August 6, 2007: Humans are Forever Changed

August 6, 2007. We all change today! This is fuckin' real boys, move your folks out of the cities, we're about to get smoked, and I'm not talking about Bohemia, I'm talking Brohemian Snapsody!



-Pierri J. Blige

r-p-o-p-h-e-s-s-a-g-r by E. E. Cummings

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I propose that e.e.cummings is likely the granddaddy of "l33t h4x0r sp33k". And, to me, he makes infinitely more sense than a lot of the internet gibberish i read online, like web2.0?! wtf... and cookies? i mean come on, all i want to do is scarf down some mr christie when i hear that. srsly folks, this is synth poetry combining meticulous engineering of syntactical and cerebral aesthetics at its best. rspkt.

-L.

Interesting New Appendage to English!

Reuters, Dublin --A group of professors (pictured left) from the University of Dublin announced this week that they intend to introduce an appendage to the English language. Triggered by the proliferation of what's known to Internet discussion forum users and bloggers as "elitespeak", the group announced that several of the machinations could easily, and should be, applied to use in the English language.

To add to the issue, the group also introduced a new innovation that they created themselves. Termed the queston, the new method of ending question-based sentences shortens the entire length of novels by up to 300 characters, thereby saving paper.

Basically, the queston involves ending a question-based sentence with a capital letter rather than a question mark. For instance : How do I feel about reading this far into this articlE

Early adopters indicate stupidity.

Is this blasphemY

iPhone NES Emulator w/ Contra

Imagine you had a device that could do everything? It probably couldn't do this. Therefore, this blows away your imagination.

Jim Cramer Rules

He's right. Nobody understands the nature of the new market.




Edit:

I asked my dad (www.valuesciences.com) to sum up what he's saying in lay man's terms.

"He is saying that the government should bail out all the people who cant afford to pay the money they borrowed to buy high priced homes in the U.S."

"...this trend has caused the banks who lent the money to run into trouble with
the people they borrowed money from."

"His solution is to flush the system with cheap money (lower rates) so that stock market will stop going down and everyone will be happy, particularly Jim himself because most of what he has been recommending is losing money and soon his show will be up in flames if not him personally as well. Fast world, this one of finance..."

"Chocolate Rain" Original Song by Tay Zonday

Real Time Music

Under the pressure of mind-crushers Rage Against the Machine, my entire concert history flashes before my eyes. I see every live band that ever had the heart and guts to flood my and my friends' ears with their message. Peace, Love, Drugs, Death, Pantslessness (Louis XIV)... It's all a ball to me. I got into concerts only a few years ago, around 2003, and it's easily the realest, most mysterious exchange of energy that I've ever come across in this life.

Here's a list of every show that's ever moved me. I started writing it for myself, but I thought I'd post it and see what you guys had to say about your favourite concert, or concerts in general.

• Kasabian at Club Soda, Montreal
• Shout Out Out Out Out at Main Hall, Montreal
• Green Day at Phoenix (along w/ 500 people to first debut American Idiot)
• Green Day in ??? (the big show)
• Sum 41 in London
• The Killers at Kool Haus
• The Killers at Molson Amphitheatre
• Oasis at Molson Amphitheatre
• Louis XIV at Mod Club
• OK Go + Kaiser Chiefs @ Mod Club
• Rage Against the Machine at Randall's Island, New York
• Foo Fighters @ Molson Amphitheatre, Toronto
• Black Rebel Motorcycle Club @ Kool Haus
• Danko Jones @ Les Saints, Montreal
• Billy Talent @ the UBC Pub, Vancouver
• Metallica in Vancouver Hockey Arena
• The Strokes at Toronto Ricoh Colliseum
• The Strokes outdoors at Plaza of Nations, Vancouver
• The Living End, The Vines & Jet at Commodore Ballroom, Vancouver
• Hawksley Workman at the Commodore Ballroom, Vancouver
• Hawksley Workman at some performance hall in Hamilton
• Mistakes in NYC
• Incubus at Copps Collisseum
• Psychotic 4 at Main Hall
• Death from Above 1979 @ The Horseshoe Tavern
• The White Stripes at the Molson Amphitheatre
• Wu-Tang Clan, Cypress Hill & Public Enemy at Randall's Island, NYC
• Nobuo Uematsu @ Jump Festa 2004, Makuhari Messe, Tokyo
• The Trews @ Element Nightclub, Kitchener

My Still-to-See List:

• The Hives
• AC/DC
• Wolfmother
• Muse
• Arctic Monkeys
• Velvet Revolver
• The Bravery naked

My Biggest Regrets:

• Missing Muse on a rainy day at the Montreal Island to sleep in and get in a fight w/ my ex!
• Missing The Music as openers for Incubus at Copps Colliseum (thx 2 tim)
• Missing the opening song, American Idiot, TWICE (at both Green Day shows I saw) (thx 2 tim)

NASCAR Coach Reveals Strategy: "Drive Fast, Turn Left"

NASCAR Coach Reveals Winning Strategy: 'Drive Fast'



ONN is a great site, and is sure to gain more and more momentum in the time to come, just as TheOnion.com did years ago. I'm consistently shocked at how strong the satire is over there. I wonder who runs it.

Rock the Bells in New York City

With an exam approaching in only a week, I find myself in possession of a ticket to Rock the Bells featuring none other than Rage Against the Machine.

I would have once sat and debated about whether to go, seeing as exams are so close, but with friends like Lauren, Tim and Ryan, I have seen the light (p.s. who needs enemies?). In any case, I'm trekking to see the spark of rebellion. To all the haters, I have to say:

Even in its distilled form, no matter where he has been, I am certain that the spark that drives Zack de la Rocha can not be extinguished. It may change incarnations, but it doesn't die. Read anything the guy ever said, watch any documentary. He wants change and it hasn't hit yet.

When I return I may post a few of my favourite parts of the show, but look elsewhere for a 'critique', because anybody who chimes in to tell you who wasn't 'up to par' at a rock concert left their balls in their Fallout Boy custom backpack (w/ Stickers omg).

Clark & Michael - Episode 2

Like the spirits of Jack Lemon and Walter Matthau embodied in awkward teenage bodies. I'm obsessed with Clark & Michael's quest to make their television debut. If you enjoy it, check out the site.

I'm personally a big fan of this new crop of online only, short-length episodic comedy. Clark & Michael, 28 Day Slater, Ross Has Herps: writers are forced to condense the best elements of their writing and therefore significantly up the LPM (laughs per minute, it's industry buzz talk, page me if you need to know more).

For example, an average episode of Roseanne has 0.01 LPM, with all jokes pertaining to "kicking Darlene's butt", while Ross Has Herps has approximately 1,500 LPM, each laugh carefully crafted by "Black People w/ Lots of Time" to be a masterpiece. The best thing about LPM is that it's completely objective.

Transformers: The Review (by a reviewer who believes in the adage "better late than never" :P)

Two creepy dudes emerged from the cavernous dark today to metaphorically pinch themselves and make sure the world was still there beyond the wall of scrambled text, definitions, equations and graphs that had been building over the past few days. Study breaks call for mindless fun, and what better than the movies! As a study break goes, Transformers was like ordering a single, medium pizza and getting a double sized fun-za with extra cheese and dipping sauce on the side delivered to your door instead. While not breaking any barriers, it nonetheless paired breathtaking, larger-than-life CGI with a straightforward plot and characters with some depth. The scenes were smashed together with furious control by director Michael Bay, creating action sequences epic enough to make even the most jaded of you catch your breath, at least once :P The dialogue on the part of the hero, if no one else, was layered with wit and an affable rapport with his father and "the love interest".

To make a long story short, go see it! ...and as I am fully aware it came out two weeks ago and I am probably one of the last people on earth to witness its glory, see it again, perhaps with an "enhanced" state of mind, and do it soon

- L.

If...

If it bothers you that our cultural landscape is being reshaped by faceless media and corporate giants, take action.

If it scares you that nearly every click of your mouse or word typed on the keyboard in front of you is watched, recorded, stored and analyzed by corporations and governments, take action.

If it pulls at your heartstrings to think of the children working tirelessly to make the shoes on your feet, calloused fingers pulling the strings of thread through an infinite number of leather slabs they will never see any profit from, take action.

If you've ever wondered why your stomach growls, moans, complains and cries out after you've just eaten a money-friendly but nutritionally devoid meal at a fast food restaurant, take action.

If it is unsettling to you to see 10 year old girls mimicking the perfect, plastic, unattainable woman by ignorantly embracing mini skirts, eyeshadow and eating disorders, take action.

If you've ever felt short of breath outside for no apparent reason, then looked to the sky and saw only a dense smog of pollution, take action.


If you care about anything at all, do something. Write a letter. Join a protest. Shop smart. Walk, don't drive. Research. Stop and think. Question. Be critical. Support what you believe in. Jam the system with the choices you make in your daily life and watch the world change.

Take action.

- L.

When the world gets you down

Just remember, there is art and beauty everywhere... even in the grime on the back of your car ;) (Click the pic to check out some more dusty art)

muses on: missing having cable...

The Daily Show and the Colbert Report are two intelligent, entertaining avenues for getting in touch with the world around you... now if only there was a Canadian parody, eh?

-L.

*edit* thanks to my ghostlike friend Mladen (you can't fly, give it up) I have been informed that the above video has disappeared into the ethers of cyberspace... if it is still not working, move your mousey over here and click

**note: not the original video, deal with it :P

Justin Timberlake - LoveStoned

Sexy video, sexy song.

http://stage6.divx.com/user/dentotune/video/1324815/Justin-Timberlake---Lovestoned-(NEW)

Game: Cat with Crossbow Golf

Cat With Crossbow Golf.

What blows my mind is that the Spiderman 3 game cost about half a million dollars to create and this free flash game completely annihilates it. There's no simple formula for fun.

Gary Busey, Nick Nolte, and Kris Kristofferson in 1978

Live Action Starfox (w/ Spoilers)

Live Action StarFox w/ Spoilers... The music is what really blows me away so far.

Great Teacher Onizuka

GREAT TEACHER ONIZUKA EPISODE ONE

Face value: Gangster kid grows up and tries to become a public school teacher in contemporary Japan where a rebellion is currently underway.

Message: The story of the next generation of carefree unruly Japanese, crushed between the West and the East, freedom and conformity, and sometimes horrible acting.

Nintendo Power from 1989

Mega Man 2, River City... This brings back too many memories...



[edit: before u get on msn to tell me how many ways this is gay, this was just an experiment to learn how to make animated gifs. in the immortal words of Tenacious D's JB: "... You create something!"