NCSU student accused of creating a ‘monster’

NCSU student accused of creating a ‘monster’

An AWESOME monster.

Way better than Pikachu

Was at the bookstore today (yay Chaucer’s!), found this book. I am officially bestowing my “Favorite Artist of the Moment” award on Slinkachu. Well done, well done.

They're not pets, Susan.

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Thank you, Julie Andrews…

Another video that makes me happy…

Makes me proud to be part Belgian.

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Dance Magic Dance

Because this makes me happy…

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BOOMBOX from Ely Kim on Vimeo.

Personal faves are days 4, 7, 13, 15 (for the shirt, which reappears on day 92), 23, 26, 28, 36 (his jacket is spectacular), 37 (very MJ-esque in RocK With You), 56, 62, 69!!!, 80, and 87.

Interesting how student art galleries look the same everywhere you go (good times at UCSB, good times). Though I do admit, Yael’s facilities as a whole look quite a bit nicer than what I had access to. I like how you can tell he goes home over the holidays (I’m guessing somewhere in SoCal) cause he goes from wearing heavy jackets to t-shirts.

See the list of songs used here.

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That Dude is Smart

Fun factoid. I just started reading Laurence Tribe’s book On Reading the Constitution. Perusing through the Acknowledgments section I came upon this: “We are grateful for the outstanding efforts of several very talented people…Robert Fisher and Barrack Obama have influenced our thinking on virtually every subject discussed in these pages.”

And then in the Notes section (yes, I read the Notes section): “We are grateful to Robert Fisher and Barck Obama for the metaphor of constitutional interpretation as conversation.”

This book was published in 1991. Obama graduated from Harvard Law (where Tribe was and is a professor) in 1991. He was 29. Awesome.

I just had my 28th birthday, I’m feeling a bit behind.

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P.S. I have had no luck trying to figure out who Robert Fisher is, anyone? Searching for Bobby Fis(c)her II: The Law Years.

Where are Goose and Maverick?

After seeing this video and the variety of individuals (regular joes and janes, Peggy Noonan, Larry King, Abraham Lincoln, Newt Gingrich, Adam Levine, DMC (wearing a Ramones shirt!), Arianna Huffington, Paul Begala, Tucker Carlson, etc.) that participated I’m pretty sure the people over at funnyordie actually run the country.

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And I’m all about expanding the use of high-fives, they’ve been a pretty stable element of my repertoire.

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I, too, sing America.

Quite perfect for this week.

I, too, sing America.

I am the darker brother.
They send me to eat in the kitchen
When company comes,
But I laugh,
And eat well,
And grow strong.

Tomorrow,
I’ll be at the table
When company comes.
Nobody’ll dare
Say to me,
“Eat in the kitchen,”
Then.

Besides,
They’ll see how beautiful I am
And be ashamed–

I, too, am America.

- Langston Hughes

When tin foil suits look good…

(Warning: Spoiler Alert)

I just watched Be Kind Rewind and being nerdy and into nerdy films and people wearing bowls on their heads and tin foil suits, I have to say, I liked the film. But beyond the surface stuff its also a pretty good movie with gentrification at the core.

Good ol’ town of Passaic, NJ is apparently down on its luck, particularly the supposed neighborhood near the junk yard and the power plant. Somehow, a magnetizing mishap leads to remakes of beloved, and not so beloved, movies. I loved the montage of Mos Def (who I have yet to see in a movie I don’t like) and Jack Black doing the remake of Ghostbusters. Christmas tinsel as the proton streams? Brilliant. But then somehow these self made movies start to bring the neighborhood together. I get the premise of the area people liking being in the films and seeing themselves in them, but its still on a bit of shaky ground as to how in a few months they get to almost raising $60k. Interestingly though, even though the neighborhood comes together in the end all nice and heartwarmingly, Mr. Fletcher (Danny Glover) still ends up agreeing to the contract to demolish his store and apartment to make room for condos, which is probably the most realistic part of the movie.

Despite the inherent faults, I’m still telling y’all to go see it. There are some great goofy laugh out loud moments, the montage scenes are high caliber montages (particularly if you consider yourself a movie buff), quirky characters, etc. But one of my favorite things is that the director, Michel Gondry, used actual Passaicans (?) as the majority of the extras as well as some of the minor characters. If you rent the dvd definitely watch the bonus material little film ‘Passaic Mosaic’. I actually wish there was a longer version of ‘Passaic Mosaic’ that Michel Gondry did as I think he would bring a compassionate eye to the subjects of gentrification and loss that many neighborhoods are currently dealing with.

So apparently all we’ve got to do is get together adorable misfits to make short films of real films and fake documentaries and we’re good to go in bringing communities together. Sigh, if only.

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There goes the neighborhood…

Cause this needs to be shared. John C. Reilly, Allison Janney, Jack Black and Neil Patrick Harris all in the same musical production? Yes please!!

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The Colbert T-Rex

I just randomly found this on the internet, so I really don’t have any idea what the context is. It looks like old-school Daily Show? Anyway, yeah. Stephen T. Colbert as a T-Rex? Awsome, right?