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Leaving, for now

2009-04-23T02:51:26Z

I think I'm going to be leaving LJ for awhile.

This isn't in response to any problem or drama, online or personal. I just want to de-clutter a little bit, and get rid of some things that aren't working. I never did with LJ what I'd hoped to do- create an actual blog- and therefore LJ hasn't turned out to do for me what I'd hoped it would. I may revisit it down the road, if I ever have the time or the mental focus to devote to it.

I'm logging off a few other sites as well, but I can still be found on Flickr, Twitter, and via email, so I'm not disappearing completely. Those of you I know here, I know elsewhere too, so nothing's changing there. Thanks, y'all! It was fun.

"Spore" expansion pack

2009-04-21T13:37:05Z

I really can't wait for this. It looks awesome AND hilarious.

Warner Bros. Archives offer DVD on demand

2009-04-21T12:28:21Z

Warner Bros. Archive makes old films available on DVD-R. Only 150 movies so far, and they're understandably obscure (these being movies nobody has considered worthy of a mass DVD release), but I think the concept is REALLY exciting. And I already see four or five movies I'm curious about... hmm. This could prove to be dangerous to my budget.

Plushgun

2009-04-17T15:00:55Z

This is my favorite band of the moment. As somebody who grew up on 80s new wave, I was pretty much predestined to like them, I think.

The part of the video that starts at about 1:10 makes me incredibly happy. :)

Meme: Find A Song Using Your Name

2009-04-16T17:52:23Z

I got this from weebull . I only know of ONE song with my name in the title, but at least it's a bad-ass song:

There are older versions of this song, of course, but Nick Cave OWNS it.

I'd laugh if it weren't so sad

2009-04-16T13:16:49Z

Cleveland, represent! (Not to pick on Cleveland, though... stupidity isn't restricted to just one city, sadly enough.)

fisheye/flowers

2009-04-15T22:49:34Z

Taken last weekend during a walk in Grant Park, Atlanta. Taken with my Holga using a fisheye lens attachment.

David Lynch draws music video for Moby

2009-04-15T14:12:19Z

The song is called "Shot In The Back Of The Head," and the resulting video is pure Lynch: dreamlike, strange, scary, and awesome.

classic sitcom sets in "mostly LEGO"

2009-04-14T17:31:45Z

Roseanne, originally uploaded by On the set.

Flickr user On The Set has built miniature replicas of classic (and some not-so-classic) sitcoms. These are wonderful. Ooh, and even game shows!

"The Sound of Music" in a train station

2009-04-13T13:55:52Z

Apparently this was arranged as a stunt for a Belgian TV show. The reactions of the passers-by is wonderful. Real life needs to have more of this.

Want to learn English?

2009-04-11T23:29:45Z

This commercial almost made me snort beer out my nose.

Twitter

2009-04-11T08:01:37Z

10:46 That American ship captain being held by pirates tried to escape last night. Good for him! You go, boy! #
12:18 Just broke down & bought Reese's cups from the vending machine. Thanks a lot, @Valette #
14:50 @VideoNasty I love that desciption. (Huge Ballard fan here.) #
15:20 Excellent review (with clips) of my favorite film version of "Alice in Wonderland," Jan Svankmajer's "Alice": tinyurl.com/cawmsy #
18:29 Watching director's cut of "Brazil" for the 2nd time this week #
19:40 Wow, suddenly it's a MONSOON outside. #
19:52 @VideoNasty You're on the JGB mailing list, too! How funny that we're apparently on two of the same completely unrelated forums. #
22:37 My mozy.com backup finally passed 50%. At this rate, I'll be bulletproof by June. #

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This commercial makes me laugh.

2009-04-11T01:18:35Z

It feels like a scene from a Wes Craven movie.

The bug is just so... sinister.

I also love how they've pulled down all the blues and greens, so that everything is just gray or red. Nice.

Brazil

2009-04-11T00:37:02Z

Terry Gilliam's Brazil is one of my favorite movies ever. I saw it in the theater back in the 80s, just out of high school, and it really made me understand that cinema was its own art form, separate from television or theater. I only recently got the Criterion Collection DVD of this movie (which contains Gilliam's director's cut of the film), though I've owned and watched it on various formats and in various cuts in the past. So now I'm going through a week or so of obsessing about it, and it is a VERY obsessive kind of movie.

I haven't seen the bastardized studio edit of the film, which comes with this set, but as an editor, I can't wait to see it. Editing really DOES shape a story, and I think it's fascinating to get to see a movie classic in a bastardized form like this.

I do wish I could get the American version of this movie on DVD, though, if only for the scene where Lowry sees his mother being prepped for plastic surgery, after the doctor stretches her skin and paints in the lines, wheels her around, and Sam exclaims, "My god, it works!" I can't imagine why Gilliam left that out of the final version, because it always cracked me the hell up.

Twitter

2009-04-10T08:01:46Z

07:55 @elizarde I love minor league baseball!!! Have fun! (Signed, a Lookouts fan... hehe) #
09:47 @gjcharlet I agree. I've always found that weird. #
14:20 @Valette One big chomp (or 2, if it's one of the large kind). #
14:21 @BitterOldPunk That was beautiful. #
15:24 RT @eggwards RT @anamariecox If you send one Tweet today, let it be: "Suck it, @nomtweets!" #
19:14 @gjcharlet You really, really should write a book someday. #
22:03 @BitterOldPunk rally rally rally. #

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Fontana Modern Masters

2009-04-10T01:12:09Z

"Fontana Modern Masters was a series of pocket guides to artists, writers, philosophers, sociologists and other thinkers published by Fontana paperbacks. The series, edited by Frank Kermode, began in 1970." I love this LiveJournal post by Nick Currie (a.k.a. imomus , a.k.a. underground pop star Momus) about an old series of philosophy paperbacks and their extremely hip cover art.

8-Bit Waterslide

2009-04-10T00:50:26Z

This cracked me up. Excellent animation, and also, I think the creator is probably around my age:

Oustanding.

2009-04-08T12:51:25Z

Iowas Senate Leader Mike Gronstal explains why he wouldn't back a proposal to reverse marriage equality in Iowa. Wow.

Twitter

2009-04-07T08:01:57Z

04:48 My alarm clock thinks the time changed this weekend, and woke me up an hour early today. Hilarious. *groan* #
06:16 @arratik Actually, my clock is several years out of date regarding DST. #
06:18 Listened to John Cale on the train ride into work. Am now walking around humming "Guts," which is both wrong & hilarious. #
07:50 Looking forward to watching this on PBS Wed. night: "GLASS: A Portrait of Philip in 12 Parts" tinyurl.com/dafon9 #
09:23 RT @SARAHPOSNER One in five white evangelicals thinks Obama is Muslim. bit.ly/GJcO #
15:32 Heard on NPR: "Google estimates that 94% of all email traffic is spam." Insane. #

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still with the Las Vegas pics

2009-04-05T06:26:19Z

I'm still working on (digital) pics from Vegas and uploading them to Flickr. My camera was broken and in the shop for repairs when we took the trip, so I had to use a 10+ years old digital that I still had... VERY low resolution, no stabilization or other features. But you know, in a target-rich environment like Las Vegas, you can't help but come back with some good pics. I just posted this one and it looks to me like a movie poster or a paperback book cover. Holy shit, can that really be a real place?

My pics from the trip seem sort of random and jumbled, but then, the trip felt that way, too. There's so much sensory overload in a place like Vegas, I find myself processing it for weeks afterwards.

Las Vegas (on film)

2009-04-04T02:38:56Z

I'm still going through pics of our Las Vegas trip (we went last month to see some friends get married) and uploading them to Flickr,. but I did get all my Holga pics scanned and uploaded today. I took a B&W roll out on the strip one day, and a color roll downtown on a different day. I'm tickled at how they came out, especially the black and white ones.

The Inaccessible PDF Song

2009-04-03T22:33:02Z

This is cool... a guy who works with blind students takes a corrupted PDF file and turns it into a song.

Twitter

2009-04-03T08:01:45Z

04:23 Just woke up in the middle of one HELL of a thunderstorm. Lightning! #
06:24 The company is removing most of the first aid cabinets in our building as a cost-cutting measure. Hmmm. #
06:41 @Ardiril Ha!! I'm totally going to do that. :D #
07:17 @richat Heh heh heh!! #
07:17 A cool review/appreciation of the movie "The Iron Giant": tinyurl.com/de3hqo #
10:13 Flickr has been loading REALLY slowly or not at all today... is it just me? #
12:36 Bad: have to stay home tomorrow & wait for dryer repairman. Good: three day weekend! #
13:20 Thunder is rattling the windows of my building. Wow. #

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Billy Mays and Obama

2009-04-02T16:23:21Z

I love this bit from "The Tonight Show":

It's Obama's face at the end that sells it (so to speak).

100 meters of existence

2009-04-02T15:48:31Z

A 100-meter long photo of people, taken over 21 days. The more I look at this, the better it gets. You can see little stories happening between some of the people. Just awesome.