best wishes to paul on his 38th birthday (and colin greenwood apparently). here is a gift from us that you will hopefully enjoy much later on this evening when everything’s starting to get fuzzy…

we’ve gotten a bunch of various projects and things sent to us that paul is, or is not, “seconds away from shooting” etc etc. the latest one is a film called “power play” apparently set to star jack nicholson about a gambling entrepreneur from a native american casino who decides to take on las vegas.

the film is through paramount pictures and robert evans based on the peter bart novel. no official word obviously from The Family, but i’ll see what comes from asking.

ps: all dvd’s were shipped out mid-last week. if you were one of the winners and you don’t get anything from the post in a reasonable amount of time, drop us a note and we will see what’s what

the contest is now closed! we got an overwhelming amount of entries (several right in the last seconds.) i hit ’select all’ in gmail and then randomly unchecked 4 and deleted the rest. the remaining emails/names were:

DOUBLE DISC WINNERS
1. Pasi L (Helsinki, Finland)
2. Bob A (Philadelphia, PA)

SINGLE DISC WINNERS
3. Amanda F (London, England)
4. Chris V (Redding, California)

london and effing helsinki? i toyed with the title of this post being “aw fuck me” because this fun little contest has turned into a nice payday for courier companies out the ol’ red vines pocketbook. at any rate, thank you all for your interest/entries. we will hopefully have more things to peddle to you soon.

unimpressed, they just lost 20 bucks each in royalties from this

i was hoping if i just stayed silent, this paul thomas anderson to direct metal gear solid would just go away, but it seems to be growing more legs. metal gear solid, for those who may not know, is a video game franchise that follows “solid snake”, a retired soldier who infiltrates a nuclear weapons disposal facility to neutralize the terrorist threat from foxhound, a renegade special forces unit.

konami announced at the press conference for metal gear solid 4 that ‘paul thomas anderson’ was interested in directing the film version of the game. xixax’r ‘cinemanarchist’ followed up to make sure they didn’t mean ‘paul w.s. anderson’ and got this response:

I just received an email from Kotaku editor, Brian Ashcraft, who originally spoke with Konami’s Aki Saito in person and here’s what he said: “Hey Hunter, [Saito] said Paul Thomas Anderson, not just Paul Anderson, but specifically ‘Thomas.’ Hope that helps!” I just asked Brian again if Saito possibly meant to say director Paul W.S. Anderson (Resident Evil), and he added, “Saito’s handling the movie negotiations, so I’d assume he knew.”

i will message The Family now and, i assume, squash this. my girlfriend and her sister, who are massive metal gear fans, strongly disagree but whoever directs it needs to cast josh holloway as snake.

i think i can speak for a few of us atleast when i say that the daniel impressions have pretty much run their course as far as finding new ways to be clever using it. the recent exceptions being my friend shane nelken’s out-of-the-blue impression/quote (featured above) when driving past a well-known fast food chain the other day and this video. i’m not sure if it is the best thing ever, or the worst. i’ll let you decide.