http://www.metafilter.com/tags/boll Posts tagged with 'boll' at MetaFilter. Tue, 15 Jul 2008 04:49:52 -0800 Tue, 15 Jul 2008 04:49:52 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/73316/Lookin%2Dfor%2Da%2Dhome In the little town of Enterprise, Alabama, there stands a <a href="http://www.weevilwonderland.com/weevil.html" title="Everything you ever wanted to know about this magnificent monument.">bizarre statue</a> that would make any card-carrying surrealist proud: an archetypical <a href="http://www.nal.usda.gov/speccoll/collect/history/weevilpg.htm" title="Here's a better picture.">Greek goddess</a> raises her arms toward heaven and holds high above her head... an enormous <i>insect</i>. Of course, it's the <a href="http://insects.tamu.edu/images/insects/common/images/b-txt/bimg198.html" title="Here's a nice portrait for you.">boll weevil</a>. That cotton-eatin' critter inspired not only the world's only monument to an agricultural pest, but <a href="http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=qdDZJ0YueQ4" title="Blind Willie McTell.">some</a> <a href="http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=P1NfbdB7Pao" title="Legendary Delta blues giant Charley Patton, with 'Mississippi Boll Weevil Blues.">great</a> <a href="http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=9uivguXs6wY" title="Eddie Cochran's rockabilly version.">tunes</a> <a href="http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=wz3AMk42Oyk" title="Leadbelly.">as</a> <a href="http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=YffLGzIlHwY" title="A 1982 live version from Brook Benton of his 1962 hit. This is the one I remember hearing on the radio as a kid. Benton is best known for 'Rainy Night In Georgia'.">well</a>, from a <a href="http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=NR9cr1gF2Zk" title="Shocking Blue! Yup, the Dutch band who had an enormous hit with 'Venus'">wide</a> <a href="http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=BFt29JgFguQ " title="The first 2 songs here (from Connie Francis and Pat Boone) are predictably awful, but the 3rd (Teresa Brewer) has something to recommend it.">range</a> <a href="http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=UKKDz1IQiq4" title="The White Stripes.">of</a> <a href="http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=flUu2P_ezPE" title="This fellow, though not famous and not possessed of the kind of voice that'll set the world on fire, offers up another historic boll weevil tune (he explains its origins before performing it) that should be heard.">artists</a>. <small>[note: see hoverovers for link descriptions]</small> </a> The Doc Pomus-penned tune (sung by Elvis) <a href="http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=ayAEl1EWuU0">Little Sister</a> refers to the boll weevil in one of its lines. MeFier Astro Zombie's tune <a href="http://music.metafilter.com/2243/A-Man-is-Coming">A Man is Coming</a>, right here at MetaFilter Music, opens with a line addressed to a boll weevil. tag:metafilter.com,2008:site.73316 Tue, 15 Jul 2008 04:49:52 -0800 Alabama Americana blues boll bollweevil Enterprise insect music songsaboutinsects weevil flapjax at midnite http://www.metafilter.com/45547/A%2DLoad%2Dof%2DBollocks%2DFilm%2DDirector%2DUwe%2DBoll%2Dsets%2Dthe%2Dweb%2Dablaze "If you must see this movie, do yourself a favor and wait until it's in the bargain bin at the video store. If there's any justice in the film industry, one of the main actors will be there to rent it to you." A quote from a <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0369226/" title="imdb Alone in the Dark user review">review of Alone in the Dark</a>. Dr. Uwe Boll is developing quite a <a href="http://www.uwebollsucks.com/" title="uwebollsucks.com: '...for some reason people just keep giving him money'">reputation</a> as a <a href="http://doafeatures.blogspot.com/2005/08/uwe-bollhitlers-favorite-director.html" title="Uwe Boll... Hitler's Favorite Director - 'The producers of Boll's films actually want their little gems of films to suck'. Scroll down for an interesting theory on why his films get financed">terrible</a> <a href="http://www.uwebollisantichrist.com/" title="Uwe Boll Is Antichrist!- 'Some people view this evil as the gathered evil of mankind. Others prefer to see it as an entity of some sort, calling it the Devil, Belzebub, or Antichrist. Dr. Uwe Boll, we believe that this greater evil is you.'">film</a> <a href="http://www.petitiononline.com/RRH53888/petition.html" title="Stop Dr. Uwe Boll petition: 'Mr. Boll has repeatedly shown a complete lack of comprehension regarding the videogames he has dragged, kicking and screaming, to the silver screen and his ham-fisted approach to horror has soiled future possibilities for anyone else who may attempt to bring videogames to film' ">director</a>; and ruiner of valuable intellectual property with his videogame adaptations. <a href="http://www.somethingawful.com/articles.php?a=2649&p=" title="Behind the Scenes: Uwe Boll and Uwe Boll's Alone In the Dark quotes Boll directly: 'WE MUST KNOW A LITTLE MORE ABOUT ALL THIS . LOOK in SIGNS THE AUDIENCE KNOWS THAT THE ALIENS WANTS TO DESTROY - SO HE AUDIENCE IS AFRAID. LIKE WHT YOU SAY ABOUT OSAMA BIN LADEN: WE DONT KNOW A LOT - BUT WE ARE FRAID - BECAUSE OF 11.9. - SO WITHOUT ANY INFORMATIONS ABOUT THE ALIENS WE ALL FEEL NOTHING - WE ARE ALL CONFUSED BUT LETS SAY YOU NEVER WOULD HAVE SHOWED AN ALIEN IN SIGN - IT WOULD BE A DESASTER - NOBODY WOULD TAKE IT SERIOUS!!'">Something Awful's look behind the scenes of Alone in the Dark</a> makes for grim reading: "<i>I know English is not his first language, but Jesus Christ, I'm not even sure this man has a first language</i>", but for many the <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/34901" title="MetaFilter's McBain says: Worst. Trailer. Ever.">trailer</a> was enough to put people off. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uwe_Boll" title="Uwe Boll Wikipedia entry">According to Wikipedia</a>, "he is currently in a bidding war for rights to Half-Life and Metal Gear Solid, and ... may be after the rights to Fallout and Castlevania as well". Before legions of gamers collapse under the strain, you should know it isn't all bad news. He isn't without <a href="http://www.bollbashers.com/" title="bollbashers.com call him 'a genius in the very art of storytelling'">fans</a>; and <a href="http://www.boll-kg.de/" title="his official site">Boll</a> is apparently an <a href="http://users.ign.com/about/Uwe_Boll?boards=ign" title="Boll's overt IGN account?">active</a> <a href="http://boards.ign.com/Uwe_Boll/b8490/99365379/?11" title="IGN discussion about Boll's possible covert identities. Apparently he plunders German folklore for username inspiration">member</a> of online discussion forums including imdb and <a href="http://boards.ign.com/Uwe_Boll/b8490/" title="IGN discussions about Boll">IGN</a>; so it is possible to tell him that he sucks directly; not that doing so has had any effect thus far. tag:metafilter.com,2005:site.45547 Sat, 01 Oct 2005 03:08:40 -0800 batshitinsane boll film games movies uwe uweboll videogames nthdegx