PKD at the movies

http://entertainment.slashdot.org/entertainment/08/05/31/015213.shtml

whoa. Probably my favorite PKD novel dramatized. Hrm. Consider that all of stuff that's been movie-ized has so far been from short stories (the one exception being "A Scanner Darkly", which Linklater got so fucking spot-on that it's amazingly scary and gorgeous. I mean he even got the paranoia feeling down. It's amazing.)

also also, modest mouse is coming!

Joseph Palmer: Perscuted For Wearing The Beard - Jon Dyer’s Blog. Now that's a man with commitment to facial hair.

Cupid's getting kinkier every fucking year

"makes you feel pleasure" is surprisingly not in the top 10.

I have long been both a lecherous pervert and fascinated with the brain and mind, so naturally this article on the orgasmic mind was fascinating stuff to me. Scientific American also has a buncha jawsome articles that are semi-related, e.g. Why We Kiss, which when you think about it, has got to be the most amazing caveman discover ever ("...so...if we put our food/noise/biting holes together but don't bite...it feels good?" I've heard it theorized before that it started as a feeding ritual for those unable to feed themselves.)

Life's mysteries explained

Have you ever danced with the devil in the pale moon light?

By now, you may know that they are coming out with a new Batman movie. You may have even seen the trailer. Well, someone took scenes from the original movie and spliced them together to match the new trailer. The author of that post thought it was the original trailer, but later links to the actual original trailer in his post. Even still, seeing the old footage beside the new one with the new audio is pretty awesome. Then again, I'm a bit of a Batman fan.

BATMAN > SUPERMAN
4 LYFE

ripoff or art?

Common Ties, a post-postsecret site. or something. instead of postcards, it's stories and pictures tied together. mostly sad, so far.

so, latest email thing

Seriously, HOLY FUCKING SHIT: http://maps.google.com/help/maps/streetview/index.html Man, I don't know if the google dorks are geniuses or psychos, but that's firmly in both lands. Check out the South Beach one. A geek-news site has discussion on the privacy aspects of it: http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/06/01/1219256&from=rss

So THAT's what I've been doing wrong: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18914479/?GT1=9951

Laugh, it's good for you: http://picks.yahoo.com/picks/i/20070531.html

Clothing. Made of condoms. http://pileofphotos.com/view/78/Clothes_made_of_condoms

Politically, I'm not so much FOR the democratic party as I am AGAINST the republican party. In that spirit, please read Matt Taibi's latest article, which is a FUCK YOU to both democratic and republican parties: http://www.alternet.org/columnists/story/51687/

Jesus Christ Supershark: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=10470057

I am a prankster. I appreciate the art behind it. I have to rein that in though, because I tend to just go straight for OH MY FUCKING GOD levels of revenge. But let's witness someone else's prank: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9Xw_b3HeUY ah, butter on the floor. a true classic. simple and cheap.

Who knows, this shit might come in handy one day: http://www.thehumanaught.com/blog/2006/07/09/how-to-spot-a-jap/

I am seriously considering going to Wisconsin JUST to see this: http://www.roadsideamerica.com/attract/WIBARforever.html

Hey, yeah, memorial day, right: http://www.chattanoogan.com/articles/article_108083.asp Personally, my old man was in Vietnam, and he threatened to lock me in a loony bin if I ever joined the Armed Forces. Hey, who am I to disagree?

TETRIS ice cubes: http://www.instructables.com/id/EFGVY0RF22FIBN6/?ALLSTEPS

Make your own Pinocchio: http://puppetbuilding.com/marionettes/how-to-make-a-pinocchio-marionette.html

Pictures on your wrist: http://www.instructables.com/id/E5E87VOF2AX8PNT/?ALLSTEPS

Hey, that's a neat sculpture: http://cre.ations.net/creation/stuff-i-do

Wow, chili sauce: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18948833?GT1=9951

DIE, YOU FUCKING FUCK http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070531/ap_on_hi_te/spam_arrest_10

And to finish, first an explanation of LOLCAT from the venerable WikiPedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lolcats
and now that you know what LOLCAT is, please to be enjoying the LOLCAT site du jour: http://icanhascheezburger.com/

15 reasons Mr Rogers rocked: http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/5943

spidercat: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rA97bT8WMSs&

hey, don't get lost: http://strangemaps.wordpress.com/

morons humping furniture, a spider that LOVES HEAVY METAL and horses that smoke and drink.

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"There's only one rule that I know of, babies -- 'God damn it, you've got to be kind.'

I'm bored and it's been at least a week since I've mailed most of you, so you get a generic mail that is bound to entertain you at least as long as it takes you to hit delete.

The subject is a quote from Kurt Vonnegut's "Goodbye Mr Rosewater". Vonnegut died this week and if you're not familiar with his writing, your life is sadder for it. You've seen back to school, the Rodney Dangerfield 80's piece of shit movie? Remember when he hires a guy to write a term paper about Kurt Vonnegut and the professor says "whoever wrote this paper doesn't know anything about Kurt Vonnegut" ? The dude who Dangerfield hires to write the paper -- that's Kurt Vonnegut.

So last week I spoke to my lawyer/guitarist friend and it turns out that he and his wife are so freaked out about pet food killing their dogs that she's taken to cooking food for them and giving him dogfood. I'll miss you bro -- can I have your guitars? Turns out that making your own pet food is perhaps not that hard: http://www.heraldnet.com/stories/07/03/31/100loc_a8petmeals001.cfm

I found that last link at the ever-"oh-neat!"-inducing site, http://www.lifehacker.com/

Incredibly funny and horrifying at the same time: http://www.theonion.com/content/video/panda_demands_abortion(no it's not true, it's satire damn it. i know someone that I'll email this to will need that explained.)

dumbest legal battle ever: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070403/ap_on_fe_st/baby_metallica_6

saddest kermit ever (also a must-see for Nine Inch Nails fans, this means you Robert): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLQRv0RjBBM

Getting off a government watch list: http://www.wired.com/politics/onlinerights/news/2007/04/watchlist2

"NATURE IS A LANGUAGE CAN'T YOU READ?", or Continuing a theme, part deux: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFyXk7O419o
(part one is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGNN2L-Wh5I)

If you like postsecret (http://postsecret.blogspot.com/ if you don't know what I'm talking about) then you maybe wanna hit up the live expo here in miami .. http://www.charleeprogram.org/news_detail.cfm?news_id=9

This goes to my neo-hippie peeps (you know who you are,) : http://www.hippy.com/php/article-243.html

Better brains through science: http://www.popsci.com/popsci/science/0e54d952c97b1110vgnvcm1000004eecbccdrcrd.html

And I'll leave you with a bad joke: what do vegeterian zombies crave? GRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAINNSSSS.....

i grabbed my head and we fell into it like a daydream or a fever

I hurt my back so I'm bored. Which means you get an email full of weird stuff.

ok, so you may or may not have seen michel gondry's "the science of sleep" (i haven't, but i hear it's good. i recommend the "director's series" compilation DVD though.) but he's done a bunch of music videos that are really bizarre and imaginative (bjork, beck, etc -- to give you a taste, here's a Cibo Matto vid: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPJ9TS_5tAo ). the man's a visual poet of very high caliber, just take my word for it. but that's not why i bring Michel Gondry up. I bring him up for cheap comedy; to wit:

see michel gondry solve a rubik's cube with his feet: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WiQXgmVVGNA

ok, but where's the art in that? here's how he did it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TaVsaWjzsds

and then again, here's michel gondry solving a rubik's cube WITH HIS NOSE: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pB8XedMowDU

really really great for decorating an office: http://www.blockposters.com/(upload a picture, tell it how many pages wide and viola, printable poster)

genius, but you know it's gonna suck when you're juuuuuust running out: http://www.gizmag.com/go/6534/

the empire doesn't pay like it used to: http://www.cinematical.com/2007/03/03/darth-vader-commits-armed-robbery-in-north-carolina

also really great (but weird) art: http://www.funforever.net/archives/category/cool/

I can't stop listening to this. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_xVDaDJqWs -- no wait i meant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-K4CXvxNcw

Godspeed! You Black Emperor's "The Dead Flag Blues" in video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cS2BrxcWWZA (cf GYBE! live: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUQEJpLm2DA "world police / friendly fire")

am forgetful. i seriously have not spoken to people for months because i just forget to call them back. http://www.hassleme.co.uk/ might help you if you're like me.

a cellphone that biodegrades and sprouts flowers: http://www.24hourmuseum.org.uk/nwh_gfx_en/ART35325.html

sleep, it's good for your brain: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/technology/technology.html?in_article_id=437683&in_page_id=1965http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2007-02/uoa-oit022307.phpin other news, the sky is blue, water is wet, pope is still catholic and 99% of bears still shit in the woods.

lego, for when you're just too damn lazy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTsXlTKaFq0