Compensation

I will be posting random gobbletygook for your amusment to make up for my lack of posting.

I hope you're happy you...you...

creepers...

I watch u sleepin.

 

(yes YOU. You know who you are.)

I'LL GIVE YOU WHAT YOU WANT, ALRIGHT?!?!

Much love. ;)


~rrc

Hummer, Contemplative

"If You've Made it This Far..."

"You're where...Dragons...are..."

Points to whomever recognizes that quote paraphrase...

Wow, you're memory must be good. (Or you really liked that movie for some reason XD. I know I did :D)

Anyhow, this is the Japanese version of the opening (as I understand it) from How to Train Your Dragon. 

It's awesome by the way.

I really liked the Jpop twist, and I think the song both works with the movie, the characters, and the visuals, as well as corresponds to the glow-y, fantasy/adventure...ness How to Train Your Dragon entails. It also reminds me heavily of an anime theme song, and thus bring the presence of Japanimation to the movie; a strange, but no less tasty combination.

But I do digress...

Would Rather Be Travelling

Robots... (squeeeeeeee!!!!!)

Anyone care to guess what movie I attended this week? ;D

:) Towel Day

Sorry, not much to say tonight; this just made me smile, that's all.
(Highly recomended if you are a Hitchhiker's Guide to the galaxy and/or Douglas Adams fan.)

Update as of 12/29/11:

I just recently found a Don't Panic Towel on ThinkGeek.com! I will set up a link later, when I am able to...


Later that day...:

Ha ha, Here it is! Ladies and Gentlemen, the Fabulous DON'T PANIC towel!

In addition, I located yet another Hitchhiker's Guide themed towel, known as the utility towel, equally as cool and with an appeal to Hitchhikers and number fiends alike (and especially to those who are a little bit of both).

And one more thing. Just an FYI, I'm very fond of this online store at which both items are available, ThinkGeek.com. Though it shouldn't be too much of a jump from the links I provided and the rest of the store, here's the homepage just for the heck of it.

Well, I must depart; fare thee well, dear readers. I bid thee good fortune and happy Hitchhiking!

Slothville

... I think this video speaks for itself.

credit to Boing Boing for directing it to my attention. :)

Virtual Rubik's Cube

Well, I'm back again! I've been a little busy working on NaNoWriMo (and I'm way behind, but I'm catching up...-_- sigh...)

Anyhow, I love Rubik's Cubes and thought they made an excellent blog obsession topic, but since I need to get back to typing, I think I might lay off writing and researching in depth about these lovely puzzles for now. However, there's no reason why I can't get started, even though I'm very much indisposed for the next 6(well, 5) days, so to kick off this new topic, I located a video of a very cool virtual Rubik's Cube (if I do say so myself), which I will be discussing later as well. So, for now, whilst you await my true return, sit back, relax, and enjoy!

 

Math Rock

Math rock, who knew such a thing existed?
a rather obscure form of experimental rock that arose in the 80's, heavily influenced by progressive rock and various advant-garde genres of music. There is much focus on the music and much less on the lyrics and human vocals, which are either treated as simply another instrument, sometimes found in the middle or at the bottom of the mix, or omitted entirely. The rhythms are atypical, complex, and mutable; one could almost describe the sound as "a pleasant dissonance". It has a very free flowing, jazzy feel to it, in my opinion, so you can think of it as "Jazzy rock" I guess. It gained the name "Math Rock" because of it's complexity; it sadly has no real relation to music with a mathematical theme. The sound is definitely enough to make up for it, though.

But why am i ranting about it? Elvis Costello is quoted saying "writing about music is like dancing about architecture." I may disagree somewhat, but i still hold to that. Reading paragraphs about how the music is "a meld between progressive rock and jazz, it originated in the 13th century, blah blah blah" tells much less about the music than 10 seconds of listening to it. So, what are you waiting for; Math rock is simply a click away.

(This was my first sampling; more will be on the way.)

(Also note: some of the covers and names are a little strange, and one band is called "Hella". If that doesn't bug you, this won't be a problem. If it does but you're still interested, I'll put up a different video soon with more samples. I have become very fond of this genre of music.)

...You Know What, We Simply Present: Gwen Smith's Uncluttered

Oh dear, this really doesn't fall into any of the categories...It's just been on my mind today.

Awesome video, just awesome. Excellent message, and...only <10000 page views! (so it COULD count for a "Love Deprived"...)

Randomized Cool: Pi, We Love You.

Continuing the "numbers" trend, here is Pi by Kate Bush. Admittedtly, over 300000 views, but still seems a little underloved. So let us spread the word, and fill the world with Pi. 



Numbers Have Love

Just know this. Numbers...add meaning to life.
They don't just tell you
how much time you've wasted today
how little you are really getting paid
How long a distance you have to travel to reach your goals
Sometimes they say "You're almost there; don't give up."
Or "You've defied the odds, you've broken the rules, but the rules don't care. Congrats."
Or "This one little
mistake
waste
problem
incident
spike of pain
moment of heartache
failure
misfortune
hurt
sorrow
time of despair
is like an instantaneous velocity of the speeding line
it's existence holds things in place
without it, the physical as we know it
couldn't exist
but the number describing it
is so small
so infinitesimally small
it infinitely nears zero
it brushes against the nothing
it reached the Event Horizon
and in the grand scheme
When infinity becomes our reality
though it shouldn't be forgotten
because scars, you see,
add character
and harden the skin
and remind us of life before,
it can still be counted
as zero.
nothing.
nothing at all."

Sometimes Numbers are much nicer than you first assumed.

Randomized Cool: Orca Statue+

I prepared a great long post ready for today, but it needs to be edited, I had trouble coming up with anything else, and it's really late and I'm EXHAUSTED. So, I was skimming through wikipedia, just trying to find an idea for my next post, when i came to the article on killer whales and found this lovely statue from the early 1900's done by Bill Reid.




The picture can be found on the article here and the original photo on flickr here. I think I'll do a nice post on statues and killer whales and satues of killer whales and Bill Reid and ancient art (even though this doesn't qualify) and Haida art and etc. but for now...hope you like this pic...

...And these:




found here.



found here.



found here.

And...



found here.

Mystos!

I felt, it being so late and I having many new posts on the rise, I should take a breather and write a short incosiquential post on MST3k (for the "uninformed", Mystery Science Theater 3000).

What can I say, in spite of its silliness (and occasional inapropriateness), it's one of my favorite shows. It has a cult following fo a very good reason--- it appeals either to normal people with a random streak (or perhaps, simply, a good sense of humor) or people who have unique tastes that are hard pressed to be fill anywhere else (unless there's some show out there I missed...). It's witty, as well as crazy; watching it the first time was kind of like, "I...have found...my show!" (after the initial, "What the heck is this?!")

For those of you who are unfamiliar with MST3k...

In the not too distant future,
Next Sunday A.D.
... You know what, just watch this.

Anyway, thought I'd start with what I know (moi), so, though I won't make a habit (hopefully) of raving about my personal opinions...

5 Things About Me and MST...3k that is (but I appreciated the rhyme of sorts...):

1. I liked some of the skits (in fact, the titular one is one of my favorite parts of the show. Take a Look. [long story short, network decided they didn't know what kind of people watched MST3k, so they just played dozens of ridiculous Mentos commercials over and over again between commercial breaks. The cast of mST3k caught onto this...]), but the riffing and the original songs were my favorite. (when I edit this post tommorow, I'll put in some links. Fave songs: normal view, killer shrews, the stock footage song, and more, but later [edit: seriously, I simply can't think of more...])

2. Be warned; it is very hard to watch tv or movies now without a snarky comment or two. This might become you after a few episodes, so, take care.

3. This is the first show I've seen (especially sci-fi wise) comfortable with the fact that it's a tv show and, truth be told, has a cheesy-ness appeal to the scenery.

4. Favorite short in the beginning---either Money Talks or The Puerto Rico commercial (I think Puerto Rico just might win out...)

5. Favorite Episode---it's hard to finish some of those awful, awful movies, even with the riffing, but I have fond memories of The Lost Continent, Killer Shrews, and the Santa Clause movie. I also liked what I saw of Monster A-go-go, but be warned, it is insanely mind numbing to endure, even for a short period of time. same with Beast of Yucca flats, which I liked but was bad enough that my brain didn't think right for the remainder of the day.


And that's it I guess. The links are quite a hassle, because right now I have to do them manually, so if you can be patient, I will try to set them up tomorrow. I have some more writing to do, and then off to sleep! Goodnight, my readers!