HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

My fave holiday. Will I do anything? Not really. But the promise of one day having the scariest, most fabulous, costumextravangazed Halloween keeps me going all year long (and the thought that today is that day for somebody makes today pretty damn exciting, too). Got a few links... may add others if I see others worth adding.

• The best costume I've seen online so far


• Halloween enthusiast dresses as Rubik's Cube—I love it.


• Creepy hipster masks video


• Black &: Orange Halloween illustration contest—Nosferatu rocks my world.


• What the lovely *g has been doing for Halloween—you're a zombie STAR!


• Scary science, complete with plate o' brains.


• How morning TV did Halloween—please, I wouldn't watch this crap even if I did wake up that early, but Matt Lauer makes a surprisingly cute pirate and Ann Curry is rocking that Cher outfit (who knew?).

Happy Birthday to Ken

That's all I've got today, but surely he deserves a Kencentric post unfettered by other links, yes? Happy Birthday, Ken. I'm assuming you'll be surrounding yourself with cheap beer, health-code approved bagels and the love of a good woman. Rock on. As the silliest of superficial anniversarial gestures, I'm adding your blog to my sidebar. Because, you know, your birthday is really about my blog. Blog bloggety blog. Birthday blog. Bob Loblaw. Cheers, Kenbe. Happy B.

BooHoo YouTube, Marie Antoinette

Is anyone else a little depressed about this whole YouTube situation? Now that it's been bought up, videos are getting yanked by the THOUSANDS. Sure, it was fun to waste the occasional company hour watching people do stupid shit to their kittens, but soon that will be all that's left. No glorious archives of otherwise lost 80s videos. No clips from movies or pivotal moments from tv shows. No screaming Japanese schoolgirls. Honestly, I feel like the door to a great big beautiful playground has been slammed shut. Ok, maybe this is all overly melodramatic—after all, all the videos I linked to recently are still functioning. But every time I get a This video is no longer available my heart breaks a little. Bastards.

At least the Marie Antoinette trailer is still up. This trailer was a thing of brilliance. When it came out it was surprising and exciting and full of promise—really fucking amazing, a breath of fresh air. I saw the movie on Saturday (the theater was serving pink "Let them eat cake" cake, do you believe that shit?)... and I actually kinda wish I hadn't. The trailer—this trailer specifically—is better than the film. Sigh.

Daily View, 10/19

Ha, well, in cruising my feeds after that last post, I actually found many things of interest, and—considering I'm in full-on procrastination mode and sure as hell not going to doing anything resembling work for the next hour while I zone out with the iTunes on random, why the hell not. Time to post. Woo! (I'm drug-free, thanks)

• I have a little internet crush on one of the web designers who did one of the web set of buttons at El Boton... so I bought the set. Which is stupid, I realize, but anonymously purchasing a product that doesn't directly benefit or notify the man in question is basically as close as I come to asking a guy out these days. (And no, it's not JSM).


• Researchers announced today that they've built the world's first invisibility cloak (but read the fine print before you get too excited).


• The Complete Works of Charles Darwin are online, baby! Awesome.


• Hm, interesting review of Marie Antoinette—little harsh on Sofia, eh? Is there really anything wrong with using cinema as "a mirror in which she looks at herself, not a mirror she holds to the world"? Since when does storytelling have to be free of self-examination or -revelation? A great many books and movies and music would cease to exist if we played by those rules. Come the fuck on. With that said, I hope the movie doesn't suck. I'm really looking forward to it.


• The simple yet slightly menacing waspnest lamp. I dig.


• For some mysterous reason, people are painting really realistic sushi on rocks.


• Slate's History of YouTube has some golden moments of the last year. Is YouTube really only a year old???


• Space etiquette. Don't play around, we're all space bound.


• The world's most polluted places, none of which are in the US, despite what you believe about New York City.


• I'm terrified just watching the promo for Horrorfest. Why so long after Halloween??

"Sorry I haven't posted in awhile..."

Yeah, no, I'm not saying it, Jenn Shreve is just collecting apologies. I'm not sorry I go through non-blogging lapses... I don't take myself seriously enough to assume anyone is actually reading this bullshit, after all. :)

Daily VIew. 10/18

Well, I had a whole mess o' links to post and, through the wonders of technology, they have disappeared. I guess it says something about both my memory and the quality of this blog that I can't remember what a single one of them involved.. or where they came from. Sigh.

• This is the best thing I've seen in a long ass time. They locked some poor bastard in a room for 24 hours with just Starship's 'We Built This City' on repeat. Brilliant. Marconi plays the mamba, muthafuckahs.


• Sting, WTF. I knew about the luteness. I did not know about some crappy TV show with Matthew Perry and poor Sarah Paulson (I like her, but she makes bad choices and is Amanda Peet's Naomi Watts... well, wait, that's saying that Naomi Watts is talented, which she is not, and that Amanda Peet is Nicole Kidman, which she definitely is not. Ok, forget that whole thing. But seriously, where Amanda Peet goes, Sarah Paulson follows. Since Jack and Jill way back on the WB. I wonder if they ever secretly hang with Jaime Pressley... or that tool Ivan Sergei).


• Will Kane has Ennio Morricone mp3s up—get 'em while you can.


• Scrabble pillows. I dig.


• Gotta love Kottke's brief but valid review of that mess that was the Narnia movie.


• Aspiring screenwriter has some funny as hell pitches. What IF the internet became a werewolf?? (Ok, truth, I haven't actually read them all, but just that one alone is making me post it in the hopes that they'll be worth reading later.)


• Hm, and when the human species divides, where will you be?


• Very creepy cool paper dolls from artist Amy Earles.


• Oh, that horrid Google. No, not that one... the other one.


• Agatha Christie and Stephen Fry may have gone into fugue states. I'm totally intrigued. Explains a bit about Fry. I still love him though. I can't believe he hasn't managed an in on the Harry Potter films though. Ah, wait, I knew he'd come through. His IMDB profile reveals that narrates the video games (better than nothing, I guess).


• The stank of kimchi breath was the first thing I thought of when I saw the headline, actually. That shit is foul. If someone brought that onto my spaceship I would whup some ass and let them get sucked out into the void. You think I'm kidding.


• Ok, I'm probably never getting married, but if I do, this whole sneak into the Met and get married idea is kind of cool. I like the stealth exhibitionist factor and the stupidity of it all. Actually, I'd go to the NY Public Library. For the Ghostbusters association alone. Haha, see, this is why I'm probably never getting married—who'd have my crazy self? Haha.


• Creepy yet probably functional baby toy: let a pair of muppet hands cradle your unsuspecting infant. Jaysus.


• Clearly I am overworked and slightly insane but lately the Gilded Moose has been cracking me up. Some recent gems:
  Madonna's Adoption Now Personified in Simple, Easy to Understand Video Form
  God Reveals Himself to Nicole Kidman
  Architecture Review at John Travolta's, which includes the true statement "Having a plane that you can drive up to your front door is seriously the ghettoist shit we've ever seen."

Oh, and I recovered from the stomach flu and am feeling better, thanks for asking.

Videos, 10/5

It's ROCKTOBER (haha, come on, why not) and I'm sick with the stomach flu. As a result, I can't really string words together into coherent sentences very well (might also explain why saying ROCKTOBER is suddenly really amusing to me). However, my eyes are fine (though somewhat glazed) and I've been watching the following videos as I slowly mend:

• Wolf Parade's "I'll Believe In Anything" was one of my favorite tracks of 2005. I just saw the video and am in love all over again. I miss those big weird dramatic videos from the 80s, man... when everything on MTV told a story. Sigh. Anyway, this video plays like an intruiging warm-up to Marie Antoinette (two weeks away!).


• Baked Professor. BoingBoing is right, minute 28 is hilarious.


• Love, love, love Mates of State video for Goods. Goofy white boy dancing done right.


• Had never heard of French Canadian songstress Emilie Simon until someone raved about her online last week. Her videos for Flowers and Desert are on YouTube in all their hazy neo-Burton glory.


• National Geographic videos always crap out on me before the end, but what I was able to watch of this segment on Zoo dentistry was pretty damn awesome. Shoulda been a vet, man. Shoulda.


• Apparently everyone and their mother has seen this, except for *g and me: Tom Wilson from Back to the Future sings Biff's Question Song. Points for the Busey diss.


• And, last but not least, Cute With Chris, which is exactly what it sounds like and surprisingly funny (at least it is in my currently medicated state).

Here's to health, wealth, and other things lacking from my existence. Cheers, peepies.