZOMBIE BAR.
Once an infamous tavern called “Stand Up Franks”, this simple bar has been remodeled and reopened with a decorum that mixes Vegas lounge with undead corpses. Now called Donnie Derk’s Zombie Den, it’s been serving up drinks to a happy crowd, who probably have an easier time relaxing knowing they’re in a bar prepared for the apocalypse (seen below).
Their bartenders even dress like a certain zombie fighting slacker/TV salesman from London.
One of the most anticipated films this fall has to be Spike Jonze’s adaptation of the Maurice Sendak classic Where The Wild Things Are.
Aside from the rather mature way Jonze seems to be handling the material (based on the trailers at least), one of the more eye opening aspects of the project has to be that Jonze co-wrote the screenplay with famed author Dave Eggers.
Eggers, best known for his psuedo-autobiography A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, evidently became very enamored with the material, as he then adapted the screenplay into a novel entitled The Wild Things.
The New Yorker has just released a portion of the novel (roughly 8 pages of material) in an excerpt titled Max At Sea, viewable online at the link below. It should give a good hint towards the tone of the film, and has me anticipating now both the film and novel, when they’re released this October.
