Cafe Bloodbath is our first major project as The Cheap Thriller. We’ve been working on putting the pieces together (writing, recording, animating and editing) for over three years now. Yesterday, because they are awesome, our west coast comrades over at Ask A Ninja feautred the pilot episode of Cafe Bloodbath on their Death By Monday series. It looks like this:
- Matt
Um…hey. Wow. This is awkward. It’s been a long time since we’ve talked, and I suppose an explanation is in order. Things got a little crazy this Summer and there was literally no time for posts. For that I’m sorry, but lemme give you a brief overview of what has taken place over the past few months and maybe you’ll understand.
To start things off, I had a really messy breakup in July because my ex-gf Lindsay turned into a total coke whore. She used to be a knockout (and totally bisexual), but now her face is all pockmarked and I’m pretty sure she has a venereal disease…but I digress. So after we broke up I needed to clear my head. Luckily my friend has this amazing villa down in Chile and he was off on business (he’s a miner or something), so he totally wasn’t using it for the months of August and September. I chilled down there, ate some really great food, met some really beautiful women who didn’t speak English (ie., weren’t annoying) and soaked up the South American sun. Read more »
- Carlo
If you watched the Oscars on Sunday night then you already know that The Hurt Locker dominated the awards show, taking away a total of six awards. Hollywood blockbuster, Avatar did not win best picture but fittingly brought home the awards for Cinematography, Art Direction & Visual Effects. These results, which to most people would seem largely agreeable, have left U2 fans around the world scratching their heads and wondering, “Oy, what about Bono?”
It’s true, lead singer/humanitarian Paul Hewson (AKA “Bono”) did not receive a single Academy Award on Sunday night. “What’s worse,” comments one particularly disgruntled fan (Annie_CatDubh) “is that he wasn’t even nominated in the first place!” In a later post she added, “WTF!!!” Read more »
- Matt
A little over twelve hundred years ago Charlemange was officially crowned the first Imperator of the Holy Roman Empire. Throughout his reign he established the foundation of both the French and German monarchies, united almost all of Europe and helped shape the western world as we know it. Now, you have to admit it, that’s a pretty impressive resume, but it pales in comparison to that of his direct descendent: Sir Chirstopher Lee.
In a career spanning more than 62 years, Sir Christopher Lee has played 260+ roles (most of which are villains), has recently been knighted and is a prominent figure in just about everything that has ever mattered. He was Saruman in The Lord of the Rings, Count Dooku in Star Wars, “Pistols” Scaramanga in The Man with the Golden Gun and has played Count Dracula so many times that as far as my brain is concerned, he IS Count Dracula. Seriously, looking at his IMDB page is like looking into the Grand Canyon. So of course when the time came to tell the tale of ol’ Charles I it only made sense to cast the emperor’s most bad-ass relative for the lead. Read more »
- Matt
So, Zooey Deschanel (Elf, She & Him, 500 Days Of Summer) got hitched to chart-topping indie lord, Ben Gibbard (Death Cab For Cutie) and yes, that really did happened.
Anyway, thanks to the biproducts from miracles of technology and journalism, we bring you an alleged transcript from the couple’s ceremony featuring a portion from Gibbard’s vows:
BG: There is a powerful pull that compels me to grow closer to you at every instance of our eyes meeting whether its under a crisp atmosphere of cooling air or facing the harshest of solar flares…
(Enter arpeggiated guitar part & choppy drum beat) Read more »
- Matt
I’ve been hearing talk about a new Fletch movie for a while now, and the prospect has always been near and dear to my heart. I suppose I feel that if the corpse of Irwin Fletcher were to be revived, Chevy Chase would realize how meta-awesome he is and do however much coke is necessary to re-animate his cool. His last major studio outing was Zoom: Academy for Superheroes. Seriously, Chevy? Seriously? You were once the guy who made Deal of the Century and Seems Like Old Times bearable to watch.
Anyway, that’s a topic for another blog, and don’t think you won’t get yours too, Eddie. My point here is that when they began talking about making Fletch Won, the name attached to star in the title role was an obvious choice: Ryan Reynolds. Read more »
- Carlo
Go ahead, smash a perfectly good bottle of champagne! The site: she’s up and running and we’re all ready to go get drunk and celebrate! But first, someone’s going to have to sweep up all of this glass. So watch your step, and keep your eyes peeled becasue there’s still some more on the way. Run around, jump on the bed but maybe don’t bust out the rollerskates just yet. In other words, the site may look like a mild-mannered blog, but there are videos, photos & full-on community section right around the corner. Keep your pants on… but just for a little bit.
- Matt
Well, if you’re reading this then the website gods have smiled kindly on us, and Th.Ch.Thr is finally born. It’s such a cute little bugger, isn’t it? It took a lot of blood, sweat, tears and even an appendix, but we’re very excited about this new adventure and we hope you come along for the ride.
The challenges of creating this site have been many and varied, but probably the largest challenge for me presents itself now that the site is live: blogging. Any of you who know me personally know that I am succinct in my approach to most things, and so the thought of constantly expounding upon ideas is rather daunting for me.
Luckily, though, I do enjoy complaining to no end, and so it’s kind of a chicken and egg thing, or a Catch-22 maybe. Actually, I don’t know what that means, but expect a lot of ranting about things that irritate, bother, annoy, vex, enrage, or generally just piss me the fuck off. Read more »
- Carlo
