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Lost in relation

audubon — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 12:21:15 +0000

The new (posthumous) Shel Silverstein book is as amazing as you’d hoped

audubon — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 16:51:18 +0000

The new (posthumous)Shel Silverstein book is as amazing as you’d hoped, originally uploaded by pazonada.

I love children’s holiday concerts

audubon — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 21:00:40 +0000

Am going to this. Am so excited. You should go too, if you’re in New York. Because nothing says Christmas more than youth jazz trios and toddlers dancing to selections from the Nutcracker in Harlem.

Take a look, it’s in a book, a Reading Rainbow

audubon — Sun, 13 Nov 2011 01:02:15 +0000

I’m not a big Jimmy Fallon fan, but MAN this is funny. Thanks, @klaus_kinski.

In case your heart hadn’t already smashed in pieces

audubon — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 23:57:47 +0000

I bring you these gems:

1. Best goodbye movie scene ever, but only understood in its proper context. Beware the sudden and gratuitous violence.

2. A new take on an old (and related) meme:

This can be said to be a bottle of tea

audubon — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 17:16:05 +0000

Today’s video comes to you from my friend O. in the Netherlands.

We need to break format, break formula

audubon — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 04:48:06 +0000

Am I bothering your focus by rocking back and forth?

It’s been a little while since I’ve posted anything Marlon Brando-related. Please accept my apologies. To compensate, I bring you this gem from the early 70s — a rare, normal-ish interview where he’s actually discussing the industry. Most people think of Brando in this era a la Godfather and Last Tango, but he was also fresh off the world’s strangest film ever, The Nightcomers, and spending more and more time on his Tahitian island broadcasting anonymously over his ham radio as “Martin Bumby”, debating philosophical issues with random fishermen and amateur DJs.

How many fun facts do I know about Marlon Brando? TONS!
How many books do I own about him? TONS!
You are welcome!

Obey, consume, this is your god

audubon — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 19:26:19 +0000

From John Carpenter’s “They Live”, 1988.
I feel this way most of the time.

Um, Oakland is burning

audubon — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 15:47:17 +0000

I know I haven’t been talking much about the Occupy Movement, because I’ve been buried under other work and a bit under the weather and just generally not so much involved. But I support it. And I share everyone’s concern about what just happened in Oakland. Whose brilliant idea was it to tear gas protesters in a city with a long history of riots, racial oppression AND police brutality? Does anyone remember Oscar Grant?

I lived in the East Bay for a summer, and have many friends in Oakland presently. I know there’s a lot of mobile videos floating out there right now, but I thought I’d post just one of them to illustrate how alarmingly police state-ish we seem to be becoming. If I was Mister Obama, I would address this. Say what you will about mob culture, mob thought, mass unorganized action, hazy goals, hazy ethics, fearful authorities, etc. We still live in a country where freedom of assembly is a right, and violence against citizens can and should be avoided. Obviously many people are upset about many things right now. And this movement in particular is way bigger than the global anti-war protests of February 2003. Someone should be paying attention.

You are not a unique and beautiful snowflake. You are a consumer. Go back to sleep.

audubon — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 18:11:53 +0000

Thinking is boring!

(This isn’t the clip I wanted to show, but a longer and differently edited version. Still, it makes a point. In one scene one of the guys is wearing an MIT t-shirt. I actually feel like I’ve seen him around campus, but that might just be my overly active imagination. Anyway, skip to 2:15 for its actual start.)