All Nighter

It’s 4:11 AM, do you know where your children are?

Well, I don’t have children, so I don’t care. All I know is that I’m in Rm. B43 at Mitchell Hall, and I’m pullin’ another all-nighter.

All is quiet. All is calm. I’m listening to Spoon. They rock.

Ok, back to work, my video is done being captured, finally.

Death Metal High Jinks!

I came upon this video in the usual web surfing way, huddled around a computer monitor with another friend, as we wasted some of our precious lives away. As she is a fan of all sorts of music, she knew of a video I would probably never have found on my own. A mash-up spoof of the Norwegian black-metal band Immortal.

You can click below to see the original video to compare, in-case you have no idea what a death metal music video usually looks like.

Here also is a quick anecdote she told me about the making of this video. The band shot this on a mountain somewhere in Europe, and if you notice they aren’t wearing very warm clothes. Well, as you could imagine that was not a good idea. The making of the video almost cost them all their lives, since when the shoot finally finished they were suffering from hypothermia. I think they need new agents.

Also I found out some interesting trivia about the band and an unexpected popular computer activity that has developed. Because of the way they pose in their photos, they have become something of photo-shop fodder for many. You know you’ve made it when South Park spoofs you also. So, it just goes to show you the layers of intertextuality of pop culture, and Immortal is not immune to it at all — neither is Benny Hill for that matter!

Now Stop Me If You’ve Heard This One

Ok, with watching The Cube in class on Friday and finally getting to see MirrorMask tonight (uber awesome btw!) my mind was burning to search a few Sesame Street gems that I love. Now this first one no one else I mention it to seems to remember it. It’s a little cartoon from the early 80’s with the catchiest of songs ever… hey, I mean I remembered it for about 20 years now so it sticks with you. It’s funny though, if you think about what cartoon people do remember the most from this time in Sesame Street history was the Pinball one (“1,2,3,4,5-6,7,8,9,10…11,12!”). That one was all flashy and slick. This one’s a bit more mellow in comparison.

This next one I think some of you may remember, but it rocks anyway so I’m putting it on here.

I went searching high and low but no one seems to have the cartoon of the little girl on the way to the store. Does anyone recall that one? It’s the one where she has to remember what her mama told her to get: “a gallon of milk, a loaf of bread, and a stick of butter”. Apparantly it was on YouTube but it was removed, no one else seems to have it. Hopefully, it’ll pop up again one of these days. Now I don’t know what category these may fit into (ephemeral maybe?) but I just wanted to post them to show you all.

To Understand A Little Better…

Well, I didn’t get around to updating this post as soon as I wanted, however, I’m doing so now! ANYWHO….

My basic style for writing can flucuate from laidback and informal to somewhere near professional sounding. It just depends and what I’m writing about and who I’m writing for. But being that this is a Blog, the opportunity to include other things to help elaborate myself is highly available.

The technology of the internet affords me to include “easter eggs”, or the little links I embed into my posts to give out further info to you folks that may read this little diatribe. I like to elaborate in this way because it seems avoid bogging down the rest of the writing with over doing it. Easter eggs are nice because you can look at them on your own schedule. Even though they may be relevant to what my topic is on any particular post, they don’t necessarily need to be written about.

I guess that’s all I wanted to let you know about, so when you read my blog, just know that when a word or phrase is set-up as a link, it means I took the time to do so for your benefit.  Sometimes I even like to include a picture or two to give the page a little color, something to brighten up the place, ya know?  And if you have the time you should follow the rabbit down the bunny hole, you might just find something interesting.

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More to come for this post, but I wanted it first up. Here I will describe my style (which may or may not deviate from this initial idea) so any readers of this blog will understand the workings of my brain as I dissect and analyze the various subjects laid before us in Digital Distribution.

I am still constructing the verbage to relay this message, but it will come to me very soon. I already have an idea I want to work from dealing with the pagan symbols of fertility. To find out what I mean by this in relation to my blog writing style, check back again for the update! Hopefully, this statement will be intruiging for some.