Fuck This Year. Fuck This Decade.

Happy New Year, Bastards!

Why The World Hates The US

This captures it pretty well.

Week Three Weigh In

190.4, a one week loss of 1.6 pounds.

Total weight lost so far, 5 pounds.

My first weigh in was a baseline and not really the first week, so I've adjusted weeks accordingly. I don't feel like I've really sacrificed by reducing my intake of the bad stuff. If anything, it makes me appreciate it more when I do partake.

Someone Still Loves You Steven Tyler

This is SSLYBY's official video for "Back In The Saddle."

Fascinating

Here's a 1986 BBC documentary examining the discovery of LSD and its similarity to mescaline. For some inexplicable reason, it plays twice. It's really only 39 minutes long, but if you can only watch part of it, skip to around the 20 minute mark. In 1955, under the guidance of his friend Dr. Humphrey Osmond, British politician Christopher Mayhew ingested 400 mg of mescaline hydrochloride. The entire experience was filmed for a television series called Panorama but never aired. Mayhew's description of how he experienced the passage of time is pretty fucking cool.

Auditorium

American Princes - Auditorium  The song I can't get out of my head.  Nappy You Hear everyone. 

How Do I Look?

Happy New Year!

Telly Savalas Looks At Aberdeen

Don't ask me why, but I love shit like this.

Telly also looked at Portsmouth and Birmingham. (The Birmingham film is blocked by the BBC in this country.)

It's Great!

Caught True Grit over the weekend. It has Oscar written all over it.

Spirit of the Season

Merry Christmas, Bastards

NSFA. Honestly, don't watch this.

Week Two Weigh In

192.0, a one week loss of 2.2 pounds.

Total weight lost so far, 3.4 pounds.

Merry Christmas.

Tron

I thought it was pretty good. Some questionable acting, but the visuals and action sequences were amazing. My kids liked it too, so there you go.

A Holiday Message From Ricky Gervais

Why don’t you believe in God? I get that question all the time. I always try to give a sensitive, reasoned answer. This is usually awkward, time consuming and pointless. People who believe in God don’t need proof of his existence, and they certainly don’t want evidence to the contrary. They are happy with their belief. They even say things like “it’s true to me” and “it’s faith.” I still give my logical answer because I feel that not being honest would be patronizing and impolite. It is ironic therefore that “I don’t believe in God because there is absolutely no scientific evidence for his existence and from what I’ve heard the very definition is a logical impossibility in this known universe,” comes across as both patronizing and impolite.

Read the rest of The Wall Street Journal article here.

Happy Christmas, Bastards

The sometimes annual Xmas mix is up. Faster Than Prancer, easily.

Happy Winter Solstice

Celebrate the shortest day of the year with the above performance by a short rock god (keep eyes peeled about 3:30 in). Bonus for hipsters who can name the members of this curiously excellent all-star lineup.

(Northern Hemisphere Bastards Only)

Shit

Don Van Vliet (aka Captain Beefheart)

Week One Weigh In

194.2, a one week loss of 1.2 pounds.  I'll take it.

I'm not expecting you guys to weigh in this week, I just needed to see results.  And document them.

Talented People Still Suck

Modern Times “is a low/no budget film created entirely against a green screen with friends as actors."


MODERN TIMES from BC2010 on Vimeo.


Behind the Scenes from BC2010 on Vimeo.

I would just like to point out that that's a Boards of Canada song playing during the second video clip.  Haters can suck it.