I awoke today to find our very nice seeming single-serving roommate, the Spaniard leaving very quietly.  Today is the first full day in Munich, but of course we missed the All You Can Eat breakfast.  It's 9:40pm (21:40) here right now and Elliot is fucking with the people down on the street with his laser pointer ( Read more... )

Finally.  Elliot and I should have been here yesterday but bad weather along the East Coast and specifically in Philadelphia pushed us back a day, not right away of course, we waited an hour (because we were early like good little children), then there was an "update" at 5:30, 6:30, 7:30, 8:30 and when it became clear that even if we took the plane ( Read more... )

British people talk about movies they hate

Within the first 15 minutes of this show from 'Movies You Should See,' one of the hosts says that he hates blu-ray.  And I agree.  I loathe the concept and especially the name "blu-ray."  I think I have the answer to the question:

Why blu-ray?

It's absolutely about profit and the fact that the DVD has become ( Read more... )

Last night's Colbert Report was quite good.  The word, "Priceless," was very sharp - about the fact that the price of an American life has gone from $7.8m to $6.9m.  Then, he spoke with a Buddhist Lama and finished with this cracked up "environmentalist," who said that "the key is the private sector" to solving our environmental problems.

The idea ( Read more... )

One of my four cousins and one of the two with whom I'm still in (some kind of) contact [because they didn't married out of my family OR become Jehovahs Witnesses] got married this weekend.  I was worried about having to spend money and a little miffed that I couldn't have as much time to study for my geology final, but I was pleasantly surprised ( Read more... )

This whole deal about Hillary Clinton refusing to give up on her campaign bid reeks of some kind of justification of the idea that oppressions are in competition with one another.  As if a vote for Hillary is a vote for women, and a vote for Obama is a vote for African-Americans.  Unfortunately, Hillary's campaign people are absolutely leaning on ( Read more... )

Scotch n' Soda
Is Carnegie Mellon's own student-run theatrical company.  There were two programs: one was an interactive one in which five students who designed, wrote and performed 20-odd one-acts between 30 seconds and 5 minutes in length.  In order for one of them to be performed, one of the audience members had to jump out of their seat, grab a ( Read more... )

Meanwhile, Bill is Asian (South East Asian) and the kid they do like is East Asian.

WATCH - NOW

Human Giant
-My favorite sketches of the last few days have been: Kicking Cameras, Rise to the Challenge, Corn Chowder, Foley Artist, Gaz Guzzlers, Bozard and the BBQ Boys, Osama Bin Diesel
-My favorites period (excluding Illusionators and Shutterbugs, of ( Read more... )

Basically, he's one the one of the most prolific and respected film artists in Canada.  As a comedic actor, he's in everything and when he's not doing that, he writes and directs.  In barely a single degree, you can connect him to the Kids in the Hall, Atom Egoyan and David Cronenberg - pretty much everything even a rather well-informed American ( Read more... )

Or else, Don McKellar is an anomaly and talks like god knows what.  It might be due to this Canadian shift, it says it mostly effects Ontario (in which Toronto is located).  Wikipedia doesn't even have a picture for him!  And he's a doll.

Oh Don McKellar.  I like me him so much.   Obviously, in the Slings & Arrows videos he's putting on a ( Read more... )