'Be Kind Rewind' Director Michel Gondry Forgoes Dreamy Plots for Straight-Up Comedy

Scientists Develop a Fearless Mouse

"Cat and mouse may never be the same.

Japanese scientists say they've used genetic engineering to create mice that show no fear of felines, a development that may shed new light on mammal behavior and the nature of fear itself."

"i don't want to feel like i don't have a future..."

The Shout Out Louds "Impossible." watch. listen. enjoy.

like professional sports should be...

...Indeed, in a season in which New England has decided to play with absolutely no regard for down, distance or score -- and in which offensive coordinator Josh McDaniels regards a running game as something only the opposition secondary should do in chasing his talented receiving corps -- Smith was turned into the latest ember in the Patriots' scorched earth policy.

...Asked after the game to describe Brady's most notable attributes, Moss, who finished with seven catches for 135 yards, said: "Poise. Patience. And the determination to go out and kill you at any given time."

..."It was obvious that they didn't care about running the ball," Pittsburgh cornerback Ike Taylor said. "Not at all. They were in attack mode all the way.

Celtics Domination

"At one point, I didn't even know we were up 40 points."

i can't escape my past, even on Google Chat.

Me: :)

Matt: haha. for some reason, when you make the smiley face, it looks like Cartman, everyone else's just looks like a smile, yours looks like a fat kid smile.

Bat For Lashes

"What's A Girl To do"

great video, and song.

A-Rod's a douche according to Gammons (and everyone else)

"...Fine, Rodriguez is opting out of his contract. But anyone who respected baseball would not have tried to grab the stage from the World Series -- if winning were a priority. Want to know about winners? Pedroia gave up his scholarship at Arizona State to free up money to sign a much-needed pitcher, so when the Sun Devils reached the College World Series, coaches and players had "DP" on their caps in honor of their leader who never got to Omaha. The sabermetrics guys in their garages never understand these things.

Respect? Lester winning the final game of the World Series is a story that will reside with millions more people than A-Rod's gaudy statistics. Remember, this is a 23-year old who in January finished chemotherapy for lymphoma. Scott Radinsky and Jerry DiPoto, both former major league pitchers, survived the same disease and said it took them nearly a year and a half to regain their velocity, and Lester walked out on the game's biggest stage and pitched 5 2/3 shutout innings. As one doctor friend texted me, Lester brought tears and hopes to millions of kids and folks of all ages who are fighting for their lives to survive, much less win the World Series. And he did so without even a hint of a first-person pronoun. Yet, pitiably, Rodriguez did not find that as significant as his addiction to that first-person pronoun." - Peter Gammons

more Mute Math

this is what music videos should be like. i'm pretty sick of the branding style video where we just watch a performer mouth the lyrics in a couple different outfits/positions. sure... i love a great hip-hop video once in a while - bootylicious girls all up in my grill - but really, i wish videos like this got the respect they deserve.

Absolut | Protest

great commercial.
via Chris @ Tropist weblog.

lions vs. water buffalo vs. crocodiles

i meant to post this a while ago, and i just came across it again. i can't believe it's real. watch it all the way through.

Miss South Carolina in Miss Teen USA Competition

$5 says A.C. Slater took her home that night.

Subliminal Suggestion

Currency of the Future

me: ok...
what about all the CD cases and cover art i have in my closet?
Matt: you may need that someday
me: to store CD's?
i mean... i have all of yours too.
Matt: in case in a quasi-futuristic community, robots become our overlords and CD case art becomes currency.
me: hahahah
i'm cracking up
Matt: well you never know
Sent at 1:09 PM on Thursday

Wisdom from Joey?

Matt: i'm kind of on the fence about her.
Joey: well... if you're on the fence, jump over it... what the fuck?

"Typical" by Mute Math

OK Go's "Here It Goes Again" meets Chemical Brothers' "Let Forever Be" meets Coldplay's "The Scientist"

Hiphopopotamus vs. Rhymenoceros

a clip from my new favorite show, Flight of the Conchords (HBO). pure coincidence that this is the second post in a row that features dancing from "Thriller."

"Thriller" by Philippino Convicts

sensitivity

Matt: poor kid. he's actually a really nice kid, just sorta emotional, sorta like matt braley circa 1995

that's love

me: you're not changing the name on my jersey.

Daniel: man, you've changed

i can't even count the number of laws i've broken for you.

my friend and future biographer

Matt: but see, one day when i'm bored, i'll go through some old chats, and this one won't be in there, and that's upsetting to me.
when i write a book about you someday, i'll need access to this stuff.
me: you're writing a book about me?
Matt: someday i assume i will have to yes.
me: you'll have to?
Matt: i assume so yes.
me: because i'm going to die young or because the story is worth telling?
Matt: because people will want to know about you . . . the real you.
and i'll do it for the money, and sell you out.
me: no one knows the real me.
i feel so... so, lonely.
Matt: because you will become a genius shut in director who hates people,
and i will cash in on that.
i will talk to 20/20 and dateline,
and earn money for every interview,
and finally after 49 years our friendship will finally pay off for me.

Escape (The Pina Colada Song)

i love this song, and Rupert Holmes is a classic example of the Eddie Murphy theory that you can make it as a singer, even if you're "an ugly muthafucka."

true talent

what's amazing is how Portman really captures and makes tangible the angst of gangsta rap. she is truly a gifted actor. as sarcastic as that sounds, it's fuckin' true. she's good.

The State

i just came across a few clips from the State. this show was hilarious.

hold me
hormones
barnfolk
tapeface

couldn't find any on YouTube, but i didn't really look that hard. if you know where i can see more, do tell. rumor has it a DVD will be out this fall.

untitled

and i need to write...

it's funny. i live at home (and by home, i mean the home where your mom and dad live too, and it's the place where you grew up and the place you try to get away from all your life, but inevitably you come back to at some point... it's just a matter of how long you stay) in a place that isn't busy, it's quiet and peaceful and it's the type of place where others vacation and i have a few jobs that require very little of my time and peers say "oh man! living at home! come move to _______ [insert NY or LA]!" but i say it's good because i've been so busy for so long and now i can just be home and just write and get 'it' all down, and start working on these projects, these IDEAS, and sadly that's all they are, just ideas... still.

i don't anticipate that i'll create my 'masterpiece' anytime soon. i'd love to, but it's just not ready to spit itself out yet. it's not on the tip of my tongue, but it's in there, i swear, it's just floating around picking apart pieces of stories of my life, and your life, and the lives on the TV, and putting them all together into this one (or two or three) bigger story/ies. maybe soon it will make its way down to my tongue and you'll hear me talking about it and i'll be excited because it's in its last trimester, ready for the printed page and then you can read it and tell me how bad it is and i can rewrite it and you can say it's better, and i can rewrite it and you can tell me it's good because really you can't read it again, but you'll trust that i made the changes you suggested and because of that it's good now...

but until then, this is a start. this is me calling myself out. i don't know who will read this. i doubt very many people at all. but it will be here for anyone to read and i will know it's here, and i will know that you can read it, and i'll feel your pressure, the nagging "so have you started it yet?" pressure... and i will.

death and life.

i took these photos within 10 minutes of one another, at Tuol Sleng in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

beauty in the wake of death.

take a seat Inhofe

wow. that is great to see. check out Inhofe's lack of eye-contact; clearly, he's a passive-agressive little twat. way to vote Oklahoma.

Up Against The Wall

Objects of My Affection

Young Folks

"Many people need desperately to hear this message: 'I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people don't care about them. You are not alone.'" - Kurt Vonnegut, Timequake

on the third floor

shame in four cuts. a student project.