My Music Video Holy Grail...

I love YouTube. I fell in love with it early, with the classics (All Your Base Are Belong To Us, Star Wars Kid, Numa Numa) But there has been one place where it has always let me down...that Holy Grail that just didn't seem to exist online. It was a barely remembered song with a kick-ass video that I remembered from my Sophomore year in college (my Mtv Year) Michael Penn's "Look What the Cat Drug In (Long Way Down)" I always thought the song was pretty good, but that VIDEO...

It's taken over 10 years, but tonight, for the first time, I found it on a random Google Video search. My holy grail. (Be warned, you will probably have to sit through a dumb commercial)



...crap. Not as cool as I remembered it. (Still pretty damn sweet, though!)

Any other holy grail videos out there? What can't you find?

Captain Kirk Goes to Camelot...

I don't think this needs any explanation...

King of Kong: a Fistful of Quarters

With the summer winding down, Hollywood is in that mode that always seems to come after all the summer blockbusters are over, and before they float their Oscar contenders...hum-drum blah movies are filling up the theaters with nothing to really look forward to.

Until now...King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters is a documentary on one man's quest to beat the Donkey Kong world record. It looks like it has everything. The loser striving to make good (Steve Weibe, father and schoolteacher who is the current Donkey Kong record holder), a villain, determined to hold onto his waning power (Billy Mitchell, the prior Donkey Kong record holder, and "Video Game Player of the Century"...seriously) and a head-to-head match-up complete with referees, fans and a cast of characters that look like they could be pulled directly from Napoleon Dynamite.

The whole thing almost looks like it could almost be a hoax. These people couldn't really exist, could they? The movie looks too entertaining. Too perfect. I can't wait to see it!

Finished Harry Potter

Don't worry. I'm not going to spoil a single thing. I would hate it if anyone dared to try that with me. I just want to say that, now that it is over, I am honestly going to miss each and every character from those books. The fact that I don't have another Harry Potter novel to look forward to is almost depressing. But I can't thank J.K. Rowling enough...It was everything I hoped it would be and nothing that I expected...as with each of the 7 novels.

What a great time. And now that the book no longer has a hold on me, maybe I can get to bed before 3am?

15 (Painfully) Unforgettable Cartoon Theme Songs

I shouldn't be posting. I really shouldn't. It's late, and I've got TONS to do this weekend.

Instead, I made the mistake of checking Drawn!, and found this gem...15 (Painfully) Unforgettable Cartoon Theme Songs.

It was obviously created by someone a bit younger than me, who has fond memories of cartoons like "Mighty Max" and "Pro Stars" (what the heck?) But after having listened to every entry on the list, I'm now humming the "Animaniacs" theme to myself, and desperately wanting to watch an episode of "Batman the Animated Series". (And where is my "Pinky and the Brain" entry!?..."They're Pinky and the Brain! Pinky and the Brain! One is a genius, the other insane. They're labrotory mice. Their genes have been spliced! They're Pinky, Pinky and the Brain, Brain, Brain, Brain, Braaaaaaaaain!" - Pure Genius!)

Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. - November 11, 1922 – April 11, 2007

As probably everyone knows by now, Kurt Vonnegut has died. It's horrible to think of our country continuing on without his moral voice constantly nagging in our ear. It was Kurt's book, "Slaughterhouse Five" that made me decide to become an English major when I attended Ball State. (Surely, anyone having read this blog before just gasped. "THIS guy was an ENGLISH major!?")

There is an interesting article on Vonnegut over on the Entertainment Weekly website of all places. John Irving, author of "The World According to Garp" and "Ciderhouse Rules" remembers his friend. I never realized how sad Vonnegut was, at least as remembered by Irving. It's heartbreaking but understandable that a man that could write a novel as funny and moving as Slaughterhouse also felt alone and troubled.

He will most definitely be missed.

Ray Harryhausen's Creature List

Wow. I never knew the name Ray Harryhausen, but I most certainly knew his films. I remember very distinctly renting 'Clash of the Titans', oh, 452,987 times between the ages of 7 and 13. Seriously. Ask my parents, they'll back me up there.

So when I ran across this amazing page of Ray Harryhausen monster creations, I was beside myself with glee! There's Bubo the owl! And that kickass cyclops from the 7th Voyage of Sinbad!

Visit this beautifully realized page of links and revel in the nostalgia. Be amazed by how many times you have been thrilled by this man and his creatures.

(then, when you are done with the walk down memory lane, check out these killer Animated 3D Multiple Lens Photographs...this chinesejetpilot site rocks!)

Troglodyte!

Rock. The fuck. On.



Jimmy Castor rocks the house with Bertha Butt and the Butt Sisters.

"Right on! Hot pants!"

Peanuts Meets Marvel!

Good Grief! I LOVE these!

PEANUTS MEETS MARVEL!

A small sampling of what you will see:







(It's sad that I can tell you where almost all these images come from, isn't it? I mean, not just the characters...the issue numbers. Yeah, I thought it was. *sigh*)

Bart's Famous Quotes...

So, I ran across this list about a week ago as I was clearing out the "spare bedroom". (Also known as the "Junk Room", to give you some idea of what it contains.)

Anyway, this list was compiled by my brother, Ryan, as he attended Ball State University. He had a roommate his freshman year, named Bart, that talked in his sleep. So, being the sensitive and kind-hearted person that Ryan is, he decided to start a list of the sayings so that he could pull it out at parties and laugh at him. Attached are the highlights of that list.

Bart's Famous Quotes:

• The sunflower goes to the left!
• Well I guess, DANG!
• It's fun. I drove a couple of times.
• Man, these guys can run...or this guy.
• I'm legit
• Come on man, I'm trying to hold my knee in as much as possible.
• You could shut the door!
• Why don't we just fucking leave!? It's just us, isn't it?
• Take this. Take this. Mom. Take this, mom. Mom. MOM!
• Oh shoot! I should have filled up these stupid star-jar thingy majigers.
• Whoops!
• What are we supposed to do? What questions are we to ask?
• You scum!
• Yeah, all right...all right...Wow!!! Uh-oh.
• I don't know, the last time I played jazz with Rocky Julioo was when the kid was in the seventh grade.
• It's too serious, too thick, too many.
• Cause, it was open Saturday, ya' fool!
  
• Are you having a hard time breathing?
• Did you catch it, Ryan?
• Easy dude, easy dude, easy dude, easy dude, there's no one coming.
• The essays that we need are two big boards to put each word on.
• Did my things come in dad? They did? Sweet!
• I screwed this one in on the wrong side.
• Wait a minute, wait a minute. We don't want to go this way. Why am I going this way? Ooops!
• Ohh, the Rodney King one. This one.
• Especially Allison.
• This goes inward, that goes outward.
• Knock a hundred dollars off there.
• What time is it? Ya know man? Huh? Brent? Hey, Brent?
• Is there glue that goes all the way around this building?
• Jerry scared us.
• Faith!
• It's longer than shit. It's not for me. It's for Dave, I think.
• Dude, he's got me right now, man. I'm serious.
• Mom, I don't know what the song is called.
• Fiberglass broke. Fiberglass broke...the hull. Weak-ass boat.
• Well, I just want to know what the hell it is.

Ah...memories...