“The slug enters the skull by forming small entrance hole. Blood and brain matter is ejected backwards from this hole. The bullet, which may expand, fragment, or tumble, then passes through the brain ...

Warner Brothers has made William Monahan’s screenplay for The Departed available online. A studio making scripts available directly to the public? This is a trend we’d like to see more of.

You can also get the script for Labyrinth online from the official site.

via Movie City Indie.

Dumb and Dumber

Why we stopped reading Time and Newsweek.


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Of Course

Long time viewers of this site will appreciate this: It turns out that one of our roommates here in LA wrote a 2001 short film called "The Agent Who Stole Christmas."

View the (Quicktime) movie here.

A Sure Sign You Are A Boston Native

You've just landed in LA, and already you've got you head inside a car telling the driver to fuck off.

(Fortunatley for us, immediately after the confrontation an LASD Deputy walked over and says "I'll second that" before sending the car out of the airport.)

Inside the Mind of Carlos Mencia..

You'll find Joe Rogan, Sam Kinison, Bill Cosby …

In LA - the successor to Boston as the home of stand up comedy - Joe Rogan recently called out Carlos Mencia, accusing him of stealing other comedians' material. The result- Rogan was fired by his agent. Fear Factor is so yesterday, and Mencia is the hot, powerful comic. But, that did not stop people from looking into it. And the latest evidence is he stole from no less than Bill Cosby. (bc we're too lazy to embed the Youtube clip, you can see it here.)

In the clip above, it appears that Mencia recycles a Cosby routine from "Bill Cosby: Himself."

The routine he uses has an obvious joke, so its possible Mencia did not outright copy Cosby. HOWEVER, if you are between the ages of 27 and 40, then you remember when "Bill Cosby Himself" was on HBO in 1983. For 2 years, every child in our neighborhood memorized every line from that show. Ask anyone over the age of 25 to sing the "Chocolate Cake" song, and we bet they'll suddenly recall every line.

It is therefore impossible to believe that:

a) Mencia was not aware of that joke, and

b) That a large number of his his audience did not see the punchline coming from miles away.

One more point: In his original routine, Cosby never felt the need to call the mother of his child a bitch.

In Memoriam: Calvert Deforest

One of our favorite memories of childhood was watching David Letterman, and hoping that Larry Bud Melman would appear. Calvert Deforest, the man who played him, died a few days ago, and he will be missed.

We just watched "Andy Barker, PI".

and we think you should too. Because we live in the future, the entire episode is available online.

If you are reading this in Boston, you are moments away from your own liquified doom

Earthquakes, smearthquakes. We're much safer here in LA, where we don't have to worry about getting flash-fried in a massive LNG explosion.

Reading today's Globe, it appears it's time for another round of LNG hysteria.

A few years ago, we were tasked with preparing a brief summary of a federal report that looked at what might happen if an LNG tanker was hit by a missile. Our recommendation to the boss: "Relax. It's inconclusive. Their own report says no one has any idea what can happen."

The front page of the Herald the next day: "A terrorist attack on a giant liquefied natural gas tanker in Boston Harbor likely would devastate nearby neighborhoods in Boston, Charlestown, and Everett, a forthcoming federal study suggests."

Hence our new career out here in LA.

Safe at home

So we’re being asked: are we anywhere near those brushfires?

We thank everyone for their concern, but fortunately the answer is no. The fires appear to be pretty far inland. Where we are, our primary worries are landslides, earthquakes, being struck by a runaway tumbleweed, heatstroke, carjackings, gang violence, and getting trampled by a spontaneous Mexican Immigration Freedom rally.

Has it been 10 years already?

Those of you who don't subscribe to The Source may not have known it was the 10th anniversary of Biggie Smalls death this weekend. And here in LA, the radio stations were playing wall-to-wall Biggie Small. We listened on the way in and the way home Friday, and after about 3 hours of this, we began to hear songs that we never knew he recorded. Think we just heard him sing a duet with Elton John…

More signs that it's been a long biggie marathon:

• Hearing a previously unreleased cover of Lionel Ritchie’s “ Hello” that was dedicated to his wife, Faith Evans.
  

• They played a Busta Rhymes song where Biggie Smalls was not performing, but he was in the studio during the recording and he can be heard to break wind loudly in the background (luckily, he let burst the vapors in time with the beat, so it wasn’t caught until the record was already released.)

• A rare recording of ‘Dangerous MCs’ where the engineer left the recording go on too long and you hear him tell Sean Coombs “Nah, I wanna wait until after I fake my death to release that song.”

Coming Soon

Variety reports on the next show by the creators of the Best TV Show ever produced (otherwise known as The Wire) : Generation Kill, a show about the Marines fighting in Iraq.

Here’s a taste of the source material.

“A twenty-two-year-old from Missouri with a faintly hick accent and a shock of white-blond hair covering his wide, squarish head—his blue eyes are so far apart Marines call him "Hammerhead" or "Goldfish"—Person plans to be a rock star when he gets out of the Corps. The first night of the invasion, he had crossed the Iraqi border, simultaneously entertaining and annoying his fellow Marines by screeching out mocking versions of Avril Lavigne songs. Tweaking on a mix of chewing tobacco, instant coffee crystals, which he consumes dry by the mouthful, and over-the-counter stimulants like ephedra-based Ripped Fuel, Person never stops jabbering. Already he's reached a profound conclusion about this campaign: that the battlefield that is Iraq is filled with "fucking retards." There's the retard commander in the battalion, who took a wrong turn near the border, delaying the invasion by at least an hour. There's another officer, a classic retard, who has spent much of the campaign chasing through the desert to pick up souvenirs—helmets, Republican Guard caps and rifles—thrown down by fleeing Iraqi soldiers. There are the hopeless retards in the battalion—support sections who screwed up the radios and didn't bring enough batteries to operate the Marines' thermal—imaging devices. But in Person's eyes, one retard reigns supreme: Saddam Hussein. "We already kicked his ass once," he says. "Then we let him go, and he spends the next twelve years pissing us off even more. We don't want to be in this shithole country. We don't want to invade it. What a fucking retard."

via kottke.org