The first blog post. 

Must admit, still ambivalent about this whole "blogging" business. On the one hand, I love surfing the net, hunting for all manner of info and ephemera on my personal Holy Trinity - movies, music, and books - much of which I've found through other bloggers. When you're into the more obscure corners of pop culture as I am, the Internet and all the geeks therein are like manna from heaven, a network of fellow nerds passing notes, and I'm just old enough to remember how hard it was to find that kind of stuff at one time and also to appreciate how very cool that is.

On the other hand, I'm also a bit perplexed by the generation coming up now that seems compelled to display themselves online, who post every photo no matter how blurry or boring or inappropriate, who Twitter every time they take a dump, who couldn't exist without a Facebook page AND a Flickr page AND a MySpace page ..... in other words all those people that have to validate themselves via their cyber presence. 

But if all those goons out there can spew out all kinds of nonsense about their favourite movies'n'junk, then why can't I?? And  if all those freaks can band together and create a virtual network of all the stray gems and weird perversions that the Internet can provide, is it not my obligation to join that freak ring and point people at some really cool shit too????

.... y'know, like this! Tyler Stout, poster artist extraordinaire, just put his latest posters on sale on his website, two concert posters for the Flight of the Conchords. I own a few of his posters - his "Big Trouble in Little China" piece sets my inner Homer a'droolin' and the "Alamo Drafthouse" poster is a movie nerd's wet dream - and if possible they're even cooler in real life than they are online. Be sure to take a look at his other work, especially his movie posters, brilliant supacool stuff.