Chickennights

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.

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

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.

Check out this movie trailer by Tim and Eric.

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

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.

Punk rock and ballet.

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.