I recently reached out to a fraternity brother on Facebook because I no longer had his cell phone number. Facebook pulled up our last correspondence – from 2007 – a message sent by me as Chapter President to him while he was pledging the chapter asking him to make sure and get an extra t-shirt made for a person we added late to the pledge class. Strange to see that almost four and a half years later.
It makes me think, how long of a digital trail are we unwittingly leaving? In some cases we are leaving one that will apparently last forever. Good to know, scary to think of the implications.
Angry Birds was, until today, the highest grossing app of all time for the iPhone. It has since been surpassed by something called Smurf Village. Apparently its reign at the top of the app store charts was enough to warrant an Israeli comedy show to do the following segment. I really have a hard time believing the average tv viewer had any idea what this is about. My only guess is that this is some how bringing up humor from on going Israeli-Palestinian conflict. I’m not sure why you would make a joke about that if your own country was going through it, but apparently they did.
If you have played the game you’ll find this funny, otherwise I’m not sure you’ll understand.
I absolutely love the artist Banksy. I’m not sure what his involvement with this is, or if he was involved at all, but this is great. Best Simpsons couch gag I’ve ever seen. Either way, he is aware of it, because this clip is posted on Banksy’s official YouTube account.
If you don’t know who Banksy is, check out his wikipedia page.
Update: Apparently Banksy did the storyboards for the intro. Very vague details here.
If you ever played the classic educational game Oregon Trail, then you’ll find this really funny. From the official description:
In 1864, a family embarks on an impossible journey into the untamed American West. Based on the classic educational computer game, The Oregon Trail by MECC.
The following contains heavy spoilers for Inception. If you haven’t seen it yet, you definitely need to see it at least once before reading this. Inception is one of the best films of 2010 and an incredibly original piece of work. Do not read any further unless you’ve seen the film.
Huge Spoilers beyond this point, you’ve been warned
For the past two weeks after several showings, a ton of reading and even more discussion, I’ve reached some conclusions about Inception. The purpose of this blog post is two fold. First, I want to explain Christopher Nolan’s intent behind the film. Second, I want to discuss the seemingly ambiguous ending of the film and explain how it isn’t actually open for interpretation as some people believe.
Prince recently claimed the Internet is dead. As the joke goes, the Internet responded by saying, “who?”
While reading about the details of that bizarre comment I came across some clips from Kevin Smith’s college tour. A student asks about Smith’s time with Prince. Smith responds for about thirty minutes with a story about how Prince is more than a little bit nuts. Enjoy.
This will probably be the last non-Japan related post for a while.
About a week ago I got to see a sneak peek of “Exit Through The Gift Shop.” It’s a documentary about the elusive street artist Banksy. To explain what the movie is about, or to even show the trailer would run the risk of ruining this incredible film. This is a movie I would recommend to anyone and everyone. I enjoyed it more than Kick-Ass, Iron Man 2, or anything else I’ve seen in 2010. Do yourself a favor and go check this one out. Here is a list of cities where it is currently playing.
I guarantee this will become a cult film, it made big waves and Sundance and will probably at least be in the conversation come awards season. The moment I get back from Japan I’ll be headed to a theater to see it again. It’s so great and so profound, definitely check it out.
Instead of writing out my thoughts on Lost and trying to explain what I think happened, I’ll defer to these two videos. Warning: serious spoilers for Lost if you haven’t seen it. I would recommend avoiding these if you think you’ll ever catch up with the series.
This one was the most accurate version of what I think happened on Lost, or at least the explanation that makes the most sense:
This one is a list of mysteries I wanted solved.
Combined, those two videos sum up my thoughts on Lost. What are your thoughts?
I should start a regular post series about signs of the apocalypse. Apparently the names used in the Twilight series are very popular baby names.
But Cullen — the name of the lead male character in the “Twilight” series — climbed the most among names for boys, jumping from 782nd to 485th place, likely due to the popularity of the character Edward Cullen, played by Robert Pattinson.
If you name your kid after a vampire wolfman, kids will definitely make fun of him.
