Could This Be The Future of Books?

With eBooks sales skyrocketing every year thanks to Amazon's Kindle and the Tablet craze, one can only ask, what's next?

I've written about this before: how print books will fade away and the majority will adopt the eBook format. Especially since you can get an eReader for $79 or a tablet for $199, both from Amazon. It's inevitable, just like how DVD made the VHS tape extinct, CD's made cassettes extinct and how smartphones are making standard cellphones extinct.

Films: Why This Year Will Be One of The Best Years and Why 2011 Was Forgettable.

Yes, I'm glad 2011 is over. Not  because I could put Charlie Sheen's rants behind me, not because there was no iPhone 5 and not because the Yankees didn't win a World Series. I’m glad it’s over because 2012 will be better than 2011, for films at least.

This year is already shaping up to be one of the biggest years for films in quite a while. Here’s why.

Obama Vs. The Crazy Ones, or, How An Obama Campaign Ad Has Me Thinking Twice Before Voting For Him

For those of you that have been keeping track of the GOP primary should know by now that none of the clowns trying to get a nomination to represent the Republican party should be voted as President of the United States of America.

You can complain about Obama all you want, but if you don't know about about the so-called candidates ready to run against him, then here is a brief rundown on The Crazy Ones, the ones who don't see things differently.

Leaving Out The Parts That People Skip

Murakami's 1Q84: Finished. And by finished I don't only mean that I finally finished the 900+ paged book, but also, that I'm through with reading any novel that touches the millennial page mark.

At the time, having never read any of Murakami's novels, such as Norwegian Wood or Kafka on the Shore, I thought it was best to read his latest novel to get a sense of the guy and his work, After hearing positive reviews for the book, I decided to dive right in.

And This is Why eBooks Will Never Replace Real Books

By now, everyone knows that eBooks are the future when it comes to reading. eBook sales have been tripling in the last couple of years and printed book sales have been dropping fast. This has to do with reading tablets such as the Kindle and iPad that allows us to carry around an entire library in our hands. The convenience factor is great considering that anyone would rather lug around their slim tablet with Game of Thrones in it, as opposed to carrying all 800+ pages of Game of Thrones.

Daniel Day-Lewis Should Play Steve Jobs

A few days after Steve Jobs passed away, Sony Pictures purchased the rights to his, then, unreleased biography by Walter Isaacson. Since then, there has been all sorts of rumors about who would play Steve Jobs, ranging from Noah Wyle -- who played Steve in the TV film Pirates of Silicon Valley -- to George Clooney.

Today, the first picture emerged from Daniel Day-Lewis on the set of Lincoln, the Steven Spielberg directed biopic, and it goes without saying that he looks a lot like America's 16th President

via Richmond.com

So why should Daniel-Day Lewis play Steve Jobs? 

For starters, anyone who has seen Daniel-Day Lewis act in such films as My Left Foot, which he won a Best Actor Oscar, In the Name of the Father, Gangs of New York or There Will be Blood, which he won his second Best Actor Oscar, goes without saying that he is one of the greatest actors of all time. He clearly has no problem losing himself in each role he plays and not to mention the research he does for them.

The man built the house his character in The Crucible, John Proctor, lived in just because he's that dedicated to his characters!

Now, I'm not a Photoshop expert by any means, but I took the same Abe Lincoln picture of Daniel Day-Lewis and blurred out the hair and goatee, to make him look like Steve Jobs and this is the end result:

Yes, I see it happening, he's even dressed like him. Now let's hope Hollywood sees it the same way...

This World is Going Nowhere

There are all sorts of crazy things that go on everyday that prove that the world we live in is not headed in the right direction. I'm not talking about the never ending wars throughout the world or the natural disasters that cause the deaths of thousands of people and destruction of millions of homes; I'm talking about the things people do to make everything worst.

Guilty as Charged....

How Food is leading us nowhere:

Who loves the McDonalds McRib? Yes, I love the McDonalds McRib as much as the next guy, but ever since I read on TIME Healthland that America's favorite limited-edition-sandwich contains azodicarbonamide, a flour-bleaching agent that is found in shoe soles and gym mats, I will have a hard time even looking at the damn thing.

I highly doubt that celestial hands are going to hand anyone a McRib

The worst part about it is that azodicarbonamide is a compound that Europe and Australia banned because it is a food additive and England's Health and Safety Executive says that it could contribute to asthma if one is exposed to it.

Not to mention that a McRib has 980 mg of Sodium (!) and 10g of saturated fat, which means that if you have McRib Fever and decide to stock up on as many as you can for you and your family before they disappear, there's a good chance that your kids are going to look like this:

How Books are leading us nowhere:

Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi, from Jersey Shore fame, could add New York Times Bestselling Author as one of the things she is known for besides being a Jersey Shore cast member.

She has already written two books, A Shore Thing and her upcoming Confessions of a Guidette.

I would rather eat a McRib that to read this.

The fact that A Shore Thing was a bestseller means that Confessions will follow that same track because if people were dumb enough to read anything from someone who is clearly not competent enough to write a book, then they will think Confessions is the next Ulysses or Gatsby for that matter...

How Campaign Ads are leading us nowhere:

Campaign Ads are boring, pseudo-inspiring, depressing and full of shit; that's how it's always been and there's no reason to change that formula.

But former Godfather's Pizza CEO Herman Cain believes that Campaign Ads are worth reinventing, which leads me to this campaign ad that will leave you baffled. 

I don't know what's creepier, this Mark Block guy mumbling about how great Herman Cain is and ending it off with a cigarette break, or Herman Cain starting at the Camera and letting out a cheesy grin.

But if you think that's weird, believe me, you're yet to know the meaning of weird. Take a look at an earlier campaign ad entitled "He Carried Yellow Flowers"


I'd rather go back to the boring, pseudo-inspiring, depressing and full of shit campaign ads than to try and find the meaning behind He Carried Yellow Flowers.


How Vanity is leading us nowhere:

For the monocle-wearing and curly mustache twitching snobs that want to add some more extravagance to their humble Almas Caviar or their Golden Tigerfish, there just happens to be a solution for that and it comes in a bottle.

And here I am giving the McRib a bum rap

The Deli Garage intends to fulfill the needs of those who want to add a coat of gold spray paint on their food. There is all sorts of food additives and flavors within the spray so you don't end up eating just a bunch of gold paint.

Seriously is this necessary?

How CliffNotes is leading us nowhere:

Yes, I'm talking about CliffNotes, that little guide we've all used one time or another to avoid reading an entire book. The purpose of reading a book is to enjoy every single aspect of it, even if there are long and draggy parts, but there's a purpose to it. You can't say that you've read One Hundred Years of Solitude only because you've read a couple of chapter synopsis from CliffNotes; it's just not the same thing.

Apparently it seems that the folks over at CliffNotes are thinking just like the people who think reading is boring. This is their solution:

Yep, CliffNotes Films the fastest way to learn. They forgot to add the laziest way to learn as well. This is just what we need in a country where 1 in 4 people do not read books..

How Movies and Music are leading us nowhere:

Need I say More?