Lu Zijian

Ba Gua Zhan Master Lu Zijian was 93 when this as filmed. He's 115 now.

This is how it should be done.

Andy Samberg - Jizz in My Pants

There's no jizzing in your pants for the Fewture. Unless it makes you that hype on possibilities. No harm there.

Otherwise, enjoy it while you can.

This starts slow, then gets funnier. And funnier.

By The Lonely Island.

The Edge & Bono (U2) - Van Diemen's Land (Live RTE Dublin '08)

This came from Scatter o'Light, a blog the Fewture truly loves. You can even grab the mp3 there.

A song which was last played live in '93.

2,000 Year Old Computer: Rebooted

Via Wired Gadget Lab:

A British museum curator has built a working replica of a 2,000-year-old Greek machine that has been called the world's first computer.

A dictionary-size assemblage of 37 interlocking dials crafted with the precision and complexity of a 19th-century Swiss clock, the Antikythera mechanism was used for modeling and predicting the movements of the heavenly bodies as well as the dates and locations of upcoming Olympic games.

Luna Angel - Keep Riding 12.13.08

Luna Angel performs Keep Riding at Mo Love! A Benefit for the Angel Family.

This went down on San Francisco's Pier 23 on 12.13.08 to celebrate the passing of Moese Angel.

Rest in power.

www.moeseangel.com

the Fewture's Top 3 Albums of 2008

1. Kings of Leon - Only By The Night
2. Kanye West - 808 and Heartbreak
3. Raphael Saadiq - The Way I See It

And if the Fewture had heard 808 sooner, that may be different.

To that Chronicle reporter dude on KFOG this AM who wrote that Pop is Dead: Sure, pop is dead. Because there is no more pop. Everything is too fractionated to have that type of all engrossing, hypnotic, musical hold over the majority of a national or global audience--but that doesn't mean that there isn't music happening. These three artists are moving music forward. No doubt.

We live in a disposal culture, true. Yet innovation still exists.

Michael Franti (Spearhead) @ Indie 103.1 FM

Performing Yell Fire and Bomb the World.

'...they telling you to never worry about the fewture...'

Cadillac Records

the Fewture loves the blues, so Cadillac Records is a welcome look at 1950s blues culture.

According to Philly.com's Carrie Rickey:

In 1950, as the blues, gospel and jazz cross-pollinated but before Detroit's Motown, before Memphis' Sun and Stax - and well before Philadelphia International Records - there was Chicago's Chess label. Those of a certain age fondly remember its logo, a silhouette of a king chess piece flanked by those of bishop and knight.

Cadillac Records, Darnell Martin's boisterous, if not always factual, account of the house that Muddy Waters, Howling Wolf, Chuck Berry and Etta James built, is a variety show of the personalities and music that spawned the urbanization of the blues and midwifed the birth of rock-and-roll.

The cast includes Columbus Short, Mos Def, Tammy Blanchard, Emmanuelle Chriqui, Adrien Brody, Gabrielle Union, Jeffrey Wright, Beyoncé Knowles, Cedric the Entertainer, and Norman Reedus.

A Moron Makes My Day

Thanks to mruttan.

808 and Heartbreak

d says they've been calling it his Nebraska. I can see why.

Kanye West's new album, 808 and Heartbreak, along with Q-Tip's The Renaissance are probably the most artistic hiphop albums we've seen in the last five years.

Since Black Starr.

Aside from maybe the Roots, of course.

But honestly, Kanye may have just redefined hiphop. Right now the situation with hiphop's identity has become too complicated, so it's really too soon to say.

But Kanye may have just found the exit strategy.

That's the way the Fewture sees things.

Welcome to Heartbreak and Love Locktown are masterpieces.

This and The Kings of Leon's Only by the Night are the 2 08 albums of the year.

Get Kanye's now. Support art like this. He deserves it.

This one goes out to SV. We lost a beautiful woman yesterday. Dedicated to all the heartbreak.

Robot Chicken Star Wars 2 - Anakin's Dream

In the Fewture, this video is so wrong.

But still so funny.

The Dutchess

Man. Sometimes the Fewture really wishes it could visit the Past to see the great musicians and performers who aren't around anymore.

Via Spectropop:

Anyone who's ever seen clips of Bo Diddley and his band tearing it up on "Hey, Bo Diddley" and "Bo Diddley" in the 1966 movie The Big TNT Show knows The Duchess. The embodiment of tough-yet-graceful rock'n'roll cool, sharing a microphone with the equally glamorous Bo-ettes (Lily "Bee Bee" Jamieson and Gloria Morgan), she dominated the stage in a shiny ankle-length dress, churning primal chords and rhythms out of her Gretsch guitar that gave even Diddley a run for his money.

Prop 8: The Musical

'What else does the Bible say, Jesus?'

See more Jack Black videos at Funny or Die

Jon Stewart and John Oliver report on the Mumbai Tragedy

François Macré - Thriller

A capella. Performed in 64 parts.

No idea what to say to describe this.

Update on Bush' Soul

President Bush has gone on record by stating he did not sell his soul during his presidency.

This comes amidst years of wild rumors that he had in fact sold his soul, and was attempting to drive the United States into the depths of hell.

According to a White House report regarding a StoryCorps oral interview conducted by President Bush' sister, Doro Bush Koch, Bush states:

I would like to be a person remembered as a person who, first and foremost, did not sell his soul in order to accommodate the political process. I came to Washington with a set of values, and I'm leaving with the same set of values.

Via Gawker.

MGMT - Electric Feel - Live from Abbey Road

Seriously. One of the Fewture's favorite songs.

As performed on Live from Abbey Road.

(Actual song starts up @ 1:30.)

Ohhhh. So that's Katy Perry.

My lovely woman has been walking around singing 'I Kissed a Girl' for months. From what she says, she likes the beat and finds it catchy.

I'm actually not all that into the song. I have nothing against it. But I just find the rhythm to be somewhat of a trainwreck. Sorry, that's me.

But, anyone who knows me, knows that MGMT's Electric Feel is one of my favorite songs. And that I love every single remix/version I hear of it cause it adds just one more flavor to it.

So, one of my favorite versions, besides the Justice remix, is by this chick with this awesome voice. It's live, super smooth and chill but captures MGMT's funk feel to it.

Yeah. So I just Googled Katy Perry and thought I'd find some little known singer.

Hey. I never claimed to follow Pop trends in music.

Katy Perry - Electric Feel (MGMT Cover)

Morihei Ueshiba Aikido Video

Via the Learn Aikido blog.

Japan Airline's CEO Haruka Nishimatsu Cuts his Salary

And his perks. For 3 years running.

See Detroit CEO's doing that?

No. Why? They're not true leaders. They're not like this gentleman.

'We in Japan learned during the bubble economy that businesses that pursue money first fail. The business world has lost sight of this basic tenant of business ethics.'

Monty Python Launches a YouTube Channel

'No more of those crap quality videos you've been posting...'

[Adult Swim] Robot Chicken: Take Your Daughter to Work Day: Star Wars Episode II

'These aren't the droids we're looking for. Move along.'

I can't stop watching these. They're so well done.

Santogold: The XLR8R Interview

The more I listen to Santogold's music, the more I like it. Some songs I don't like, but some (like L.E.S. Artistes, You'll Find A Way, and Lights Out ) are soooo dope.

And as far as her versatility and range goes, I mean, what do you expect from a Philly girl?

Adult Swim: Star Wars II

Dr. Ball, M.D.

I said good day, Sir!

USB 3.0 = 10x Faster

Good. In the future, it looks like my video and music transfers will be downloading much faster. That means I will have much more time to fracture my reality by doing too many things at once.

Thanks a lot, Technology.

Via Wired: USB 3.0 to Deliver a Tenfold Speed Increase

The new spec will support data transfers at 4.8 gigabits per second, or Gbps, nearly 10 times faster than the current standard's 480 megabits per second and six times faster than FireWire 800.

Possession Obsession

Okay, I've been on a bit of a Hall & Oates kick and woke up with Possession Obsession stuck in my head today. Maybe it reflects the state of our world and the reason our economy is in the lieu. Or, maybe it's just because I wrote about it over at DeeJayDog Productions.

Anyway. Enjoy.

German inmate escapes: by mail

I don't advocate prison escapes, but come on, you have to admit, this is both hilarious and ingenious.

As the BBC reports:

A manhunt is under way in western Germany for a convicted drug dealer who escaped by mailing himself out of jail.

The 42-year-old Turkish citizen - who was serving a seven-year sentence - had been making stationery with other prisoners destined for the shops.

At the end of his shift, the inmate climbed into a cardboard box and was taken out of prison by express courier. His whereabouts are still unknown.

The Disappearing Male: How We're Castrating Ourselves with Poisons

Our demise, should it come, will likely be the result of our own stupidity. The Doc Zone's documentary on The Disappearing Male is a great example of this.

Their video embedding isn't working, but you can check out the trailer or the entire film.

"We are conducting a vast toxicological experiment in which our children and our children's children are the experimental subjects." Dr. Herbert Needleman

The Disappearing Male is about one of the most important, and least publicized, issues facing the human species: the toxic threat to the male reproductive system.

The last few decades have seen steady and dramatic increases in the incidence of boys and young men suffering from genital deformities, low sperm count, sperm abnormalities and testicular cancer.

At the same time, boys are now far more at risk of suffering from ADHD, autism, Tourette's syndrome, cerebral palsy, and dyslexia.

The Disappearing Male takes a close and disturbing look at what many doctors and researchers now suspect are responsible for many of these problems: a class of common chemicals that are ubiquitous in our world.

Found in everything from shampoo, sunglasses, meat and dairy products, carpet, cosmetics and baby bottles, they are called "hormone mimicking" or "endocrine disrupting" chemicals and they may be starting to damage the most basic building blocks of human development.

MSNBC's Keith Olbermann Comments on Prop 8

Leave people alone. If they're not harming anyone, let them do what they want. As Olbermann says, let them have some happiness.

Prop 8

As far as I'm concerned, the fact that Prop 8 passed is a complete injustice. Further, the fact that the Black population that came out for Obama 'voted overwhelmingly' to pass Prop 8 is an enormous contradiction.

Here's an insightful interview from the LA Times:

For Trebor Healey, a 46-year-old gay man from Glendora, Tuesday's election was bittersweet.

He was thrilled that the nation elected its first African American president. But he was disappointed that black voters, traditionally among the most reliably liberal in the state, voted overwhelmingly to ban same-sex marriage.

He understands that there are differences between the civil rights battles of blacks and gays: For one thing, he notes, gay people have a much easier time blending in. Still, he says, he thinks it's sad that "people do not equate one civil rights struggle with another."

And here's an even better bit by Jon Stewart:

23/6 Sarah Palin Video

Get the latest news satire and funny videos at 236.com.

Palin Didn't Know Africa is a Continent

This would be so hilarious! If it wasn't actually scary as hell.

So, the McCain campaign used Palin as a Hail Mary play (no Biblical pun intended) without proper vetting, she spent gads of money on clothes for herself and family, DIDN'T KNOW AFRICA WAS A CONTINENT (when her Presidential opponent was one generation removed from Africa), but she was defended (praised) by McCain--and is now talking 2012???

Seriously? The Republicans were cynical enough to make and sponsor this choice? And think she should continue as a national political figure?

Sounds like there's more and more Palin skits coming our way. Shame their Reality TV.

Africans elated by first black U.S. president - CNN.com

I think the reporting on the reaction of the world's public to Obama's win is amazing:

Africans elated by first black U.S. president - CNN.com: "Residents picked up the president-elect's half-brother Malik and carried him through the village, The Associated Press reported. 'Unbelievable!' Malik shouted, leading the family in chanting, 'Obama's coming, make way!'

Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki called Obama's election 'a momentous day not only in the history of the United States of America, but also for us in Kenya. The victory of Senator Obama is our own victory because of his roots here in Kenya. As a country, we are full of pride for his success.'"

I Want My MTV

Once upon a time, in a world far, far away, there was a station that played only music videos. They called it MTV.

Now, you'll never guess what's happened! MTV has launched MTvM--mtvmusic.com.

As many people are noting, the design seems to bite off of Hulu's design. But hey, Avenue A | Razorfish does great design work, so I can't fault any intentional imitation.

Here's one of my favorite songs and one of the weirdest videos from the old school (obviously file formats and compression of older videos don't translate to great visual quality):

Talking Heads |MTV Music

U.S. Helicopters Attack Inside Syria

CNN.com is reporting:

"(CNN) -- The U.S. military said it is investigating claims from Syria that U.S. helicopters based in Iraq killed eight people and wounded another Sunday in an attack inside Syria's territory Sunday.

Syria's state news agency SANA said four U.S. helicopters crossed the border and struck a farm about 8 kilometers (5 miles) inside Syria before returning to Iraqi airspace."

What I'm wondering is this: Why now?

Anyone think this is a ploy to swing last minute support towards Military McCain?

I sure hope no one is playing politics with the lives of our American soldiers. There better have been a strategic purpose to this endeavor. With a loose border, there better have been meaningful intelligence to warrant the possibility of creating further ill-will along Iraqi borders.

Right?

Wasssup Now?

60Frames brings it with Wasssup 2008.

Hi, This is Joe McCain.

Joe the Caller. What a jerk.

Palin the Diva

I wanted to title this post: Palin, Lone Wolf, Shot Down. But she's just not smart enough to be a wolf.

Or a fox. More snake.

Now that's a Maverick!

CNN brings us this story about Palin going her own way:

Several McCain advisers have suggested to CNN that they have become increasingly frustrated with what one aide described as Palin "going rogue."

"She is a diva. She takes no advice from anyone," said this McCain adviser. "She does not have any relationships of trust with any of us, her family or anyone else.

"Also, she is playing for her own future and sees herself as the next leader of the party. Remember: Divas trust only unto themselves, as they see themselves as the beginning and end of all wisdom."

Ron Howard, Ritchie Cunningham, The Fonz and More!

Seriously awesome. By the way, does anyone realize how exhaustive and influential Ron Howard's career has been? Acting aside, look at what he's directed and produced!

See more Ron Howard videos at Funny or Die

Carl Rove Touched by a Woman!

So, yaknow how sometimes the book is better than the movie? That's the case with the article and video surrounding this event.*

*As of yet, there are no reports indicating that the woman's fingers melted after touching Carl Rove.

Protester in SF attempts to handcuff Karl Rove

2 hours ago

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — An anti-war protester confronted former Bush administration aide Karl Rove while he spoke at a San Francisco mortgage bankers' meeting.

A statement by the group Code Pink identified the woman as 58-year-old Janine Boneparth, who tried to handcuff Rove in what she called a citizen's arrest for "treason."

Yes, I'm from Scranton

So SNL is wrong. Joe Biden's not the only one to make it out of Scranton. Besides myself, I know a few. Like d.

After talking about the problem with people in Pennsylvania, I just wanted to point out the fact that I am familiar with the area.

Here's SNL bashing Scranton in their spoof of the Biden/Palin debate.

(And by the way, there's plenty of stupid people all over the world. They're not exclusive to Pennsylvania. In PA, they're just tougher.)

The Problem with Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania is where the American Revolution was brewed and battled. To this day, Pennsylvanians carry a mean streak of independent, rebellious attitudes that lead people (and keep them) in ignorance. When you constantly label differing views as 'anti-American,' as some less-enlightened leaders continue to spew, it seems the people most easily influenced by corporate media, the most stubborn, and least likely to engage in healthy discussion gravitate towards embracing fear-based--non-thought based--beliefs and notions.

Aside from the fact that there's no big mountains, this is the reason I moved away from Pennsylvania. It's greatest strength is also its biggest weakness: an irrational sense of righteousness.

When Republican talking points have been based on manipulating fear, you encite mob-like results where even well-meaning, good-natured people are perverted by the Republican propaganda and the corporate media coverage that allowed such vitriol to run un-checked for years. The only place these deluded notions have been consistently combated are in education institutions.

So, of course, that's why individuals like Karl Rove spin the public into resenting the 'elitist' and 'liberal' advocates of education, while maintaining the need for constant state of defense against terrorism.

This yeilds a partial populice with a paranoid, defensive, exclusionist, and dangerously disillusioned state of being.

The United States Divided

Why?

Some people aren't able to weigh issues. So they turn to guttural, fear-based reactions. Instead of lifting them up and working to educate people on the issues, the Republicans use these irrational talking points that relate only to some fantastical fear they've created in their mind and not to any actual fact or issue.

Here's Rep. Michelle Bachmann (R-Minn.) sounding like a foolish, 7-year old girl who's adamantly adhering to something her 'Daddy' told her, and she's determined to prove that Daddy is right when she doesn't seem to understand the argument or the lack of logic in her position.

Joe the Plumber.

I have so many potential titles for this.

Why I love the Internets.

I'm not Surprised.

Keating 5 Staying Alive.

McCain's Full of Shit.

McCain Gets Rootered by Fake Plumber.

And I could go on. But really, I think I like this one best:

Here's Some Plumber Crack in Your Face.

President McCain

After watching the end of tonight's debate, I realized something. McCain should have been president in 2000. That would have been the perfect time for him. He would have handled the 9/11 tragedy as well as Bush did. He would have done a far better job in going after Bin Laden.

There would have been no Iraq bullshit. I absolutely believe that McCain would have had the military hunt down Osama Bin Laden and then McCain would have killed Osama himself. He would have been the ultimate of all action heroes.

Unfortunately, that didn't happen. No telling the economic situation would be any different, but our world position would likely be much better.

Here's the thing: this is now. And this election, in 2008, Obama really is the right man for the job.

That's right.

The Fewture is officially endorsing Obama.

Tina Fey On Sarah Palin

Tina Fey will be going waaaaay off the grid if Palin is elected. Can't blame her. We'll be over run by Jesus Ponies.

Via Huffington Post:

The "SNL" veteran who has come back to play the Republican Vice Presidential candidate (and whose own show, "30 Rock," is still nowhere to be seen), said, "We're gonna take it week by week. If she wins, I'm done. I can't do that for four years. And by 'I'm done,' I mean I'm leaving Earth."

Chemistry of the Fewture

AS our Idiocracy continues on it's path, here we see how chemistry will be taught in the fewture.

At least it will be entertaining.

Hayden Panettiere from Heroes

On John McCain. Okay, not ON John McCain. But talking about him. Yeah, that's it.

(Oh, and if you're at work, you might wanna turn the sound down.)

See more Hayden Panettiere videos at Funny or Die

Palin Wanna Cracker?

John Cleese says that Michael Palin is no longer the funniest Palin on earth.

And likens Sarah Palin to a nice looking parrot.

Philadelphia Tells Palin What's Up

Lynn Zinser at the NYT broke this story about Palin getting boo'd at a Flyers game in Philly. (or so I believe and a thank you to dob.)

Do you think she was expecting to receive the same type of welcoming that Lehigh gave her?

Ha. Not in Philly. Philly knows a fool when it sees one. You can rest sure on that.

Andy Mckee Embarrasses the Hell Out of Me

This guy's mad skillz are so absolutely redunkulous I can't get over it.

I came across him as totally randomly (as this sentence is cliche) on YouTube the other day. As someone passionate about music and acoustic guitar, this guy totally embarrasses me. Because this is the kinda stuff I hear in my head and WISH I could play. This guy does stuff I've never seen anyone do before. And I think he's only in his only 20s. But capoing only the first 4 strings? Playing overhand? And his fingertapping stuff would humble even Eddie Van Halen.



I'm downloading his Art of Motion album from Amazon right now. $8.99 for the mp3 album is money well spent.

Sarah Palin's SAT Scores

I can't say if it's true or not, honestly. 

However, one reputable photojournalist source stated that 'This is the form that Palin's office released. The true scores are 360 370.'

 

But again, I can't verify the accuracy of that. 

Obama Buying Half-Hour Block of Prime-time Broadcast - Advertising Age - Campaign Trail

Wow. This should be interesting.

And hopefully inspiring.

Obama Buying Half-Hour Block of Prime-time Broadcast - Advertising Age - Campaign Trail: "WASHINGTON (AdAge.com) -- In what is likely become biggest network-TV buy of the presidential campaign, Sen. Barack Obama is buying 30 minutes of time on major TV networks for a program to air from 8 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. on Oct. 29."

Top 5 Myths About John McCain

Tim Dickinson thinks we're vetting the wrong candidate.

Cars vs Helicopter

Total. Unabridged. Awesomeness.

Finally. Beer Goggles for Your Email.

Another reason to love technology.

Have you ever sent out a late night email, only to wonder what the hell you were thinking in more sober hours?

Gmail wants to help. Via webmonkey:

Is your Saturday morning inbox filled with regret and self-loathing for the drunken e-mails you fired off the night before? If so, Gmail might have a solution for you. Google’s Gmail Labs has a new experimental featured dubbed “Mail Goggles” which will attempt to prevent you from sending out those ill-advised late night e-mails.

Big Insurer’s Spending Habits Disclosed - NYTimes.com

This article in the NYTimes makes me absolutely sick. I keep hearing people talking about a tax revolt. Now I understand why.

Big Insurer’s Spending Habits Disclosed - NYTimes.com: "A week after the insurance giant, the American International Group, received an $85 billion federal bailout, its life insurance subsidiary, AIG General, held a weeklong retreat for its top sales agents at the exclusive St. Regis Resort in Monarch Beach, Calif. Expenses for the week, lawmakers were told, totaled $442,000, including $200,000 for hotel rooms, $150,000 for food and $23,000 in spa charges.

In addition, the former A.I.G. executive who led the London-based division whose implosion is largely blamed for the insurance giant’s downfall, Joseph J. Cassano, continues to receive $1 million a month from the company, on top of the $280 million he received in the last eight years.

And even after A.I.G. reported $5 billion in losses in the final quarter of 2007, its chief executive at the time, Martin J. Sullivan, argued before a compensation committee that executives should receive performance bonuses. He received $5 million.

“This unbridled greed, this callous abuse of trust of hard-working Americans’ savings is just so disgusting it is hard to put into words, and the anger level in America is coming, as it often has, at Wall Street,' Representative Mark Souder, Republican of Indiana, said."

John McCain: Maverick

Thanks to Creativity for bringing us the scoop on this:

Goodby, Silverstein & Partners creative director Jamie Barrett recently teamed up with MJZ director Craig Gillespie (Lars and The Real Girl) for a series of "behind the scenes" spoofs aimed to question Republican campaign strategy with a smirk.

A Message from Sarah Palin

Letterman continues to burn the Republican candidates in response to being snubbed.

Fact Check: Palin Is Stupid

Millions of Americans are wondering: How stupid is Sarah Palin. They point to her inability to think of a newspaper she's read and non-sequitor, run-on responses as evidence of this trait.

Here's the thing: Palin is the super popular cheerleader who runs for class president. She makes stuff up, since she truly has no idea what she's talking about, then expects you to believe it due to the sheer force of her charm. You betcha!

But to imply that Obama would rather hang out with terrorists than 'see America as the greatest force for good in this world' is a truly stupid distraction technique. If the man is running for president, he has to believe that America is good and that he can help make it better. Everything else aside, this is what someone believes if they run for president. Motives can very widely, but even George Bush believed this.

So America, you are right. Palin is stupid. McCain has been using really wreckless tactics in navigating these last weeks of his campaign. I disagree with his politics, but he is an intelligent man. Palin is stupid. Plain-old stupid. A talent-show approach and a particular and precise diction can certainly be entertaining. But, comon, I don't know how it works where you're from in Alaska, but where I'm from, you don't shoot your mouth off right after getting put in your place. Especially if you get put in your place by a Scranton boy.

I mean, Sarah, think about it. Really. After getting killed by both press and personalities over your Katie Couric interviews, you managed to successfully make yourself look mildly cognizant during your debate with Joe Biden. Not bad. Not good, because you were outclassed, but not bad.

Then you immediately open the door for the press to slam you about inaccuracies all over again. That's like catching flies and pushing them into shit.

Please don't complain to us about the stink.

Via CNN:

Palin cited an article in Saturday's New York Times about Obama's relationship with Ayers, now 63. But that article concluded that "the two men do not appear to have been close. Nor has Mr. Obama ever expressed sympathy for the radical views and actions of Mr. Ayers, whom he has called 'somebody who engaged in detestable acts 40 years ago, when I was 8.' "

Several other publications, including the Washington Post, Time magazine, the Chicago Sun-Times, The New Yorker and The National Review, have debunked the idea that Obama and Ayers had a close relationship.

Barney Frank and Bill O'Reilly

We might have to start a Barney Frank Moments feature on this blog.

Here's Barney and Bill. Funny stuff. They could be a great comedy duo. Frank is the witty, somewhat easy-going Massachusetts intellect. Bill is the blubbering, barbaric, belligerent baboon.

Good times.

You have to respect Frank for not stooping to his level of emotional tirade and for going back at him with some insights for Bill to consider. Thing is, Bill's not very considerable. He's just overbearing.

Just because someone gets away with being overbearing--in fact, even if they make their living by being so--it doesn't mean they're actually right.



(If you click the video and visit the YouTube page, you can also laugh at the Republican supporters who seem to think that this is an effective way to communicate. O'Reilly's audience must consist of mostly divorced individuals and those that can't find a mate.)

Wall Street, Greed, and our Idiocracy

I've had credit crunches in my life. I called it 'grad school.' My friends and family bailed me out. The banks certainly didn't.

In my honest opinion, I believe this whole sitation could have been avoided if the banks had allowed people to readjust their mortgages to allow them to keep their homes if they were able to maintain the payments they were making before their ARMs ballooned. I had a brief stint in the mortgage industry 10 years. I never understood how this shit was not gonna hit the fan.

The power brokers in suits simply didn't care. They got greedy. So, I'm not really in favor of the bailout.

But I am in favor of Barney Frank. This was another great Barney Frank moment.

Saturday Night Live, Palin, Couric, and More

In 2008, which I'm naming The Year of Great Ineptitude, here's some things that truly inspire hope:

• SNL is funny again!
• Americans are actually realizing that Palin is an extremely stupid, and dangerous, VP choice (just imagine her overseeing this current financial debacle)

And...well...okay that's all I got for now. But wipe away the tears and check out this skit from last night's SNL.

Very Cool Hendrix Painting

As d said, 'this kinda blows my mind.'


Really Cool Hendrix Painting - Watch more free videos

The Dark Joker

The edit job on this piece of awesomeness that Overthinking It did is just beyond my ability to give props and thanks to.

Save the Economy

Save the Economy is a really funny thing someone threw up.

But it got me thinking, what if this bail-out was indeed done by people offering micro-loans in the amount and manner of their choosing, with a high rate of interest return. You know, like Kiva for our country.

Daryl Hall Rocks

You've got to check out Live From Daryl's House. This episode features Finger 11, and thus far Family Man and I Keep Your Memory have been the highlights for me. Daryl's the man. Good PA peeps.

Great series. Here's a super tight version of Family man performed with Chromeo.

Daft Punk - Something About Us - Daft Loop Love

This is just cool. I love technology.

Check out Randy George Music.

Oasis is Taking it to the Streets

You can say what you want about Oasis. Good or bad, I'll most likely agree with you.

But you gotta admit, enlisting street performers to play their new songs around town--before they've even been released--is a pretty cool concept.

The new album is called "Dig Out Your Soul." Learn more about it at Creativity.

Hotel des Arts

Tonight I went to the Hotel des Arts at 477 Bush Street SF.

My friend d was part of the art exhibit. It was both surreal and fitting to go there and see art that used to hang in the living room of our place in the Mission.

Imagine an old Victorian-style hotel from any English film. Only packed full with modern, eye-popping art lining 4 floors of narrow, densely packed hipsters, arties, and a bunch of peeps that haven't fully made it back from Burning Man yet.

The best part was the Shephard Fairey room. That guy does some cool stuff. I loved way he plays off of iconographic type images. And the detail of the 'wallpaper' of the room was amazing. The way the black 'tiles' (that's what I'm calling them okay) fractured and collided with the red tiles in an organic way that was somewhat rippling was my favorite part of the night.

Cool stuff. Amazing scene.

Lots of great art. I was so impressed. Much fun. 30 minutes of mishing my way around and taking a bunch of pics. It was hot and constricted in there, so I was ready to jet after that.

On my way out, I finally ran into my gang. I wished d well, but it was too hot and crowded and I wasn't going back in.

Justice - D.A.N.C.E

Not sure how much I could listen to the song, but this video is cool as hell.

America's presidential race | The Palin effect | | The Economist

The Economist is about as close to objectivity as you can get. It doesn't care about party, it truly orients itself towards economics. It really is just my opinion, but I do feel they give it to you as straight as they can. I find myself reading other news sources less and less.

America's presidential race | The Palin effect | | The Economist: "Mr McCain has also been caught telling some straightforward fibs, for example that Mrs Palin, as governor, had “never” sought federal earmark money for her state—her request per head for Alaska was the biggest in the country. He and Mrs Palin continue to insist that she killed an infamous “bridge to nowhere” project in Alaska, even though every journalist in America now knows she did so only after supporting it, and only after it became a political albatross. Mr McCain has good reason to worry about his reputation for straight-talk, the strongest part of his political brand."

I can has ninja cat?

Adam Kimmel presents: Claremont HD

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Last night at Veni Vidi Vici Juxtapoz & ArtNowSF ART & MUSIC

Held at 60 6th St San Francisco.

Not much I can say about this piece by Reyes. Other than you can see the price there and it's probably worth every single cent.

And now for some classic George Carlin

Cut Copy - Saturdays

Old school and new age.