Aftershock Reviewed

A Heather Buckley Joint

Eli Roth’s projects work within a certain framework. Young, beautiful, privileged party people, having a great time, only to be interrupted by almost fantastically horrible life events. Flesh-eating bacteria. Torture chambers times two. They suffer and scream. They wind up bloody, watching their loved ones die in front of them. These same themes are also explored within Aftershock, a film that he stars in, co-wrote and produced. Though I would not even call it a movie, maybe an exercise; a very tertiary level exploration of what happens when it all goes very wrong.

Funniest Things Tweeted During Earthquakemagheddon 2011

The rattling of iron, the clinking of glasses and suddenly...THE SHAKING! A 5.9 earthquake hit the east coast today and in true doomed human fashion, we all ran to Twitter to see what the fuck was going on. Here's a run down of the funniest tweets from my heeesterical "friends"...

@batemanimation Scott Bateman : Oh sure, now that Brooklyn's had an earthquake, earthquakes are gonna be all trendy and shit now.

@JosephScrimshaw Joseph Scrimshaw : People in the Midwest just felt nothing. But that's not really news.

@JudahWorldChamp Judah Friedlander : Sorry for the earthquake NYC, I just did a couple of intense jumping jacks.

@tigresaa Stephanie Palermo : I guess I should add to the Earthquake hype. Only the guys in my office felt the earthquake, but all the ladies were oblivious. Not serious! (sexist earthquake)

@NateCosBOOM Nate Cosby : That's why I left Manhattan. Cuz of the earthquakes. (and hobos)

@Mengus22 : No earthquake in Kentucky, but it still kinda sucks here.

@ScottFeinberg Scott Feinberg : It's funny how quickly people stop giving a shit about Libya..

@pattonoswalt : Not to panic anyone in NYC, but a screaming John Cusack just drove by in a limo that was missing a door.

@davidehrlich : a ground-level picture of the devastation in NYC (does this make me an iReporter?) http://t.co/xDKwEyZ

@SaraJBenincasa Sara Benincasa : The Earth is my new favorite vibrator.

@Danny Zuker : Oh, God. What did you do to her? RT @chrisbrown Please pray for Virginia.

@ChuckWendig Chuck Wendig : After the earthquake, I threw a chair through my front window and stole my TV. Mistakes were made.

And my contribution to the mess... http://twitter.com/nomadixxx

- Funny facts about the Earthquake of 2011: 80% of my friends said "fuck" when it happened and the other 20% asked if they were hallucinating.

- Funny facts about the Earthquake of 2011: First thoughts were "Must save TV from falling over" and "Call Mom." Then I flushed.

- Update: At 2:02, the 20% of my friends in disbelief now accept there was an earthquake and have gone back to smoking weed.

- Quote from random 16yr old girl with 3 kids "It was like um..shaking..and um..then, it had stopped. It was fuckin weird." #ipromiselastjoke