Happy (belated) Comic Book Day to Me!

Buffy: Season Eight

Fables: All the fables of fairy tales have been kicked out of their home by the evil "Adversary" and are now living in New York City.


Walking Dead: Its about zombies, but its really about people.

From the makers of Ceiling Cat: The Paper Toy

comes Monorail Cat





ceiling cat

the way stories must be told

fuuuuucked up

after watching the posted-too-late Prop 8: The Musical video, i watched a video from a Funny or Die web series called Drunk History, where drunk guys tell their butchered or made-up versions of historical events and different actors kind of act it out.

Drunk History vol. 2 - Featuring Jack Black by Jack Black

and that video reminded me of that scene from Half Baked where brian theorizes as to how Killer the dog was murdered. Unbelievably, Hulu has this exact clip online.

<3

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder: Part 1

I havent been able to bring myself to blog in a long, long time. But now, while im supposed to be writing a 10 page paper, seems like the perfect time.

I've had many an obsession throughout my life. After taking my Psychology GRE ive managed to immerse myself in learning Japanese, cataloging my and my dad's comic book collection, and papercraft.


a crucial comic book find

Papercraft is easily my favorite. It's both an obsession and a compulsion. An obsession to find new free toys to print out and a compulsion to build them immediately. There are numerous websites with hundreds and hundreds of free paper toys that you just print, cut, fold, and sometimes glue.

examples:




here are some of the best/easiest papercrafting sites:
http://www.cubeecraft.com - over a hundred of popular characters, many from video games and cartoons. Also where Obama and Wolfman in the above picture came from
http://harlancore.com/boxpunx - Several series of original, glueless paper toys here including a new collection of x-men figures
http://www.nicebunny.com/downloads/index.php - Also has a couple series of awesome and original toys
Speaker Dogs - This site is coming out with Series 6 of Speakers dogs featuring all Mexican artists
Nani Birds - Adorable Paper Birds
Rommy Paper Toys - Japanese site comes out with a cute new model every 15 days, but watch out, one also expires each time a new one is revealed

[in the next installment of OCD, ill recount my obsessive search for the origins of the above silver stag (w/ boa)]

page 56

(stolen from bizz)

From Musicophilia by Oliver Sacks:

"The pattern changed when he flew to California in the summer of 1999, for this time the music continued when he got off the plane"

Rules:
* Grab the book nearest you. Right now.
* Turn to page 56.
* Find the fifth sentence.
* Post that sentence along with these instructions in a note to your wall.
* Don't dig for your favorite book, the coolest, the most intellectual. Use the CLOSEST.

A Valid Point

Hero

Things better than Rick Astley

i dont get the phenomenon of rick-rolling, though i think now its a dead one. i, personally, prefer playing Careless Whisper by Wham! at unsuspecting bars. Here are some other 80s and 90s-tastic videos that are amazing:


Wham! - Careless Whisper


Lionel Richie - Hello


Chris de Burgh - Lady In Red


Cutting Crew - (I Just) Died In Your Arms Tonight


Culture Club - Karma Chameleon



Wilson Philips - Hold On


Bonnie Tyler - Total Eclipse Of The Heart [this is almost as good as the german vampire version]

until it gets taken down

http://www.nbc.com/Saturday_Night_Live/video/clips/palin-hillary-open/656281/

Planisphere

i dont know how long this will stay up. the final track is the hotness.

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yay, music!

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The Greatest Movie Ever Created?

tokyo gore police

radioheadddddddd!

Big Ideas (don't get any) from James Houston on Vimeo.

hollywood bowl, 8-25-08

Reckoner/Optimistic/There There/15 Step/All I Need/Pyramid Song/Weird Fishes/Arpeggi/The Gloaming/Videotape/Talk Show Host/Faust Arp/Tell Me Why*/No Surprises/Jigsaw Falling Into Place/The Bends/The National Anthem/Nude/Bodysnatchers/Encore: House of Cards/Planet Telex/Go Slowly/Fake Plastic Trees/True Love Waits Intro/Everything In Its Right Place** Encore 2: Cymbal Rush/Karma Police/Idioteque

* = Neil Young cover featuring Jonny Greenwood and Thom Yorke on acoustic guitars

** = Thom sings two minutes of "True Love Waits" on a sustained dark organ before launching into "Everything In Its Right Place"

excited for Coachella...

portisheadddddddd

Movies I Might Just See

Blindness:



Harold and Kumar 2:



The Fall (it looks like The Cell minus Jennifer Lopez):

do do do do do dooda do

Final Fantasy covering Mariah Carey's "Fantasy"

Guitar Hero: On Tour

im still very much about this, even with just 4 buttons.

Win a Bell Pepper

no seriously. Send in the best video response to one of Coolio's cooking videos and you win an autographed bell pepper.

Tecktonik

All this talk about abortions is making me super wet

Classy & Trashy

Saturday i went up to LA to check out the last day of the Audrey Kawasaki "Mayoi Michi" show at Copro Nason gallery. pictures:


older:








Newer:




















Charles Manson mug?


here are more clear shots of the newer works from Audrey's LiveJournal


Later that night we went to see Lesbian Turkish Oil Wrestling sponsored by OurChart and Fuse


Las Tijeras


Dawn Denbo/Elizabeth Keener and Fan Favorite/ultimate fyke champion Liability


RPM - Fan Favorite


All the Fykers


RPM vs Amelia Queerheart


RPM vs Liability - Round 1

Round 2
Round 3

Spore'd

EA games announced that the Will Wright game, Spore, will be re leased on Sept 7. Spore is a simulation game that spans the cellular level to the intergalactic space war type level.

The games and films with which Wright associated the various phases are:

1. Pac-Man for the tide pool phase



2. Diablo for the creature phase



3. Populous for the tribal phase



4. SimCity, Risk, and Civilization for the civilization phase



5. SimEarth, Destroy All Humans!, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Star Trek and 2001: A Space Odyssey for the space phase, with elements of sandbox gameplay. DICE 2007 referred to it as similar to Master of Orion.




For a fee, people will be able to purchase a 3D-printed figurine of their uniquely imagined creature.




Also announced: Spore will be coming out with a version for Nintendo DS that will focus on creature creation, trade, and evolution.

Links:
Wikipedia - Spore
Official Site

Soooo Metal

This girl was 12 when this video was taken, participating in the Tokyo International Guitar Competition in 1993. It was her first participation in an international contest and she kicked the collective asses of 11 adults. Wang FTW!

this piece is by Niccolo Paganini, the possibly satan-possesed granddaddy of violin and metal guitar solos.

secrets and lies

http://www.sendspace.com/file/00ix2o

linx

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_snow_white
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Freakout

Operation Clambake

Scientists,Nature Make Beating Heart in Lab

Doris Taylor and colleagues used a process called decellularization to wash away existing cells from the hearts of dead rats while leaving the basic collagen structure intact.

They injected this gelatin-like scaffold with heart cells from newborn rats, fed them a nutrient-rich solution and left them in the lab to grow.

Four days later, the hearts started to contract.

cont.

Post Xmas, Pre Bday 2008 Wishlist

Shirt: i've been on somewhat of a shirt binge lately. After getting 2 shirts from BustedTees,


i plan on wearing the evolution shirt to the Kentucky creationist museum


i swear this is my last one...



Twin Peaks: fuckin took them long enough to come out with season 2



Dirty Found Magazine #2: from the memory scrap collecting people at Found Magazine



DS Games:






and of course




more future gifts to myself to come as i think of them

Oh! Someone explain to me why this button making set costs like 300 bucks. What if I wanted to shave my hair off and renact scenes from Empire Records? wtf