This Movie Is Too Cool For You or Ah, Nostalgia Look, if you weren't into Transformers when you were a kid, you were either born before they were cool or you were a loser. Those toys were at least a cool as your mom was last night. And if you didn't like the Transformers movie, you're either a girl or extremely retarded. That movie owned. Period. So let's stop talking about how maybe it was a little long or how the little band of kids working for the DoD was terribly underdeveloped and focus on the fact that Optimus Prime * will kill you in your sleep if you don't stop complaining about your wasted seven bucks. Because he will. He will. Haven't seen it yet? No problem. It'll be in theaters for a while yet. Go watch it. If watching Transformers on a big screen doesn't encourage you to stay young, I don't know what will. * - The flame job on this guy was sacrilegious and wrong. Discuss.
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The Bright Side of Filesharing or Brief RIAA Rant It's not often that I buy an album from a band that I'm not very familiar with. I've heard of Travis before, but aside from the two radio friendly singles "Sing" and "Side," I had little idea what to expect from them. I kept seeing two copies of their "12 Memories" album at the used music store down the street, so after some preliminary research online, I downloaded a low-quality copy of the album to find out what it was like. Holy crap. The next day, Sarah and I went back there and I bought the album and their most popular release "The Man Who." Even though technically the band doesn't see a penny of the money I spent to buy the album, they can bet that I'll be purchasing their next release on the same day that it hits shelves. I can't even list how many artists I've found this way - use a torrent site to find an album that fans recommend, listen to it a few times,...
The Myrtle Beach 2007 Music Video or You Want To See My Monkey? I dumped the contents of our cameras onto the computer a couple days ago and realized that I probably had enough to make a short video out of it all. This was a lot of fun to make. A lot of the music I used is there for lyrical content that matches what you're watching, so even if you don't think the video clips/pictures are funny enough, you should at least appreciate it for that fact. YouTube distorts things a little bit, as far as timing and clarity go. If there's any kind of demand, I could probably upload the whole 100MB file to some other sharing site that would allow you to download it. Rated PG for crude humor, at least one drug reference, and about 30 seconds of watching my backside while I simultaneously cook supper and dance. Watch it. Enjoy it. And stay young.
Our Dream Come True or We're All Gonna Die Straight out of the Holy Fucking Hell Department (thanks to Heaton) comes this amazing tale of the realization of our high school lunchtable's dream - making salt water burn . While it doesn't look like this means the end of the world, I think it's pretty awesome that our long-standing joke actually became a reality. As many people have said in the comment area for all of the You Tube videos of the topic, it's probably a little too early to say whether this actually stands a chance of being a feasible alternative to our current fuel sources. I would imagine that the energy required to produce (and maintain) radio waves of the proper frequency would be greater than the thermal energy produced in the reaction, although one story indicated that the discoverer and some other team mates are looking for ways to make the process more efficient. Salt water for fuel - sure as hell beats $4/gal for gasoline. It also means we shoul...
The Purpose of Art or Episode III: Revenge of the Cubist It sounds strange to say, but I love the power of Picasso's Guernica . In searching for a high-res shot of it for my desktop today, I came across this quote. Ol' Pablo scored a couple of cool points for this one. "What do you think an artist is? An imbecile who has only eyes if he is a painter, or ears if he is a musician, or a lyre in every chamber of his heart if he is a poet, or even, if he is a boxer, just his muscles? Far, far from it: at the same time, he is also a political being, constantly aware of the heartbreaking, passionate, or delightful things that happen in the world, shaping himself completely in their image. How could it be possible to feel no interest in other people, and with a cool indifference to detach yourself from the very life which they bring to you so abundantly? No, painting is not done to decorate apartments. It is an instrument of war." --Pablo Picasso For reasons that I...
Sex Education for Parents or No, My Wife Is Not Pregnant One of the latest crazes sweeping the nation for 10 year old girls (1) is having a Purity Ball . Far right evangelical Christians bring their daughters to one of these balls where the father pledges to be a good role model (faithful to the wife, no pornography (2) , etc.) and the daughter promises to wait until she's married to have sex. Sounds like a good idea, if a little corny, right? Then you get to the end of the article: 88% of those girls lose their virginity before marriage . So it works! In fact, it works so well that the number of Purity Balls across the county this year is expected to double from last year! Idiots. If you're a father concerned about your daughter's willingness to remain a virgin until wed, I have a better solution for you. This summer, I will be hosting the first annual Fugly Ball. I'll be renting the Indianapolis Convention Center for one weekend in July, where eligible young ...
Paranoid Copulating Androids or I Don't Understand Either Music is orgasmically wonderful all on its own. Personally, I think having sex with music playing would be awfully distracting. Chiming in with me is Thom Yorke, who revealed in an undated video clip that he is confused by people who tell him they love to shag to the sound of Radiohead. He mentions Paranoid Android in particular. What the hell? (brought to my attention by http://www.greenplastic.com)