A “Teenage Dream”, Coming August 24th, From Ms. Katy Perry (Updated)

The cover of Katy Perry's forthcoming second EMI LP, "Teenage Dream".

“I really don’t know clouds at all.” … Joni Mitchell

“Fine, Fresh, Fierce, We got it on lock.” … Katherine Hudson (nee Perry) and Dr. Luke, Max Martin, Snoop Dogg & Benny Blanco

“Oy.” … Your popGeezer

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Added 7/28/2010:

Katy made her very own fake-advance You Tube video for “Teenage Dream”, just like the kids like to do!!  It has lyrics and everything!

Billboard Magazine, July 31st Issue

I Resigned As His Campaign Manager The Next Morning…

Res ipsa loquitor.

“Avengers Freakin’ Assemble!!” Fanboy Dreams Made Real In San Diego

Photo Credit, AICN.com (click to expand to brain damaging proportions)

Yeah.  This actually happened.

Late yesterday at the San Diego Comic Con, The Avengers actually assembled in the frakkin’ flesh.  Please to enjoy, from left to right:

• Kevin Feige, head of Marvel Studios
• Robert Downey Jr., Tony Stark/Iron Man
• Clark Gregg, S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent Phil Coulson
• Scarlett Johanssen, Natasha Romanoff/Black Widow
• Chris Hemsworth, Thor
• Chris Evans, Steve Rogers/Captain America
• Samuel L. Jackson, S.H.I.E.L.D. Director Nicholas Fury
• Jeremy Renner, Clint Barton/Hawkeye
• Mark Ruffalo, Bruce Banner (III)/The Hulk
• Joss Whedon, Earthly demi-god and writer/director of “The Avengers” movie

I think I need my smelling salts….

As “Nerd Thanksgiving” Approaches, An Appetizer From Marvel and ‘USA Today’

Tonight, it’s preview night for the 40th anniversary gathering of geekdom that is the San Diego Comic Con.

Now spread to five days of comics, movies, TV, games, LARP, awards, auctions and geekstacy, it has become – to paraphrase sports writer Michael Wilbon – “Nerd Thanksgiving“.

And before tonight’s “reception”, USA Today and Marvel Studios delivered an appetizer of mythic proportions, this image from next summer’s “Thor” movie…

Photo source: USA Today/Marvel Studios

Now why does it make your old popGeezer wobbly?  Yes, Chris Hemsworth looks pretty “nummy” as the Norse God of Thunder, but that’s not my area of delight.

No, I’m all a-twitter ’cause of the similarity with this image…

Marvel Digital Comics: Journey Into Mystery #83

Stone slab?  Hammer time?

While I don’t think Thor will be Dr. Donald Blake in the film – how do you camouflage Hemsworth’s mass? – I’m hoping that USA Today image is when Thor is reunited with his enchanted Uru Hammer.

Rock.  \m/

popGeezer Radio’s “These Were The Seventies: 1975″

 In 1975, Disco was in full bloom, punk was still an unstruck match in the mainstream, and pop was still pretty poppy.

We reach 1975 on this week’s episode of popGeezer Radio’s “These Were The Seventies“!

Facebook’s Dark Origins Make For A Promising Looking Movie

After the second teaser trailer, which was basically just visual status updates and bits of dialogue from the film, I got real interested in “The Social Network“.  Now, the first full trailer is going out attached to Warner’s “Inception”, and it looks equally as engrossing.

Based on Ben Mezrich’s (“Bringing Down The House“, “Busting Vegas“) book “The Accidental Billionaires“, “The Social Network” tells the (questionably) true story of the creation of social networking’s killer app Facebook.  As any Facebook fan could imagine, it appears to make a villain of Facebook uber-lord Mark Zuckerberg, as the book was written with the cooperation of (allegedly) screwed-over co-founder Eduardo Saverin.

The film has a solid list of creative contirbutors, too.  Director David Fincher, screenwriter Aaron Sorkin, producer Kevin Spacey, and stars Jesse Eisenberg (“Zombieland”), Justin Timberlake, and Andrew Garfield (the new Spider-Man) all combine to make “Social Network” look to be the main upscale picture of the fall. 

With its canny combination of a youth-culture cast, blue-ribbon creatives, and a subject that really cuts across a bunch of demographics, “The Social Network” might be an Oscar-bait movie that can BOTH make money and collect statues.  Let’s take a look, shall we?

“The Social Network” opens on October 1, 2010.

(And, BTW, though the movie’s official site does use an Open Graph recommendation widget, the movie is not listed or shown on Sony’s official movie Facebook page.  And the only Facebook page for the actual movie “looks” like a fanpage.  Curious.)

Zombies Invading San Diego, As AMC Rolls Out The Hype For “Walking Dead”

The Cast of AMC TV's "The Walking Dead", Photo from AMC, iO9

Click to enlarge the above photo, which is the first cast photo release from AMC TV for the upcoming series “The Walking Dead“.  Adapted and directed by Frank Darabont (“Shawshank Redemption”),  from Robert Kirkman’s Image Comics series, six episodes will begin airing this October on AMC.

For those who follow the comic, this picture is about as close an exact translation of these eight core characters to real-life as one could imagine.  And star Andrew Lincoln’s “Viggo Mortensen-ness” in the picture can’t hurt the show at all.

Next week, AMC launches an all-out offensive for the show at the San Diego Comic Con, with panels, signings, a party and a screening of the pilot for lucky attendees. 

No pressure on the cast and creators to deliver at SDCC, huh?

popGeezer Radio’s “Fresh-Mix Thursday” For July 15, 2010

We had a full load of fabulous pop on this week’s “Fresh-Mix Thursday” on popGeezer Radio!  You can hear it all again tomorrow morning, and at various times this weekend, so just refer to this handy list of tunes played for the scoop!

• Big 'Idol' news on Monday?
• In defense of reality TV
• Lindsay Lohan's jail comfort food: Twizzlers
• Chris Klein extends his stay in rehab
• What makes a two-hour show work? Process of elimination
• Essence magazine defends choice of white fashion director
• 7 of Michael Jackson doctors will not face criminal charges