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Fantastic 4. 4 this, 4 that. Every ad, tagline, everything about that movie is 4. Watch the trailer, 4s everywhere. Ends with "July 4th."
Then you notice the bottom of the page:
"July 8th, 2005"
Somewhere in California, there's a producer vomiting.
Not really, buy you have to love a movie called Kung-Fu Hustle.
Disclaimer: Let me preface this by saying that I think that those who view child pornography really need help, and those who make child pornography should be shot.
I read an article in the paper today about an 18 year old college freshman who was arrested on charges of owning child porn. Here's what bothers me: according to the article, he gave his laptop to a computer technician to install a new hard drive. "The technician discovered a video file of two boys 'engaging in sexual conduct.'"
Discovered? That means he was watching this guy's videos. If it was pictures, I could see him "discovering" photos, as they are often thumbnailed in file displays. I know that videos are thumbnailed too, but they're often just a black square or binary garbage. It's possible that the thumbnail showed a troubling image, and it's also possible that the file was called "Two underage boys engaging in sexual activity." But it still makes me wonder.
Also, I don't know about you, but I've downloaded a file called something like "funny birthday party! funny!" before, just to see a car wreck or someone falling down a flight of stairs. The net is laden with that kind of crap. According to the article, there was one video on his computer. One. It would be a crying shame if this kid's life is ruined because of something like that.
"My life changed completely in 1967. Oh, and I was born in 1974."
Skinny Puppy made a hella cool music video. Found on the somewhat awesome video site Blastro.
Iraq Culture Smart Cards. Neat.
Found at we make money not art.
Went to Austin yesterday, got back today. Things I learned:
My girlfriend is somewhat awesome (knew that already).
The Bob 103.5 FM is a good radio station.
Songs that are still good: U Can't Touch This, Our House, Girls Just Wanna Have Fun.
Song that is no longer good (never was, really): Pump Up the Jam.
Little City Coffeehouse coffee isn't that great, but I like the atmosphere.
Some people like to jog backwards.
Waterloo records is kind of expensive, but you always find something you have to have.
Fewer things are more awesome than clear 45s. Except maybe the swirly ones.
BookPeople is a awesome bookstore (across from Waterloo).
Moleskine makes neat little $2 notebooks that fit neatly into the back pocket.
PT Cruisers suck.
I was on Talk of the Nation today. The subject was the distribution of digital music on the Internet, originals, mash-ups, remixes, etc. Interested to see if LO2unes gets some extra hits today.
P.S. to those who care: I'm going to revamp LO2unes in the next couple of weeks, converting distribution to BitTorrent instead of direct download. It'll take a little longer to download tracks, but I can put way more content online. I'll be putting The Blackfish Album up, as well as the first FunkaFeltaFish EP, Uncle Pork. Free beats, whee!
I was planning on having a big record sale on April 2nd-3rd, but that has gone kaput. The Austin Record Convention is the same weekend. I called, and they said they have a few tables left, so with some luck, I might be able to take my sale there. If not, it'll probably be postponed to the next weekend.
I wish I hadn't put out so many flyers already.
My 11 Best Albums of 2004 should have been 12. I don't know how I forgot William Shatner's masterpiece, but I have fixed it now. Laugh all you want, but I have never heard a record that blends humility and hubris like this. I love it.
Ben Folds' Super D EP is an early candidate for 2005's list. I haven't heard the other EPs yet (he's on an EP kick), but I might combine them into a single entry. This record's pretty incredible.
Yes. That is an all chrome Mercedes. My leg won't stop twitching.
The Porsche Boesendorfer piano. Sweeeeeeet. Found at MoCoLoco.
Started Bark and Skeet up again. It might take a while to hit my stride again.
Guess which day I plugged my website on NPR's Talk of the Nation. Go on, guess.
I like to think that I can (could) make really good mix tapes/CDs. The guys at Tiny Mix Tapes have it down to an art. You can make the most ludicrous requests, and get a great mix. Examples:
i'd totally make love to these songs if they were turned into a person
A tape to have hot wild sex to (not just about sex)
songs that when you first heard them put a small (or perhaps large) smile on your face
The most intelligent lyrics in the world
The sex is so great that you need a mixtape to muffle your screams when your parents are downstairs
iTunes should cut a deal with these guys where they can generate a link that will let you buy any mix for $9.99. That would be awesome. I swear, someone needs to pay me to come up with this shit.
Spiritual Communication via Nintendo Console?
Needles to tell me how broke I am.
What if someone invented a machine that could cure virtually any disease and was affordable to buy and easy to use? It wouldn't be sold here.
Mostly found through Engadget and Gizmodo.
Jake in Progress is a good new show. Cuts is not. Yet I watch both. I don't understand me.
We succeeded in taking that picture [from deep space], and, if you look at it, you see a dot.
That's here. That's home. That's us.
On it, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever lived, lived out their lives. The aggregate of all our joys and sufferings, thousands of confident religions, ideologies and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilizations, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every hopeful child, every mother and father, every inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every superstar, every supreme leader, every saint and sinner in the history of our species, lived there on a mote of dust, suspended in a sunbeam.
The earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that in glory and in triumph they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of the dot on scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner of the dot. How frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds. Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the universe, are challenged by this point of pale light.
Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity -- in all this vastness -- there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. It is up to us. It's been said that astronomy is a humbling, and I might add, a character-building experience. To my mind, there is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world.
To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly and compassionately with one another and to preserve and cherish that pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.
Carl Sagan, Reflections on a Mote of Dust
A junkie is someone who's using their body to tell society that something is wrong.
Stella Adler
...and to all the Don Juans out there, and Snoop, remember: Touch. Preach. Tabernacle.
Lil Jon
Call me a hippie, whatever. Can someone tell me why you can't buy sprouts anymore? All I want to do is make a big sandwich, and it's lacking. I like mayo and avocado on my big sandwich, and sprouts are the magical little vegetable that binds the whole bread/mayo/sprouts/avocado/meat side of the sandwich together. Dammit!
A panda walks into a restaurant, sits down, and orders a sandwich. He eats the sandwich, pulls out a gun, and shoots the waiter dead. As the panda stands up to go, the manager shouts, "Hey! Where are you going? You just shot my waiter, and you didn't even pay for your sandwich!"
"Hey, man, I'm a PANDA!" the panda shouts back. "Look it up!"
The manager opens his dictionary and reads:
Panda: A tree-dwelling marsupial of Asian origin, characterized by distinct black and white coloring. Eats shoots and leaves.
Found on Superdickery.
Always something new. VidLit is a promotion tool of sorts for the book industry, but I like it. Stories and book excerpts are turned into Flash animations, with great results. Craziest is a fantastic short story, and the bits from How I Paid for College and Yiddish with Dick and Jane are great. Not much else on there yet, but we'll see.
Better than NextGen, a great Oceans Eleven homage, and probably the most heart wrenching last thirty seconds of any show ever. Awesome.
Now on to Voyager!
Seems Jeff Wiese was into Flash animations. Target Practice really should have been something of a hint. Warning: quite violent.
Favorite movies: Elephant and Zero Day (both Columbine-style stories).
Favorite music: John Lennon?
Found via Screenhead.
Seems Bernd has three days left. The damn guy has made over $90,000.
China syndrome - noun
Definition: a hypothetical sequence of events following a nuclear reactor meltdown, in which the core melts through its container and deep into the earth
Etymology: from China's being on the opposite side of the earth from a U.S. nuclear reactor
Um, what do you call it if the reactor's in China?
OK, here's the deal. If you haven't seen Saw, but you plan on seeing it eventually, go rent/buy it now, tonight, this minute. There's little I hate more than people who ruin movies for you, and this one can be ruined with about five words. Trust me. It's not the greatest movie ever, but I liked it, and you'll hate the person that no doubt will screw it up. That's all I'm going to say.
If you don't want to see it, never mind.
then read this:
The Phoenix Union High School District has created a scholarship fund to benefit the further education of Cristian Arcega, Lorenzo Santillan, Luis Aranda, and Oscar Vazquez.
To make a donation, please send a check payable to "Phoenix Union Partnership - La Vida Robot Scholarship" at:
Phoenix Union Partnership - La Vida Robot Scholarship
Phoenix Union High School District - Attn: Jodie Baker
4502 N. Central, Room 5
Phoenix, AZ 85012
For further information, contact the Carl Hayden High School robotics team adviser Allan Cameron at: Cameron@phxhs.k12.az.us
I'm gonna send a five-spot...
You can be busting your hump, working for hours on your laptop, and Tori Amos' "Me and a Gun" will pop up on WinAmp and stop you dead, just to listen. Music's amazing.
Been meaning to revamp LO2unes, but haven't had the time. Just posted Beastie Boys vs Modest Mouse - Fl-Float it Out, in case you want something new to listen to.
Postsecret asks you to write a deeply held secret on a postcard, illustrate it, and send it to them. It's really terribly compelling.
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