What I Watched This Morning - The backside of DEATH...

I like this video and song, but it's creepy.

Weekend Movies...

Well, first there's The Box, which I've previously posted about HERE, and then there's this guy, the wonderfully titled adaption to the book "The Men Who Stare At Goats*."






What will you be seeing?


*Get a little tiny bit of background before seeing this movie. It's all happening, baby.

MKULTRA

Important Dates...

I'm so happy that part of my life runs through google. Because of this I know some very important dates, like the 40th anniversary of Sesame Street - Today, 11/4/09. Yeah, right there I was being funny, but seriously, there's some good stuff below*.

As per wikipedia: "The first Google Doodle was to the Burning Man Festival of 1998. The doodle was designed by Larry Page and Sergey Brin to notify users of their absence in case the servers crashed." Since 2000, Dennis Hwang is the man behind these most current "google doodles."


Also from wikipedia, some other commemorated dates are as follows... birthdays for Andy Warhol, Albert Einstein, Leonardo da Vinci, Rabindranath Tagore, Louis Braille, Percival Lowell, Edvard Munch, Nikola Tesla, Béla Bartók, René Magritte, Michael Jackson, H. G. Wells, Samuel Morse, Hans Christian Ørsted and Mohandas Gandhi among others. Additionally, the featuring of Lowell's logo design coincided with the launch of another Google product, Google Maps. Google doodles are also used to depict major events at Google, such as the company's own anniversary. British novelist Roald Dahl has been featured, with the logo containing characters and items from some of his books, such as Matilda. The celebration of historical events is another common topic of Google Doodles including a Lego brick design in celebration of the interlocking Lego block's 50th anniversary. The anniversary of H. G. Wells' War of the Worlds has also been celebrated. On February 14, 2007, Valentine's Day, the Google doodle featured a chocolate-dipped strawberry that combined the second "g" and the "l" as its green stem. This design gave the appearance that the "l" was missing, thereby displaying "Googe". In response to several speculations the Official Google Blog, responded: "When you look at the logo, you may worry that we forgot our name overnight, skipped a letter, or have decided that 'Googe' has a better ring to it. None of the above. I just know that those with true romance and poetry in their soul will see the subtlety immediately. And if you're feeling grouchy today, may I suggest eating a strawberry." For the celebration of Earth Hour, the white background was transformed black to symbolize "the turning off of lights"

Google also featured a doodle with Mahatma Gandhi's face on October 2, 2009, the birthday of Mahatma Gandhi, which is observed by the UN as the International Day for Non-Violence.

On October 7, 2009, Google featured a doodle of their logo as a barcode to recognize the anniversary of its invention in 1948 by Bernard Silver. ^[11]

On October 31, 2009, the Google page displayed a 4-step Halloween logo, showing a more and more chaotic display of sweets after the first 3 clicks, before redirecting the user to the search results page.

*I'm just posting to post and that's boring. I know it.

What Does David Do...?

David paints and draws Hallucinatory Patripassianist Dream Texts, landscapes and portraits of cats, spirit guides and Saints. - David, of C93.

eats...

you've got a mouth full of diamonds and a pocket full of secrets.

- Phantogram



feeling lit, feeling like 2am, summer night. i don't care, hand on the wheel... i'm doing my thing.

- Kid Cudi



i said to john, do you think the girls here ever wonder how they got so prett - y? well, i do!

- The New Pornographers



cherish well your thoughts, keep a tight grip on your booze, 'cause thinking and drinking are all i have today.

- The Grateful Dead

Animal Exodus in movie form...

When the illustrious Cutlass Supreme was disbanding and vacating the Arizona sun, we threw a end all party that we titled Animal Exodus. Kinda like Halloween, which is coming up, but with more purpose, we asked all of our friends to dawn their inner animal and meet us at our favorite bar - The Yucca Tap Room, like you didn't know - for a night of celebration. The idea was to have everyone embrace and illustrate what they felt their inner animal to be, just as we were taking ours and getting the hell out of sun baked dodge. I think back fondly on that night and often wish I could be there again; surrounded by good friends, in a great environment with plenty of drink on hand and loud music breaking down all different kinds of walls.

I'm digging on this video for multiple reasons but I can't lie, it reminds me heavily of that night. I hope that you like it too. I'll be looking for more from the director/production crew that created this. It also reminds me of Lite-Brite.

Return as an Animal from Bruno Dicolla on Vimeo.

Another Year Older...

I was driving into work today - just another day but yet another year older - and this song, which I'd never heard before, came onto the radio. I'm of the belief that some serious reflection is a good thing and, well, this resonated something heavy.


Lyrics to "Everybody is free to wear sunscreen"
by Baz Luhrman - vocals by Lee Perry

Ladies and Gentlemen of the class of '97,

Wear sunscreen. If I could offer you only one tip for the future, sunscreen would be it. The long term
benefits of sunscreen have been proved by scientists, whereas the rest of my advice has no basis or
reliable then my own meandering experience. I will dispense this advice....now.

Enjoy the power and beauty of your youth. Oh, nevermind, you won't understand the power and
beauty of your youth until they've faded, but trust me in 20 years, you'll look back at photos of
yourself and recall in a way you can't grasp now how much possibility lay before you and how fabulous
you really looked. You are not as fat as you imagine.

Don't worry about the future, or worry, but know that worrying is as effective as trying to solve an algebra
equation by chewing bubblegum.

The real troubles in your life are apt to be things that never crossed your worried mind: the kind that blindsides
you at 4pm on some idle Tuesday.

Do one thing every day that scares you.

Sing.

Don't be reckless with other people's hearts; don't put up with people who are reckless with yours.

Floss.

Don't waste your time on jealousy. Sometimes you're ahead, sometimes you're behind. The race is
long, and in the end, it's only with yourself.

Remember compliments you receive; forget the insults. (if you succeed in doing this, tell me how).

Keep your old love letters; throw away your old bank statements.

Stretch.

Don't feel guilty if you don't know what you want to do with your life. The most interesting people
I know didn't know at 22 what they wanted to do with their lives; some of the most interesting 40 year
olds I know still don't.

Get plenty of Calcium. Be kind to your knees -- you'll miss them when they're gone.

Maybe you'll marry, maybe you won't. Maybe you'll have children, maybe you won't. Maybe you'll
divorce at 40; maybe you'll dance the funky chicken on your 75th wedding anniversary.

Whatever you do, don't congratulate yourself too much or berate yourself, either. Your choices are half
chance, so are everybody else's.

Enjoy your body: use it every way you can. Don't be afraid of it or what other people think of it; it's the
greatest instrument you'll ever own.

Dance...even if you have no where to do it but in your own living room.

Read the directions (even if you don't follow them).

Do not read beauty magazines; they will only make you feel ugly.

Get to know your parents; you never know when they'll be gone for good.

Be nice to your siblings: they're your best link to your past and the people most likely to stick with you in
the future.

Understand that friends come and go, but what a precious few should hold on. Work hard to bridge the gaps
and geography and lifestyle, because the older you get, the more you need the people you knew when you
were young.

Live in New York City once, but leave before it makes you hard.

Live in Northern California once, but leave before it makes you soft.

Travel.

Accept certain inalienable truths: prices will rise, politicians will philander, you too will get old; and when you
do, you'll fantasize that when you were young, prices were reasonable, politicians were noble, and children
respected their elders.

Respect your elders.

Don't expect anyone else to support you. Maybe you have a trust fund, maybe you'll have a wealthy spouse,
but you never know when either one might run out.

Don't mess too much with your hair or by the time you are 40, it will look 85.

Be careful whose advice you buy, but be patient with those who supply it. Advice is a form of nostalgia;
dispensing it is a way of wishing the past from the disposal--wiping it off, painting over the ugly parts, and
recycling it for more than it's worth.

But trust me, on the sunscreen.


*I'm still looking for the exact mix I heard. Anyone know if this album is hard to get?