Sleep in a Capsule

If you're like me, you thought it was pretty neat in The Fifth Element when passengers on long flights got their own private sleeping chambers. Now you can get almost the same experience (in hotel form) at the Capsule Inn Akihabara in Tokyo. Your sleeping capsule comes equipped with TV, radio, alarm clock and adjustable lighting. Kinda reminds me of the "coffin hotels" in Neuromancer.

Underworld in Atlanta

This is not to be missed. Got my tickets yesterday. Go HERE to snag them as this will most certainly sell out quick. The details:





THIS EVENT WILL SELL OUT FAST! THIS IS A RARE SHOW FOR ONLY 1000 PEOPLE. DO NOT WAIT TO BUY THESE PRESALES!

SPECIAL ADVANCE DISCOUNTED PRESALE WILL GO ON SALE THURSDAY FEBRUARY 14TH ONLY WITH PASSWORD "LIQUIFIED". CHECK TICKET SECTION FOR FULL INFO!

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Liquified & Rival Entertainment present

An Intimate night with Underworld
Friday March 28th 2008
Atlanta, GA

Get ready as we bring you an rare INTIMATE night with one of the biggest live acts ever….

UNDERWORLD (live)

Along with

IAN JAMES

INFORMATION:
Doors open at 8:00 pm
18 and over welcome
Full Bar for 21 & over w/ I.D.

HD DVD is dead! Long live Blu-Ray!

The shortest format war ever is over! Toshiba has admitted to abandoning the format and will phase out all player production by the end of the year. The move leaves HD DVD owners zero recourse for their suddenly useless movie collections and players...and PS3 owners nodding smugly as they have been for the past six months. To all those who bought an HD DVD player this holiday season for themselves or a loved one:

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Words...cannot...describe...

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


[editors note: guess which gaming system happens to be hooked up to this monster]

Blu-ray Continues to Kick HD-DVD in the Proverbial Nuts

In a development that shocked no one at all, Netfilx today decided to follow suit with Blockbuster and drop HD DVD like a bad habit. In fact, lets savor that for a moment. Here, have another link. What's that? Best Buy dropped them too? In the same day? Ouch.

HD DVD now joins the N-Gage, Tequiza and Windows ME as the worst fucking ideas in the history of product development.

Great Food & Wine Site

The Epicentre is actually an Australian company that sells exotic spices. While their spice collections are pretty cool in their own right, the site has an amazing amount of other great stuff: recipes, articles on wine, an encyclopedia of spices, lots of info on Aussie food, beer, bush-tucker and even the history of Vegemite. Definitely worth a look.

Bacon Scarf ftw!

Tragically, this slightly disturbing gem is sold out.

Apple Not Coming to NAB 2008

Looks like Trey and I managed to attend the last cool NAB last year. Apple, the folks who had the largest and busiest booth in 2007, have decided not make the trek to Vegas this time around. With Avid also skipping the show, it seems like the writing is on the wall as far as NAB no longer being a must-attend event, especially for us post-production types. I suppose it makes sense for
Apple: why pay huge amounts of money to be just another vendor on the floor when they've got MacWorld where they can be the center of attention. Creative Cow's blurb on Apple dropping out HERE.

My Love of The Bloody Mary

Due partially to my new post-hospitalization diet (and partially to my love of the drink in general) I have gone on a semi-obsessive bloody mary kick that has me drinking 3-4 virgin cocktails a week in addition to the occasional booze-filled one on the weekend. I've been refining the recipe slowly and I now have what I consider, at least for my palette, to be the ultimate formula. This can easily be adapted for bulk mixer-making as well, but here's the single-drink version:


10 oz Low-Sodium V8 (the regular kind is too overpowering/salty)
2 dashes Worcestershire sauce
3 dashes Tabasco
1 tsp Spice Hunter Chef's Shake (very importatnt to have this EXACT brand, trust me)
3-4 grinds of freshly cracked black pepper
1 dash celery salt

(optional)
Vodka to taste (I prefer Tito's Handmade)
Garnish with queen olives or a lime wedge

Cool Design Site

Check out Baekdal.com, specifically the design page, for frequently updated links from the world of industrial design, branding and general coolnesss. Pictured on the left, artwork from a truly bizarre Mazda concept car (that's the steering wheel). Click here to check out the whole article, its pretty wild, especially the interior shots.

Ambush Interview #3: Andrew Wheeler

Andrew Wheeler works at Turner Broadcasting and is basically my sensei when it comes to the world of barbecue and the smoking of meats. This picture is pretty close to what he looks like, minus the gray in the beard. He's next up on the ambush block:


1) You're a known barbecue enthusiast. Where's the best 'cue in Atlanta?

I’m going to give Fox Bros a slight edge on Williamson Bros for quality of sides.

2) What celebrity would you most like to see funnel a beer?

Mrs. Garrett from The Facts of Life. [editor's note: the actresses name is Charlotte Rae]

3) Is it ever acceptable for a man to wear Capri pants?

Only if he’s into dudes.

4) Ever rolled on Shabbos?

All the time. I was in a Saturday league as a kid.

5) Better cable network: A&E or The History Channel?

A&E. The history channel has gone to pot. Too much recapping coming in from commercials. An hour long show only seems to have about 20 minutes of actually programming. (PBS rules them both)

SO MANY QUESTIONS!

*Why did Hurley pretend he had never met Ana Lucia? Seemed fairly arbitrary, it's not like he killed her.

*Who are the Oceanic Six? We know we've got Jack, Kate and Hurley, but who are the other three? Ben (I still think he's in the coffin)? Sawyer (Kate says "he'll wonder where I am" or something in last season finale)?

*Seemed like Hurley could hear Jacob when he stumbled on to the cabin. That makes 3 people who can hear him now. How are they connected?

*Why is Locke so awesome? You have to respect a man who stabs, shoots or blows up anything that doesn't fit with his master plan. I want to join his Locke-topia!

Ambush Interview #2: Michael Peters

Ambush interview number 2 is with local (recently) unemployed man and all around American hero Michael Patrick Peters. Mike is an expert in all 5 disciplines of the legendary pentacle of beer drinking (funneling, shotgunning, chugging, keg stand and Das Boot!) and has a penchant for canned Mandarin oranges. As a fellow PS3 owner I can only describe his tastes in electronics as "impeccable. On to the interview:


Mike is momentarily stunned by the ambush but then circles the wagons to prepare defense against Notes on the Run's onslaught!

1) Can Mustard go bad?

Mustard cannot go bad in a phsyical sense but it can go bad in a moral sense. I've seen it happen before and it's not pretty. Nothing says Thanksgiving at the Peters' house like getting pistol whipped by an ill tempered bottle of honey dijon. All I wanted was the goddamn mashed potatoes.

2) What celebrity would you most like to see funnel a beer?

Without a doubt the celebrity I would most like to see funnel a beer is TV's Terry O'Quinn, aka John Locke. He'd funnel the beer and then tell me about how it was the will of the Island that he get shitfaced. Maybe after that we'd toss some knives at helicopter pilots and play some drinking backgammon. It's like regular backgammon but it doesn't suck.

3) Playstation 3: Great video game system OR the greatest videogame system?

The Playstation 3 is neither a great video game system or the greatest video game system. I contend that the PS3 transcends even the mere monniker of a "video game system". It is the greatest electronic device ever created by man. Video games, wireless internet, media serving, Blu Ray player, and I swear to God yesterday my PS3 updated my resume for me. As I type this it's crafting a ship in a bottle USING ONLY IT'S MIND! If the grim apocolyptic future set forth in the Terminator movies ever comes true bet your ass Skynet is just a cluster of Linux enabled PS3s. And in this new future Xbox 360 owners will be burned alive on a pile of their own shoddy overheating consoles and Wii owners will be pitted against each other in a violent deathsport. All wirelessly broadcast over the Playstation Network and updated every Thursday.

4) What's up with the new Doritos logo?

Doritos has a new logo? I haven't paid attention to their brand since they got rid of those commercials with Ali Landry doing the splits.

5) Will you be instituting a strict "no-pants-before-noon" poilcy during your unemployment.

I have already instated a very liberal "no-pants" policy for my job-hunt. The policy can be summed up as "avoid wearing pants at all costs". I'm not even wearing pants as I conduct this interview and I wasn't allowed into Kroger last night due to my pantsless nature (for more information please check your local filing office for Peters' Wang v. Kroger).

There you go. Interview accomplished. Now if you'll excuse me, the PS3 and I are going to the country club for some doubles tennis.

Lost + Pop-Up Video

This subtitle nonsense is pretty lame, but I'm willing to put up with it to get psyched for tomorrow night's premiere. The finale was so sick they could have just showed it again and I would have been happy. Unless they start dropping some seriously crazy info in these little boxes, I give the whole concept a 4/10. Meh.

Ambush Interview #1: Trey Gregory

A new feature on notesontherun: the ambush interview. Beware gentle reader, at any moment you could be sent five random questions and forced to answer in full public view...unless you're a pussy about it. Interview number 1 is with my good friend and business partner Trey Gregory. He thinks Xbox 36o is pretty neat, but other than that he's alright. Without futher ado:


First of all, I'd like to express my elation at being ambushed by a blog. It's my first time being blogged about! Other than that time Britney Spears stepped on my foot. I was in US Weekly, and showed up in every celebrity blog in the net. (see attached picture)

1) You're a notorious fan of Unsolved Mysteries? What's the magic behind that show and why have we never seen it duplicated?

Ahh, Unsolved mysteries, every time I watched it, I wouldn't sleep for a week. I was too afraid that I would wake up in the middle of the night and Robert Stack would be in my room and he would say something to me in his CREEPY unsolved mysteries voice.

There are two elements that contributed to the magic of Unsolved mysteries. The first, is the host and narrator, SIR Robert Stack. His voice was both paternal and horrible. The voice a father would use when he tells his son he is dying. It sets the whole tone of the show, ads gravitas.

The second element is the re-enactments! I've always been a HUGE sucker for these. I don't go to battle re-enactments or anything, but on TV, I'm hooked. Sure, some people are content to listen to someone tell a story, but why do that when you can watch a re-enactment that features the ACTUAL police and family members involved in the incident!?! The acting was terrible, but something about the DARK lighting and the creepy REAL storylines drew me in.

And I believe that this magic has been recreated several times! Let me name a few bits of media that Unsolved Mysteries influenced:

Rescue 911 (Fuck you SHATner! Stack forever!)
A Haunting
I Shouldn't Be Alive
Touching the Void

And BTW this made my day:
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unsolved_Mysteries#HBO

According to an Article from Broadcast & Cable, HBO Distribution is planning on bringing back Unsolved Mysteries when the cable channel Lifetime contract expires in 2008. The show would feature a new set, new music, recaps on old cases, as well as new cases, and eventually a new host. [3] Sticking with the eerie theme that Unsolved Mysteries has always had, some rumored names to be the new host included James Earl Jones, Bryant Gumbel, actor Richard Jenkins, and poet Sean Janson. These are only rumors, though; an announcement is expected soon about the actual host-to-be.

2) What celebrity would you most like to see funnel a beer?

Alec Baldwin

3) Corn-nuts or Funyuns?

Ick, neither! Although if I got the Funyuns, I could give them to Les, she loves them, so I'll take those.

4) ECG Productions is pretty much the best production company ever. That's not actually a question.

It's definitely the best production company in the universe! I can't speak for other dimensions tho.

5) Does anyone actually like Ryan Seacrest?

Yes, most of America, I'm thinking of moving to Luxemburg, but I found out they suffer under a system of hereditary rule! That's bullshit....although, the country is incredibly RICH. Perhaps they need video production...I'll look into it...talk to my diplomatic connections, hey, what if I am actually Luxemburgian Royalty? I'll look into that too.


...end transmission...

DO NOT WANT!

It's official: she is the ugliest bitch on the planet. I would rather stab my eyes out with a rusty tire-iron than see the new Sex In The City movie. Truly, this is where boners go to die.

National Geographic Goes Blu-ray Exclusive

National Geographic announced today that they will be releasing content exclusively in the Blu-ray format. They now join Warner Brothers, Blockbuster, New Line, Miramax, Jesus, The American Gladiators, Tom Jones and pretty much everyone else who is even remotely relevant on the planet in endorsing the obviously superior format. For those of you who bought an HD-DVD player: nice work dickheads. Enjoy watching movies from Universal and....Universal...unless they're Steven Spielberg movies, he gets to do what he wants with those. pwned.

Book Autopsies

This guy carves sculptures out of actual books, and I like it.

How to amuse yourself in a Hospital, Vol. 1

Step 1). Get 4 mg morphine injection
Step 2). Take 10 mg of Ambien to "sleep"
Step 3). Try to stay awake and surf the web

This ought to produce some gems....or I might just wake up with my face on the keyboard. Developing...