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futuredancing

September 22, 2010

This seems like a pretty accurate portrayal of a nightclub in the future.

I saw this and the last couple vids at dangerousminds.net. Its got some other interesting stuff over there.

Weng Weng is Secret Agent 00

September 22, 2010

I want to see this. This movie proves that you can be tiny and still be powerful.

rats

September 22, 2010

Rat’s Eyes / Black Flag

I wear rat’s shoes
I pay rat’s dues
I make rat’s moves
I sing rat’s blues

I see the world through
Rat’s eyes [4x]
Burning
Rat’s eyes [4x]
Sullen
Rat’s eyes [4x]
Dirty
Rat’s eyes [4x]

If you look through rat’s eyes
You can talk about shit real good
You will be always looking at shit
You are vermin

I see the world through
Rat’s eyes [4x]
Burning
Rat’s eyes [4x]
Sullen
Rat’s eyes [4x]
Dirty
Rat’s eyes [4x]

I see the world through
Rat’s eyes [4x]
Burning
Rat’s eyes [4x]
Sullen
Rat’s eyes [4x]
Dirty
Rat’s eyes [4x]

I want you to touch my filth
I want you to feel my filth
I want you to look into my eyes
I want you to look through my eyes

I see the world through
Rat’s eyes [4x]
Burning
Rat’s eyes [4x]
Sullen
Rat’s eyes [4x]
Dirty
Rat’s eyes [4x]

The Earthquake in Chili in 1647

February 27, 2010

This is a famous short story by Von Kleist published in 1810 about the Chilean earthquake of 1647.

Update: a few things I learned about Kleist today:
1. Goethe reportedly once threw Kleist’s book against the wall enraged at the excellence of the rival author.
2. At the age of 34 Kleist killed himself after killing a female friend in a suicide pact.

Birdemic Trailer

February 27, 2010

Check out this movie trailer by Tim and Eric.

Birdemic: Shock And Terror Official Theatrical Trailer from Severin Films on Vimeo.

Philosophy movie !!! No way!

February 27, 2010

Here’s a documentary called:  Examined Life.  The filmmaker interviews several major current philosophers for ten minutes each.  I found it interesting but ymmv. I especially recommend Slavoj Zizek at 54:09.

http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/examined-life/

P.S.  The site it comes from, www.topdocumentaryfilms.com  is pretty sweet too – lots of documentaries, but annoying cause it makes you take a break from the movie from time to time.  Is it legal?  Seems to be, but not sure.

For those of you sick of vampires all the time, here’s The Zombies.

December 8, 2009

Tell Her No

She Does Everything For Me

Care of Cell 44

This Will Be Our Year

I’ll Call You Mine

And since we’re talking zombies, here is a bonus link to a David Chalmers interview.  He’s a well known philosopher in the field of consciousness who invented the “philosophical zombie” which is a sort of thought experiment.

The Fall – Lay of the Land

September 24, 2009

Punk rock and ballet.

Checking in with the bears

September 24, 2009

No, not the big hairy guys, the economists who are pessimistic on the economic future in one way or another.  Since the world seems to have avoided an economic catastrophe and things are starting to shape up again, I thought it would be a good time to check in on what some of the bears are now saying, now that we dodged the bullet.  Are they changing their tune?  Well, yes many of them have changed their tune.

Ok, but what about some of the guys who still are bears?  I checked a little on the internet to see, confining it to a few well known guys.

Roubini (Dr. Doom) is no longer really technically a bear, however he sees a 25% chance of a double dip recession.  Also he sees risks for the dollar:

http://video.forbes.com/fvn/business/roubini-is-the-dollar-safe

Next we have Jim Rogers.  He’s pretty pessimistic about America and the dollar.  He says the dollar will fall soon and that commodities are still a good investment.  He likes Asia.  Here’s a few recent comments of his:

http://jimrogers-investments.blogspot.com/

Then there’s Marc Faber.  He’s the most pessimistic of all.  He predicted the market crash and the recent 6 month run that just occurred.  He sees a couple years of good growth for the stock market, followed in five years or so by huge inflation and the total collapse of the dollar and the American standard of living causing the majority of the population to fall into abject poverty, because “nothing has been solved”.  He says to get into equities, because the dollar will continue to gradually lose its value.  According to him, the current decline of the dollar is for one reason: it is a symptom of inflation.  It is inflation that is already occurring now, but if you buy equities, you avoid the downward trajectory of the value of money during this inflationary period:

http://seekingalpha.com/article/162845-faber-doom-gloom-or-boom-how-about-all-three?source=article_lb_author

These guys are all pretty smart, but in the minority among economists.  Well, obviously – I mean to claim the total collapse of the world economy gets us into kooky Mad Max territory.  I sure hope they are wrong.  But just in case, I am going to stock up on guns and ammo and build me an underground hideout in the backyard.  Sweet dreams.

The Perfect Me

September 19, 2009

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