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Brittany Murphy Out of Context

by Brian on January 6, 2010

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Who Shot MambaI will get to the important issue of the Who Shot Mamba? iPhone app being available tomorrow. (Click here to go get it in the iTunes Store – it’s 100% FREE.)

In the meantime, old friend Bjorn of Half Broke Hotel shared an article with me about one of my most anticipated films of this year, The Expendables.

The whole thing is pretty amazing, including at least one instance of Sylvester Stallone calling Ivan Drago “bro”.

Then there’s this part.

It features some of the biggest names of the genre – including Arnold Schwarzenegger, 62, Bruce Willis, 54, Dolph Lundgren, 52, Mickey Rourke, 57, Jet Li, 46, and Jason Statham, 37.

It also stars Brittany Murphy, who died in December of a heart attack.

Of course her death isn’t funny, but the article is all about how horrific the stunts were, the “tough legends” that have banded together, and how Stallone fractured his neck during the shoot.

If you read it all the way through, the placement of that sentence and the context makes it seem like she died of a heart attack during the shoot because she couldn’t handle how intense the shoot was.

Am I wrong.

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Umm…if you missed the Colorado Balloon Crisis…I don’t know what to tell you.

Falcon Heene balloon

At the start of the movie, Falcon Heene is a little boy and it says “OCTOBER 2001″ in exciting writing on the movie screen, and the audience is all high-fiving and doing cool fist-pumps together about the creative liberties they’re already seeing happen.

Well, Falcon is hanging out with his family at a secret government place with Falcon’s dad, who is Bruce Willis, and Bruce is testing his important new excitement balloon for his government boss, and that boss is a Senator, and he is Keanu.

Bruce thought it would be a nice activity to have the whole family test the balloon together, and so Falcon goes in the balloon so they can do that, and the balloon crashes into a lake, and the lake starts on fire, and that’s because the lake was filled with gasoline.

Everyone but Falcon and Bruce dies, and Keanu waves his finger like “no-no-no”, and that means no more balloon experiments for Bruce, and also Falcon does some crying about his dead Mommy.

So then like it says “OCTOBER 2009″ and Falcon is graduating from high school, and now he is Shia LeBeouf, and he is always bitter at the world, and especially at Bruce.

This is because Bruce went on Wife Swapper and swapped some money to get Falcon a new Mommy, and that Mommy is Eva Mendez. After Falcon’s graduation party, Bruce and Falcon are cleaning up, and they yell at each other about who is a man now and who is not, and that’s the meme.

The yelling stops when they hear important cars drive through the front of the house, and they go to the living room to see who would do that, and the important cars are Keanu’s, and that’s because Keanu is the President now.

Eva wears booty shorts.

Keanu’s men grab Bruce and Falcon and Eva and take them to a secret lab to work on a new balloon that can save everyone, and Falcon is wondering what everyone needs to be saved from. Keanu won’t say, and then he gives Falcon some kettle corn and sends him to watch Dancing With Some Stars, and that’s another way to make Falcon feel like he is not a man.

Well Falcon sneaks around and finds out the plan, and he is like, “No-no-no-no-no-no-no!” because Keanu is making Bruce build a new balloon just like his old one, and Keanu will use that to crash the balloon into Lake Denver, which Keanu’s men are filling up with gasoline.

Falcon uses a Google Wave trick to make everyone think they’re in virtual reality, and when they are confused he steals the balloon and launches it, and he is in it when it does the launching.

Keanu is mad now, because Falcon also called the paparazzi, and they are making the online internet go crazy about this wild balloon kid.

Keanu puts guns in Bruce’s face, and so Bruce calls Falcon and tries to tell him how to drive the balloon, but Falcon is all like, “Oh now you think you’re a good dad, well let me tell you a thing or two about your booty wife.”

Then Keanu brings up a viral video on Falcon’s screen, and it’s of Keanu’s men pouring soda all over Eva, and also teasing her with chainsaws and calling her names that are not nice.

Keanu says that if Falcon doesn’t crash into Lake Denver, that they will keep doing that, and also they will start doing it to Bruce, and then Keanu will cancel Lost when there are only two episodes left to go.

Falcon swallows real hard and that’s like time for a montage, and now the internet is really loving on Falcon hard, and the montage goes on for an hour.

When it’s over, Falcon is like, “No-no-no-no-no-no!!” because he is about to crash, and he asks Keanu to explain why he wants to kill Lake Denver so bad, and that’s because Falcon wants to at least have solid reasoning behind his exciting balloon death.

Keanu says he hates lakes, and that’s when everything starts to go crazy on the computer screens, and the balloon crashes into Lake Denver, and that’s in 3-D.

The paparazzi is so excited to have a dead kid to talk about finally, and like there’s a man running out there so he can be the guy to pull out the body, but he falls down, and the internet likes that one a lot.

Everyone takes their shovels and pops the balloon, but all that’s in there is some kettle corn. They are all like “wtf” at not getting to be famous heroes on TV, and the paparazzi shows everyone that on their touchscreens.

Back at the secret lab, Keanu isn’t sure what’s happening, and we know this because he is screaming that he isn’t sure what’s happening.

That’s when Falcon jumps down from the attic, and it turns out Balloon-Falcon was just virtual reality. Real-Falcon says he was doing a trick so Keanu would admit his evil plan, and maybe people won’t vote for him again.

They have a fistfight, and Falcon wins the fight, and Bruce admits he’s a man, and gives him beer and a passport. Also, Bruce gets diabetes at this part, so they go to the hospital, and Eva meets them there.

Falcon starts throwing up for the paparazzi, and so he touches Eva’s booty and him and Bruce like wink at each other for their cool way they figured out to be on TV, and that’s the twist, but nobody cares because for sure Falcon will have more adventures.

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Bruce Willis & My Mac & The WSM? Site

by Brian on September 1, 2009

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Bruce Willis Super AirplaneI was in Frys lasterday getting a new internal hard drive for the Mac, and saw this Bruce Willis Triple Feature.

On a conceptual level, I was so excited I didn’t even take note of what the movies were – I do remember that the cover pic was from Hart’s War, so let’s assume that’s one of them.

Anyway, I like this idea so much, I decided that after the Who Shot Mamba? DVD is released, I’ll be putting out a limited edition version of the film that’ll be titled Brian Spaeth Single Feature.

It’ll have several commentaries, all either by me, or featuring people who are only allowed to talk about me and my contributions to the film.

I’ll maybe Photoshop this up when I get the Mac back on Thurs. I have the HD, but have to go back to Apple so they can like do stuff so it doesn’t melt or give me bronchitis or whatever.

In adjacent news…the Who Shot Mamba? website is officially up and running.

All kinds of good stuff over there, including Prelude to a Who Shot Mamba?, the official free mini-book that like tells you the origins of some of the movie’s more eclectic content.

What actor or actress or regular person would you like to see in a triple-feature DVD pack, and what would the movies be.

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Bruce Willis on Twitter

by Brian on July 18, 2009

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palm springs film festival 2 060108I backpedaled through a Twitter thread this morning that made my laughing happen like a few different times.

@thraveboy I think we got shafted. All other planets have moons with fancy names and we got stuck with “moon”. Boring.

@mfeige @thraveboy have you been there? THEN DON’T TALK BAD ABOUT IT!

@thraveboy @mfeige Dude, I’ve been there a zillion times. No great shakes, trust me.

@mfeige @thraveboy Alright. Did you help put out the large fire? With Bruce Willis?

@alexiskn @thraveboy Sometimes Bruce Willis is so American that he gives me Post-Modern Surrealism Syndrome.

@mfeige He’s a real American hero!

@brianspaeth @mfeige @alexiskn @thraveboy That whole moon–>been there–>Bruce Willis thread is gold – I want to make a poster.

@mfeige @brianspaeth Do it! I love posters!

I think my favorite is the @mfeige angry outburst in defense of the moon. I actually like to think it was less anger and more like an on-the-verge-of-tears-with-mild-anger expression of shock.

Kinda the type of thing where he’s maybe covering his ears, and like not gonna be hearing that, right? Why doesn’t Bruce Willis have his own G.I. Joe, like they did with Walter Payton and Hulk Hogan?

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Here. My Explosion…

by Brian on June 1, 2009

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I’m not a film reviewer by any means, and I think you know this. Generally I can’t go farther than “I liked that” or “here’s what I would’ve done” or “Bruce Willis = A+”.

As you also know, I’ve been connecting with a lot of other filmmakers on Twitter lately, and one of those is Reid Gershbein, who has put a couple films up online, one of which I checked it out over the weekend.

The title – Here, My Explosion… – is right there in my perfection zone, although I would’ve gone a different direction with it – something more like Brad Radby’s My Naughty Tornado.

This is an art film.

I don’t generally get into these kind of movies – I’m way too shallow and/or ADD – but this started off with an interesting high concept, so it kept me. Basically, when Sera, a really super pretty blond artist, drinks coffee, weird stuff happens. It’s somewhere in the area of telekinesis – I don’t know that it’s ever fully explained.

Somewhere along the line, people learn about themselves and other stuff happens. I’ll be interested to hear Reid’s take on his own work, and what he was going for – I’m guessing it’s open for interpretation. Here. My Explosion… is a little talky and meandering for me, but remember that you’re getting that opinion from someone who’s seen Bad Boys II 47 times.

The one definitive thing I can say is that the lead actress, Eleese Longino, was phenomenal. I don’t know if she’d worked with Reid before or if she’s just that good or what, but everything felt very natural and real, and her performance kept me engaged. The shooting style – something done on a Flip called tilt-shift – contributed to this, as well. It was all really organic, for lack of a better word.

If you’re into experimental films, I’d go take a look. (Kingsley – I’m looking at you.)

You can watch the film right here and Reid is over on Twitter here.

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(This is a special post that’s all about you – the dear readers. Of course, one might even say it’s a post about me, via you.)

Old friend of YAYsports! Jordi Scrubbings wanted to interview me for his online internet website blog, so here’s how it went down. You can learn really deep, personal things therein, such as:

In my personal life, there’s nothing new, but I taught my nieces to say EASTER IN YOUR FACE whenever anyone mentions Easter, and also that everyone in Michigan is sad all the time. They just turned three, so if you ask them about Michigan, they say things like “nobody’s car starts there” or “they don’t have toys in Michigan” in really sad voices.

The bigger news is Sir Pooh de Bear is the first person to utilize the video comment function on the Disqus. This is a great way to become my favorite person.

(I assume it was easy to do – I have no idea, but I saw on 60 Minutes that they’re pushing cold fusion again, which is great news for President Keanu.)

By the way, I’m now friends on Facebook with @ColleenBurns and @alexiskn, which means I have access to all kinds of exciting and important info.

Did you know that @ColleenBurns is a fan of both the Seventy-Sixers and the Magic? She’s happy and sad and happy and sad today. Here are a few questions from my in-depth NBA Playoff preview I did with her:

3) At 6-3, I’m eligible for your dating pool, but I have a fear of dating tall girls, because if love happened and then marriage happened and then kids happened, and then those kids weren’t good at basketball, there’s a chance they’d just be 6-9 and gawky/awkward. Thoughts?

- i actually also have a fear, that 2 talls make a shortie…i have to say, it’s all a coin toss and as long as they have 2 rockin’ parents, it’s gonna be a rockin’ kid, awkward or not!

I’ve never considered this, nor have I ever referred to an un-tall person as a “shortie”. I’m inching toward the corner wherein I don’t have any kids until I can fully manipulate his genetics.

5) How do you feel about hand-holding over the internet?

LOVE IT!

Me too.

Having watched enough of everyone this weekend, it’s a Cavs-Lakers Finals, and I don’t see either one encountering a problem getting there.

Bookmark this post, and remember the following: Cavs-Magic will be the biggest case of NBA media fraud since Jordan-Drexler.

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I know I’m not supposed to care that the Cavs lost to Philly lasterday, giving up a chance at an historic 40-1 home record for the season, but I do.

As Coach Mike ran the bench into the ground – thereby defeating the purpose of “rest” to some extent – I couldn’t help but have my teen angst.

I don’t condone this “we don’t care if we lose blah cliche cliche cliche only about the championship cliche blah cliche cliche cliche cliche” talk.

I guarantee some of those guys do care about being on a team that did something only one other team in history has done.

(Including LeBron – one-upping Jordan in anything is a legacy/branding boon.)

Stop second guessing potential injuries and resting starters and just play the game.

Yes, I can just see the aftermath of a Game 7 Finals loss: LBJ sulking in the locker room, bemoaning the fact that if only he hadn’t played those extra 20 minutes back two months ago, he would’ve had that little bit of extra energy he needed to get through.

They’ll get so much rest in the first round, how would it have mattered? They’ll sweep DET (with large margins of victory), the time between games in the first round is spread so far that everyone always complains, and Hawks-Heat almost certainly goes seven games.

Sitting down in fear of mythical injuries is playing scared, and I just don’t “get” that. Plus, this just makes the whole thing complicated, because they really should’ve been 40-1, having essentially forfeited for their second loss. It’s like some kind of upside-down asterix on the whole thing.

(By the way, I think Chicago wanted to play Boston, hence their loss to TOR.)

There’s your hardcore NBA commentary. I have no idea how anyone else feels about this issue btw – please let me know.

Here’s a preview of the @ColleenBurns-centric NBA Playoff preview:

…and then totally give you a lap dance =)

See how great Twitter can be if you just allow it to happen?

The only thing that will get rid of my teen angst is if you go read about Brad Radby’s Yard Sale At Grandma’s, a super sensitive movie he made in 2001.

Meryl gets tired, and Bruce figures out what’s going on, especially because the doctor, who is Peter O’Toole, stops by and tells everyone about the Big C and how bad it’s coming after Meryl’s tummy. That’s when Laurence has a heart attack and gets adult diabetes, and Bruce gets a cramp in his shoulder.

I don’t want to say too much, but it’s one of those deeply cutting and personal stories about quirky families.

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Okay, these long-lost DVDs go back out today – the list: Drew, Tim, Dan, Gabe, Jeremiah, Eddie, and Yubo.

Those are all the ones that returned to me, just about two months after they were originally sent. Once again, way to go Post Office.

So @ColleenBurns‘ friend down in Orlando is @alexiskn, and while I promised her I’d name my band At Alexis Kay Enn, this doesn’t satisfy her raw, savage craving for my attention:

@alexiskn @TheNoLookPass woohoo!!! cant wait til i start gettin’ some love, too! (AHEM @brianspaeth!)

@alexiskn bored. laundry. tummy ache. and for the record, mad props to baked potatoes (.com)

Now, while @ColleenBurns is gaining on my list of favorite Twitter girls, never, ever forget that @halfbee29, @kelliesimpson, and @MelissaPR are 3 of the 4 top seeds in the inevitable tournament.

(Prediction: @halfbee29 will request removal from anything to do with this by the end of the day.)

This @alexiskn is interesting in her own right, though – don’t write her off as an @ColleenBurns wing-girl. Check out her profile:

i love my dog, cheese, robots, wine, movies, feather pillows, clive owen, texas, typography, museums, macs, beaches, dirk nowitzki and LOST. i hate purple.

Minus the dog and museum, everything’s looking nice – I’ll bet she doesn’t even know I had an adventure in Texas last year, or that I have a horsey named Pencils.

Like, @alexiskn and me could hang out and talk about Lost, movies, robots, and fonts for hours, providing she locked her dog in the closet.

That said, I’d really like to see how she reacts to me putting a photo of @ColleenBurns in her post. I couldn’t help it…I love when girls wear glasses, even if they apparently love Twilight, and are standing next to JJ Reddick while he’s having high blood pressure.

@alexiskn, in sharp contrast, hates Twilight, like normal people do.

Finally, just so this isn’t completely about other people, go read up on the latest from Brad Radby, 2001’s Dragon’s Game, Back 2 Back.

Keanu is back as the President once again, and this time it’s gonna be even harder for Bruce Willis’s Hank Dragon to stop him from launching all his cold fusion missiles.

When they get to the Iraq, they go undercover to find out the truth, and when they do, it’s even worse than they thought, because the cold fusion missiles are huge. Bruce decides that this time it’s personal, and he’s going to punch Keanu harder than ever, and everyone will know the truth about their bad guy President.

By the way, I don’t know why people buy books that are on the internet for free, but it seems to be working for me so far.

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In celebration of me and @ColleenBurns having impending BFFness – you know you can feel it – here’s the until-now unrevealed to the public soundtrack to Prelude to a Super Airplane.

Those of you who have read the book know when in the narrative you’re told to play this ominous, doomsy, track. The rest of you have sad faces.


The three composers are:

Daniel J. Coe – he did the score to WSM?, and saved that movie in more ways than one. Like, seven ways.

Rob Gokee – I’ve known Rob for like three years now. He got me on Twitter, so in some ways he saved my life. (Rob on Twitter.)

Kevin Samuels – Kevin is my lost brother from another life. This is the guy I lived with back in September, when I was subletting in that Armenian building. We share the exact same taste in everything, to an uncanny degree. (Kevin on Twitter.)

I have interviews with all these guys also, which one day I’ll post – I swear. I implore you to listen to this all the way through – Kevin’s track is maybe the most doom-laden of all.

Just to empty the closet out, here are all of Eastham Way’s poems.

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Don’t get nervous, but I’ve now shared personal email conversation with @ColleenBurns, and while her email address isn’t “hereiam@gmail.com” like I’d hoped, it still fits into my mental picture of her.

The personal emailing we’re doing is so fun, I can only hope it continues for another week, or maybe even 10 days, or maybe even forever.

We’ve even given each other nicknames – I call her Colleen, and she calls me Shaq Jr.

Here’s something I didn’t know about her, and while I didn’t find it out in our personal emailing we did, I did see it on her Twitter feed lasterday.

about to take my benedryl for the night… u know what is coming, yes @alexiskn a # =) #iheartbenedryl

That last part may be a fun code of some kind, but this sure sounds like she takes a Benedryl every single night, and then calls this other person, @alexiskn, and they have big smiles on the phone together.

She hearts benedryl.

Name brand, or just like a generic Rite Aid brand? You wanna know it! I’m the one who shares personal email conversations, though – so only I have the means to find out.

Cavs look like they’re gonna nail this home record thing – I hope they slaughter Washington by 50 tonight.

Today’s Brad Radby epic is the first one that really has heavy continuity ties to Prelude to a Super Airplane, and that’s Andreanna Marsupial and the Case of the Seven Loves. I’d explain it further, but one doesn’t really need to know the details to understand the jokes.

This was maybe the first big hiccup in Brad’s career on a personal level, as he simply didn’t get along with the woman who wrote the book series the movie is based on. Also, Bon Jovi plays the bad guy.

Andreanna Marsupial, who is Natalie Portman, is 13 years old, and she just moved to a new town that’s really cloudy, and there are no sunshines. Her dad Lugustus Marsupial, who is Bruce Willis, is a detective, and he always has weird and magic cases to take on. Mom is dead, and she is Juliette Binoche, and that’s a flashback sadness that everyone has in their hearts at breakfast because the pancakes and juice aren’t there.

Anything you want to know about Colleen Burns, you let me know in the comments, and I’ll see if I can find out.

Personally, I’d like to produce a series of short films where she walks into places and does her signature entrance.

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