Defined: Brain Sparklers

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Nerd Extrovert

An obsession with magic requires a particular personality type: the nerd extrovert. “When you go to a magic conference, and you spend time with 500 magician people, you start to realize … trends,” he says with an arched eyebrow. “It’s the coolest hobby in the world, but people tend to get into magic because no one would talk to them.”

Excerpt from an article on Neil Patrick Harris.

Seems like a fascinating sub-genre (selfishly), that I'd like to explore. I'd also argue that most of you are nerd extroverts....

http://nymag.com/arts/tv/profiles/59002/

The first rule...

To your health

Droppin Knowledge

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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.