Quote from Onion AV Club:

The Box: home version. Take ten dollars and put it into an envelope addressed to Oxfam. Then go to a movie theater and debate whether to use the ten dollars for a movie or to keep someone from dying.

Yeah, it's not the same: we assume the dying person in The Box is murdered, not someone dying of starvation or from dysentery. And we assume you're entitled to your own money but not the million dollars. But it's close enough, right?

Class project: put 10% of your pre-tax income to work saving people's lives. (If this amount is $0, you're excused and may read quietly in the library during second period.) Figure out if this is good enough.

Enjoy!

« Les déceptions ne tuent pas et les espérances font vivre.» Georges Sand

The Box looks like a really retarded movie. You push a button and you get a million dollars, but someone you don't know dies. According to yahoo answers, 60 million people die a year, which works out to about 2 deaths a second on average. So really every second, two people you don't know die. If you push the button and only one person dies, you've saved one person's life, right?

call on me

Why did no one ever tell me that "The Road Not Taken" is a joke? That's what I get for not actually reading the classics.

I randomly downloaded a CD off of emusic by Here We Go Magic and was blown away by it, so good. Checked out their myspace and apparently they are good friends of The Subjects. Weird. Anyways, they are going to be in Btown on the 11th at the Cinemat so people should check them out. Seacrest out.



PS. I've been blogging a lot at PBH recently, word.

Apparently Donny H. released a new animation short at Sundance called "I Am So Proud of You." I'm so excited!

Do you like Cowboy Bebop? Do you like Keanu Reeves? Then you're going to love Cowboy Bebop: the Movie, featuring Keanu Reeves as adventurous bounty hunter Spike Spiegel.

Coming soon to a theater near you.

Trailer for 9, wasn't there a short like this in the Animation Show?

http://www.traileraddict.com/player.swf?id=7982&e=y

I didn't know she was alive.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081212/ap_en_ce/obit_bettie_page

Shes the kind of girl you dream of
Dream of keeping hold of
Youd better forget it
Youll never get it

http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=8HE9OQ4FnkQ

aha-haha

Eric Fensler (of GI Joe PSA and TRS-80 fame) teamed up with the Eric of Tim and Eric to make an amazing music video. There's also another music video that Tim/Eric's Eric did for a group called The Bird and The Bee (they did that song Again & Again that WIUS played the hell out of) that's on that page. I had never thought about how Tim/Eric and Fensler share an aesthetic, but I guess they are both really into paying homage/parodying retro lo-fi.

Perusing FenslerFilm's YouTube, I came across a music video E. Fensler did for a guy named Ariel Pink, who seems to be playing the musical equivalent to this retro lo-fi style. The first song I heard, "Politely Declined", made me turn down my speakers because of the extreme overdriven, overdubbed cassette tape sound. It's a fun song, but I don't know if I could listen to it on a regular basis. "Are you looking after my boys" is the next song I heard, video also directed by FenslerFilm. It's pretty interesting in that both the music and video sound like they have been recorded and rerecorded onto a VHS.

I just read the news page for Fensler, and I guess he is a writer for Tim & Eric Awesome Show, so I guess it makes sense that they all share an aesthetic. He apparently also did a Sealab 2021 episode that never aired, but it's on the Sealab Season 3 DVD. I'd like to see that.

Just smile and nod. Life lessons learned late. Why? Why do we live? So many wasted hours spent searching for answers that were never there. Just smile and nod

Actually, maybe Bud put it best. Their answer to the big question: Why ask why? Try Bud Dry! Makes as much sense as drinking wine as if it were the blood of an undead God I guess. Bud Dry would be the urine of Christ; the impurities of all humanity passed through His divine kidney.

Jesus it's as simple as a sunset. Why is it so beautiful? Why ask why? Let's get drunk and fuck! This moment will pass, let's get drunk and fuck.

But then that moment will pass, and in the fade of the afterglow, I'll start again to wonder. Looking at your pale skin, blonde hair, nordic beauty, wondering why. Shit. What have I done? Forsaken my soul and mind for body? Is this truly good? As in the higher, pure, TRUE good. Shit. The sunset becomes cool night in that moment, blanketed with stars, small points of doubt, questions asking why, answers light years away.

But then you turn in your sleep, brush your head against my hand, rest upon my chest, and I think maybe I could know why someday. Why I live: to fuck, to drink, but also why I live: to seek, to dream. Because you're a seeker too, dreaming on me, with me, in those lonely nights, together, alone. Those nights when all you have are your thoughts, when all you hear is the why whistling in breeze. Why I love you.

http://music.metafilter.com/2380/Punch-Em-In-The-Dick-NSFW-lyrics

Like the link says, NSFW lyrics. But an amazing song, wear headphones.

Wow that's incredibly dirty.

http://www.myspace.com/metallagher

I just heard a track off the new Beck album, it's produced by Danger Mouse. Holy crap it's awesome.

For some reason the BBC World anchor is tickled pink by the fact that while tobacco smoking is now illegal in Holland, weed smoking is still legal. I mean it is pretty funny, but it makes a lot more sense to me than the reverse. Honestly though, why don't the Dutch, or really any place, have tobacco licenses for places, like they have weed/alcohol licenses?

Also, how weird is it that both Indiana and Virginia are polling Obama now?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080625/ap_on_go_ot/domestic_spying_lawsuit

God damn it, when will the country once again be ours? Seriously, I want to move to Europe, somewhere where the US can legally spy on me...