I'm pretty busy with tests and whatnot these days, so I haven't posted anything in a while. I'm basically just writing this to say that. However, I'd feel odd if I didn't leave a video or something. So here's a Cyanide and Happiness video. Oh, and the video is too big for the size of this column, so you'll have to click on it to go to the YouTube page for it. Don't expect me to get off my ass and figure out how to resize it.
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
Meat..
So there is this group of guys on youtube that I've discovered that I REALLY enjoy. These guys are called balloonshop, and they make these totally random videos, which I find hilarious. They've been making these videos for like the past couple of years. Here is just a few of their videos. Check it out and enjoy!
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
Monday, March 29, 2010
Not now, not never...
Whenever I need a good laugh (like tonight), I just watch this video. It's a collaboration between Dan Deacon (voice) and Liam Lynch (animation), and it is absolutely hilarious. Liam Lynch kinda gives a short intro to tell how they became collaborators. Been around for a while, but I still love it. Enjoy!
Sunday, March 28, 2010
Saturday, March 27, 2010
I finally signed on to this thing...
...and now I feel slow. Already 27 prior posts. Now I have reading to catch up on! To mark the occasion, I wanted to post the soundtrack to John Malkovich's The Dancer Upstairs (a film that could also be labelled as 'Criminally Underrated'), but as I searched to no avail, I stumbled upon this little piece of political intrigue instead...
It is a link to the new leaked ACTA Agreement which, according to the site where it is posted, "provides for criminalization of copyright infringement, granting law enforcement the powers to perform criminal investigation, arrests and pursue criminal citations or prosecution of suspects who MAY have infringed on copyright".
I know it isn't exactly 'fun-fare' but I figured some strapping young iPirates like you fellas here (and myself) may be interested in some blatantly Orwell-ean documentation like this. Lets drink to the age of information warfare!
Thursday, March 25, 2010
Azam Ali
I'm not entirely sure how popular "World Music" or "Folk Music" (whichever you prefer to call it) is outside of the hippy backpackers who treasure their hemp jewelry and sandals, sitting around foreign hostels talking about how enlightened they've become just because they went to some touristy Buddhist temple in the middle of the giant tourist trap of Lijiang and waved some incense around in the air before retreating to smoke pot behind some dirty, shit-hole of a Malatong restaurant. However, I happened to like it long before I ever went to Lijiang or smoked anything behind any Malatong restaurants. If you're into ambient music, then you could very well like this, too.
A good way to start off is with an Iranian singer named Azam Ali. She's belted out albums since the 90's, sometimes alone, sometimes with other groups. I'm not entirely sure which album I should recommend first, but I think I'll go with "Portals of Grace", because it's a mix of different regional types from the distant past. Things like Judeo-Spanish Shephardic, Galician-Portuguese, 12th Century Latin, Brittany instrumentals, Byzantine-Arabic, Swedish, French-Provençal, etc. You get the picture. So with this album, you get a good idea of what she's capable of.
Azam Ali - Portals of Grace
1. Lasse Pour Quoi (Anon. early 14th century, French Provençal)
2. La Serena (Sephardic, Judeo-Spanish)
3. Breton Medley (instrumental, Brittany)
4. O Felix (12th century, Latin)
5. Ben Pode Santa Maria (13th century, Galician-Portuguese)
6. O Quanta Qualia (12th century, Latin)
7. Sackpipslät (instrumental, Sweden)
8. Aj Ondas (Early 14th century, Galician)
9. A Chantar M'er (Late 12th century, French Provençal)
10. Inna-I-Malak (Byzantine, Arabic)
11. El Rey De Francia (Sephardic, Judeo-Spanish)
So far, though, my favorite of her songs was one she did with the group Niyaz, titled "In the Shadow of Life". So, if you get a chance, download that here.
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
Korgoth of Barbaria
Here's a wonderful pilot for a sword and sorcery cartoon that never got picked up, to my chagrin*, by Adult Swim.
Authors
Robert Anson Heinlein (July 7, 1907 – May 8, 1988) was an American science fiction writer. Often called "the dean of science fiction writers" he was one of the most popular, influential, and controversial authors of the genre. He set a high standard for science and engineering plausibility and helped to raise the genre's standards of literary quality. He was one of the first writers to break into mainstream, general magazines such as The Saturday Evening Post, in the late 1940s, with unvarnished science fiction. He was among the first authors of bestselling, novel-length science fiction in the modern, mass-market era. For many years, Heinlein, Isaac Asimov, and Arthur C. Clarke were known as the "Big Three" of science fiction.
Robert A Heinlein, for me he is without a doubt first among authors. Seriously this guy is one of the best authors I've ever read, so if you enjoy reading stop being a twat and check this guy out.
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
LOST Art
Holy crap. I love LOST. Apparently, though, there are people that are more obsessed than I am. Like Seth, for example. He loves LOST. He gets so mad if we don't talk about LOST in front of him. It's so adorable, and we love pissing him off by NOT talking about LOST in his presence. He hates how unexcited we get about it. Because it's not just a show. These people are real.
Anyway, someone decided to create art based on LOST. Even I think it's over the top, but I still enjoy it. Some of them are a little creepy. Here they is.
Hark! An Indian Cowboy
I don't know what cowboys in India would look like. Given the fact that Indians generally produce some pretty intelligent people who congregate in Western universities, they probably don't have such a ridiculous, Bollywood-style idea of cowboys and cowboy attire.
I wouldn't shoot a lady in the face, memsahib...well, not with these guns, at least.
But, fuck it. I didn't come up with the name. Did anyone notice how that sounded like "butt-fuck it"? Wow, awkward.
Speaking of India, I want to introduce you to a comic that I read quite frequently. It requires a knowledge of history and literature in order to fully understand it. Even without that, it can be pretty funny in how ridiculous it usually is. It has nothing to do with India, but in that it has everything to do with it. Interpret that however you like.
It's some high school girl in Canada that writes these, which makes it more interesting. Half of the stuff I have to look up, so I'm pretty impressed that anyone could know enough about it to go so far as to write comic strips about it. Maybe Canada has awesome history classes in public school. I don't know. Regardless, it's worth checking out.
Wrong Side of the Art
So I came across the most comprehensive collection of high res cult movie posters the other day and thought I'd share the site. It's called Wrong Side of the Art. There are some real gems of art in the archives and I thought about using several for the header of the blog before going with the Krug picture. My favorite so far is probably Galaxina.
Books
Found this Demonoid poster while looking through pages and pages of books. This is around 16000 books just in the genres of scfi and fantasy. Also, anyone know of a good ebook reader? One that will read multiple types of files, doesn't suck, and isn't fucking stupid expensive? The books I mean are down towards the bottom of the page.
Monday, March 22, 2010
Inaugural post.
Pretty stoked about the potential for this blog and all the shit we can share in one place. Let me know if you guys have any recommendations on the layout or settings (i.e. hate the header, fuck you Josh, I don't want to be a contributor, make this page private, eat shit Josh, change the colors, etc.). To start the blog off, I figured I would post a link to the flickr photostream of the photographer who inspired the header. Neil Krug has a book out now called Pulp that looks pretty fucking sweet. He's also a filmmaker. I thought this video for Ladytron's track Tomorrow was awesome too. I dig the part with the flying jellyfish and the dandelion.
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