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I think I’ve placed these in the right order. This show is so cool, I’m a little disappointed more people haven’t caught on, but I don’t think these itty-bitty sprites dying warrant much cause for spoiler-alertness concern — Consider this a prelude to season four:
I’m not sure who to credit for those, but who’s willing to digitize the rest?!
I lost count at yellow.
Today, witnesses testified on the effect of Alzheimer’s Disease in the U.S. and the latest research on prevention. Mr Rogen is a funny man with a very distinct voice, but it isn’t very often that we hear comedians speak on matters addressing mental health that they haven’t been contracted or at the very least advised to. His opening statement before a Senate hearing on Alzheimer’s Research is good, personal and obviously has a few jokes:
Watch the complete 01:59:35 hour-long hearing @ C-SPAN and/or visit Seth Rogan’s charitable trust, to support, contact or donate to the cause:
Pure dream logic. There’s something special about hand-drawn animation that I really admire, in tandem with a great soundtrack, — in this case, Cuushe — something beautiful is created; ‘Airy Me’ is something special indeed. The beautifully intricate and haunting video for ‘Airy Me’ was made by artist Yoko Kuno who hand-drew 3000 individual illustrations as the basis for her University graduation piece.
Dream-pop songstress, Mayuko Hitotsuyanagi aka Cuushe, accepted Yoko Kuno’s request to use ‘Airy Me’ — from Cuushe’s 2009 debut album “Red Rocket Telepathy” — and Voilà, synergy. The story tells of a hospital that carries out experiments on its patients, with one metamorphosing into a chimera:
Yoko Kuno has since contributed her artwork for “Butterfly Case” Cuushe’s brand new breath-taking 2nd full length album, coming four years after her sweet debut “Red Rocket Telepathy”:
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Today I have been given my first errand, driving to Hamiltron then to Auckland to drop off and pick up the week’s instruments in need of servicing. That’s right, I repair wind instruments. It’s been my summer job since November, but it may become more than that. Tim reckons I’m mechanical and musical enough to learn the tricks of the trade to one day buy into his business and someday own it. Pretty cool prospect. For now however, today, Tim has a higher engagement so he can’t make his routine Wednesday run, so I have the honors of roadtripping thousands of dollars worth of equipment to-and-fro, and just as a reward for myself (let’s keep this between us), I remember my ex mentioning a comic store somewhere in Hamilton, so when I Googlemapped it I found that it’s only two streets away from my first stop! Har har har.
My last stop is close to my dad’s but he’ll most likely be at work, so for my second reward I’ll have to settle for the best muffin made in New Zealand that I’ve ever had, from a bakery in Mangere Bridge. Mmmm. The summer break is the busiest period of the year and I go back to Uni the week after next so I haven’t had much me, myself and I time really, so I’ll have to remind myself not to have too much peddle-to-the-medal fun today.
“Well, let’s say this Twinkie represents the normal amount of psychokinetic energy in the New York area. Based on this morning’s sample, it would be a Twinkie… thirty-five feet long, weighing approximately six hundred pounds.” ~ Egon Spengler
Andy demonstrates the remarkable properties of the superconducting material — Yttrium barium copper oxide — which allows his super-conducting boat to seemingly float both above and below the track:
I received a comic in the mail recently all the way from England! It’s a 10 page, one-shot promo comic tie-in for the 2002 Xbox exclusive game “Quantum Redshift.”
Cover Artist: Carlos D’anda / Writer: Dennis O’Neil / Artist: Paco Medina
The story centers on Kumiko who is blackmailed into losing a race so her boyfriend won’t get hurt. He was taken as a means of ransom to get revenge against Kumiko’s father who made a bad deal with some mob folks. I think the story is lame and basic and so is the artwork, neither doing much justice for an awesome future racer sport.
The comic sets-up the badmouthing and animosity between characters during the game’s pre-race cutscenes — in this case it’s about the Nikaido sisters, Kumiko and Ami — but the same story could have been told about a game of tennis or lawnbowls. A wasted opportunity to showcase any level of uniqueness that Quantum Redshift has.
The quantum vehicles don’t get much of any panel time and there isn’t much exposition explaining the game. The comic is a keeper though, but only because I love the game’s 16 characters, the game’s design, the gameplay and the game’s soundtrack by JunkieXL:
The voice behind “Crusher” may sound familiar to anyone who grew up watching music videos in the 90’s:
Man I loved that song. Redshift (something that happens when light from an object moving away from the observer is increased in wavelength, or shifted to the red end of the spectrum) was meant to be a one million dollar Wipeout killer and Curly Monsters Ltd. were contracted by Microsoft to make a sequel. So what happened? You can read more about it @ Eurogamer.net
A fantastic speech from the late Bill Hicks:
“The world is like a ride in an amusement park, and when you choose to go on it you think it’s real because that’s how powerful our minds are. The ride goes up and down, around and around, it has thrills and chills, and it’s very brightly colored, and it’s very loud, and it’s fun for a while. Many people have been on the ride a long time, and they begin to wonder, “Hey, is this real, or is this just a ride?” And other people have remembered, and they come back to us and say, “Hey, don’t worry; don’t be afraid, ever, because this is just a ride.” And we…kill those people. “Shut him up! I’ve got a lot invested in this ride, shut him up! Look at my furrows of worry, look at my big bank account, and my family. This has to be real.” It’s just a ride. But we always kill the good guys who try and tell us that, you ever notice that? And let the demons run amok… But it doesn’t matter, because it’s just a ride. And we can change it any time we want. It’s only a choice. No effort, no work, no job, no savings of money. Just a simple choice, right now, between fear and love. The eyes of fear want you to put bigger locks on your doors, buy guns, close yourself off. The eyes of love instead see all of us as one. Here’s what we can do to change the world, right now, to a better ride. Take all that money we spend on weapons and defenses each year and instead spend it feeding and clothing and educating the poor of the world, which it would pay for many times over, not one human being excluded, and we could explore space, together, both inner and outer, forever, in peace.”
I think these women are fucking awesome. Not only are they angsty musicians who in my opinion make the world more colourful and accepting of difference, they are also fearless, because what they stand for is important. In the news the day before yesterday, I saw the raw scenes of violence during their video shoot at the Sochi Winter Olympics, so the fact they’ve already released their music video is impressive. The music video that Pussy Riot filmed while Cossacks whipped them is actually great footage for their song which talks about the repression of Vladimir Putin’s Russia:
Beating women and gays is not cool, Russia. Cracking down on people’s freedoms is so not cool. I have my reasons for supporting the feminist punk collective, but maybe I’m thinking that some people require a tiny incentive or push in the right direction — the ever-growing line-up of foreign pro-Pussy Riot celebrities include Red Hot Chilly Peppers, Bjork, Madonna, Faith No More, Sting, film director Terry Gilliam, songwriter Peter Gabriel, actor Danny DeVito, Franz Ferdinand and the great Slovenian Marxist philosopher, psychoanalyst and cultural critic Slavoj Žižek, just to name a few, all of whom are incredibly good-natured and smart individuals. All is not right with the world — Rock on Pussy Riot!
“Freedom to all political prisoners on the May 6 case, to the environmentalist Evgeny Vitishko and all other political prisoners! See you at the Zamoskvoretsky court in Moscow on February 24 at 10.30 — when the judge will start to read the sentence for the May 6 case.”
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