listen to THIS!

Here We Go Magic - Tunnelvision

amazing tune, and apparently "the music video was made with Super-8 film, nails and paint with no post-production effects."

To that, I'll add a quote that can be construed as on the topic of Tunnel Vision. It's a ditty from giant of psychology Steven Pinker on acknowledging the truth about how our minds work:

"Realism about the imperfect emotions we actually have may bring more happiness than an illusion about the ideal emotions we wish we had."

Remember that the next time you beat yourself up for doing something selfish or irrational.

shopping with ladies

Was in a ladies' clothing store with some ladies and heard this song, typed the refrain into my PDA so I'd remember it and later went asearching on youtube.



I did some IR (internet research) and discovered these Maximo Park guys are like bigger than Elvis in the UK. Here's another, perhaps even better, MP jam.

Just spastic hooks upon spastic hooks.

rock and roll

in the old days, the kids liked rock and roll music that was rowdy.




this'll come back around, no big deal, everything does.

Old NBA Draft Footate Found On Youtube Teaches Lessons About Human Nature In The Information Age

It's ok if you don't give a hoot about NBA basketball, you should still watch this vid for a minute or so. There is a significant (if not fairly obvious) lesson to be learned. People like surprises.



Listen to the reactions of the crowd, harumphing like a 19th Century Congress, riveted by the surprising news of a trade. BUT nowadays at the NBA Draft, all the trades are reported and confirmed by ESPN then broadcast to the entire stadium full of draft fans and team execs before the official announcement is even made. It ruins the moment. It's not as fun. You want the action first, the reaction second. Reporting the trade before it happens violates the time tested formula laid out in Newton's Second Law of Motion. So this leads to a logic leaping lesson about the Scary Revolutionary Internet: sometimes access to information has a negative impact on quality of life.

this is a great advertisement is it not?

Simple yet effective, it's like a print ad that moves, sorta. Nicely done. This is what subway poster ads will look like in the future if my imagination and reality converge, splendidly.

g train brooklyn

To be young: student protests are the best

Some NYU Students have occupied a dining hall and are making demands!

...and getting naked.

I'm all in favor of student protests, especially if they seem to have mostly coherent demands.

To stay up with the whole crazy shindig see Take back NYU

Instead of a Rage Against The Machine selection, I offer this ditty in their honor, cuz all student protests should join in choreographed dance and sing, "We are young...we are strong, no one can tell us we're wrong!"

I had totally forgotten that the "watch your butt" guy from Raising Arizona played Pat Benatar's dad.

by the way, you can't hate Nic Cage as an actor and acknowledge that Raising Arizona exists. The two ideas are mutually exclusive.