January 2012
10 posts
WILCO!!!
Taken at The Wiltern Posted via email from Lon Harris | Comment »
How do I get this Companion Cube trapped under the...
Taken at Pershing Square Posted via email from Lon Harris | Comment »
Untitled
Taken at Redwood Bar And Grill Posted via email from Lon Harris | Comment »
Segway parade down Wilshire. Just as MLK could...
Taken at Ranker.com Posted via email from Lon Harris | Comment »
These guys have always been the caretaker here.
Taken at Millennium Biltmore Hotel Posted via email from Lon Harris | Comment »
Old school DTLA weirdness... It's like Rapture in...
Taken at Gallery Bar Posted via email from Lon Harris | Comment »
Johnson breaking in the new sheets
Posted via email from Lon Harris | Comment »
Sunset over Los Angeles
Taken at Ranker.com Posted via email from Lon Harris | Comment »
I wasn't aware Umbrella Corp. had gotten into the...
Taken at Ranker.com Posted via email from Lon Harris | Comment »
Conventional dog beds can't contain him!
Taken at Downtown Los Angeles Posted via email from Lon Harris | Comment »
December 2011
2 posts
California Christmas
Posted via email from Lon Harris | Comment »
Good night sweet prince
Posted via email from Lon Harris | Comment »
November 2011
13 posts
After so much Arkham City, feel like I should be...
Posted via email from Lon Harris | Comment »
Mike Mine Muppet
Let me preface by saying that I like the Muppets, have a tremendous amount of respect for the artistry and creativity of Jim Henson and his team and already have tickets to the new “Muppets” film for later this week. Having said that…You really have to give it up to Disney for marketing the shit out of this property over the last couple of years online. I’m old enough to...
Black Francis. Believe this was shot during...
Posted via email from Lon Harris | Comment »
That's the Pixies!
Taken at The Music Box Posted via email from Lon Harris | Comment »
Ice skating in Downtown LA
Taken at Pershing Square Posted via email from Lon Harris | Comment »
An Open Letter to the Film/TV Crew That's Shooting...
Hi Team -You seem like a busy, industrious group of professionals, so I’ll get right to the point. You’re taking too long. I have no idea what film you’re shooting, but you have been camped out at this single location for weeks now. If this is a movie shoot, that movie is going to be seriously stagnant. (Was it based on a play? I still recommend breaking up the dialogue-heavy...
Sometimes at night, things get really quiet, and...
Posted via email from Lon Harris | Comment »
Christmas in LA
Taken at Pershing Square Posted via email from Lon Harris | Comment »
The Ladies of Lutefisk
Taken at Norrana lodge Posted via email from Lon Harris | Comment »
Talk about appointment TV...
Taken at Norrana lodge Posted via email from Lon Harris | Comment »
Untitled
Taken at Pershing Square Posted via email from Lon Harris | Comment »
Stuck in the couch. This is the Johnson version of...
Posted via email from Lon Harris | Comment »
I bet you thought they were only famous for the...
Posted via email from Lon Harris | Comment »
October 2011
11 posts
Untitled
Taken at Angels Flight Railway Posted via email from Lon Harris | Comment »
Johnson's a land shark!
Posted via email from Lon Harris | Comment »
Game of Thrones Project CONCLUDES! Episodes 8, 9...
Was thinking of splitting this all into two posts but… screw it, this has gone on long enough. Time to wrap up this epic retelling of the entire first season of “Game of Thrones” and move on to other things, like rewatching the entire series “The Larry Sanders Show” on Netflix Streaming. (Not going to copiously take notes on that one for fear of carpal tunnel…...
She looks angry...
Posted via email from Lon Harris | Comment »
Today's featured parade on my street: Panamanian
Posted via email from Lon Harris | Comment »
DYLA
Posted via email from Lon Harris | Comment »
I'm going to need closure on this...
Posted via email from Lon Harris | Comment »
Game of Thrones Season 1: Episodes 6-7 Review
Back again with a double header of “Game of Thrones” reviews as we now inch ever closer to the dramatic close of the first season. Am I finally being won over to Team Stark, embracing the sometimes overwhelming Westeros Universe and letting go of my petty “this is basically just softcore with more piping hot alloys being melted over main characters’ faces” complaints?...
Why does Pershing Square have a Beethoven statue?...
Posted via email from Lon Harris | Comment »
Thoughts on the "Walking Dead" premiere
Tonight is the second season debut of the AMC zombie series “The Walking Dead.” I got a chance to see the first two episodes of the season a few weeks back (yes, legally… a friend loaned me an advance screener…) Some quick thoughts: The show is exceedingly well-made. The art direction, make-up effects, music, cinematography… all top drawer, pretty much as good as...
Game of Thrones Season 1: Episodes 3-5 Review: The...
After vowing I’d return to blogging regularly and catch up on all of Season 1 of HBO’s epic fantasy smash hit “Game of Thrones”… I completely got distracted and dropped the ball.Here’s what I discovered. When watching a certain TV show entails writing copious notes along with it, and watching other TV shows entails staring ahead blankly and eating 8-12...
September 2011
1 post
Game of Thrones Season 1: Episode 2: "The...
We’re back for the second installment of my return to the Seven Kingdoms of Westeros, watching all of Season 1 of “Game of Thrones” and seeing if I can figure out why it worked for so many people but not me. At least, not me the first time around. (If you missed the introduce and the review of the pilot, they’re both right here.) Once again, I would be remiss if I did not...
August 2011
3 posts
Game of Thrones Season 1: Intro and "Winter is...
HBO’s “Game of Thrones” debuted to great acclaim and excitement from the critical and online nerd communities this past Spring. I was one of the few people I knew who gave it a try and didn’t really enjoy it. But let’s back up… I’m a casual fan of fantasy, as a genre, but had not read the George R. R. Martin novels upon which the show is based. It’s...
Originality is Overrated
Many of you have probably already seen podcaster and commercial director Dan Trachtenberg’s “Portal” fan film, “No Escape.” It made the rounds today and won near-universal acclaim. Deservedly! It’s really well put-together for a “fan film,” with impressive effects and a setting that felt very authentic to the Aperture Science HQ fans of the games...
"Rise of the Planet of the Apes" Review
SPOILER FREE VERSION:“Rise of the Planet of the Apes” is far, far better than it has a right to be considering the potential for extreme camp. A prequel to the classic ’70s sci-fi franchise, “Rise” has the unenviable task of setting up a rather ludicrous premise - a planet that was once our Earth but is, in the future, devoid of humans and ruled by talking apes -...
November 2010
4 posts
Did Roger Waters Get Inceptioned?
So, after seeing “The Wall” on stage tonight, I was checking out some of the animation on YouTube. And I came across this sequence from “Empty Spaces”: I noticed a segment of the animation, at around 1:57, looked oddly familiar. It featured an endless city skyline stretching off into the horizon, on a shoreline, under some dark clouds. Where did I know this image from?...
LonsTV Episode #2: The Expendables
Below, find the second full episode of LonsTV, in which I review “The Expendables” and note the ridiculousness of recording one of these videos at night, when the lighting is bad and my dog is alert and noisy. Posted via email from Lon Harris | Comment »
LonsTV Episode 1 is Out Now!
Just put up the first regular episode of my new daily YouTube show, LonsTV. It’s a review of “Fable 3” and a lot of meandering discussion about trying (unsuccessfully) to redesign my YouTube channel. Came out a big longer than I was hoping. In my head, this was a 2-3 minute show, and I managed to keep the “Introduction” video nice and lean. But now this one has...
Hey, it's my new YouTube channel!
So, at the urging of a few friends on Twitter, I have decided to start up my own YouTube channel dedicated to doing daily reviews. I’ll pick a different thing every day - a movie, a TV show, a book, an album, a song, a nice piece of fish - and throw a video of me chatting about it up on the Web for all of you (well, 3 of you) to enjoy! Maybe I’ll occasionally just post rants or other...
October 2010
1 post
The Social Network review
Before we go any further, a small and probably obvious but still essential clarification…This review will deal with “The Social Network,” which is a fictional movie based on some real incidents, as recounted in a popular non-fiction book by Ben Mezrich called “The Accidental Billionaires.” I have read this book, and the movie does not diverge from its account of...
July 2010
4 posts
Inception review
The worlds of writer/director Christopher Nolan and science-fiction author Phillip K. Dick blend seamlessly in “Inception,” a cerebral summer entertainment that will almost assuredly require multiple viewings to pick up on all its careful details and clever asides. (The film’s not actually based on a Dick novel, but the author’s influence bursts through every confused,...
"Predators" review
The original 1987 action/science-fiction film “Predator” doesn’t really lend itself to sequels. There’s no specific REASON you couldn’t make more good stories about military-trained humans being hunted in a jungle environment, per se, but unlike a lot of other films about clever, technologically-sophisticated aliens, the Predators don’t really have much of an...
Rejected @Smosh Blog Post Submissions
Recently, I became aware of an available position to blog for the official site of the YouTube sketch comedy duo, Smosh. Here’s a sample of their work: Though I have a regular job - as the Creative Director of the ThisWeekIn web television network, and the host and creator of This Week in YouTube - such a position seemed simply too golden to pass up. Regrettably, and for reasons beyond my...
"Today, we celebrate our Independence...That's it,...
Bill Pullman’s big, iconic line from the movie “Independence Day,” has always bugged me. And today seems like the perfect day to talk about it.The line is: “Today, we celebrate…our Independence Day!” Pullman says it as the President to rally the troops. Then everyone cheers and goes up in fighter plans to speciously kill supposedly technologically-superior...
May 2010
3 posts
Snap Review: "LOST Finale"
Warning: CRUSHING, SERIES-RUINING SPOILERS AHEAD. DO NOT READ BEFORE WATCHING THE LOST FINALE.OK…In spite of my better judgment, I liked the “Lost” finale. It was sad, epic, funny and it felt emotionally satisfying. In the end, it was about the people who landed and how they learned to live together, not about the island and its special brand of baffling magic. I get that, and...