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FLOUNDERING FILM FLUNKEE and the film flashback that made him feel old!

  • November 10, 2011 11:44 am

Ah, the flashback sequence. Growing up, I remember watching them in movies and being taken back to times I had never experienced myself, moments that – to me – seemed to be from time immemorial. A land before time even.

People dressed in ways that seemed absolutely ridiculous to me. Cars would be of models and even makes that my young mind did not even recognize, let alone had heard of. And people in these flashbacks tended to be a lot more racist.

The past in a capsule, so it seemed. And a capsule very distant from my own experiences as a very, very young kid.

So now, like the last episode of Lost‘s third season, we flash forward – to last week, when I was watching Green Lantern on Blu-Ray.  Read more...

How Can You Not Love The Home Made Rubik’s Cube?

  • November 4, 2011 4:03 am

When you see the pictures above and below you may think I live in some kind of sicky sweet modern day Mayberry where, on Easter, a fire truck brings the Easter Bunny to the town egg hunt,  the Cub Scouts put on fundraising pancake breakfasts, and where parents don’t think you’re a perv just because you, a stranger, take pictures of their kids when they come to your front door in costume.

And you’d be right.

Hopefully somebody somewhere has a crawl space full of corpses, but until they start stinking up the place, all I can offer you is some bafflingly innocent wholesomeness.

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Thai Artist’s Cool ‘Transformers’ Statues

  • July 11, 2011 12:02 am

The folks at the Ripley’s Believe It Or Not Museum chain have acquired statues made by Thai artist Anchalee Saengtai of Autobots from the Transformers series. The statues will be on display at Ripley’s museums all over the world with the most recent addition being a 2.5 meter version of Bumblebee that was unveiled at the New York Times Square branch of the museum on Friday.

All the statues are made from recycled auto parts, but what’s even cooler is you can own your very own Autobot, which you can purchase from Anchalee’s website. The 6-meter figures start at $11,000. Check some of them out here:  Read more...

What I Learned on YOMYOMF This Week – December 12 – 18, 2010

  • December 18, 2010 3:40 pm

I’ve never been much for lists, but as of late, I’ve started to wish I had been, at least when I was a child.  A desire recently arose in me – a desire to trace back certain, hm, qualities about me – and, naturally, I began my search by trying to remember all the movies I’d ever seen, particularly in early life.

The tricky thing for me is ascertaining if I’d sat through a particular movie all the way through or if I’d only seen bits and pieces.  My knowledge of films could be typified as a bit of a grab bag, the sum total of miscellaneous research; pop culture exposure; as well as actual movie watching.  If it’s a movie I have a vague recollection of from childhood, it’s no sure thing I watched it all.  There’s a possibility that I only saw a snippet of it on the couch with my Lola (Tagalog for “Grandmother”) before going off to watch Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

As I watched Predator this week, I had no doubts I saw the climactic confrontation between Dutch and the Predator (whom I used to call “Crab Face”) way back when, but I definitely wasn’t sure if I had seen the earlier half of the movie, the one with all those lines (“I ain’t got time to bleed…”).  Suffice to say, the movie was pretty fun.

I just wanted to share that with you.  That’s all.

As we edge closer and closer to Christmas, the YOMYOMF family dives headfirst into the topics that matter: dog-eating. regifting, and African-American robots.  Yeah, that’s right – put that helmet on cause we’re about to blow your MIND.  Read more...

The “Black” Transformers

  • December 16, 2010 9:23 am

JIMMY

Most people know of Jimmy Tsai in one of his roles as fantasy basketball commissioner, wedding singer, or purveyor of athletic sportswear. While he occasionally produces, directs, and writes films, he also spends inordinate amounts of time pondering the riddle of steel.

Thanks to the ever-expanding world of cable, many of us are getting a second chance to enjoy reruns of our favorite shows and cartoons. With the entry of the new Hasbro cable channel HUB, I have personally gotten the chance to re-watch classic episodes of the original G.I. Joe and Transformers cartoons (or in nerd parlance, G1 – Generation 1 – Transformers).

While we’ve discussed aspects of porn and logic as it relates to Transformers, today, I want to touch upon another hot-button topic that we have yet to cover: race.

Now, you’re probably asking yourself, what the hell? They’re fucking robots. There’s no race involved. Right?

Wrong.

Admittedly, this isn’t something that I was even remotely aware of when watching the cartoon as a child. But upon reaching college age and being introduced to the idea of new perspectives, alcohol, and critical thinking, all of a sudden, my eyes were open that much wider. Much time was spent conversing about the various hidden underpinnings and interpretations of the seemingly-innocuous entertainment of our youth. One of questions we challenged ourselves with when it came to the Transformers was: who were the black Transformers?  Read more...

What I Learned on YOMYOMF This Year – 2009-2010

  • July 9, 2010 12:07 pm

Are you there, YOMYOMF?  It’s me, Jerome.

I wanted to, you know, wish you a happy birthday.  I mean, if you didn’t forget, it kinda has been a year since your Inception.  Have too much to drink, is that it?  Yeah, I can see it in your bleary eyes, you wild dog you.  Wild night, painting the town red, all that jazz?  I can only hope you didn’t kill a hooker.

not really a night till you do, eh patrick?

Well, my lovely, all of these people are here for you, in ur website, reading ur txt, and since they are, I wanted to give them a guided tour of your greatest hits.

This way, I can pay tribute to your achievements over the last year while giving your followers some new material to chew on.  Does that sound good, website?  I hope so!  Who’s a good website?  Who’s a good website?  YOU ARE!  Yes, you are!

By the way, that wasn’t just a lead-in for this article.  Read more...

RIP Dennis Hopper

  • May 30, 2010 11:27 pm

Dennis Hopper died yesterday from a long battle with prostate cancer. He was also one of the most dynamic American iconoclasts. For film nerds only, check out this amazing clip reel, produced by the Museum of the Moving Image,  of Hopper’s oeuvre, including his roles in Easy Rider, Giant, Apocalypse Now, Blue Velvet, True Romance and Hoosiers, just to name a few:

I have to say, 1986, was Hopper’s year, with great performances in Blue Velvet, Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2, Hoosiers and River’s Edge. The LA Times writes about the posthumous tribute effect, when celebrities die leaving work still in the pipeline, i.e. Heath Ledger with his final role as the Joker in The Dark Knight and The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus. In Hopper’s case, it’s voice work in the animated film Alpha & Omega. Let’s hope it doesn’t turn out like Orson Welles final role, as the voice of the planet eater Unicron in Transformers: The Movie.  Read more...

Transformers Who Should Be In The Porn Version

  • May 6, 2010 2:07 am

DOMINIC

Dominic Mah is a writer, director, and ex-professional gambler. He is currently editing a movie, a feature-length dark-comedy-type-movie. He also blogs about pop culture, girl problems, casinos, and Robotech at http://dommah.com/. Mispronounced in the right way, his name is a strong Vietnamese curse word.

The Transformers are a weird cultural phenomenon. I mean besides the fact that they’re cars that transform into freaking robots with cheekbones, the TF mythology is queer because their story is an un-deceptively simple narrative of good vs. evil, in which there is no love story and almost no conventional sex appeal. The robots have no emotions to ignite the attractions, obsessions and betrayals that typically create narrative drama. Hollywood, doing what it does best, recognized this “problem” instantly and solved it with Megan Fox. And in doing so they avoided the tangly truth flying under the radar, which is that, to a generation of boys, there IS something sexy about Transformers. Something compelling and tantalizing that dare not speak its name.

Someday soon, technology will enable an adult-film version of the Transformers. Possibly, that adult film will be gay-oriented. But I think at this rate it’s more a matter of “when” than “if.” And because I have nothing better to do today than gross myself out, I’m going to offer these suggestions for the Transformers who really should be in the porn version:  Read more...

THE CONSTRUCTICON CONUNDRUM

  • March 18, 2010 12:16 am

JIMMY

Most people know of Jimmy Tsai in one of his roles as accountant, fantasy basketball commissioner, or purveyor of athletic sportswear. But what people do NOT know is that under the pseudonym Tequila Rush, Jimmy authored the “mockumography” Go! Opium Pandamonium! Go!: From the Opium Pipe to Saturday Morning Children’s Cartoons. It currently ranks #5,339,475 on the Amazon.com sales ranking list. Amongst Jimmy’s latest ventures is a website devoted to Asians and Asian-Ams in sports entitled beyondbadminton.com.

THIS BLOG HAS BEEN UPDATED AS OF 2:50 P.M. PST ON MARCH 18, 2010. THERE WERE SOME TEXT ISSUES THAT ARE NOW FIXED. SORRY FOR THE INCONVENIENCE.

Over this past weekend, I had a revelation on a topic that has been pestering my subconscious ever since I was a child. A revelation of “bake your noodle” proportions. Now, before I dive into both conundrum and subsequent revelation, let me preface this all by mentioning that if you were not a fan of the original 80s Transformers cartoon, you may find this rambling just as necessary or relevant as those goddamn accelerator suits in G.I. JOE: THE RISE OF COBRA (in other words, “not very”). However, if you were one of those inquisitive minds that wondered where the hell Soundwave was able to store all those damn tapes that popped out of his chest ad infinitum, then read on!

First, the conundrum (you may not have consciously thought this to yourself–or maybe you did—but trust me, as soon as I finish asking the question and providing the answer, you will suddenly feel as if a nagging itch has finally been scratched). You ready? Here it goes:
“Why the f*ck is Devastator dumber than the six collective Constructicons that form him?”
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