Greg Brown

A minute or so from The Dark Knight.The Joker is going to be...

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 23:40:00 -0500

A minute or so from The Dark Knight.

The Joker is going to be Scary. As. Shit. in the film. Just this peek alone had me shifting uncomfortably in my seat.

(w/ bonus Senator Patrick Leahy cameo)

Pelican: om nom nom nom

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 23:27:07 -0500

Pelican: om nom nom nom

I wonder if Jerry Springer has a research staff...

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 14:31:00 -0500

… or if the weirdness just naturally finds its way to his door.

Right now, there’s a former klan member marrying a black woman while wearing a sleveless tuxedo shirt, a bow-tie, and a confederate pride baseball cap. He doesn’t subscribe to racism anymore, but his son does and is almost getting into a fight with his dad. There’s also puppets in wedding outfits behind them, and a drunken-acting reverend to marry the two. And on top of all this, the groom is trying to pick a fight with the reverend’s assistant.

I never watch TV during the day, so these kinds of brief forays make me wonder what else they play while everyone’s at work.

Update: now the bride’s sister just showed up to pick a fight with the reverend. This is brilliant in some sort of bizarre, twisted way.

The Dark Knight - Tumblr Rules

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 12:53:33 -0500

katieschenk:

Okay let’s lay out some ground rules here.
Not all of us are going to be seeing this movie on Thursday night (the 17th), so can we please make a deal and those of you who are seeing it that night will agree to not post ANYTHING about the movie. No quotes, no “oh my god it was so amazing when…”, no “I can’t believe…”.
I’m not even talking about spoilers. It’s already getting to the point where I have to glance away from the movie posters and trailers that are on my dashboard.
Deal? Handshake?
Oh hell, forget it. This will never work. I’ll just stay away from Tumblr for 24 hours.

I’ve already bought my tickets for Saturday afternoon in the KC Studio 30 Imax (which’ll be a nice day-trip from Manhattan). Probably avoiding the internet for a week beforehand. It’ll be wild.

:D

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 11:30:52 -0500

jeralyndwile:danhacker:Rumor has it all these faceless...

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 11:08:32 -0500

jeralyndwile:

danhacker:
Rumor has it all these faceless people popping up around Wimbledon are actually celebrities who are tired of being harassed by the paparazzi.
(Via:dailymail.co.uk)
That’s pretty creepy….

Very reminiscent of Rorschach/The Question.

This trailer singlehandedly moved The Car to the top of my...

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 02:22:56 -0500

This trailer singlehandedly moved The Car to the top of my Netflix queue.

Evil has visited the earth in many forms; now it returns as… The Car.

NY Times profile of Rush Limbaugh

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 12:09:49 -0500

NY Times profile of Rush Limbaugh: It’s pretty good, but mainly a personal profile of Limbaugh himself and not an wide-angle view of the entire industry. For the latter, you’d be better suited to read David Foster Wallace’s (superbly excellent) profile of a lower-profile right-wing radio host named John Ziegler.

Final Fantasy (aka. Owen Pallett) - He Poos CloudsI’ve...

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 11:08:05 -0500

Final Fantasy (aka. Owen Pallett) - He Poos Clouds

I’ve been really digging this album, and the titular track really brings out the playfulness that I like in Pallett’s work. There’s a constant push-pull as he draws you into the music and then changes things up. Plus he does wonderful things with violins, cellos, etc.

National Review blogger issues a knee-jerk condemnation of Wall-E's "leftist propaganda"

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 22:00:27 -0500

National Review blogger issues a knee-jerk condemnation of Wall-E's "leftist propaganda":

Debating the political leanings of films is a sometimes interesting, always tricky prospect. It’s undeniable that Wall-E critiqued something, and I think that critique was more European or anti-consumerist in its substance. But unlike most critiques in those veins, it didn’t draw from and rely on a larger liberal worldview. It invoked some of the criticisms that are often used as liberal shibboleths - like of big-box shopping malls, alienation from the environment, and obesity - while not really using them to propel into a larger conversation about politics.

I’ve also seen some interesting talk elsewhere over whether 300 represents some sort of neo-conservative/nationalist/fascist/insert-ist-here war fantasy. The movie makes Spartans out to be some force fighting for freedom and democracy and other Good Things, but they were actually a bunch of ancient assholes that ran around trashing real democracies like Athens and ethnically cleansing their own young. Of course, you could say that the movie deliberately presents itself within the frame of a guy mythologizing their history, and you can’t say it’s pushing the viewpoint if it admits to its unreliable-narrator status. But then again, does that really make a difference if the viewer is still left with the overwhelming impression that these are Good Guys, and without the sort of subversive unease that characterizes other glory-in-war films like Starship Troopers.

This dude's videos get millions of views on YouTube, but they make my ears and brain hurt

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 19:41:15 -0500

This dude's videos get millions of views on YouTube, but they make my ears and brain hurt

Another fun typographic animation, this time on genres of...

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 19:39:24 -0500

Another fun typographic animation, this time on genres of music.

This is what acid must look like (especially when he enters and...

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 17:03:05 -0500

This is what acid must look like (especially when he enters and exits through the door).

The iPhone 3G new features video

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 16:49:10 -0500

The iPhone 3G new features video: The dude in this somehow falls into the uncanny valley, despite being real.

Hedgehog Launch

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 12:33:13 -0500

Hedgehog Launch: aka. the best game ever.

Chuck Klosterman surveys his classroom of German students on the Americans they most identify with

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 11:30:27 -0500

Chuck Klosterman surveys his classroom of German students on the Americans they most identify with: The results are pretty interesting. (attn Mindy)

A new trailer of The Dark Kight from… Dominos? it’s...

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 09:42:41 -0500

A new trailer of The Dark Kight from… Dominos? it’s the creepiest and best one yet, though.

“Does it depress you, how alone you really are?”

I take back all the good things I said about science

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 15:15:07 -0500

You can’t prepare Eggo waffles via microwave. LAME I WANT MY FIX NOW.

"I think Obama would be a disaster, and there’s a lot of reasons,” said Pollard, explaining the..."

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 11:46:19 -0500

“I think Obama would be a disaster, and there’s a lot of reasons,” said Pollard, explaining the rumors he had heard about the candidate from friends he goes camping with. “I understand he’s from Africa, and that the first thing he’s going to do if he gets into office is bring his family over here, illegally. He’s got that racist [pastor] who practically raised him, and then there’s the Muslim thing. He’s just not presidential material, if you ask me.””

- In Flag City USA, False Obama Rumors Are Flying
This has got to be a joke, right?
(via robot-heart)
The worst kind of racism is racism that masquerades as something else. :(

Crows, lions team up to take down golden eagle

Sun, 29 Jun 2008 16:06:04 -0500

Crows, lions team up to take down golden eagle: Sometimes nature is awesome.