Someone died. And apparently the world put down their weapons and all wars stopped yesterday, politicians and judges sat in silence. Just media vultures circle, picking over a broken corpse. The heretofore sensible Newsnight had no choice but to do a 50 minute special on the late ‘King of Pop’.

Meanwhilst Neil Young was taking to the stage at Glastonbury. He didn’t mention Michael Jackson, he didn’t mention Michael Jackson, all the news is chanting. So just an oddly appropriate coincidence that he started the set with Hey Hey My My (Fade into the black)

And once you’re gone,
you can’t come back
When you’re out of the blue
and into the black.

The king is gone
but he’s not forgotten

And his favourite finale- Beatles’ ‘A Day in the Life’ cover seemed more intuitive and enrapturing than ever.
(EDIT: the particular video for this has been taken down for now, so instead, here’s what it may have looked like, except with the added bonus that the captain of cheese himself Macca makes an appearance in what looks like some kind of safari outfit…)

What is love?

The eternal question for mankind and something which artists have been striving to express for millennia. If this video is anything to go by, it’s like when you taste a little bit of vomit come up.

If you’re considering not watching this, I’d like to point out it has Ted Danson in it (Oh my God, he’s so awesome! And modest.). Though I’m not sure he’s taking it’s anti-sex message all that seriously…

Re-edit American ‘news’ into a funky song? Don’t mind if you do…

via BoingBoing

I’d like to do more movie reviews. But then I think I’d sound like an arse. On the other hand, Brad Neely is cool. See also his Best Movies of 2008 essay and Harry Potter commentaries.

Thanks brother for the introduction.

As a Trek-geek… lets just say Hawking sent me…

Think beyond your box….

{…..large rant about the BNP being dicks has been deleted;….}

….’Fuck you guys’ was the short of it….

We are all human. Even the mildly brown looking humans. Even the those humans who look like they’ve been on holiday for a long time. Even them Browny-Brown ones from that magic place where the special horses have long necks… How many idiots does it take before we realise that we are all just idiots humans?

Humans = Everyone on earth.

Now that problem is over, let’s go to space…

I tried to explain the following 12 minutes of random scenes from Ron D. Moore’s up coming mini-series ‘Virtuality’, to Clarence and Smiffy the other day, but all that happened was roughly a minute and a half of me saying things like “it’s complicated”, “don’t look at me like that!”  and “stuff and things…” before the awkward silence drove a potentially permenant barrier between us all. So I’ll post the video. I really should have avoided the social interaction like a normal person. What a boob.

Huh?

Canada is great.

More on BJ Snowden

Read the rest of this entry »

Is it that time of the week already?

Demonstrating the law of diminishing returns here is our latest Forehead Friday update! Witness Czech death metal string quartet Clawed Forehead in action! Rawk.

and who said Forehead Friday would get old and run out of steam??? Shame on you.

The ongoing nuclear threat from North Korea has caused Japan to question its self-imposed constitutional ban on offensive action, in place since World War II. But worried Tokyo citizens are now guarded by a rather beautiful 59 foot Gundam robot which watches over the city’s skyline.

Photo of Gundam via Photo above one of many found at Toys Are Evil.
Kim Jong-Il as Giant Robot full article here.
More on Gundam in mind-baffling detail (including above map) at Gundam official site.

The Germans know how to make great educational videos! Witness one man and his forklift truck inflict intense damage on his co-workers because HE DIDN’T PLAY BY THE ROOOLES…

Thanks to Jordan for this. Made me laugh silly. Here’s part two: trust me it’s worth it. Chainsaws are involved. And decapitation. Never drive a forklift folks unless you are really well trained, or are deeply, deeply sick…

Thanks again to Jordan.

This film was released in 1910 by Thomas Edison’s film production company, the same year his friend and neighbour Henry Ford released the Model T. It was the first film adaptation of Frankenstein and thought lost until 1970s but the innovative special effects have barely been improved upon- witness the sequence where the monster materialises in the flames…

But it can’t claim to be the first sci-fi; that honour would probably go to the fantastic and phantasmagoric Le Voyage dans La Lune (The Trip to the Moon) by George Méliès, 1902. Those of you that spent £15 and five non-refundable hours on the recent Star Trek and Terminator movies be consoled, these are in the public domain (free to download from Internet Archive) and will be roughly 24 minutes to last a lifetime.

I have come to terms with the fact that if i try to write about the new Star Trek film I might burst into flames in my anger, which would be doused slightly by the torrent of piss that escapes when I realise the film wasn’t meant for me (a trekky and a film fan. Also An amature ornithologist). This is old as the hills… but hey, i need the laughs…

I’ve been very suspicious about Obama. I’ve read his books (which, by-the-by have no pictures in them), and he just sounds a little too good to be true.  But I can’t let D-Day go without a mention, because Hell happened on earth and real humans had to deal with it. Respect. Obama gave one of his (suspiciously) trademark stirring speeches in which he looks like the first president ever to actually give a shit.

No amount of thanks can be generated to those who fought, so I will leave it underwhelming; Thanks dudes.