Kid plays Simpsons theme on two guitars
This is well worth seeing/hearing if you’re a Simpsons fan (Simpsonian? Simpsonite?)
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Pretty pink
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More for Jenn.
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Packing Blues
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Blueberry!
Much love for Jenn.
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Working on it
Hey Kids ,
Almost done rewriting the code that runs the archives, yay! I figured, its been years since I re did the templates and designs for this site, so why not upgrade it to a new design? Well, after changing style, I realized, I like my previous (now current) design. So I’m re-writing that to be more up to date with current web design standards. More to follow.
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Watching Watchtower
Aside from the usual crap, YouTube has a great selection of one the most covered song of all time: All Along the Watchtower. Classics like Hendrix (live and studio), Neil Young (at DailyMotion with better sound) and U2–and some great contemporary versions like Keziah Jones’ blazingly-fast version, Bradley Fish’s 12-instrument (including Chinese Zither) version, Michael Hedges? reason-to-be-excited cover, and even a quite good version of DMB’s much-maligned cover. What doesn’t really rank: Dylan’s original.
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Frightening Little Question
Heh, funny post from Scott Adams;
When I watch a movie, I enjoy it more if I can empathize with one of the characters. I imagine myself in his or her situation: solving a crime, falling in love, wearing a leotard while battling injustice, and whatnot. It’s hard to enjoy a movie if I can’t relate to how the characters are feeling, even if they are different from me. That’s normal, right?
So how the f*ck do you explain the popularity of horror movies?
There are only two kinds of characters in a horror flick: the victims who are dying horrible deaths, and the psychopaths that are doing the killing. My problem with those movies is that I automatically empathize with the victims, and I can feel their pain. When a character gets impaled with a sharp object, I imagine what that would feel like. I think it would hurt. So I steer clear of horror movies. Yet millions of people enjoy that type of entertainment. Here’s your frightening little question of the day: Who are horror movie fans empathizing with?
By process of elimination, I assume fans of horror flicks are imagining themselves as the killer, thinking how cool it would be to disembowel attractive teenagers. Jeezus-frickin-christ! There are millions of these psychopath movie-goers. And they look just like normal people.
I wonder how many times in my life I’m at a store, for example, swiping my debit card, and the cashier is looking at me and thinking “It sure would be fun to drive a spike through his forehead and make a vest from his skin.” It probably happens more often than I’d like.
Do you enjoy horror movies? If so, what the f*ck is wrong with you?Share this:
Steampunk screenplay based on “Hackers”
Clockers is a screenplay for a steampunk version of “Hackers” — it’s a hoot! Here’s a snippit of the script.
PROSECUTOR
–criminal mischief and destruction of property. The defendant possesses a malicious cunning, which he has used to wreak havoc on the industry of his elders and betters. His “self-replicating automata,” engraved with his signature alias “Arctic Pole,” dealt brutally with the delicate workings of one hundred and fifty machines in the cotton mills which are the pride of our city, stripping them for parts and building more of themselves. We estimate that he has cost the owners a full month’s profits.
JUDGE
Daedelus Murphy, I hereby fine you one thousand pounds sterling.
Gasps from the crowd.
Should you be unable to summon sufficient funds, you or your surrogate will be sentenced to debtors’ prison until such time as he has repaid it in full. In addition, you are prohibited from owning or operating a wrench, geartrain, pocketwatch or clock of any kind so long as you reside within this county.
GAVEL.
Title card: 5EVEN Y3ARS LA+ER
Also, here’s a link to some other versions, including the MP3 soundtrack
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A perfect stealth invasion force.
The duck diaspora: thousands of rubber ducks condemned never to know the quietude of a suburban bathtub, which have instead spent 15 years wandering the world’s oceans like aquatic Cains.
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Thank You, Come Again!
7-Eleven turns 12 of its locations in the United States and Canada into Kwik-E-Marts in a promotion for the upcoming Simpsons Movie, including locations in Burbank, Mountain View and Bladensburg, MD.
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Desktop pictures – Computer wallpaper
Hi-Res Photos for the Masses! How about that bandwidth?
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Alka-Seltzer tag
Alka Seltzer tag sounds fun: each player wears an Alka Seltzer on necklace, and players run around with hoses/squirtguns trying to wet the others’ tablets. As the tablets foam, they drop off the string. The last intact tablet wins.
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I HATE YOOOOOOOOOU!
"I HATE YOU MORE THAN ANYTHING IN THIS DAMN WORLDDDDDDDDDD"… A dramatic reading of a break-up letter. (Audio may be NSFW, but the text is entertaining even without the audio).
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House Of The Sizing For One
Dirk Dieter, an industrial and exhibit designer, paid $101,000 in 1999 for a 250-square-foot house built on a triangular lot at the end of a dead-end street in Pacifica. Built in 1954, the little house was probably a warming shed for local fishermen, but Dieter’s modest yet dramatic renovation has transformed the house into a marvel of space-saving design, inspired him to formulate strategies and design furniture for streamlined living, and brought a recent appraisal of $375,000.
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The Strangest Shop in All of Paris
Deyrolle: The Strangest Shop in All of Paris. "Paris has many unusual shops, but one of the most unusual has to be Deyrolle."
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Happy Canada Day!
It’s Canada Day, the day that marks the anniversary of Canadian Confederation on July 1, 1867. We Canadians celebrate it with days off work, beer, and fireworks. It’s like July 4, without the revolutionary overtones.
There is no more potent symbol of Canadianness than the National Film Board of Canada’s musical short, The Log Driver’s Waltz: more than Leonard Cohen’s groans, more than Dan Ackroyd’s rampant toryism, more than “timbit” jokes about Tim Horton’s tragic car accident, The Log Driver’s Waltz defines Canada for its expatriate thirtysomethings. Just singing a few bars of this in a crowded space is enough to flush the crypto-Canadians out (Canadians are like axe-murderers, we look just like regular people) in throaty voice. It’s even more reliable than stepping on everyone’s foot until someone apologises.
Happy Canada Day to my fellow Canadians, both domestic and expatriate.
As a bonus be sure to catch this unforgettable punk cover from Midget Militia. Also here’s another version, performed by Captain Tractor
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The immortal story
Three well-received albums, but without selling many of them. One of the greatest singles ever, but it didn’t chart. An acrimonious split after only four years amidst heroin addiction and charges of attempted murder. A lead singer and songwriter who descended into a quarter of a century of addiction: first heroin, then crack, just about staying alive, but only just.
But The Only Ones are back, dubbed as cult heroes, and acknowledged as an influence on bands like Nirvana, The Replacements, Blur and The Libertines. Just a little haggard and worn, but playing live again (The Big Sleep, Another Girl) after twenty-five years.
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Welcome to Lacuna Inc.
Researchers have found they can use drugs to wipe away single, specific memories while leaving other memories intact. By injecting an amnesia drug at the right time, when a subject was recalling a particular thought, neuro-scientists discovered they could disrupt the way the memory is stored and even make it disappear.
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The Vegetarian Lunchbox
The Vegetarian Lunchbox seems like a good resource. Hadn’t heard of a strawberry and cucumber sandwich before.
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Seat 29E
“Dear Continental Airlines” Disgruntled airline passenger writes to customer service. Complete with hand-drawn diagrams.
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The Cats of Mirikitani
The astonishing story of Japanese American artist Jimmy Mirikitani, imprisoned in an internment camp after Pearl Harbor, homeless in NYC on 9/11, taken in by documentary film maker Linda Hattendorf.
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Pity the Fools
Mike Essl and Greg Rivera are kinda obsessed* with Mr. T.
*(polite understatement)
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