Monthly Archives: June 2013
Pics of the Day
Filed under 1_Link / Picture Dump
Cups (Pitch Perfect’s “When I’m Gone”) (Director’s Cut)
Just a fun little addictive song that Mike L. showed me.
Filed under Music
Link Dump
The cast of Community auditions for castmember Jim Rash’s new film: http://www.vulture.com/2013/06/watch-way-way-back.html
The top 5 regrets of the dying: http://m.guardiannews.com/lifeandstyle/2012/feb/01/top-five-regrets-of-the-dying
Fecking Awesome Soviet-era propaganda posters: http://imgur.com/a/Sd6Qc
Blacky pictures (or comics meant to identify specific psychological behaviors in children, OR really creepy comics without the context): http://io9.com/the-blacky-pictures-make-the-worlds-creepiest-comic-bo-564480727
Advertising Smart Cars by showing them off-roading, and failing at even the simplest tasks. http://twentytwowords.com/2013/06/25/advertising-smart-cars-by-showing-how-bad-they-are-at-off-roading/ (This is much like the “Lemon” ads for the Volkswagen Beetles in the 1960s and 1970s, which live on today as amazing advertising examples.)
Reddit, circa 1865: http://i.imgur.com/jZfoQ.jpg
Good vs Evil: Disney princesses and their enemies: http://imgur.com/a/BzIuI?gallery
Square One (PBS, 1987-1993): http://www.mentalfloss.com/article/51229/remember-square-one
Printable pictures of “all you need for camping”: http://www.funcage.com/blog/all-you-need-for-camping-23-photos/#more-33172
A small-town car dealership’s time capsule of cars, and how they’re being auctioned off: http://bitsandpieces.us/2013/06/25/cars-stored-for-decades-go-up-for-sale/
How to prove you’re a real man (in 18 frames): http://www.funcage.com/blog/how-to-prove-you-are-a-real-man-18-photos/#more-32675
Pixar’s sad decline, in 1 chart: http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2013/06/pixars-sad-decline-in-1-chart/277155/
Anxiety-ridden photos: http://www.wired.com/rawfile/2013/06/john-keedy-anxiety/
If I Had a Time Machine (warning: comic poop): http://thisisnthappiness.com/post/53890112749/if-i-had-a-time-machine
Niles Rodgers infographic – the guy changed the sound of modern pop as we know it: http://i.imgur.com/LXt9uxt.jpg
The Wal-Mart Game: http://popularlol.com/the-walmart-game/
Seven awful movies starring bigtime actors: http://www.realclear.com/entertainment/2013/06/24/celebrities_that_starred_in_hilariously_terrible_movies_2016.html (cheat: some were before they were famous, when they didn’t have much choice…)
Rick Rubin, another hugely influential guy in the world of modern music: http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2013/06/26/rick-rubin-on-crashing-kanye-s-album-in-15-days.html
Filed under 1_Link / Picture Dump
When Animals Attack
I’m a sucker for people getting in the way of angry animals.
Filed under Animals & Nature, WTF
Harry Dean Stanton – “Partly Fiction” (A Bio-pic trailer)
Also, here’s a neat article about the man: http://www.toplessrobot.com/2013/06/laff_review_harry_dean_stanton_-_partly_fiction.php
Filed under Movies & TV
Honest Movie Trailers: Independence Day
I know, I just posted an “Everything Wrong With…” for this movie, but I absolutely hate this film. And too many of my friends liked it when it first came out. My favorite part of the X-Files movie was when Mulder pissed all over this movie poster in an alley outside a bar.
Filed under 1990s, Movies & TV