As promised, Scissor Sisters blew up their old site today. They’ve promised the new site to be up on Monday. You can see and hear a small hint of what’s to come with the forest and nature sounds; however, let’s hope on Monday we get to hear the sounds of new music.

Listening to: Neptune, The Mystic - Holst

It doesn’t get any better than this. My friend, Beck, pointed me over to ThinkGeek and told me to look at the soaps under the caffeine category. Being curious, I went over and lo! and behold!Oh, yeah. Soap laced with caffeine. And Beck says it really, really works. The caffeine is absorbed through the skin and it’s cheaper than coffee! The nice part is that it’s scented with peppermint oil which I love, so it looks like I’ll have some caffeinated soap soon. Just to see.

Plus, according to this picture:

Do you know of any other strange albeit cool products like this? Let me know.

Listening to: Outrageous - Paul Simon

As you can tell from the blog, I’ve been incredibly busy of late which really hasn’t left me a lot of time to date, but thankfully Cameron has been very patient. This forced time apart has been really good for me since I’m not one for going quickly in a relationship anymore. In my 20’s I’d fall in love every two weeks and in lust every two hours. Would you believe that this post is leading to a DVD review? Didn’t think so.

So last Sunday night after watching everyone around me nursing their debaucheries of gay pride weekend, Cameron and I had a date night. Finally. Low-key, the date consisted of order-in pizza and the latest Milla Jovovich debacle, Ultraviolet. (AAAHH! IMDb.com says they are making ANOTHER Resident Evil.) No, the review isn’t about that piece of crap in which even the fun-to-watch Milla sucked. The finale of our date night was to watch the season premiere of the Cartoon Network masterpiece of animated sci-fi soap, The Venture Bros.

Simply said, The Venture Bros. is a Johnny Quest spoof. Complexly said, it is the best satirical, homoerotic, gross, sardonic, violent, sexual comedy about two innocent boys ever made for television. The premise is just like Johnny Quest. Throw in one famous scientist (Dr. Thaddeus Venture is living off his father’s fame), a beefed-up machismo body guard (Brock Sampson voiced by the hilarious Patrick Warburton), and two boys who often get into mis-adventures (Hank & Dean, both are Dr. Venture’s sons). Include a robot, H.E.L.P.E.R., to replace Bandit and you’ve got yourself a situation with plots that can go anywhere.

And they do. Pirates, arch-nemeses, an unborn twin brother, the head of an amusement park empire and a villian modeled after a butterfly are some of the evil characters that show up in such exotic places as the Sargasso Sea, the Amazon, hidden scientific laboratories, Tijuana, a strip club and a yard sale to help increase the mirth; however, these stand alone plots would be nothing without back story.

It has been a long time since I’ve enjoyed watching a show more the second time to pick up all the mythos. This show is dirty, stinking rich with back story which fills out the characters nicely, so watching it once is diverting; watching it twice is where you find your rewards. The writers, Jackson Publick and Doc Hammer, say in their commentary on the DVD that a lot of the back story was just filling in holes on the fly. Well, good job, boys! You’ve got a great cult hit on your hands with enough entertaining characters to last you — eh, at least two more seasons.

You must watch it! If nothing else, to see and hear the overblown dialogue delivery of Dr. Orpehus (see sample below), the necromancer that is renting space in the Venture Compound with his daughter, Triana, who Dean has a crush on. Oh, it’s gets even more complicated than that. Definitely worth the investment.

Season Two has begun. Catch the new episodes Sunday nights during [adult swim] on Cartoon Network. (Geez, I need to get paid for these plugs.)

Listening to: What Can I Say - Brandi Carlile

Well, with Michael Bay you usually just get exactly what you see with no subtext unless it’s the underrated The Island. Let’s see what he does with our childhood nostalgia.

Listening to: Put Your Records On - Corinne Bailey Rae (Yes. Again.)