I’m stoked for OB and excited for a black president, but wow I totally forgot we had a black president in 1977…thank goodness for the reminder that is youtube…
some of it still seems so relevant…some hopelessly (thankfully) dated…
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Another version (sorta) of Tom Waits’s "Way Down in the Hole", this time by Blaqstarr and M.I.A….this would work perfectly for the season 6 open of The Wire (sigh)…almost makes me want to do one of those crazy time-consuming fan-edits of the previous seasons to make a fake, fan-fic style season 6 episode…almost…
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another in a long line of internet things that astound me, that make me say "Is this happening in the same world in which I live?"
the 6-legged, goateed, fedora-wearing, Lou Vega-dancing robot:
I love the commenter on yt who says "I, for one, welcome our Lou Bega-headed, robotic Overlords."
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At its best, voting is a surreal experience. In New York, even more so. Everyone in the enormous lines chatting to each other, everyone seeming to know each other, asking about the other’s kids, husband, soccer team. The huge old metal voting machines with the giant red levers at the bottom and complicated instructions (complicated if you don’t see some of them). The physical turning of a knob to make an "x" appear.
The buzz around this election is buzzier than ever, and from getting up at 5:50am, getting in line in the dark and hearing everyone chatter, I felt a legitimate head-rush as I stepped into the booth. Voting felt so good!
I wonder where the phrase "cast a vote" comes from? I did some googling but couldn’t find anything. Why "cast"? What is being thrown? What physically was cast to get this phrrase? Something as simple as a piece of paper in a hat? But that doesn’t really seem like casting…
Gamera’s comment about Dave Kendall got me thinking about how much I didn’t like him when he was hosting 120 minutes. He always seemed smarmy and sycophantic, didn’t he? I remembered a bit where Sonic Youth were making fun of him, but I couldn’t find it on youtube (wha?!)…
a google search revealed it was from 1991: The Year Punk Broke, which I have a very fond memory of seeing at Grafton Stovall at JMU. A bit more hunting, and I couldn’t find the film anywhere…apparently Courtney Love is blocking them from releasing it on DVD for some reason…how can she do this? — they say it’s due to the fact that she has the rights (?) to K Cobain’s material? Maybe since she’s in it and would need to sign a new contract? Courtney = lame-o.
Anyway, thanks to the glory of the internet I was able to find someone’s upload of a VHS dub of it, so now you can check out the Dave Kendall bit, and a little ironic Courtney Love bit…
[flv:/video/kendall.flv 320 240]
DK seems so nervous, and totally unable to handle Thurston’s vibe. Seeing him also makes me remember Matt Pinfield, 120 minutes’s brain (to DK’s heart)…and Lewis Largent, who I remember hating with a passion. One time he wore a shirt that said "Loser" (right around the debut of Beck) and Sean F and I referred to him as Loser Largent from that point on. I would tape 120 minutes and watch it the next day, so I could fast forward the vidz I didn’t care about, or that they had overplayed. And this was a good time, for a long time. But once Nirvana broke, and the rise of Alternative Nation took hold, they began to play the same tracks over and over and over. Even today if I see Green Day’s "Longview" I want to punch somebody (preferably Loser Largent). It got to the point where I was spending a half hour of fast forwarding to watch one or two videos. So I gave up. And then it went off the air.
dreamlike and cool…
The Unfinished Swan – Tech Demo 9/2008 from Ian Dallas on Vimeo.
<<Friday, Oct. 24, 1:44pm>>
jjosh: can’t believe it’s only 1.5 weeks til vote
Ethan: I’m really worried
jjosh: everything’ll be cool, OB’s got it
Ethan: I want to believe Kenobi’s got it
Ethan: but Palin et al really scare me
Ethan: I don’t trust the American people
Ethan: I think this vote is going to come down
Ethan: to populist vs intellectualist
Ethan: and that populist “base” is
Ethan: huge and scary
Ethan: we got New York but they got Kansas, you know?
jjosh: have some faith
jjosh: + Kansas is cool
Ethan: only thing I have faith in
Ethan: is the stupidity of the American people
jjosh: yr kind of a “glass half empty” kind of guy, aren’t you?
Ethan: we’re all doomed
<<Friday, Oct. 24, 4:17pm>>
jjosh: people are sick of that populist crap
jjosh: they know that’s what got us in the mess we’re in
jjosh: you gotta stay positive yo
jjosh: believe that people can change
jjosh: put positive vibes out there
jjosh: only good can come of it
Ethan: doomed
jjosh: no way, it’s like a pendulum swiminging
jjosh: it’ll go our way this time
jjosh: humanity is getting better through time
Ethan: name me one way things are getting better
jjosh: eg in the 1600s
jjosh: torture was sponsored by the state
jjosh: actually sanctioned!
jjosh: people used to go to executions for fun!
Ethan: rly? you choose torture as an eg?
jjosh: bad example
Ethan: we are doomed
<<Friday, Oct. 24, 5:53pm>>
Ethan: hey, I just txtd you “we are doomed! have a great weekend”
Ethan: except I sent it to the wrong person
Ethan: in my contact list! to this girl
Ethan: I had this big falling out with her 2 years ago
Ethan: haven’t spoken to her since!
Ethan: wouldn’t that be a great txt to get out of the blue? like
Ethan: “hey, haven’t spoken to you in 2 years
Ethan: you prob hate me
Ethan: just wanted you to know that we’re doomed!
Ethan: have a great weekend!”
<<Friday, Oct. 24, 6:02pm>>
Ethan: you there?
<<Monday, Oct. 27, 10:57am>>
jjosh: so wha happened re that girl?
Ethan: we ended up hooking up
jjosh: meeting up?
Ethan: hooking up! totally weird
Ethan: I’ll tell you later
Ethan: sex was the best ever
jjosh: this makes me think we are all doomed
Ethan: yr a glass half empty kind of guy
jjosh: DOOOOOOMED!
Ethan: big time
this made me smile out loud…
It looks like MTV has put a big chunk of their music vid library online, with embedding capabilities…neat…and it looks like there are a fair few obscure vids on there too, like this random example, one of my favorite vids of all time, Yo La Tengo’s "Sugarcube" (they don’t have "Tom Courtney" yet, and I KNOW I saw that on 120 Minutes!)…
If I could do a poll, I’d do "do you like trip hop: yes, no maybe".
hopefully my olde VHS dubs of videos from 120 minutes will soon be obsolete! [via]
er, lenses. Tilt-shift time-lapse amazing…
Beached from Keith Loutit on Vimeo.
Intimate, lyrical, masterful. Where has Jonathan Demme been?
Go see it. A
Of all the birthday songs in the world, the Russian one is pretty amazing. So what a treat today to receive this gem of a translation found on yt by Mashka! I will take issue with one part of the translation though — while this woman claims it is a "magician" who shows up in the blue helicopter with the ice cream and "gratuitous film", I have always heard that it is a "wizard" who shows up. A subtle distinction, but a critical one I think.
in the future, elections will be decided like this:
the surprise challenger really brings it to a new level…
pbfcomics.com = amazing
can’t remember where I came across this for proper attribution, but thanks to whoever that was.
because I want to post something and this is amazing:
There’s something about youth and rock, the young energy, and the 60’s, there’s something happening, and it’s a war cry, a song in the new rock form about the new rock form, there’s postmodernism in there somewhere (or something) and there’s something simple about it and you can tell that these guys really don’t think they’re going to get old, or at least they hope like hell they won’t and shit Moony’s right! and Pete looks like every muso nerd’s fantasy come to life, the kid who always got called big nose but now he’s gonna get all the girls and there won’t be any left for you, jerk-face! I mean, at 2:27 where he goes all Sonic Youth on the mic stand? Unglaublich! These guys are birthing punk rock and it’s messy and violent and parents just won’t understand.
[from metafilter; if you like that, you’ll love this]
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