BlogNosh 11/29/07

By Karina Longworth posted 9 months ago

Fox barely released Mike Judge’s Idiocracy, but now they’re partnering with something called Redux Beverages to release a line of energy drinks called Brawndo, named after the puke-green beverage that replaced water (and destroyed all agriculture) in the film’s future world.
Charlie Wilson’s War: Jeff Wells is cranky that the HFPA has declared it eligible for nominations in the Musical/Comedy categories at the Golden Globes; LIBERTAS is pissed that it’s “premised on a whopper of a lie that undercuts the entire film turning it into yet another 2007 piece of liberal propaganda.” Pick your own battle, I guess.
Future of Classic informs us that today would have been Busby Berkeley’s 112th birthday. They offer a list of “five things you might not have known about” the dance director of the greatest psychedelic-socialist musical numbers of the 1930s; oddly, the fact that he was a raging alcoholic didn’t make the list. Oh well. Too bad YouTube appears to be broken, because I bet I could find a clip from Take Me Out to the Ballgame that would prove it.
2Girls1Cup might be a new hallmark in user-generated porn memes, but it’s still not appropriate fodder for academic film study, apparently.
Not technically a blog post, but so good: Jean-Luc Godard says he stole money to finance his own early films, and one of Jacques Rivette’s. Guess he has no grounds to complain about Todd Haynes stealing his ideas (rimshot). Via indieWIRE.

The Chutry Experiment » Like a Monster Truck You Can Pour into Your Face said 9 months ago
[...] possible to bury Idiocracy when it was first produced, but they are going full steam ahead to market Brawndo using viral videos on YouTube, a Brawndo website, and other social networking tools. And, yes, you [...]
The Truth About Brawndo (Flix99.com) said 4 months ago
[...] last year, we had a lot of questions about Brawndo, the fake sports drink from Mike Judge’s Idiocracy, made real by a [...]