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“Wooden Heart” Listener
I just watched 12 episodes of House (season 1) in a row. So now I’m pretty sure that there’s something medically wrong with me.
Also, this thought just randomly popped into my head: “What if I go to sleep, and never wake up?”
What if I died in my sleep. There is literally a million ways that something like that could happen, and I wouldn’t even know if it did. The sad truth is - no one would even miss me. I’m just a skin-bag of meat with hair.
I’m only 27 years old. I shouldn’t be thinking like this…
NY INK Update: 1 step forward, 2 steps back
Again, the “reality tv” trappings have thrown this episode to the ground and just curb-stomped it.
“Perfect” John Cale
This song was in the episode of ‘How To Make It In America’ that I re-watched last night (when Cam gets his river view apartment in the projects) and now it’s stuck in my head…
It’s now 06:55am…
I listened to some internet radio on my iPod, I washed the dishes, I cleaned the shower floor, I de-clogged the shower drain, I cleaned the toilet, I watched an episode of ‘How To Make It In America’ season 2 on my iPod, I read 3 whole chapters of ‘Catch 22’, I explained in an email to Jellaby why they call it “The Mexican Wave” over here - and I’m still awake…
I don’t get it. I fell asleep for like 5 minutes while watching a YouTube video, so when I woke up, I quickly turned off everything so that I could *finally* go to bed at a reasonable time (1am)
That was over 2 and a half hours ago. And I’m STILL awake. Something’s wrong…
INK MASTER Update: Shit just got real(ity tv-ish really quick)
I commented about watching the first episode of Spike TV’s new Ink Master reality show. And today I watched the second.
What immediately brought me into possibly getting into this series were the “skill challenges” thrown at the contestants, and in this episode they had to do pinwork on a car. Each contestant randomly pulled from a bag a set of keys corresponding to each car, and their goal was to draw something on the bodywork to bring out the shape and flow, etc. I was really looking forward to this, but it all went by and downhill pretty fast.
The first thing that went wrong was the intro to the show itself. Dave Navarro says something to the effect of: “10 of the world’s best tattoo artists compete to win the title of Ink Master…” These people are not the best tattoo artists in the world. If they were, they wouldn’t be trying to win $100,000 and a made-up tv title. These people are the only ones the producers could find.
The next problem, again, were the contestants. There’s nothing I hate more than people who chose to do this type of thing - only to constantly complain about being there and having to do anything. That’s why I never watch Big Brother, or any similar kind of “reality show”. Contestant Heather Sinn kept wiping off the paint and re-doing…. something, and they only had 90 minutes to finish their car. When the judges critiqued her for not doing anything, she attacked them back feeling like she had to “defend herself”, when in fact she didn’t even do much of anything (attempt/art-wise) Then because she felt “attacked” she broke down and cried for a lil bit afterwards.
The “elimination challenge” which governs which contestant gets thrown off at the end of each episode involves actual people brought in to get actual tattoos. They are truly the unsung heroes of this entire show. Last week, the people brought in all wanted a cover-up tattoo, and one woman couldn’t take the pain and just bailed. This left the judges in the awkward position of possibly putting through a contestant with un-finished work, and they did, which in turn started this whole “moral rivalry” scenario between all the remaining contestants.
This week, a brand new group of random people were brought in for the contestants with the theme of tribal tattoos. Contestant Bili Vegas, having won the car challenge earlier, was able to hand-pick his client from the group, and chose someone who wanted a complete head tattoo. It was a risky move, because it is a big piece on a tricky area and they only have 5 hours to finish it. Couple hours in - the client started to almost pass out, and an EMT was brought in to check his vitals. His blood pressure was getting too low, so they pulled him, leaving Bili (and the judges again) with an unfinished tattoo.
The promo for the next episode looks like its all kicking off between the contestants. Typical “reality tv show” drama…
Just watched this… (thanks to a recommendation from Jellaby)
And its good.
Its like a Wes Anderson movie without it being unexplainably quote/unquote: “quirky”
The ending is a little “Did that? Is it? It isn’t. It Is. He isn’t? Oh, okay….” but other than that, good all around.
This is Tokyoflash’s newest watch, the Kisai Optical Illusion.
You tell the time by training your eyes to pick out the lines going in the opposite direction than all of the other lines.
When my brain started to actually do it for a second, I let out a very loud “WHOA” and felt like I was becoming Neo.
Oh, and its $179…
WTF. WHO WOULD SPEND MONEY ON SOMETHING THAT ALMOST, SORTA WORKS SOMETIMES AND POSSIBLY ONLY AFTER YOU RE-TRAIN YOUR BRAIN !?
(via Geekologie)
Just watched this…
And it’s pretty great!
In most movies when someone comes into a family to “mix things up”, the plot completely focuses on the outsider character and how he’s just trying to do the right thing and show them the error of their ways, etc. But in this movie - Hesher just comes in to the point where you kinda feel bad sometimes.
Things get dark in this movie, but its not like it’s all Hesher’s fault. The kid was on this path way before Hesher even appears. Things eventually come around towards the ending, so at least the story isn’t a total downer and just makes you feel depressed after watching it.
And Hesher’s speech at the end = HYSTERICAL. His speeches / metaphors are worth watching this movie by themselves!
My parents got an iPhone. My dad has to learn how to punctuate, and I have to build a submarine, apparently. (Taken with instagram)
