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Uncomfortable plot summaries

Some plot summaries of movies and TV shows that might make you feel uncomfortable. Among my favorites:

THE GOONIES: Physically abused, retarded man finds love with overweight preteen.
THE PASSION OF THE CHRIST: Mel Gibson fulfills fantasy of showing a Jew beaten to a bloody pulp and killed on-screen.
TITANIC: Crazy old widow disregards lifelong memories of husband, children, and grandchildren in favor of that one time she fucked a bum.
STAR WARS: Religious extremist terrorists destroy government installation, killing thousands.
LORD OF THE RINGS: Midget destroys stolen property.
DOCTOR WHO: Elderly man serially abducts young women.
BOOGIE NIGHTS: Deformed boy goaded into life of crime.

Beck covering Velvet Underground

He can be so spot on.

Record Club: Velvet Underground & Nico "Run Run Run" from Beck Hansen on Vimeo.

Weekends in SF

Can't. Get. Out. Of. Head.

found in my pocket

"Reptiles have a tremendous amount of patience," Snow says. "They can wait out harsh environmental conditions. They can go without eating for a long time. Then, all of a sudden, there's a phase shift, a trigger point.

The population starts to function as as population rather than a lone inoculation."

-pretty sure this is from a new yorker article. also pretty sure this describes the word Zeitgeist, it seems to tap into the same general sociological cloud consciousness.

The most interesting bit to me about this is its describing pattern behavior in reptiles. Ancient brains. This makes me think that pop psychology, intrinsic drivers towards trends ans fads, have some sort of genetic correlation- they are our way of recombining, of acting a community of one species to satisfy some trigger within our code that was laid to waste long before we were recognizable as humans.

Nice Pop for a short week.

Man Made Objects Abandoned to Nature

Or, maybe returned to nature in a different state (but that's just the hippie in me).
http://www.artificialowl.net/2008/12/abandoned-shipyard-covered-with.html

This site becomes more interesting as you click around and see the arresting photographs coupled with the stories of decayed societal progress, abandoned coastal plains and never-to-be countries.
The collective creative output of so many brought back down to the barriers of vegetation.
Reminds me of Ikiru. Actually, from the human perspective, this IS Ikiru.

Holy Shit. Wing Suits.

Calm and wonderful.

a lot can happen in a month

Take this last thirty days, for example.
I've moved from fallon and minneapolis to pereira o'dell and san francisco.

Pretty sure y'all knew, but I just couldn't stand tom any longer.

This time it was personal.
Promise to post more in a bit, when the dust settles.

At least you now know your random clicks to this site, while intermittent, are not in vain.

All the best.

band name of the day

sacrificed for sleep

Wolf Pig

It starts off really cool. Then, at about 135, i was like....I get it. Done. Stop. Geez. Then, at 2:55, it takes on a turn that is very cool through the rest of the film.

What i'm saying is, for 80 or so seconds, wave high at someone, or send the link to this.
Trust.

I'm going here this weekend

http://www.mnstf.org/minicon44/
steampunk and panel discussions on the nature of superheroes, and Yuri's Night, and this guy (really)

today's band name:
Intelligent Balloons

from a poem by david baker

        Yet here’s
one more, curled
       like a tan seashell not a foot from my blade, just-

come-to-the-
world fawn, speckled,
       wet as a trout, which I didn’t see, hacking back

brush beneath my tulip
poplar—it’s not afraid,
       mews like a kitten, can’t walk—there are so many, too

many of us,
the world keeps saying,
       and the world keeps making—this makes no sense—
       more.

tis good: Miles Benjamin Anthony Robertson

Banana Snot Rocket

is my latest band name.

Disney Horror One Off

I was thinking about this movie, Disney's foray into the horror genre, and how it is so damn difficult for established companies to truly innovate outside of their traditional revenue stream without significant decrease in their net capital.
Sure, this gets to the same idea of a creative class and start ups as true generators of new ideas, but lately I've been thinking it might be something else that can be made culturally endemic.

Its my subjective theory of the moment that most companies gloam onto the idea that makes them successful, and by extension, their extensions of the brand follow the same thinking.

This does not mean that it has to be in the same vein, or even category as the original idea, but that it follows the same general pathway to ideation. People in the company think of the solution or creation in the same way as they did the original idea that made the company successful. This is usually reinforced as stemming from a strong brand identity-ex. the horror movie from Disney, while a failure, is a movie aimed at teens in which the protagonist is a teen who is smarter than the adults around her.

So, there are a few companies that have it easier, as they are built on the idea of ideas. That is to say, their corporate culture is one of innovation. Two compaines come quickly to mind as examples-3m has product development and Google has the internet. Even so, I imagine that they fixate on the creation of new ideas that share many of the same aspects as historic successes within the corporation. This, by and large, is probably a good thing. History is a great model for future success.

What I'm not aware of, and what may not exist, is a corporate structure that battles the cultural pathway to creation by applying principles to their brand model that ensure that these pathways can never be institutionalized. This is probably an overly complex sentence that says: freelancers- a company with a central hub of paper pushers and capital managers with a rotating axis of freelance professionals who solve each problem, and create each widget, as a one of a kind, once in a lifetime collaboration.

That model would certainly have many problems of its own, to be sure, starting with whether or not we can even truly call it a company, but at least it wouldn't get bogged down in the same predicable ways to come up with an unpredicatble solution.