Manasto Jones

I’m at work, so I can’t here this right now because we don’t have computer speakers, but it looks absolutely ridiculous and I can’t wait to find out what she is saying. (via CBS)

The fact that a Pixar movie won Best Animated Feature again (and just now won Best Score) just proves how pointless the Oscars are. What a fucking joke!

The recently restored, badly damaged, almost forgotten, 1903 version of Alice in Wonderland is streaming for free over at the auteurs. It’s…. interesting.

boomboxexplosion:

Breakbot Live at SUPERRAUW Melkweg Amsterdam

If this is the future of DJ’ing… i’m in.

Oh, uploadify,
Please work with CodeIgniter.
You ruined my night.

…but I just bought a Dedicated Virtual from Media Temple and was wondering if that was a good idea.

I already had a Grid Server, so I just bought the (dv) for specific domain so I didn’t have to worry with different hosting accounts.

Any thoughts?

Update: Looks like I’m in over my head….

Generic News Report

“And here’s a lighthouse keeper being beheaded by a laser beam.”

(via lukees)

I think I’d rather listen to Fran Drescher read Jose Conseco’s autobiography.

mabelmoments

Re: 4 months paid vacation this year. You need to move to Australia. We all get 4 weeks annual leave a year. PLUS if you stay with the same employer for a period of time (at mine it’s 7 years) you are required to be given long service leave of 13 weeks (in addition to your annual leave). This is 6 weeks to sail back to England, a week with the rellies (relatives), and 6 weeks sailing back. A historical work condition which fortunately has never caught up with that modern wonder, air travel. Hence my 4 months this year (LSL + AL) to squander as I wish.

Oh, mabel…. that’s nothing. I’ve been working at the same company for two years now and I have had a total of 1 ½ days off. Do the math. That’s one day of not having to show up to work at all, and half-a-day showing up and pretending to work until I could leave at lunchtime.

Australia sounds like it’s run by that dude who trained Uma Thurman in Kill Bill.

Love Hits The Fan by Phonat

Watch it in 760p!

(via PeteMoore & tuftsmania)

It looks soooooo good in Safari, Chrome and Firefox the Theme Garden just exploded. Even Mobile Safari is getting in on it (i.e. check it out on your iPhone, too, if you can).

You’ll be able to purchase it on the cheap pretty soon.

ck/ck (via guy)

My first CD was House of Pain, but there were many cassettes before this purchase.

The first CD I ever bought with my own money was Shaq-Fu: Da Return by Shaquille O’Neal. I was fucking 9 years old, bitches!

El Nino mas Bonito by MINI DADDY (Adrianisto)

(via tuftsmania)

65 and Ohh!

That’s the hand of University of Memphis player Pierre Henderson-Niles slapping the face of “Larry the Cable Guy” (aka some racist UAB fan) after the Tigers stormed back from 6 down at UAB to keep their conference win streak, and undefeated season, alive. It was one of the greatest games in the history of NCAA Basketball. I like to think of it as a metaphor for what the Tiger’s want to do to your favorite team:

1. Build up hope
2. Take it all away
3. Slap you in the face

Look, I know as much as anyone that tumblr isn’t much of a venue for sports content unless you can some how relate it to a meme, but did you know that the University of Memphis has chance tonight to break a record that has stood for over 60 years.

They haven’t lost a conference game since March 2, 2006. That was 1,420 days ago. Now, they are 64-0 in conference play and currently tied with the 1945-50 Kentucky Wildcats for longest conference win streak. With a win tonight, well… let’s just say they would set a record that will probably stand for 100 years.

As soon as I finish making the web site that’s going to sell it. It’s going to be cheap, but I don’t know when that will be. Ask me another question and leave me your email, maybe I’ll let you test it for me in a little while.

You can also sign up to be notified via email here. I promise you’ll only get two emails from us.

I have a pretty good feeling this is the best #cocoshop there has ever been.

I finally came up with a list of songs I posted in 2009 that are worth mentioning again. It’s not a “best of” or anything, just a fantasy list of things I think you might care about hearing again, or might want another shot at hearing for the first time.

★ Beaches and Friends (Hey Champ remix) by French Horn Rebellion

I hate winter, so any song that tricks you into thinking you’re having the best day of summer anyone has ever had is good in my book.

★ You’ve Got the Love (the xx remix) by Florence + the Machine

This is the song that’s going to be playing in my head before I say “I fucking love you! Let’s get the fuck out of here.”

★ Back Home and Chromes On It by Gold Panda

I posted, then deleted, a drunken rant on how awesome Back Home was. I’ll simplify it here: I love this song and you have to love it, too! Chromes On It is really a Telepathe song remixed by Gold Panda, but the result is really unique. Gold Panda was a pleasant surprise for me in an otherwise miserable year.

★ Camel (Nosaj Thing remix) by Flying Lotus

This is the kind of song you wish was playing underwater in a swimming pool after an all night party at a house that was once photographed by Julius Shulman (preferably one like this).

★ Imax by Culture Shock

I couldn’t possibly leave drum and bass of this list because I know you don’t listen to it, and you should. I could fall asleep to this song just as easily as I could dance to it until I walk out of the club with six pack abs.

★ GNG BNG by Flying Lotus

The bass in this song threatened me if I didn’t include it. Weighing in at well over a ton, this song is by far the heaviest on the list. My first description of this track says it the best, so I’ll repeat it here: Uh!

PS: One thing you might notice is that there is absolutely no hip hop on this list, but there’s a reason for that. The stuff I post is usually older, so, if you give a shit about hip hop, you’ve probably heard it before anyway. I don’t have to remind you that De La Soul exists, do I?  If you’re really interested in some stuff you might not have heard, try the People Under the Stairs. They’re great!

Also… one post I wanted to link to was Always Gonna Be Like That by Prefuse 73. It’s not really a normal song, per say, but it’s one of my favorite little snippets of audio, so I’m linking to it down here just to link to it down here.

I fucking love movies!

American Apologies: #22: Hippies

I’ve been saying it for years. Hippies suck!

Merry Xmas!

For those of you using Shaun Inman’s Lessn, a personal url shortener, and Tweetie 2.0 on your iPhone, I’ve come up with a bookmarklet and some code that let’s you shorten a url with your Lessn installation, then have Tweetie open up a new status update containing the newly shortened url.

If you’re interested, the first thing you have to do is add some php code to your existing Lessn installation. In the index.php file in your /lessn/-/ directory just below the if(isset($_GET['tweet']){..} statement, your going to want to add the following code snippet:

if (isset($_GET['tweetie']))
{
	$_GET['redirect'] = 'tweetie://post?message=%l';
}

This code must come before the if(isset($_GET['redirect'])){..} line so the application can properly call Tweetie on your iPhone.

The next step is set up the bookmarklet for your iPhone:

javascript:location.href='http://[domain.com]/[lessn]/-/?tweetie&url='+encodeURIComponent(location.href);

Obviously, you will want to replace [domain.com] and [lessn] with your own domain name and the name of the directory containing your Lessn installation. For example, mine looks like this:

javascript:location.href='http://manasto.info/u/-/?tweetie&url='+encodeURIComponent(location.href);

From now on, when you invoke the bookmarklet, Tweetie will open up a new status update containing the newly shortened URL.

Note: There is another way to do this, which I believe includes installing Tweetie’s own bookmarklet and setting up the app to use a custom url shortening end-point. That would be a different approach, but with the exact same end results.

The auteurs and Stella Artois are having a French New Wave Film Festival starting December 15th and running for 7 days. These movies are 7 of the greatest ever made in any film movement, including my all-time favorite, The 400 Blows (the pinball scene in Vivre Sa Vie is one of my favorites, too).

BTW, it’s online, but only available to people in the UK. So, again, fuck you London.

Note: Truffaut and Godard are responsible for 4 out of the 7 becuase they’re bad asses.

Nine is new movie. I was just blown away by the preview. Not because it looks awesome, but because It’s a direct fucking rip-off of Fellini’s 8 ½.

You’re telling me you’re turning one of the best movies of all time into a fucking musical? That’s like saying let’s do a The Third Man musical with the cast of The Birdcage.

Rob Marshal can suck my dick! You look like Sylvester Stalone fucked David Lynch you piece of shit.

The world’s most important 6-sec drum loop

The Amen Break (from Amen Brother) has been used in everything from “late eighties gangster rap, to corporate America’s recycling hip-hop forms to sell things like Jeeps and blue jeans to suburban America”.

The Juan Maclean by Sebastian Mlynarski

My flavors.me. The best looking flavors.me account there is.

matthewb:

The car ambush scene from Alfonso Cuarón’s dystopian 2006 film Children Of Men was recently picked by Michael Harvkey as one of the ten best long tracking shots ever filmed (violence, language and spoiler warning).

This scene aside, I read this top ten list and have to say that including the Goodfellas shot over any of a number of amazing tracking shots in Boogie Nights is a mistake. I don’t usually nitpick, but that really pissed me off.