| Buff mario |
[Nov. 9th, 2009|12:26 pm] |
This is buff mario
This is sexier buff mario
He must have been working out. |
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| Help get Sita out of copyright jail. |
[Jan. 21st, 2009|06:37 am] |
Two or three years ago I posted some clips from Nina Paley's film Sita Sings the Blues. She finished it a long time ago, and I kind of assumed it would be released by now. The film is the story of the Ramayana set to 1920's recordings of Annette Hanshaw. These recordings are public domain but the compositions are not and the rights owners are asking $200,000 dollars for them. And these songs were written nearly 80 years ago.
I'm donating some money to get this thing released too and you should too.
Watch the trailer:
Donate.
Write and get this film on PBS.
Also check out the rest of the question copyright site, it's a subject that's close to my heart. I'm all for artists getting paid for their work but I also believe artists need to be able to legally repurpose old material even when they aren't loaded with money. |
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| TURTLES |
[Dec. 10th, 2008|03:47 pm] |
Turtle links.
SUPPON! A nice japanese site about soft shelled turtles. And none of them are getting their heads chopped off and sake poured down their bleeding neckholes. Though if you want to see that, here ya go.
Map turtles get pretty dang big. They're also called sawback turtles. They're cute.
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| Best Election Ever? |
[Nov. 5th, 2008|12:30 am] |
Maybe.
Obama wins, taking Virginia. Tom Perrello and Mark Warner won back in Virginia, too. Things might be good enough for Al Franken in Minnesota. That one's a real nail-biter.
Now if only Prop 8 could fail.
UPDATE: Dammit got up this morning and both Franken and Perriello are down by less than a thousand votes. And prop 8 passed in CA as well as a whole bunch of anti-gay legislation everywhere else. Actually looks like in a whole lot of close races Republicans won by tiny margins and dodged a major bullet. |
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| No subject. |
[Nov. 3rd, 2008|09:08 am] |
Love the cubist background. |
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| "The Brain Eaters" |
[Oct. 28th, 2008|03:19 am] |
This was the only movie directed by Bruno VeSota. If you've ever seen a Roger Corman movie from the 50's, VeSota is the really huge fat guy who is in all of them. A classic!
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| Twin Peaks: My kind of soap opera |
[Oct. 27th, 2008|09:12 pm] |
I just got around to watching this show. It's a good one. Right away the music and some of the acting kind of shocked me. I didn't realize how much it was inspired by soap operas, or how pants-shittingly scary some parts are. It can get pretty cheesy but it rewards you if you stick with it, enjoy the ridiculousness of some of it and give it a break when they test out a weird idea that doesn't really work. I rented all these episodes through Netflix and after I sent them back I was regretting not being able to re-watch some of the best ones. Then I find out the entire series (minus the pilot and the prequel movie "Fire Walk With Me") is online. I love the internet.
Twin Peaks Online.
I'd recommend seeing the last episode on DVD. Especially if your slow computer screwed up the strobe sequence as much as mine did. This whole show is remarkably well shot and visually a lot of fun.
I found this really good episode guide for the entire series. The whole "not coming" site is pretty awesome to me, with some decent summaries of some really obscure movies.
More later. |
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| Pretty interesting site about Centralia, Pennsylvania and some other stuff. |
[Sep. 5th, 2008|09:15 am] |
Centralia, PA.
This is about a small town that had to be abandoned because of an underground coal mine disaster. Pretty interesting.
About 8 years ago my dad got me a job working as an environmental technician, driving around rural Virginia. Plotting points on a map for the government as part of a required program by the EPA. I found a cul-de-sac out in the country full of abandoned houses and a cracked road that was in disrepair. It was pretty cool/creepy.
WEIRD TANGENT (this should probably be a separate post but oh well)
This site also linked to this: http://www.xydexx.com/modernruins/ which has some nice pictures but was created by this annoying guy whose main online persona is (was?) based around his fetish for animals and rubber pool toys. I must say though that I do like the pictures. Of the abandoned houses, I mean. It's always bizarre when I find something I like and then notice who did it is somebody who I have a pretty negative opinion of because of internet shenanigans. It's like if you were reading something in Newsweek and the author was credited as BONDAGEPHREAK6969 or somebody. That kind of distracts from the article.
The other weird thing about the internet is that all the information in the world is on it and so everybody's an open book. Obviously people like Xydexx are ok with that but there are anonymous gossip sites right now that reveal rumors and crap about people that they might not want coming out. I could imagine a dystopia where literally everything anybody ever does or says over the course of a lifetime, even accidentally, is "on the record" and pinned to you for life.
More later. |
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| Addicted to Bad Ideas = amazing album |
[Jul. 30th, 2008|10:25 pm] |
World/Inferno Friendship Society - Addicted to Bad Ideas
It's an energetic rock opera album inspired by the life of Peter Lorre, a life wrought with health problems, a morphine addiction, guilt, depression, World War II and two or three of the greatest movies ever made. Wow. I love this album. The style, which is all over the place, is called punk cabaret? I call it great! I can't believe I hadn't heard of this earlier. The album is highly indebted to Stephen D. Youngkin's fantastic biography of Peter.
I also downloaded recently a torrent of Der Verlorene (The Lost One), a movie that Peter Lorre made upon his return to Germany in the 50's following the war and his only film as a director. The flashback structure was very strange (partly because of problems during the production) but I really enjoyed it. It was probably a very personal film for Peter and unfortunately when the German public rejected it he took it hard and never directed another film. I would love for Criterion or somebody to give this a legitimate release. Hell, I want all the WB Peter Lorre/Sidney Greenstreet movies on DVD too!
Here's a link to the torrent of Der Verlorene.
Oh and here's the website of The World/Inferno Friendship Society, which seems to be touring Germany at this moment.
http://www.worldinferno.com/
More later. |
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| Fearless Fosdick |
[Jun. 22nd, 2008|03:29 am] |
http://www.animationarchive.org/2008/05/biography-al-capp-2-cappital-offense_08.html
If there's one comic I wish i had in book form it's Fearless Fosdick, a side strip from Li'l Abner. Fearless Fosdick in short is a Dick Tracy parody who goes around randomly putting bullets in peoples skulls in order to catch whatever criminal he's after. The character really pissed Dick Tracy's creator Chester Gould off!
This article credits Al Capp and Fosdick for inspiring Mad Magazine. Anyway, the comic on this page is one of the funniest ever. Check it out. |
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