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I was surfing YouTube this evening looking for assorted videos of Asian ladies doing odd things with calamari (average Tuesday night then really) when I came across a large ad on someone's channel for this website, a promotional page for a certain group with certain over-excitable movie star members. A certain group that claims psychiatry is evil and an extension of nazism. (I recently met a catholic who held these exact views and she was clearly a paranoid schizophrenic. But that's another story.) A certain group which I'm not sure I can actually name for fear of legal action. I think you get the idea.

I've been poking around the old system of pipes and tubes that we call the cyber-webs for a good few years now and I've never seen an ad like this anywhere before. And I wonder why it's taken this long for these ads to permeate my consciousness (granted I have developed pop-up fatigue and banner blindness from all my years of porn trolling, so I may have just missed them up till now). But now I know; they're coming for me. 

Well, might as well quit now while I'm ahead. I'm off down Abbey Street in the morning for a free stress test.

But first, on a completely unrelated topic...

Back to the Ship

Another YouTube favourite.

Sacrilicious!

I snagged this over at Unscrewing the Inscrutable. Check it out...

At first seems like one of those precarious satire-or-scary dilemmas, but going by the website in the about-this-video text, I'm pretty sure it's for funnies. And if you're still not sure, check this one out too for good measure. More of this please.

Dan Deacon

I defy you to say this isn't the coolest thing ever.

Oh shit, I'm Bliiiiinndddd!!

Okay, I know I'm a bit heavy on the YouTube clips lately, but just caught this from the comments section at Why, That's Delightful and felt I needed to share. Also, I'm hung over so if it's not funny you can blame my weakened state of mind.

800 Billion Ago... Dinosaurs!!

Check out Waverly Films at YouTube for the next four parts in the saga and plenty other crazy crap!

For the love of god, pick up the phone!!

Sublime.

Mini-Review Corner - The Arts...

It's Superbowel Sunday (sic) and since I am allergic to all things with balls (myself notwithstanding) and have no interest in the outcome of the New England Barebacks vs the Cleveland Steamers (or whoever it may be), I thought I might take the time to give some short reviews of the entertainment materials lately to pass into my brain-sphere.

Cinema

Juno is the latest from the director of Thank You for Smoking and son of the guy who did Ghostbusters, Jason Reitman. Now, Thank You for Smoking was good, but felt somehow derivative and wasn't quite as funny as I thought it could have been. That said, it did show a lot of potential.

And Juno fulfills that potential. With sharp dialogue and a great cast, it has just about everything his previous film had, but somehow hangs together better. The unlikely central relationship of (the both excellent) Ellen Page and Michael Cera is sweet without resorting to mawkish sentimentality. The supporting cast is perfectly populated with the always watchable likes of JK Simmons and Jason Bateman. And the soundtrack is so good that I may even venture out into the world of real-life shops to get the CD. All in all, three and a half thumbs up.

Literature

The Road by Cormac McCarthy is the author's latest, an obvious reflection on having children late in life. (Obvious that is when you learn he has an eight year old kid and he's in his mid-sevnties. Dirty oul'flah.) Set in a post apocalyptic America where a nuclear winter has done away with most plant and animal life, and the majority of surviving humans have turned to tribalism and roasting babies on spits, the novel tells the story of a man and his young son making their way south to where (they hope) the weather will be more clement and people more neighbourly.

This book, while unrelentingly bleak and thoroughly depressing, is nonetheless utterly compelling and could easily be read in a single sitting. (I just used too many words containing "ing".)  An excellent novel about the fragility of humanity and the importance of holding onto it. Expect the movie adaptation to be a whole lot more upbeat.

Music

"Hey look at this," said my friend Sheila, pointing at a poster in Lemon Jelly. "Thomas Kitt, that must be David Kitt's cousin or something, right?"

"Could be," says I.

"I don't believe it, his new album is called Kitt Happens. That's so corny."

"Yeah," I agree.

"We could have thought of a better name."

"What, like Kitt-Head?"

"Yeah," she laughs, "or Full of Kitt."

"Or This is Some Bad-ass Kitt."

She laughs again. "Aw, we're so witty."

"Yeah," I agree.

*Sigh.* Then we left.

And Finally...

Another gem from maverick filmmaker and YouTuber Willonzo. In his own words, this is ART, mother-lickers!!

Fillum Showcase

A quick cinematic interlude - Auteur filmmaker and best interweb buddy Willonzo brings us his insights into the blockbuster YouTube movie "Christmas in Dublin"

Nice.