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Ok, I'm still a nerd who google's 'bennington college' news tab from time to time. Also, the Webby's are pretty damn silly, but still vaguely interesting.

First place went to the Los Angeles Recording School but I'm sure the Bennington College Timeline was just thrilled to be nominated, though if I'm correct, it costs some money to be nominated.

I enjoyed this.

If you have two hours, and a few beers, can I recommend streaming Mondo Hollywood, a documentary of sorts of Hollywood in the late 60s. Features people in the Manson family pre Tate-murder, a health nut named Gypsy Boots, Trannys, Reagan, and (maybe removed in the stream, i saw this on vhs years ago) a vaguely pedo-weird section about designer bathing suits for little girls with out tops. Features topless 6 year old models. Very uncomfortable.

LA still sucks.

And I get to shill! Also my bathroom is now fixed

Required viewing.

3 flus, 2 stomach bugs and 2 annoying weeks at work. I'm mister starting symptoms but never get ill enough to sit it out. This is very annoying. Today I had a fever, made someone touch my forehead for a dollar. Now I feel ok. well coughing a lot, and generally shitty, but not as bad as a few hours back. Oh, and Doc, know anything about black mold?

Now, my bathroom ceiling in 3 depressing parts:



I got innovative with the detached door



Landlord is starting to...something...

The bushes in SMB are just re-colored clouds.

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Not as cool, but can you see the arrow?

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I used to read this magazine in middle school called something like Science Fiction Quarterly which, along with a penchant for wearing golden rod colored turtlenecks, kept me very lonely, had a story about those magic eye books, trying to see jesus. some guy finally sees it, but unlocks a whole world of hidden geometries right before his eyes, and this world is populated by dragons, and if they see you seeing them, they'll do everything in their power to scare you into oncoming traffic.

Everyone probably already knows about this, but some evil random funny is here at the Fatal Farm. Duck Tales and Alf and Knight Rider and Golden Girls and... all of them are recommended.

Gil Mantera's Party Dream is the best at sex!

From Free Radical, working on Haze, and previously TimeSplitters, and in a previous life, GoldenEye.
sorry for the crappy quality of the photos


Little TimeSplitters monkey over the ebayjesus, and a small rib at the Ubi Assassin Creed group at the end. Cue Charlie Brown Xmas theme, or maybe Dar Williams "Christians and the Pagans"

El Vez, the Mexican Elvis. Samples

Public Image by PiL and Feliz Navi Nada by El Vez

I was never a big Sex Pistols fan, and only really started listening to PiL a little while ago. The first album is pretty great, short, simple, angsty. The title song has a great little bass hook and then that Irish dude's voice is spot on. So, I thought it was odd when I got a Christmas comp called It's A Cool, Cool Christmas which has some awesome covers, and homages (Alan Parsons in a Winter Wonderland may appear here soon!) was a cover SLASH sample stealer with El Vez (retardedly great name) singing the Spanish favorite Feliz Navi Dad as Feliz Navi Nada. I think nada means zilch. I'm not sure if it's a straight sample grab or original instrumentation, but it's right there, super blatant, and comes back at the end with the vox. Good times. Happy chewbacah.

[PiL]--------[El Vez]--------Comments Welcome

I went to my friend's Festival of Lights party and had some potato pancakes. There was a small talk competition, where two people had 90 seconds and a topic, ranging from Darfur to Pink Berry. I was given "Hanukkah" itself. I did not know my opponent. I played dirty. I had someone call me seconds within the conversation - "I have to take this" - and talked to them about traffic in Los Angeles. Then I got a call from my mother. Finally, I hung up and apologized, took out a napkin, and said "This has been bugging me all night" licked the napkin, and swabbed at an invisible bit of something or other on his face. His eyes were filled with utter defeat. This must be what it looks like when you look into your rape victim. uh.

in other news, TP main page was blank. Eek.

NC4OM is an obnoxious acronym.  But a great movie.  After the horribly shitty Lady Killers which was a remake - oh shit, Tom Hanks speaking in accents equals a horrible movie!!  That came out of nowhere, but he was in a preview with a Texas drawl and it looks like the aftermath of krystal nacht, and The Terminal is bad, Forest Gump will eventually be remembered as sentimental swill - The Coen bros. are back with an adapted work and did a great job.  Now, if anyone else saw it, I'm curious what you think about some thinks I've thoughted:

 spoilery

Anyone else get a twinge of "fight club"/dual personalities? Tommy Lee and Anton guy. About 3/4s of the way intp the film Tommy Lee's character is called Anton (I think?) and a lot of things popped for me: the wife told him where Llewyln would be, so that's how Anton knows, the mexicans know from the mother in law. he also tells that story about the cattle gun for almost no reason, and he didn't guess how the guy on the road was killed. 

he seems pretty clairvoyant at the desert crime scene, but this is the first time we see him and just figure he's a good detective, but it's like he was there, maybe. The first clue is weak. I had a couple more, but I forgot, need to see the movie again. 

Oh, there was something about being a ghost that seemed tied to both characters, and the two sides of a coin thing seems obvious. and i'm firmly stating they aren't the same character but sort of a meta level to the movie. 

 Also, as for home boy above, doesn't he look like an evil Bender from The Breakfast Club?

Teehee. Call of Duty 4 has been releasing leaders of the world videos where Putin and Castro review the game. Bla bla. This one is purdy funny. VidJump

I have the ability to turn urine into ammonia and toilet water into bleach. I am a very not good assassin. I can't be called bleach because of the anime thing. So I'm Ammonia. My theme music would be taken off the Alan Parsons Project album Ammonia Avenue but probably not the titular track.

DylandMichelle cameos 22 minutes in or so! I also like people speaking german saying "gamejew."

How about everyone tries to post every other day, even if its a tiny thing, a link, or a picture, but everyone leaves a comment?

This article in the NYT magazine is very cute and should be read before it's locked away under the annoying passwords and subs needed.

And here's a question for That's Plenty, Can you name everything you've ever boughten at a Hot Topic? I bought a Rudimentary Peni 7" and this weird contraption, like reverse pliers, to get my old earrings out for when I visited my great uncle.

Looked like this, but silver, and basically had to put the metal edges in the hoop and squeeze and it would extend making the little ball drop out.

Saw control last night. Thought it was pretty good, especially when set as a counter balance against the bright dv of 24hpp. It's kinda like a huge pimple, elegent and volatile, and you know its going to end messy. the music is pretty good, its like a really sincere cover band doing studio tracks that are just a little off. out takes. there's a bit of lyrics and poetry read aloud. I think it helped define a key dif between the two for me: lyrics (often) need the music to not sound silly. i just got back from england from a work trip. i hate england quite a bit. where is ian curtis' daughter today?

So there's a book out there called The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism written by a saucy 37 year old Canadian. She teamed up with Alfonso Cuarón who did Children of Men to make this little filmy, directed and edited by Cuaron's son, Jonas.

From Quantic Dream who made Indigo Prophecy/Fahrenheit (in Europe where it's not bad to be associated with a Michael Moore flick) and Omnikron the Nomad Soul which featured David Bowie and his hot one-name-only wife as virtual actors. Can mo-cap dog replace cats of any sort? Prolly not.

The birthday boy vs. ninja video editor: My friend Jeremy turned 25, rented a booze boat and made everyone dress up like pirates.

test? did the internet break?

uh update.

I'll be in NYC 4pm Friday till sometime on Monday. As usual, I want to see most of you.

has issues. still pretty cute. i love kid movies that arn't stupid. bonus points for sci-fi.

i heard if yr hands bigger than yr face, you have cancer.

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How dem dere tornados?

the raw shark texts this book has a viral youtube marketting campaign. it's sort of a borges-cum-calvino with a dash of murakami book, but then he quotes both of them before two different sections, which is lame. there's a bad entity creaure man thing named Mycroft Ward that's into assimilating, and with my thoughts on Microsoft Word and shrinking language, and how strong language is a concrete thingy in the book makes me smiley. Also, the book has ascii art, and an ascii shark flip book section. and they make some sort of brian eno tape loop thing that's like a pent-o-gram of safety like from that Ghoulies movie. Lot's of cute science based on logic and not tech, and a lot of tech based on logic and not science. Enough cultural allusions to be annoying. viral youtube account, featuring lightbulbs and sharks

soon i will be invincible parody of super heroes and villians from alternating chapters from one Dr. Impossible (villian) and a new hero cyborg lady named Fatal ("Fuh. Tell. I should have chosen Cybergirl. It was on the list.") The parody is light, it really reads for the most part like any post modern comic, cept there's not pictures. So, it's still enjoyable and funny at points. The batman, hero with no powers, character is autistic, which I like. They touch on time travel and alien invasions, so it's full blown, which is also nice. There's also a 100 year old retired villian named Baron Ether who lives in New Haven, CT, which is like, right where I grew up. So cool. Author is a videogame consultant.

god jr. Dennis Cooper, the author, I've been told, usually writes about highly horrible gay punk action, with Venice beach runaways being fisted and murdered and then being discussed by a group of men who pick up said Venice beach runaways, who do fuck them, but don't murder them. I haven't read those books. This book is a short with a big font about a man who lost his son in a car accident. he also lost the use of his legs. Kinda. He's building a monument to his son, based on a drawing. Then he plays some GameCube for about 40% of the book, a faux Banjo Kazooie.......

......where his son spent a lot of time. But those last few sentences don't really sum it up at all. Its a tiny book about things beyond gried but still framed in rationale. It made me really sad. It also reminded me of Alpha Dog and why I dislike LA so much. And pot. Nintendo is still ok.

longitude 'popular account' of the guy who made the first chronometer that helped sailors navigate the seas and avoid pirates. some crazy shit, like what scurvy does after all your teath fall out. (your brain explodes.) also, an attempt to solve the longitude problem by wounding dogs and intellictual turf warfare with the clock tinkerers taking on the astronomers. also lots of archaic tech. i think there's a bbc miniseries about this with michael gambon.

then we came to the end this book is the 2nd person plural. its all We this and We that. And not the royal We. Its there for a purpose that accepts that shit crown at the last paragraph, but its still a pretty funny book about an office where everyone is getting laid off slowly, while the only work they have is an impossible pro bono case about making breast cancer funny. Increadibly nether clawings to 9/11 that are so faint, because, if they are there, they stand on quagmire. The one from hound of the baskervilles. the grimpen mire. That thing ate a horse. Great flashback when a co-workers daughter is kidnapped and they make a missing poster for her, and photoshop all the not-so-nice from the kidnappie. not so weird depature chapter in the middle that is revealed in the end. eh.

books by david mitchell
cloud atlas fucking brilliant. let's chase the modern human condition in a boutique of great language accross the horizon of time, and then trace it back. 6 stories, all tied to each other by their own narrative, interrupted in mid clause to pick it up on the end. missionary diaries, bisexual composers letters, movies, holograms, oral communication and collapsed down on itself on the way out. period peices smashed on omega level sci-fi capitalism, and all critqued by the next generation or ten. should have won the man booker thing prize.
black swan green wonder years in england with thatcher and the falklands. eh. gave it to my mom.
number9dreamhis second book. i didn't like it despite being set in tokyo with idiosynchric genre remixs. didn't finish it. rare for me.
ghostwritten his first book. very good. cloudatlas journey but bleak. follow a japanese cultist to a misplaced phonecall to runaway lovers to korea who ask an english man for the time who is embezzeling who in turn.... etc. There's a non corpral body and a radio dj who talks to a satelite. man made.

books not written by david mitchell

the keep i gave this book to sam. I liked it. I hope he read it.

Special Topics in Calamity Physics Good read. Its a mystery novel, but you don't know it, ever. Oh fuck I just said it. I guess its going to be a movie and people think the author is attractive. was listed as a top ten book in NYT book review for 06 and didn't sound boring. Its was ok, I guess.

Against The Day Is Pynchon parodying himself? Probably not. Still pretty great.

Without extensive surgery and lessons, I will never be an aviatrix. Parody
Swingin' The Alphabet by The Three Stooges / Minced by Richard & Danny Elfman
This is a case of discovering the parody before the original and thinking it's an awesome original. Oh well. Forbidden Zone is a fairly amazing movie from 1980 made by Ricahrd Elfman, brother of Danny Elfman (the Oingo Boingo/soundtrack guy) when they were both part of the Mystic Knights of Oingo Boingo, which was less rock band and more performance art. Forbidden Zone has a slew of songs in it, some covers, some lip synchs, some a mixture of the two, with a few originals in there as well. It also features a snotty princess who walks around with a rider's crop in stiletos, topless in a tiarra and wears big granny panties, which is the proper way to handle nudity as far as I'm converned. So, the movie is great, and one of my favorite scenes is during school when the teacher makes everyone do the ABCs. And I just found out this is a rip on the 3 Stooges, who I don't really care for which, I've been told, makes me un-american and also possibly a fag. I dunno, I liked the first Die Hard movie. So with out any more ramblings, 3 Stooges vs a Forbidden Zone:
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Bonus below: Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo on the Gong Show and some more selections from the Forbidden Zone with brief notes..

I went to Japan and took some photos. This was a sewer grating thingy.

if you liked the good bits from solaris, alien, event horizon (yeah it sucks but it has some good bits), total recall, silent running, etc. see this movie

if you ever wanted magical realism to be realistic magic, see this movie.

Terrified! I'm going to be at the Ritz Carlton i think that's the same place as lost in translation. I'm going to wear girls undapants

12 centimeters of yum or of cute? Can it be both?

Suck it milk.

 

The NYT had an article about a new CD out of compiled smutty/dirty wax cylinders which is sure to sit on my slsk wishlist for awhile.  Some wax cylinder enthuisist (Dylan?) got one called "The Virtues of Raw Oysters" (yeah) and then found other people who had some, etc.  They say how people went to jail for 3 months for obscenity laws back in the 1890s. 

There's an interesting lil part about how the language sounds like anything you'd hear today, which brings me to my dirty little secret.  I got an albulm called <U>Copulation Blues</u> which is all songs with sexual inneundo fro the 1900's-1940.  It's very silly.  Songs like "Elevator Papa and Switchboard Mama" are silly.  Songs like "No Wonder She's A Blushing Bride" are almost cute.  Songs like "Have you seen my pussy?" are probably innacuratly on this mix.  However, the very last on the 2nd cd is called "Shave 'Em Dry" and it's downright pornographic.  It's an alt. recording of a usually much more benign (lyrically) song.  Uh, this one says things like "kiss my ass" , "asshole", "cum" and "titties."  And all this time I thought my uncle had invented the word in the 1970's.  Still fairly silly, and I'm not sure what "shave em dry" means and I'm 27.  26.  Anyways, it's worth a listen: [Shave 'Em Dry mp3 by Lucille Bogan]

Bonus wax cylinder....

So I watched about 4 minutes of Spider-Man 3 last nite and saw him riding a 1977 Puch Newport moped! So I googled, and look what's on ebay:

Here's the listing. It's actually a prop moped and doesn't work. Which is too bad, since if it had been a fully restored, for the film, moped it would be worth 500-800 easy plus the Doc Ock value sending it through the roof.

Konami vs. Capcom

Maybe she could help out that guy

Without extensive surgery and lessons, I will never be an aviatrix. Cover
After Hours sung by Mo Tucker / Coil, but not that Coil
After Heather, my roommate was Amber. This is Amber:

Nice girl. Into being cute full time. Anyway, she played the song After Hours a lot. It's a good song. VU is great and Mo Tucker is great. She was, what I imagine, the feisty lil drummer girl. But she got preggers, quit the band and moved to Georgia and worked at Wal-Mart for the minimum wage until Penn, that libertarian magic guy, put out her records, or some other odd fairy godmother nonsense. Can you imagine going from being a rock star to domestic servitude? The moral of the story is don't get pregnant, just close the door, the night could last forever. Vampires are cool.
The band covering After Hours is Coil, but not the how-to-destroy-angels/analstaircase Coil, but some Japanese band off the same VU cover cds that brought us, you Who Loves The Sun? And what the hell, take an official live bootleg of the version with a Lou Reed intro. Double the hell, here's a clip from Penn And Teller Get Killed where Penn shows off how much he likes the Velvet Underground and the 3 Stooges.
[VU]--------[Coil]--------[VU live]--------Penn and Teller Get Killed VU Clip

Without extensive surgery and lessons, I will never be an aviatrix. Cover
who loves the sun by VU / Honey Skoolmate
Tis still the summer solstice on the wrong coast, the longest day of the year, where the sun pants you in front of yr friends. Luckily, I worked till dusk and avoided the sun: The guy is a jerk.
There's a great cover album of Velvet Underground songs called Rabid Chords, which is filled with Japanese bands that may or may not be obscure. I've heard of the seagulls screaming kiss her kiss her. There's also some USA bands like Of Montreal and that Jim O'rourke guy. it also has these little vingettes of someone named Gerard talking about Andy Warhol and the Velvets. He sounds like he could be huge tic of a man, on scented pillows, recounting the past, stroking an old Warhol wig, the tinsel platinum eroding on his fingernails. I could google it, but maybe Sam can grace us with a comment.
So the sun's a fucker, and Honey Skoolmates know bad spelling and barking dogs do make a good cover on all ends. It also starts to rock in the middle. Be sure to look for another VU nihongo band cover soon, just so I can talk about the tragic magic life of mo Tucker.
[VU]--------[Honey Skoolmates]--------Comments Welcome

It wasn't a dream. Corey Feldman? Really?

Antikythera mechanism?

Can you explain the paris hilton thing? I can't contribute at water cooler talks.
edit holy shit she's a scary person

is the saddest thing

some movie is being made called '9' with Frodo and Crispin Glover. It's based on this short cartoon:

by shane acker, who will be directing the full length. Post apocalyptic rag dolls and eerie green lights. However, if yr brave, watch an earlier cartoon he did after the jump, which is very difficult to viddy

who will be in nyc arond the 4th of july? it's a wednesday

I love the Threepenny Opera. I guess they did a new one, and looky, Wallace Shawn did the translation. This song is now amazing and sad and great and I've watched this 13 times today. Cyndi's hair is very 80s, and I know I'm stating the obvious but wow.
edit yeah its kinda horrible, but thats what i like
I just got the original US recording from 1954 which features a young Bea Arthur. There's a good cover of What Keeps Mankind Alive by William S. Burroughs floating around as well. I'm quite upset there doesn't seem to be a recording of this new version, especially since the new lyrics don't sound heinous and I'd love to hear what they did to Jealousy Duet.

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lust Seriously. Sounds like an outtake from Nilsson's the point.

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gluttony The Pointer Sisters on vox. I'm anti jazz, but this ok. No cookie monster for gluttony. too easy.

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wrath This is fucking rad.

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greed this is a metaphor for something. i just don't know what.

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pride i really don't think this is funny. but i don't think it's good.

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envy ok this is from the muppet show, but I think that fits in with envy.

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sloth I can't find the video of the hippy long hair who gets a haircut finally, and his friends drown in an ocean of golden curls. anyways, grover know's what's up. fuckers trying to make him work.

..bonus sin below..

Before wikipedia was around, if you googled spiders, this was like the 2nd result.


It makes use of some clever web stuff, and is basically an alt or dare I say "what if?" post 9-11 scenario where Al gore is president, detainee's get amazon wish lists, and slashdot is relevant. also, ecstasy bombs. I enjoyed it back in school, but doesn't look like it was ever finished. still worth a gander. over really good webcomic serial is When I Am King which won all sorts of awards, and the author was just using it as a tool to learn html and illustrator. if camel/man sex acts offend, do not read.

look at how much fun I'm having!

It never grows on you. Even on the north side. Sample
hallucination acid lobot by com.a / Sample from Apple Y2K Propaganda
There was an old Farside comic where they revealed to the president or emperor or something, that his whole life had been an experiment, and the funding has run out. Take that Truman Show/Matrix! Anyway, com.a was a Tigerbeat6 darling that has seemed to evaporated in the late aughts, who did a few nifty little songs with a bunch of beat robbing and sample snatching, including an obscure Misfits' sample that will be revisited someday. Hallucination acid lobot was always just another song with a classic sci-fi sample right out of the history sbemails. However, last summer when youtube was blowing up and I was showing it to one of my editors, he freaked out and tried to find this old commercial he loved and low and behold - the birth of the sample was revealed. It's about 1:53 into the song, till the end, remixing Mac HAL as an apologetic destroyer of mank-ind.
[com.a]--------[Mac ad on 'tube]--------Watch it here--------Comments Welcome

[Interpol - The Heinrich Maneuver]
New Interpol track. Not the shitty radio version floating around. Did a source recording from the stream, so it's still not the best quality, but decent. Ok song but a lot of gabba gabba hey hey about the west coast. Gets my goat something fierce. Sounds like the new album will sound a lot like the last two. Whatever happened to songs like the Specialist? Fringe erotic after the jump inspired by Ballard's Crash. Hmm...warm leatherette

I don't get to a lot of retro stuff at work, so this was fun. I 'produced' this, wrote some of it, editted a bunch of it, and whipped 3 final cut editors into making it look purdy. It may not be my canonical list (where's goonies 2?) but its ok and i got to wax poetic about Kuribo's shoe.

p.s. Sam - Castlevania 2 isn't that good.

To be ignored by most. Uh, Sam, this sound familiar?

Forgive the impromptu logo. Hopefully. Cover
Trap by The Pop Group / Covered by Gogogo Airheart!
This is a nice little piece of spastic anyway you slice it. The Pop Group were a somewhat amazing and horrible band that crawled out of the wreck of '77 punk rock, but didn't fall quite into the arms of 'sound system ragga post punktronix' but still ended up sound like a dance band, but via funk. Like James Brown. One thing that was interesting where their political lyrics. Part of the band wanted to go more and more abstract, the other half was wanted to go more concrete. Trap is from their demo takes and rarities album We Are Time and sits its behind in the abstract column. So WRT and Trap both soundy-feely disconnected, but there other stuff is titled things like "We are all prostitutes" and "How much longer will you except mass murder?" Whatever, it's on Rough Trade, so it's canonical. Anyway, I found out about the Pop Group, which is a great name, it's a big 'oi! fuck you' to The Band, because of the Go go Go Airheart cover. Also, Sharon Singh didn't know who The Pop Group was when I asked.

Monsieur GGGA!'s cover mos def sat in a studio for a bit, despite the delightful tape hissies, and sounds pretty swell. Lot's of echo. Or is it reverb? It's nice to Airheart putting in so much energy, unlike their lazy cover of Queen's Death On Two Legs, but that's for another day. It's a typical cover, but brings a bit of GGGA weird and mixes it with some earnest nostalgia. And they prolly won't ever do a Misfits cover.
[Pop Group]--------[Gogogo Airheart]--------Annotated Lyrics Follow--------Comments Welcome

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getting some yellow on it. for ikea.

This game is made by a hungarian.

Another after the jump.

With the M & D in the H, it seems to be popping up everywhere for me, like pictures of Jesus or celebrity deaths.

Read on, dear readers, for sausages, nick cave and pokemans.

I love Heidi. She's now bi. She also has a transcription of the beloved old crazy man's talky at bennington. Enter the sideways love balloon.

So I was in MT for almost two weeks. My 22 year old brother had the flu, and it became strep, and then became pneumonia, the bad, kill-jim-henson-christian-science kind. He was put into a medical coma and his vitals slipped, and my mom, myself and my uncle made it out to Bozeman, MT.

We arrived and it looked like he was getting better and would be off the respirator in a few days. My uncle left. My brother slipped. The doctor said he'd be dead within the day. His vitals climbed a bit, but now his kidneys and liver were failing, building up dangerous levels of potassium. But with the stronger vitals, we decided to airlift him in a small jet to Billings, where he could recieve dialisis for his kidneys.

He's now been in billings for two weeks. I'm back in LA. He's still in a coma, but they turn down the sedatives and paralytic once in awhile and his wriggles his eyebrows. My moms still with him. He's inching towards health, but then he'll get a new infection. His respirator balloon is deterioating and he needs to get a tracheotomy on friday.

He has no health insurance. The jet plane was 10k.

I'm not particularly close with my brother, but goddamnit, I've known him his entire life.

And that's why I haven't been blogging much lately.

[adult swim] made a video for El-P's Flyentology song, which features Trent Reznor, the guy who likes to mow his lawn in N'orleans. new el-p LP has tvotr and someover odd guest stars as well. i think it samples harry nilsson's the point as well which is a bit odd.

They also have a bunch of tracks to download from other def jux guys. I'm not big into rap.hop.hip but I dig this. New Can ox this year please? Oh, the above stuff is all here.

reznor pre nose job.

i interviewed this guy at comic con. Later on I found out he is the editor of Cthulhu Sex magazine. Ever wonder about the road not taken?

Hey Dylan, check it!

ObWikiLink

That an original gameboy. Total brick.

Nice city

another edit: saw this in last week's times. don't you associate with these people?

Addendum from Book Review Ron Jeremy has a half blind, hairless rat named Fetus.

Highlights:
The word 'scrotum' is ruining this year's Newburry Award winning novel's sales as grumpy elementary school librarians ban the book. The word scrotum is overheard by the main character about a dog getting his scrotum bit by a rattlesnake. The author says this is a true story. Kids get some awesome books. And now it's new with a bunch of folks.

The navy will be deploying dolphins. Linking to dot mil sites makes me nervous.

Non NYT stuff follows including a J. Mann update.

Depressing.

....will you be my valentine?

ALSO: HAPPY BIRTHDAY SAM'S DAD

Yes

The Mouse and His Child

I love kids' movies. Especially when tehy don't speak down to kids and are spirnkled with little bits of evil. Even when they don't have unicorns. Speaking of that, I just got real high quality versions of two Unico movies, Sam.

The animation is by Sanrio of herro kitty fame, but it's animated in a traditional 'western' style. The opening theme song is freaky. The ordeals are sad. And the turtle explaing infinity and The Last Visible dog is borderline pyscedelic. It's based on a book of the same title that some math teachers note as a good book to get kids into math.... I dunno.

Sam, can I get a cover of the title song?

First off watch the first 30 seconds of this:

Now looky here at the blog for Castlevania: Dracula's Curse the blog for the movie based on Castlevania III (Sorry Sam, #2 is still left in obscurity.) So it seems Warren Ellis is writing it and James Jean is doing the art direction. It's going to be animated, but the above makes me think probably not in an Eastern/Anime style, but who knows. I really like the quaity of the animation in the trailer above, but I'm sure Mr. James Jean (which sounds really funny when said aloud. Well kinda funny) will be able to do a great job.

Eric, Sam, care to fill anyone in on the Ellis and the Fables?

For those willing to take apart their geetars, you can make the frets all quite like.

One year, I had breakfast with Dylan and Sam.  We tried to think of the worst band names.  I remember Dylan saying Hoobastank sounds like the word for sucking a fart.  I also remember Finger Gazebo, which sounds like a 22 year old guy (with a truck) that likes to date 14 year old girls.

    Those witty wits at the AV Club have published their findings of worst band names.

 May I introduce Clit Ripper?

  Guns and Rosa Parks may actually be brilliant.

 

in the hallway

 

 

 

i got this in the mail. i like it out of context.

 

 

oh my

 

context below....

 

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Arcade Fire - Neon Bible - 11 - My Body Is A Cage

Rumormille:

First up is a new entry in the Guitar Hero series. According to EGM, Guitar Hero: 1980s Edition is in production and will ship sometime in the Spring (presumably alongside Guitar Hero II for the Xbox 360). With the game only three to four months away (and still unannounced), EGM could only say "trust us; it's coming."

 Woah strikeout I love Stephen.

So what 80s songs do you want?  

((Alan Parson's Project)) 

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Become a real guitar hero. We have a wide selection of accoustic guitars, and electric guitars here. We also have drum sets and bass guitars at SameDayMusic.com.

Inspiration after the jump.

Nutshell: 360 games have 'points' to award players for doing certain tasks (beat the game, jump up and down 100 times) that you can accumulate and use online in place of a virtual penis length.

Here they are for GH2 for the 360:

Movie called Black Sheep from New Zealand.

Stolen from somewhere.

Billion Dollar Babies (Alice Cooper)

Dead! (My Chemical Romance)

Hush (Deep Purple)

Life Wasted (Pearl Jam)

Rock N Roll Hoochie Koo (Rick Derringer)

TeamXbox was also told that three of the remaining five exclusives are Possum Kingdom (Toadies), Salvation (Rancid) and The Trooper (Iron Maiden), all of which will be part of the main gameplay. The remaining two are currently unannounced, though they will only be unlockable through gameplay. Additionally, Dead! and Possum Kingdom will be “master tracks,” meaning that they’ll be the respective bands’ original recordings, rather than the studio remakes that make up the rest of the tunes in the game.

The other key section of the announcement will revolve around plans for downloadable content through Xbox Live. While RedOctane’s announcement won’t provide details on what will be offered—beyond stating it’ll include “achievement points, download themes, picture packs, and, most importantly, new songs through Xbox Live Marketplace”—TeamXbox was told that the publisher expects to make a batch of songs available on the day that the game hits stores, so players can immediately expand the playable song list. A RedOctane spokesperson stated that he expects the company to announce aspects about the first batch of downloadable tunes some time in February.

(As we indicated in our November Guitar Hero II preview, the rumor is that the first downloadable songs will give Xbox 360 players a chance to catch up on the franchise by offering the song list from the first Guitar Hero game. However, a RedOctane spokesperson said that the contents of the first downloadable offerings haven’t been nailed down yet, so for now it all remains something to speculate on.)

We were assured that, as you’d expect, Guitar Hero II will have a standard offering of achievements through gameplay, which we assume will comprise 1,000 Gamerscore points. Also, the game will include online leaderboards, so players can “track their high scores and share bragging rights with their friends and other top rock gods.” A RedOctane spokesperson said that leaderboards will likely be set up for weekly and monthly stat tracking, though more details will follow in that regard before the game ships.

bwahaha, are we migrating from a guitar hero 2 centric bloggy?
01. Black Mirror
02. Keep The Car Running
03. Neon Bible
04. Intervention
05. Black Wave Bad Vibrations
06. Ocean of Noise
07. The Well & The Lighthouse
08. Antichrist Television Blues
09. Windowsill
10. No Cars Go
11. My Body is a Cage

editoh crap, anyone going to call 1-866-neonbible? Ext 7777.

ObGH:

Remember that little composer dude who was f'ing the japanese piano teacher? Previously married to Jamaica Kinkaid? He wrote a lil something that's a lil close to home.

Inconceivable! Oh, wait, that's his brother.

Hey, first google image search for "inconceivable" is this:

China's most wanted painting.

During my ever so brief tenure in nyc, I had the good fortune to be sheparded by one Goodie Monster. After proving ourselves as non-entities in the quest for bagels, it was decided to catch a flick.

Twas Curse of the Golden Flower or One Crazy Day in Feudal China, by that Hero/Flying Daggers guy. I think its a very eastern movie. duh. But the fly by wires stuff is actually kept to visible wires with scythe weilding ninja like dudes who want to party. The movie is actually fairly slow and gorgeous during the half, with a multitude of busty servants following around the high court.

What's remarkable is how much stuff happens in the movie, all the intertwined, delicate plots getting snuffed, erant assassinations with vague sucess, betrayls, poison, bla bla, and most of it doesn't even matter. My sense of story was offended, but you can't be an occidental asshole about everything, and I'd have to say I like the movie because it does piss me off a tad.

Also, the relationship between royality and everyone else is insane. The game of catch with the Prince, and the saving of his life are pretty weird.

Pan's Labyrinth soon. Best movie of 2006 is still up in the air for me, but everyone should watch Cache and then immediatly go to sleep so yr subcon can chew it up.

hmm This could be cool...
Fucking Michael Bay. Crickets.
Strokes shirt steals the show

http://movies.yahoo.com/feature/transformers.html

Sam - Tell me about some music track, or swear at pitchfuck.

Dylan - Something about a scientist or a compress scheme.

Michelle - What has offended thy eye as of late?

Stephen - Angry recount of dealing with a public service or semi fictional account that is an actual apology/restatement of love for Wifey. Not the Judy Bloom book.

Eric - Why didn't you convince me to download Y the last man earlier? I've been having dreams about it.

Sena - Wow, that's how you spell your name? Huh.

Karen - Tell me something you like'd about LA.

What the fuck is this
still, there is misogyny
it's that justin guy!

I've been looking for this for awhile. It's a pin screen animation from the 30s and possible one of the best music videos I've ever seen. More info on pinscreen animation and this peice here.

We are reading VERBATIM (word of the day, possibly mispelled) from angry message board posts.

i also modern dance in this. Take that bennington dancers. Mediate this Scgorboti

If we could add one of those Voight-Kampff comment challenge tests to the site, would that be ok?

Like that but sexier?

Note: quoted verbatim
CALENDAR OF EXTREME CULTURE
11/30/06

Caution: contents may be hot.

I'm getting roughly 45 comment spams a day, in violent waves of 15 at a time. Anyone else?

There will never be enough time.

This one has become a cult classic though. When i first moved to LA you could see the director/star/producer/screenwriter driving around burbank in his car which had a big "the room" banner on it. Look for typos in the trailer and unaccreddited quotes!

Where was Ryan when this photo was taken?

a) playboy mansion party
two) nagoya japan
cantaloop flip fantasia) detroit michigan

disclaimer: lots of bad photographs to follow

DS Guitar M-06

I didn't write this one, but I endorse it.

For 36 hours....eek.

Want to kill the surprize? Read below

Sam and Michelle should team up for a duet...

HOW IT WORKS: Musicians should go to (www.myspace.com/godofwar) to register for the contest and upload their song onto the God of War II MySpace entry page. All musical entries will be available for fans to listen to. Fans will be encouraged to vote for their favorite song - musicians are encouraged to get their fans, friends and family to go to the site to vote for their song. There are three rounds.

Round 1 "The Beginning" - Starting OCTOBER 11 - Musicians can log on and post their own recording on the official entry site. Fans can listen to all the entries and then vote for their favorite. The top fifty vote getters will make it to Round 2.

Round 2 "The Semis" - The top 50 songs/vote getters from Round 1 will be whittled down to the top 10 songs by the development team behind the creation of God of War II. They will pick their ten favorite songs that best embody the spirit of the game and potentially deserve a place on the official soundtrack.

Round 3 "The Finals" - The top 10 will be announced on the website and fans will be encouraged to listen to the top 10 and vote for their favorite. The song with the highest number of votes will win and it will be featured on the God of War II soundtrack alongside other major recording artists (recording artists to be announced).

Who loves psychoacoustics? The correct answer is Lang, but put on the headphones and listen to this little guy: Holophonic.

I'm still waiting for the aural experience of being flushed down a toilet.

Also, Sam, put up some new tracks.

I just saw four children playing a game involving clothing, colors and tag. Someone would blurt out a color and then everyone would violently hit the person wearing that color. The smallest child, who I had pegged as being age young was wearing something one shade less than tie-die and was continously getting pegged. Eventually he called out, in between grasps for breath "touch nobody." The game died down and he panted, "I win."

Leonardo DaVinci Toys

Japanese toy manufacturer Boford specializes in weapons of war such as swords and guns. Boford released a set of toy weapons inspired by the swords of Onimusha last year. The company has an ambitious project in the works which focuses on the sketches and ideas of Leonardo Da Vinci.

edit: worst youtube clip that fits what I'm talking about a tiny bit, ever

David Bowie is playing Nikola Tesla in some movie called The Prestige. Something about magic. Prolly be better than his last performance in Mr. Rice's Secret which was retarded and hilarious. It involved David Bowie as a dead guy who had a secret elixer of life and a boy with leukimia trying to find the secret, while being bullied for, uh, having cancer? So bad. worth hunting down.

Anyway, Dylan, think you could do a comic about Nikola Tesla acting in a movie as David Bowie? That would be pretty cool.

Also, final episode of Venture Bros. had Bowie taking down Iggy and Nomi, while a parralel plot made fun of the neverendingstory and even luck dragons. ^ stars.

Oh, here's some girls at a slumber party drinking sugar water and reviewing the Mr. Rice movie

I'd make it this one. A conspiracy of signing music with melody. I love it.

"Quirky Nintendo music composer Kazumi Totaka has a 19-note tune that he likes to hide in his games."

not if yr a janitor, but if yr a baseball player...
http://shop4.outpost.com/product/4645998?site=sr:SEARCH:MAIN_RSLT_PG
30$ off.

May I present the Casimir Effect?

In physics, the Casimir effect is a physical force exerted between separate objects, which is due to neither charge, gravity, nor the exchange of particles, but instead is due to resonance of all-pervasive energy fields in the intervening space between the objects.

no youtube video to back it up, but it would make a killer band name

edit From the Museum of Hoaxes: Dectractions on Casimir and Ships at sea. Well, there goes my solid example.

well, except bonus tranks... pretty close to last week. Annoying comments still in italcis.

1. Opening Licks
Motley Crue - Shout at the Devil
Danzig - Mother This is so bad, it's awesome. like east and west in risk
Cheap Trick - Surrender
Wolfmother - Woman
Spinal Tap - Tonight I'm Gonna Rock You Tonight

2. Amp-Warmers
Kiss - Strutter
Nirvana - Heart-Shaped Box kkk girl in the video. haha remember black hole sun?
Police - Message in a Bottle
Van Halen - You Really Got Me
Kansas - Carry on Wayward Son

3. String-Snappers
Foo Fighters - Monkey Wrench
Alice in Chains - Them Bones
Iggy Pop and the Stooges - Search and Destroy thank god
Pretenders - Tattooed Love Boys
Black Sabbath - War Pigs

4. Thrash and Burn
Warrant - Cherry Pie
Butthole Surfers - Who Was in My Room Last Night
Mathew Sweet - Girlfriend
Rolling Stones - Can't You Hear Me Knockin'
Guns N' Roses - Sweet Child O' Mine

5. Return of the Shred
Rage Against the Machine - Killing in the Name Of again, barfjuice. i saw zach eating hummus in la. i hate this town
Primus - John the Fisherman
Sword - Freya
Thin Lizzy - Bad Reputation
Aerosmtih - Last Child

6. Relentless Riffs
Heart - Crazy on You
Stone Temple Pilots - Tripping on a Hole in a Paper Heart
Stray Cats - Rock This Town still stoked
Allman Brothers - Jessica
Jane's Addiction - Stop

7. Furious Fretwork
Anthrax - Madhouse
Living End - Carry Me Home
Lamb of God - Laid to Rest
Reverend Horton Heat - Psychobilly Freakout
Rush - YYZ the new decemberist album sounds like rush

8. Face-Melters
Avenged Sevenfold - Beast and the Harlot
Suicidal Tendencies - Institutionalized sam, all you wanted was a pepsi
Dick Dale - Misirlou
Megadeth - Hangar 18
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Free Bird

I don't see Dan, but here's the people doing the muzac music for GH2.
disclaimer: I work at GameTrailers

For your consideration...

The trailer finally makes its way to youtube after being stuck in some horrible streaming moviephone exclusivity. Gervais from the office and the spinal tap guys? This shall be amazing. Even if Mighty Wind sucked a bit.

Bonus Gervais below

so.

I recently blogged a lil thing here which for some reason or anther got a few resposnes, including an anonymous misdirect:

Question for you:are you really gay...or bisexual...or just a ghost. i would like to know.

Posted by: Anonymous | October 5, 2006 11:17 AM

Ah, but MisterMiss Any Mouse, yr IP address was still captured by the That's Plenty cyber patrol and I got creative...

Seems like somebody in Toronto is mildly interested in my sexuality.... the answer below

But, unfortunatly, tis not me culture that is the odd one

I'm working on a review for a game called God Hand which is a modern day brawler, with tank controlls and is very odd. Above is a Japanese promotional video for it.

Wythe-y, can you tell us what's going on?

I know some of you kids love that Settler's of Catan thing so I thought I'd mention that it's coming to Bill Gates' box (Maybe Emerald can tag it??) with over da internet support. eh.

my legs are bruised from shattering a six foot glass vase in Barcelona. My skin seems to be reacting badly to glass.

Stolen from GAF, who stole it from some other forum, italics am me:
Opening Licks
Strutter - Kiss
Mother - Danzig
Monkey Wrench - Foo Fighters
Shout At The Devil - Motley Crue
Tonight I'm Gonna Rock You Tonight - Spinal Tap

Amp-Warmers
Heart Shaped Box - Nirvana
Message In A Bottle - Police
Woman - Wolfmother (artist not confirmed)
You Really Got Me - Van Halan (Kinks)
Carry On Wayward Son - Kansas

String Snappers
Surrender - Cheap Trick
Them Bones - Alice in Chains
Search and Destroy - Stooges (artist not confirmed, but it damn well better be the stooges!)
Tatooed Love Boys - The Pretenders
War Pigs - Sabbath

Thrash and Burn
Cherry Pie - Warrant my neighborhood is going to hate me
Who Was In My Room Last Night - Butthole Surfers
Girlfriend - Darkness (artist not confirmed), some say Mathew Sweet
Can't You Hear Me Knocking - Rolling Stones
Sweet Child of Mine - GnR

Return of the Shred
Killing In The Name - Rage Against The Machine barfjuice
John The Fisherman - Primus
Freya - Sword (artist not confirmed)
Bad Reputation - (too hard to say, my guess is Thin Lizzy, but could be Joan Jett)
Jessica - Allman Brothers

Relentless Riffs
Crazy On You - Heart
Trippin On A Hole In A Paper Heart - STP
Rock This Town - Stray Cays did we already know this one? this is a good thing
Last Child - Aerosmith
Stop - Janes Addiction (artist not confirmed, but I really hope it's Janes Addiction.)

Furious Fretwork
Madhouse - Antrhax

That's it, however don't forget the following that have supposedly already been confirmed.

Hangar 18 - Megadeath
Laid to Rest - Lamb of God
Misirlou - Dick Dale
Beast and the Harlet - Avenged Sevenfold
Freebird - Lyn Skyn
YYZ - Rush.
Psychobilly Freakout - Rev Horton Heat

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also, it's not Guitar Hero, but check out this sweet Guitar Freaks controller:

Importy only at 250 bones Crikey. 3 chords? If they ever make a Misfits guitar hero....

This is pretty sweet. the place i work is having a skillmovie contest and this guy submitted this. Not really videogame related but still sweet. Oh, Sam, my old boss has a bunch of John Carpentar CDs and i know we talked about how he was always credited with composer and some other guy got the synth credit, but it seems he actually was is a real musician, was even in a band and stuff.

I just don't know what.

I went frame by frame. No privates. I'm not quite sure why my tshirt was tucked into my unda-pants in the first shot. How candid. Not very Voltaire. Need to work on my jumping.

http://www.gamespot.com/news/6157545.html?part=rss&tag=gs_news&subj=6157545
Bang. And two isn't even out yet. Also, head's up: 4 song GH2 demo in the next Official Playstation Magazine demo disc with
• Shout at the Devil - Motley Crue
• Strutter - Kiss
• YYZ - Rush
• You Really Got Me - Van Halen

Rush.

James Kolchalka may be a media super star. He's from Vermont and has great comics about elves and monkies'n'robots (which had a video I saw on the SciFi Channel one summer) and recently did a music video on a Game Boy Camera which has got some press and goddamn kotaku.

Well, nothing against Mr. Superstar and his Twinkle Twinkle Ringo Star but to drink from the cup of hubris, world (who doesn't have expanded basic cable) feast your eyes on my year old opus from Cinematech: Game Boy Camera DJ BATTLE.

Shooting this required a DVCam deck and a hacked original GBA with video out and needing an external powersource, meaning the GBA was very very tethered. Some things in order of apperance:

Scott Plastic Bugs

Guy Branum curator of v. long Jewish events

Me Dancing with crotch thrusts

not Diana Mizota

Laura Thug Foy

Tina Dub Wood

Me buck toothed

Pikachu

Jeremy Hoffmann, future president or robot controller, whatever comes first.

Bobble Head Link

Yellow Pikmin

Turnip guy from Parappa The Rappa Stage 1

Endangered Panda

One of my favorite Victorian/Math critique novellas, Flatland (complete text) is being turned into an animated flick (again.) With the vocal talents of Martin Sheen as A. Square [] and that Veronica Mars girl as Hex, a Hexagon (very classy lady.)

There is a site with a fun trailer here that sets up the story of class warfare and Dickensian ghost stories...

I'm a huge nerd. Kids, be over 18 or something...

(I swear I'll stop posting these soon.... my next one is NASCAR. I think it involves driving. Or magic.)

oh, looky, Sam wasn't in T Dex Rex's bday video... whatever shall we do?

100 megs. 32 minutes. Fuck you youtube. Taking it down in a few days as to not moider Steven's/Stephen's bandwidth for all who seek the glory,

Clicky for it.

I'm in sf or rather redwood city. This hotel is way to nice to me. I feel like I have fleas just by proximity to its opulence. They misplaced my reservation and somehow it was my fault. Not at the misplacement, but that I was annoying the night porters. They all speak french even when they are breathing english.

Masturbation clubs and real dolls on hbo.

Now I'm at the bar. Business men pound down drinks and barter for more after last call. The foreign bartender tries to imagine he doesn't know the word for inventory.

I hear other videogame journalist being drunk. Oh tomorrow you've come. Past midnight.

My first review is up on gametrailers. Star Fox Command. I used some biggy weird and now I wonder if I was showing off. Alliteration may be a crime. Vulpine ventures? I took Latin for that?

The shuttle drove by Oracle. Their ceo's house is like a samurai's or pbs would have you believe it. Their building seems to be tall and on a bobbing island in the moonlight. All those databases guarded by this floating island...

I should go to Japan. My thumbs hurt.

-MESSAGE SENT FROM MOBILE DEVICE-

Long live James Tenney. One of my favorite modern composers, and one of the first boys to go to Bennington (MFA,) he got fed up with computer music early on but For Ann (Rising) and it's use of the Shepard Tone was one of the first moments of pure awesome I had. Audio illusions. Sigh. He also composed the fantastic Having Never Written a Note for Percussion which Sonic Youth played on Goodbye 20th Century. I was supposed to see him play gamelan stuff the summer I spent in North B, but I got a speeding ticket and sat on a chair and felt shitty instead. For what it's worth and not in the tiny obit., he also dated cat lady artist Carolee Schneemann and they did a nifty eros filmy at Bennington (I think?) called Fuses that I have somewhere. Also, he was in some early Stan Brakhage [also dead] films. Art super star. I think Heather even liked him.

Expect MP3s and youtube clips later. Frames from Fuses above.

On August 27, 2006, around 6:01 a.m. local time, a Bombardier Canadair CRJ-100ER flying the route crashed after attempting to take off from the wrong runway at Lexington. The first officer was the only survivor among the 47 passengers and three crew on board. The flight was scheduled to land in Atlanta at 7:18 a.m. local time.

Weeeeeeeee

I admit I subscribe to Merriam-Webster's Word a Day. Today's is fantastic. It's "thank-you-ma'am." Please, before clicking the linky, why not guess what this means.... perhaps via comment below.

Let the Matthew Barney flood gates open up and swallow the world:

Not even a IMDB listing. Website here. I dig the soundtrack roster; Nurse With Wound makes great artsy background music. No wiki entry either, but I've found Mr. Greif's bio at his record lable.

I before E
Not for Me

Well, I gave my two weeks notice on Friday. Goodbye G4 and Comast.

Hello GameTrailers.com and MTV. Or Viacom. Hmm that's a lot of coms.

No more Cinematech. I will be the features editor at gametrailers. I am very scared and have lost the ability to use contractions.

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I am taking a week off before my new job where I will bless you with my presence and burden your couches.

The plan is I will be in CT working at the hospice till Tuesday the 22nd and choo-choo on up to visit the kids (you.)
Plans include buying Sam dinner, buying the Juggernaut a lot of booze and creative face shaving. Fuck yeah. Get somes tats. Full sleaves. Coat tails. Ankle links.

Also work on my decanter gun collection

I will not wear shorts.

Please remain in NYC Aug 22-25th. Please?

He always had Hammer eating in diners rather than restaurants, he liked to say, because he wasn't sure how to spell "restaurant."

http://ted.com/tedtalks/tedtalksplayer.cfm?key=j_han&flashEnabled=1
Seriously.

Anyone have health insurance not from a spouse, parent or from work?

Read this:
http://1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3152635

Edit Sorry Stephan. Woah, HD art assets? Well its not like anyone owns an HDTV but 640 sprites vs 320 should be luverly.

Achievements are going to be scary.

Hey Michelle,
remember yr DS can play GBA games as well and imports have no lockouts.

Dotstream is amazing. Prism light racing. music straight from the nanoloop cd. Yum.

everyone going to be in NYC August 21-25th?

This sounds stupid. Though I do like the part were the middle aged woman hisses "I think it's performance art!" Owned. This Jillian Mcdonald is a Canadian. And using zombies. So i'm torn, but the embracement of celebrity worship, of even highly alliterated celebs ala Billy Bob makes me a bit sick in my gut.

Maybe Heather will run into her on the subway, call her stupid and punch her in the neck.

On the flip side, the game Zombie Vs. Ambulance isn't that good.

They have formed a barbershop quartet*. This is their first single: The Ewok Celebration Song

*There are only 3 of them.

Hey Wyther, remember that Prey game you were talking about? Yeah, it kinda sucks. This here is the Acme Portable Hole© game that has a similiar concept and this trailer is pretty 'dope' or 'fucking dope' as the kids say.

Friends: I am currently engaged in research. There is an attempt underfoot to discover a new type of irony. An invisible irony.

I will keep you posted.
Or will I?

Even though I'm 11 inches from my computer. Bandwagon choo choo! It's good to be the caboose.

Last night I had the dream about daylgiht savings, again. More like a nightmare.

1) How many hours do you work a week?

2) Are you wasting your life?

3) Are you wasting your youth?

"Remember kids, calculators AD. We make advertisements."

With all this comic-y goodness and ComicCon coming this week (and tearing my life asunder in the same way E3 did) I thought I jump on the funny books bandwagon and give ye all a look at the ads that shipped with alan moore's sublime kitsch of 1963 which are worth hunting down in their own right.

But, Wait, Kids! There, Is, More, There's, Plenty, More.

Also Fun Home by Alison Bechdel is the best comic I have ever read, and I will devote more time to it when I am more sane and less insane or less sane and more insane. But in a nutshell, hyper ocd memoir of butch lesbian in rural Pennsylvania whose father is a closeted gay. I don't want to use the word shame, but with Jimmy Corrigan (The Smartest Boy In The World) winning the Pulizter, and also so with Maus doing the same dealy.. well, this comic is better than both. Not as epic as concentration camps or shattered 5th walled as Mr. No Frog Legs, but personal, well written, well paced, and bittersweet. Like being raped by my doctor.

It's a memoir but I found it under lesbian fiction.

Lists
Her life has become a hard fiction: from the bits of string protruding from her skull to the mythical Greek luncheons (served with cynically cut golden apple slices, (can you believe perfect quarters?)) Impish delights and flutterings of the toungue had been put aside in the harsh Quebec winter to focus on a more important goal: being mean. See, now, despite the endless parades of hook nosed boys in impossible caridgans and pince nez specs (always, endlessly, debating the spread of the Forex,) and their willing desire to entertain, breadwin and speak the most laberous French, our starred lady had been taken in with repatriating herself through high cruelty.

With all the lethargy that comes with liberal airs, a bipolar lingu franca, and penny stock thermometers spins off a kinetic snowball of regret singed with the small atoms of longing. Her postpartum depression (through a tricky pregnancy lasting four years and yeilding a sickly 7 gram diploma) convalesced in this enviroment, seeking a
full recovery into proper intergration into her everyday fiber. Work was always steady and demanding. Satisfying may be pushing it, but the commuter smirk appeared on the AMT every day as sure as Lauds follows Matins. But she was not one to live for work. She was one to divorce cause from effect. (And as days became increasingly same-y she was able to repudiate her mind from her soul with marginal hardship.) Body was no longer a factor, nor a husk, an anchor or a vessle. Routine and age had conspired with sutch deft subterfugue that no amount of out right adventures could deshackle her brain.

Anger and bile were kept in staunt reserve under her palette. Wth it all so clear and set there was only the loosest cloud of confusion, cleared away with a lazy scratch. Mirrors set side by side, only dull fear steared. Cue the French.

Say what you will, but French wit is a horrible thunder lizard. Even a fossilized Oui with the right timing (or italics) echoes the regime of would-be rock'n'roll destroyer-kings. Din. But, however, and all that, the woman in question started an innocent fixation on French wit. Television had made her sensative to the sardonic, while base
sarcasm was the staple of things mundane and humerous. Overtime, she found herself less at libraries and more at bibliotecques....

My friend Brandon wrote this song Twin Stunt Double and I might possible go to Vermont/Utah and marry it. He also drew the above picture. Great guy, and when he cuts his hair he looks like Doogie Howser, MD. Sing along lyrics below...

Happy 4th of July, folks. Hope you find a British person and give what for.

edit: Oh yeah, Brandon aka Darth Omega aka Cap'n did the music for the Power Shovel video for Cinematech.

http://www.longnow.org/projects/seminars/Here's a link to the mp3 of the Eno/Wright lecture and a bit of the notes to wet yr brain:

Monday, June 26th, 2006 - Will Wright and Brian Eno

Will Wright, creator of the video games "Sim City," "The Sims," and the forthcoming "Spore," will speak (with Brian Eno) on playing with time.

This talk will be at the Herbst Theater in San Francisco

--- Summary ---

In a dazzling duet Will Wright and Brian Eno gave an intense clinic on the joys and techniques of "generative" creation.

Back in the 1970s both speakers got hooked by cellular automata such as Conway's "Game of Life," where just a few simple rules could unleash profoundly unpredictable and infinitely varied dynamic patterns. Cellular automata were the secret ingredient of Wright's genre-busting computer game "SimCity" in 1989. Eno was additionally inspired by Steve Reich's "It's Gonna Rain," in which two identical 1.8 second tape loops beat against each other out of phase for a riveting 20 minutes. That idea led to Eno's "Music for Airports" (1978), and the genre he named "ambient music" was born.

See if you can see what I did here....

1. Tautonyms especially the non-taxonomic ones.

2. Thusly, Xiu Xiu

3. In turn, perhaps incest albiet between cousins could have an exception for these two:

Jamie and Carolee are cousins. not sure to what degree. All I know is some small, bisexual fiber in me wants to jump into that bathtub and nuzzle them with all the might from nape of neck to tip of nose.
Oh my god. They are adorable.
Ugh. You just know our child would just end up being in a Doors cover band. Playing bass. Also, possibly autistic.

For Three Points

Is this

a) All the awesome shit you can do on your DS Lite with the new Opera browser?


2) The new 6 Deadly Sins Of The Internet, bundled with a DS Lite with a new Opera browser?


marmalade) Aweome advertisement for a firewall/filtering service to protect the wee ones from drugs, parents bickering, lipstick smears and unflattering swimwear on a DS Lite with the new Opera browser?

Please answer in a small essay, 50 to 57 words. There is a pencil and a cynaide capsule underneath your seat.

Venture Bros. Season 2 started up. Choice quotes "are you raping me?" and "Her name is Skye. We're going to have a child." Later on, a rotund ex-henchman at a henchmen support group is found to be wearing a shirt proclaiming porkchop sandwiches. I was reminded of one of the funnier Fensler GI Joe PSAs, straight from the youtube teet for you mothers and sisters and fathers and sons. (didn't take me long to go full circle on that inner meme... wonder if that Voxtrot album ever came out.) Not sure if this is a 1 for 1 nod SLASH tilt of the hat, as legend has it that people have eaten porkchop sandwiches sometime after the mammoth went extinct.

Anyone ever see that episode of Northern Exposure were they thaw a preserved wooly mammoth and chow down on it? I don't think I'd eat extinct animals, however. Oh, I miss thee PLiF

Truncated and re-edited from Wikipedia:

Her recording career began in 1966 with a rare one-off single for A&M Records, the title song from the film Breakaway. It wasn't until 1981 that she recorded a follow-up, the international hit song "Mickey". Toni Basil has appeared in movies such as Easy Rider, as the prostitute Mary.

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If being a two-one hit wonder isn't enough.... now check this out, Bruce Conner, artiste de cool, whose films are almost all made from found films, shot an art film with Ms. Basil with the song Breakaway. Here is a link to the video, with an embedded one below, and here's a semi decent essay on the film. (She gets naked in it, be warned) Conner also made a Devo video for Mongoloid (has an into by Mothersbuagh which isnt on the DVD hmmm) as well as a video called America is Waiting (also embedded below) with music by David Byrne and Brian Eno.
Conner is one of my favorite avant garde film scribblers, and went on to be a mentor to Craig Baldwin who makes fairly lengthy revoiced, appropriated films and once bought me a burrito. (Heather worked at his theater.) The Toni Basil film is a lot of fun, and the song iss catchy. I like it better than Mickey, I think.

(She now is a choreographer for Sandra Bullock movies. I hate this town.)

I think it was inevitable. We were both from Connecticut. Her father had been a lawyer, mine a manager of Chuckie Cheese. Her mother is part of the local republican party. My mother is a redcoat; British with the teath to prove it, stretching back to England a long line of periwig makers, keep the heads of British lawyers warm and cozy. She's a head on polemic, myself a apologic.

I explained this all to her, apologizing if it was all to obvious. I'm the ying to her yang, the cliché to her tripe. We disrobed and took turns holding each other's frail frames up to the 100 watt bulb, placing us on a phantasmagoric state of human lightboard. I traced her fallopian tubes with my finger as she did the same to my vas deferens, with the skill of needleworker imbred and endowed with all the thimbles the Daughters of the American Revolution had to go without. Speaking of thimbles, monolopy and the like, Annie (as she lets me call her) allows me to remove my man thimble and we get to business.

I put on The National, the world's best highschool band. I hope their patriotic name and local venue/battle of the bands sound conjures up images of mincemeat pies. Slowly, our frail forms intertwine, like a metaphoric phrase repeated in sucession, resting on the brain of the reader like a pallid soup. We are a human sex pretzel, a bipartisian pretzel, a pretzel of sweat, smegma and scales. Ann's reptilian brain and dark iron cold blood are pulsating in full effect, as she uses her long narrow toungue to lick moisutre from her eyball and then the creviced dimple underneath my nose.

The power of the moment grinds me in reality. How am I fucking Ann Coulter while I'm bound to this wheelchair? thank god for this Space Station and its zero gravity.

Our fluid exchange complete, I inform Ann of her upcoming pregnancy and my planned compulsary third term abortion for our child. I take off my robe and wizard hat to comfort her, and ask her if tail will grow back.

Dear reader, please read on

NYT Magazine article, reg. required, blah-blah, about someone playing an Eno ambient peice on the jukebox at a bar. Hour and ten minute piece. 3 seconds. Hahaha.

I don't remember doing that. But I'll come running to tie your shoe.

Could really go for a Shamrock Shake about now...

Side note: 16 color EGA looks very nice on delicate photos.

I've been writing a column called The Gaijin Restoration for GameSetWatch for the last few months. Hohum. It's about Japanese video games. If I keep this up I may eventually be able to reclaim my virginity.

Clicky for bigger pictures...

Ladder in hand, I'm ready to spring to action when fire is near.

High in the Hollywood Hills, are bikes take a scenic rest in front of the Hollywood sign. I think they put that thing up in 03 or 04.

Look at that motion blur! But don't be confused, I wasn't breaking any land speed records, just puttin' around at a cool 28 mph.

I don't know what torque is but I need more of it. Steep ass hill bitch made me PEDAL and then walk up my bike. I think this is why mopeds are better than scooters though, you'd be screwded doubly on a 49cc scooter with no pedal as an option.

At a red light. You can see the eternal lighthouse of Taco Bell behind us if you squint.

Rob took these photos from his 1979 vespa, which goes real fast. Still getting my photos developed. i really need to buckledown and get a digital camera one of these days. Oh, side note: Cinematech has been picked up for another 22 episodes, so I have gainful employment pretty much to the end of the year, but looking at an October weeklong visit.

Picked up the moped this morning, with the help of Charlie. Even picking it up was pretty cool. The couple I bought it from are a couple of college kids and total grease monkies (and I mean that in a flattering, mechanic-sex, sort of way) who helped drain the engine and talked shop with Charlie for a while, as I stood silent with a shit eat grin. We also all ignored the man in the wheelchair who was trying to buy imaginary marijuanna from us. They even took photos of it before we took the handlebars down to fit it in the car. My bike was a restored Murray 1980, which was made by Puch for Murray. He had gotten it as 50$ junker and fixed it up for his cousin who is a fireman, but decided he can't be a moped enthuisist anymore. He had a siren horn, a place for a fire extinguisher, a small ladder and authentic fire hose and appropritate decals. They were a bit upset that I am not an active fire fighter, though I was quick to note that I did support fire (just not in my nieghborhood. Property values and all)
Next stop was Myron's Mopeds where Charlie talked more shop, I got to see nice musuem of mopeds, get an abbreviated history of Puch, which has a very regal logo. I got a helmut, some DMV paperwork and some other doodads, and we headed back to Camp Serrano in Ktown.
Charlie let me syphon some of his mixed oil and we took off, or vroom-putt-putt'd, to the gas station (3 blocks) so I could fill 'er up. I got that high octane shit for my red baby. .73 gallons, 2 buck. Should last me at least 60 miles. Then he hit the more or less open road, wih my strong opine to take Frost's advice and moped the path less taken.
Have I mentioned that while I had had a moped in CT, in CT we had to ride in bike lanes. Here it's the street. My acceleration is poor and I have to pedal a bit to get it going. Have I mentioned I haven't been on a bike in a solid decade? It's not like just riding a bike. So we cruised the less popular streets of Koreatown and Hancock Park. Charlie's Puch has a pipe and a kit. Think of your moped as a JRPG character, and those things being really good equips that give your bike +5 MPH and acceleration, even better gas mileage. 28mph vs 35mph becomes apparent very quickly, even on short blocks.
We hauled ass to Charlie's girlfriends apartment and then took off to a bike shop when I realized my bike didn't have a mirror. Oops. We ended up taking a road with lots of speed bumps taht don't really slow us down, but makes cars crawl. It was a short stretch of Oppositeville. We made it to the bike shop unscathed, which sat very close to a tantalizing Taco Bell, which we decided to dine at. Charlie took off, while I meekishly teetered out of the alley when I was ltierally GOBSMACKED and BRAINED by an unseen force from the sidewalk. Perhaps, i though as I came crushing towards the ground, a localized earthquake had singled me out, cascading the pavement, like a wave or shitily designed suspesion bridge. Or maybe one of those localised tornados, or a really big dog. It was worst. As I regained composure, I saw the force of my fall was a Tween, bedazzled in bedazzler made Bratz shirts with pom-pom flair extruding from her handlebars like vindictive whiskers searching for prey. She had a stony look on her face, as I lay crumpled under the fiery frame of my fallen pedalable motor bike. Her friend, some sort of homespun femmonculus was laughing at me. Realizing my life was spared, I continually asked if she was ok. She just stared into my soul through my good eye, and peddled down the alley to the bike store. Probably to get a really nice basket or maybe a horn that resembles a unicorn.
Like so many men before, I picked myself up, dusted myself off and walked the moped to the TB to get a bean burrito (no onions) and look at the wounds.: Ok my knee doesn't look this bad, but it hurts like a bitch. This isn't quite so bad as when I was highsticked in girl's floor hockey in 5th grade and lost a totoh, but it ranks. I sit now, nursing my knee with a Lawson Creek Red Ale, hoping I'm up to snuff for the 80 goddamn mile trip The Late Birds, my new moped gang which ::Nneba Ehryy gur thl jub cynlrq Xvc va Anc. Qla. vf va gur tnat::. Wish me luck and PRO-TIP buy stock in Band-Aids.

Watch this for 9 minutes. If you like it, go to Illegal Art's entry page for Wzard People, Dear Reader and download the audio, then go rent/torrent Harry Potter and watch the rest. I was sitting in a small, salty puddle of tears, tears of joy. Harry Potter always need more Mugwamps.

"That snitch is Harry's desire. His fucking life."

So, I've been playing around with Sphere now that it's in open beta. I sphere'd the word Vectrex and found listing number two very interesting: Hidden Village at Tyndall Assembly concert 5. Now this was odd, since I did some Vectrex-y videos for our own Tyndall few years back. I was hoping maybe I ran into Sam's parents' (who are awesome, even if they love Sam tooooo much.) blog. But no, its some experimenal sound guys from Australia (dime a dozen there) who have been doing some cool things with videogame music, including the awesome Atari 2600 Synthcart, and visuals with a Vectrex and Vectrex Logo, which is news too me and now I fiend over. Check it out.

Oh, and to auto-felate myself: Small, soundless excerpt of some of my old Vectrex animation. Whee. I got a replacement lightpen a few months back; I need to start doing some more stuff.

I'm not quite sure why there is an abstract look of disgust on my face. Possibly the stale smell of 60,000 nerds in a temporary terrarium? I didn't get to play Zelda: Twilight Princess but it sure looker'd fun.

This is my new moped. 49cc of fuel effecient vroooooom-putt-putt. The dusty, musky lure of Mulholland drive calls me thither, to part its sun drenched secrets as a steely 28 mph.

Best part of the whole/horrible ordeal was when a msytery ebayer tried to butt heads with me, and with a bit of googling I discovered it was a friend of a friend. The 1 degree-er was called in to talk to Mr. 2nd, and he backed the fuck off.

EDIT: Yes, it has a fire hose.

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Jodorowsky is one of my favorite directors, and is also completly batshit crazy. Holy Mountain does this amazing thing where it ends on a huge gimmick, but it cinces everything (and it's all batshit crazy) you just saw and casts truth through celluloid. Also, on his commentary track for Fando y Lis he refrences his financer being a mongoloid who committed "suicide" by smoking in bed and catching on fire.

I actually got to see J when I first moved to LA with Virgil and H Dog at a comic book store (he writes comic books in Europe.) I took a photo of his crotch, see below, and the nice picnicy tarp that draped his table.

Anyway, he's been working on Abelcain/Sons of El Topo for a gazillion years, and it looks like Marilyn Manson is attached. This is going to be like a magnificent carcrash with maimed rickshaw drivers and those elephants with the little cabs on their backs. Anyone see The Heart Is Decietful? How was Mary Man in that flick?

dear lj,

i worked 19 days in a row, two 100 hour weeks and a shitty 25 hour day (also I'm day rate) where I then catnapped for 15 minutes to awake to find I had lost all of my humanity. I was marched into the tape room to qc tapes, snarling and drooling the entire way, untill someone put a digibeta in my hand, and like monoliths and monkeys, something happened. My cold, reptillian brain melted a little....."I remember this" I remembered, this was food for the mouthy thing in front of me... the vcr...

anyways, I got to play the Wii on Friday for 4 minutes. Believe.

Also, I was in my friend Casey's sketch. Can you find me?

Picture of me while at Arizona, saying my catch phrase. Brandishing a knife. Brandon photoshopped out my jewish features on his sidekick version of cs.

I'm going to be awol for the week. E3. I just worked 98 hours. I am not an hourly employee. If all goes well I will get to try the Wii for 5 minutes.

Also, all DS owners: New Super Mario Bros. is childhood on an SDRam card. Bliss.

My friend Kelly had an allergic reaction to some meds and we took her to the ER. Then we played some guitar hero.

Kelly got better.

I rocked out.

Wii.

Pronounced: Weeeeeeeeeeee, as if about to go on a rollercoaster.

God help us all.

This will not bode well in Scotland, me thinks.

Disclaimer Sphere was shitty Michael Crichton book, not be redundant.

Going through the logs for thatsplenty, one of the top visits was from sphere.com, which is odd, since visitors usually get named like dh114.umass.edu or email.bumblebeesinmymouth.net and the like. So, a trip to Sphere shows a spartan page with a few links and notes that the beta is closed, and they went over their bandwidth allowance. I read through the links, and skimmed the goddamn podcast.

A small aside, Sphere is ranking as the 28th top visitor of over 3500 for thatsplenty at .33% of our traffic. Also, our biggest search engine draw spyspace and variations for Sam's SpySpace at about 75%, with mustache tattoo coming in 2nd at 1% for Karen's Tattoo Taunts. I'm happy to say number 3 is bagina for my stunnning masterpeice of misc. (Bagina is .67%)

Sphere is poised to be the ultimate blog search. Currently, there's technoratti and the like that do a sort of brainshare of blogs, but not a real spidercrawl. Google Lab's blogsearch gets the job done, and seems to be updated as frequently as Google News and usually almost no spillover in results between the two. You can sort by relevance and date. What sucks is the ammount of forums that get tagged as blogs, and the way that web spam defeats google works the same for the blogsearch, so lots of crap repeat entries. Still, when the Game Informer Red Steel Nintendo Revolution article got leaked, the orig. blog entry was down within minutes, with the qausi-blogs like Joystiqand Kotaku linkings and reporting, but not actually hosting the article scans. Blogsearch to the rescue (though with hindsight, going to flickr and searching for red steel yielded better results.) Hot blog entries + plagarism = great redundancy for breaking news.

Sphere is being built from the ground up. Identified spam is sent to the bottom of results. Livejournal entries with lots of personal pronouns get 2nd tier citizenship (will I be able to turn off livejournal/myspace/friendster blogs entirely? PLEASE) by using content semantic analysis. Super brief entries are penalized, while verbose, beefy entries get a small tug to the top (Slashdot gives +1 to really long posts, and I've personally never seen this abused, but I'm sure there will be some noise to the signal.) Nonsense, bad spelling, bad grammar will probably hurt your listing. Like google, it will look to see who links to you, but do to the odd way blogging fits in with journalism, I see a weird battle between the topical vs. the temporal, like google's sorting options. One of the more interesting things they seem to offer is the scope. They mention baseball, which while horrible boring, seems to have its fans. With a little more effort than an I'm Feeling Lucky button, you can define...spheres... of interest, in case you just want to follow a certain player (shift to topical) or a certain players current ongoing trade/drug abuse scandal (shift to temporal) and the hidden blog communities that share interests in your topic through click-hops.

Of course, you can always wait 4 hours and find it on BoingBoing.

Still, I find it interesting they are already routing through us, which most of are traffic being myspace whores, incestious ThatsPlenty kinfolk and the odd Bagina researcher. With the exception of the Gothamist quasi-link, we've not really been on any radar, some forum posts and my IM spamming friends notwithstanding. Something to watch and wait for perhaps. I'm trying to find someone with a beta and see what's the diggity firsthand.

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Oh, search engine optimization for good results/defeating spam is kinda sad, as it seems to be a bit like building on Mexico City. It's sinking, goddamnit.

Imagine if Graham hosted a show about videogames.

Also, there's a 17 year old girl with pirated DS Import games.

While doing my normal Zelda scavenging, I came across an interesting fact that Ravel's Boléro was going to be the orig. title theme to the first Zelda game. Nintendo decided not to liscense it and now we have the Zelda theme. Intrigued, I hit up soulseek for Borelo, realized I had spoonerized the r and the l, and was on my way. I d/l'd a few dif versions, all about 15 minutes long, but one weighed in at 6 minutes, and cuts the slow buildup straight for the sex. Indeed.

WMP. still my sampler tool before music gets ituned away, d/l this pretty picture of one Vanessas Mae. Intrigued and in search of a thesarus, wikipedia told the tale of a Linda McCartnyish violin player - an average musician selling sex appeal in the world of classical violinists. But the best part was she has a grudge match with a Finnish violinist, Linda Brava, who is said to be a better violonist and posed for playboy. A google image search confirmed. I don't know. They both seem sort of plasticy in that dead-kittens-posed-for-greeting-cards sorta way. Oh, and vaguely related: Condoleezza Rice is a concert pianist.

Funny, the Bolero was a wildly popular song, and the snare drum up top has been assimilated into popular culture, but I have feeling the Zelda theme, the replacement, may be known to more people. Or at least more people that are going to be alive in 3 years. Zelda: Ocarina of Fucking Awesomeness had borelo in the fire temple, which is nice. I wonder if it was the song with the Islamic chanting that had to be taken out in the grey cartridge. Anyone?

This is from the Japanese only DVD Silent Hill Lost Memories DVD. If the movie can have this much monster rape I'll be a happy man. Don't let us down Avary.

Alt version set to some queen song: http://youtube.com/watch?v=a0Cbx1WW8HU&search=queen%20silent%20hill

http://youtube.com/watch?v=Nup3UHG_UKU&search=bennington%20collegehttp://youtube.com/watch?v=Nup3UHG_UKU&search=bennington%20college

If you were a high school senior and saw this..... I don't know.... I think the symposium may have made most of the pretty pretty people leave.

I'm simply titilated about this. Of course, the guy who made the shirt (oh, I've already mentioned this) did the cover for the XX ep Fleshlettes.

Hmm... interesting interview: Jamie Stewart is single. Caralee will sing more on the next album (She does Helsabot aces live.) New album about hurting people instead of being hurt. Sam, you ever do more of that "i'm an asshole boyfriend" album?

I have a friend here, who would like to talk to you about diabetes....

Bitches may recog that this game was a 50 cent dealy. Clicky here to see it all its majesty

Woah, was going through an old harddrive and what do I find, but my blog entry from Ruben's semiotics class.... let the good times roll. so, if Thomas Pynchon, semiotics, book covers, or Odin interest you, read on brave reader. I sez so. Special guest comment by Tim Veras!

I'm moving to NYC.

Got this press release today.... this is my only way to feel close to all of you...

Nutshell: GH hasn't even been released yet but is already sold out.

Also, Red Octane is working on a Country add on and a Metal add on.

NSFW

Spoilers for V for Vendetta

First off, I liked V for Vendetta, the film.
Second, I love the comic/graphic novel/sequential art doo-dad.
Third, The Pist's LP was named after a great line from the comic.

Now, let's look at this movie. Please note that this is a rant. Or stream of conciousness. Or maybe bullshit.

While everyone else was wearing green, I and fellow CT exile Casey saw The Books at The Getty. It was free. Caliphone opened. They had a drummer AND a percusionist, which is always a good sign. The program made reference to James Joyce and John Cage. The Books used found footage music videos, not limited to mormons taking off hats. The guitarist in the books got married recently and revealed his bacheleor party conisted of watching videos from the national archive. He then showed a newsreel from the 1930s of a man who makes fart sounds with his hands to the tune of Yankee Doodle Dandy. Also, the Getty is nifty. You park and then take a monorail up to some elaborate villa while you look at poor ant people stuck on the highway.

As an added bonus, the row we were sitting in had the median age of 62, a mode of 74 and a mean of 42. Elegance.

Oh, Casey wrote about it at length.

OOC any one have any insite into St. Kilpat's this year? Ya, know for old times sake..

Also, whacking day presents Snakes On A Plane trailer

I'm lying about the babies.
Plexi: Birds

And not that stuff Joe was working on for Koons. I got this flyer from one J. Morrison who makes my favorite sort of shirts: people asphyxiating each other. He also did a Xiu Xiu cover. So if anyone goes (it's free) tell me if there are any people choking each other or other cool things like toilet paper that insults your self image. And look, it's free. Maybe they have food. Sam, you should really be eating more..

Biggish readable flier/flyerwithin...

This was the most chromosonely challenged question mark I could find on short notice. It came from firekills.gov.uk which sounds like a band on Digital Hardcore Records circa 1997.

Question Please tell me about your gentle mugging. I believe Sam, Dylan and Eric have all been mugged, ever so gently. Steven, have you? Is Milstein reading this? I think she may have coined the phrase.

Reply via comment or blog entry with appropriate montage theory of stolen images.

EDIT: Great. Now, I'm a floating head on the banner mast. How's that for a coincidence?

Last Sunday I read a review of Counting Heads and semiswiftly ordered it. I got it this Thursday and finished it today, Sunday, on a subway in Los Angeles. (There may be a subcon point of this entry to relay the fact that Los Angeles has these quaint little subways.)

Spoilers?

http://www.g4tv.com/mediaplayer/index.aspx?video_key=10696 I spent way too much time on this.

Oh, and if people want to slightly contribute to me not getting fired, subscribe to the 2 Cinematech podcasts:
Itunes One Click For Cinamatech: NE: http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=97971180
Itunes One Click for Cinematech: http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=93637111

If that doesn't work, there's more subscription info at the two homepages.

Daily video game clips.

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Sam's track reviews today points to Echo & the Bunnymen cover of It's All Over Now, Baby Blue and I just had to step in with this little tid bit...

So, I've been reading Pitchfork for, I dunno, 5 years? As I've discussed at length with Sam, it's gotten particularly pissy and not fun to read sometime in '05. I have a sneaking suspicioun that it may have a relation to when they started paying reviewers regularly. Now, in the wonder that is Wikipedia, I was reading histories of various websites I haunt, and Pitchfork's entry had an external link to TuningFork (Media).

Now, I've been reading TF off and on for the last 4-5 months, and I just love the hate and the birthing of a subcounter-culture. The writing isn't excellent, but there are weathered old people here, spinning yarns and bitching about record reviews, and trying to cull bands and albums that Pitchfork hasn't absorbed into its omniprescence.

At this point, I think I'd see Sharron giving slight accolades to TF, if that weighs in at all. Also, at this point, the only thing I read on PF is the news and the number reviews. The text may have become insipid, but spit a lil fuzzy math on the numbers and you have a diving rod to some stuff you like (Sam, Clap Yr Hands may have to get back in line, but they have cuts.)

Anyway, its TF first birthday and they reposted their first, spiteful lampoon, and it's almost enough to make me go out and buy some zines.

Bagina, Live Action Simpsons, SXSW Torrents. Dig it. Goddamnit, I don't want to duplicate anything on boingboing.com

I could see Sam rocking one of these, playing some sort of Castlevania concoction. It's tiny, slightly less chinsey, brighter and has a better viewing angle. The tech fetishist in me wants it now, the Jew in me wants my current DS to have so mishap first.
More pics and video links inside.

Someone from the IT department just asked what FireFox is. Remember, G4 used to be called TechTV. Blog Sigh.

Author	Entries	Height (Aprox.)
Dylan	2	5'11'' 3/4
Karen	0	???
Sam	13	5'11''
Stephen	3	6'2''
Ryan in Exile	8	6 Foot

Read more for indepth analysis.

I'm working on a two minute orgy of NES gameplay montage and I want your suggestions for games to be included. Bombard me with suggestions, please.

Note:

Stuff that has awesomeNES in the first level is great.

Highly iconic games work.

Love that weird shit.

Sam, I know you like Castlevania II.

Any good 4 letter names for the characters in Final Fantasy?

Johnny Rotten vs. Judge Judy. Realplayer, sorry. Old?

Howe Gelb Love Knows (No Borders) Expected 2006
Will probably have a chorus where someone, perhaps Howe, goes Looooooove Knoooooooows, and then an actual chorus effect goes NO BORDERS. I'm thinking of a Everything I Do (I Do It For You) but will probably end up with a I'll Do Anything For Love (But I Won't Do That.) I'll give it a quality luncheon meat, but then again, I'm a vegetarian.

Voxtrot Mothers, Sisters, Daughters & Wives 2006
The titular track from Voxtrot's 2nd EP. I'm hoping for a sort of sonic treatsie on Ivan Turgenev's seminal Fathers and Sons a favorite for gloomy Latin students, Bolsheviks-in-training and etymologists for an early apperance of the word nihilism. However, if Voxtrot is thinking of unupping the Fathers and the Sons by adding Wives and Sisters as well as the natural counterparts, they may be overplaying their Anglio-Roman linguistics. You see, according to the forward in the Norton critical edition of F&S, a more appropriate translation of the title would have been Fathers & Sons & Mothers & Daughters, but kept with the traditional translated title. I'm not saying the song is going to be a second class citizen, let's just say it probably won't be able to vote anywhere (with the exception of unincorpirated parts of Wyoming,) for the time being.

Cropped, de-interlaced xvid trailer for Tales from Earthsea from Ghibli. Sure to be better than the asstastic Sci-Fi miniseries from while back. Even without Isabella Rossellini. Read more for some quick pics. Trailer Get! 36 Megs.

Disclaimer: This is kinda boring trailer. Will still be better than Sci-Fi.

Shower in a cheap room from The Standard in downtown. I need a haircut.

Techrat represents a triad of nostalgic neurosi furthur twinned in conflicts: ridiculous/awesome hair, gay lisp computer hacker and animated counterpart to the good guy's AI construct, Synergy which makes some sort of Janus god thingy, though more internal/gender than temporal. Also, I was never a fan of headbands at that age.

< I just made the art department print out and assemble paper dolls from the game ICO. It's not very often I feel like such a fat cat. The ICO cage is a gift from one J. Keeling (actually I pillaged it from his desk when he quit.) He said it came from some UFO catcher thingy in Japan.

Also, ICO is great. Expect these paper darlings to appear in an upcoming Cinematech if I can slide it by the bossman.

Otocky is fun.