I really kinda like this

:D

The BBC 5 minute sesame street interview

This show is still awesome. And cookie monster is still awesome. And I’m 20 years old and in university and I think this.

‘How do you keep so fit? Because you eat cookies everyday’
‘Me exercise everyday. Me do ah, pilates, and uh, yoga’

‘I’m gonna tickle you now’
‘Oh elmo loves to be tickled’
-> SO MANY OVERTONES HERE

Da Who

These days one of my chief regrets is I will never see these guys live. (never have seen?)

Wait for the light show. YAAAAAAAAAAOOOOOOW *kicka-chikOW’

 

Scene in a country inn

A well-dressed country gent strolls into the inn. GENT A. Takes up position diametrically opposite similarly-attired country gent. GENT B. Both speak in highly affected accents.

GENT A: I say, I say, I say, what a delightful occurrence meeting one such as yourself, [gestures] in such a place as the immediate surroundings [gestures].

GENT B: Why, I must be in concord, good sir!

GENT A: I say, I say, I have a most frightfully good riddle. What, is the difference, between an inebriated ostrich and a baliff?

GENT B: I confess I am at a loss!

GENT A: Why, the answer is simple! One is a drunk bird and the otkj aetbkljabkajadkjv: l; a;THE YEAHYEAHYEAHS ARE COMING

OH YEAH!

That’s what fans of New York art-rock band the Yeah Yeah Yeahs are going to say when they hear the news that the trio will be performing their first Singapore gig.
The band – comprising drummer Brian Chase, guitarist Nick Zinner and that diabolical performer Karen O (above; real name Karen Lee Orzolek) – will perform at the Esplanade Concert Hall on Jan 12 next year. They will be here to promote their latest release, It’s Blitz.

The gig is a must-watch for Karen O’s stage antics. She was once taken to hospital after accidentally cavorting off the stage and injuring herself.

:O -> :D

nuuuu

this was tagged as ‘worst line in scriptwriting history’

youtube increases the sum of human knowledge

a busy night full of learning for me.

cred

So two weeks ago I sent a mail to college IT support to get my internet up and running (sent from common room for those of you finicky types who insist in pointing out the contradiction), but I accidentally send it from my greeneggsand@gmail address.

Today, I pop open my e-mail and I find:

…randomly whilst catching up with filing e-mails I just noticed your e-mail address. Brilliant! I do admire a man who appreciates quality literature J

‘Hope you’re settling in well. Apologies for the randomness, but you triggered my nostalgia reflex.

Regards,

Ian

I laughed so hard

try ‘deus ex machina’

I’ve known about this game for awhile. I’ve never seen it in action.

The linguaphile in me WANTS THIS GAME SO BAD

Seriously this is like a birthday wish. I’d want a Nintendo DS to play it on though :P

Inglourious Basterds

It was so awesome. Took me the few hours since watching it to wind down enough to write about it. It’s a 2-hour long WW2 Jewish Revenge Fantasy that is just soaking in Quentin Tarantino’s trademark love for B-grade blood-vengeance and oversized characters.

Caught it with Luke and Ken on the post Hari Raya holiday, along with what looks like a large number of nerdy Tarantino fans and general geeks. I’ve never heard so much sporadic giggling at technically un-funny lines that you need an appreciation for camp for to laugh at. Im quite used to hanging out with people who are the only ones bursting out into racuous laughter in a cinema so it kind of makes an awesome movie-going-experience change when everyone’s getting into the B-gradeness.

The casting is so good btw. Every. Single. Nazi. Officer. is the height of greasy cunning and cinematic cold-blooded Nazi-ness. You get some throwaway references to the ‘humanised German foot-soldiers’ in war movies but of course they all die horribly.

Apparently Simon Pegg was originally tapped to play Lt Hicox, a (I kid you not) British film-critic slash deep-ops commando. But he couldn’t commit for scheduling reasons. Why why why

Never mind, the guy who replaces him is so awesomely British we were laughing at everything.

Ken and Luke both point out having the lines in German and French make Tarantino’s sometimes pointless dialogue so much better

end squee. quite delighted.

geeking out

So it’s midnight and I’m geeking out.

Some genius at the Quarter to 3 forums had the brilliant idea to start an X-Com ongoing AAR (after-action report: it’s turn-based geek speak for writing up your games) EXCEPT he’d name all his X-Com Squaddies after forum members.

Brilliant.

Because in X-Com, where you command the worst-funded-ever anti-alien defence force, squaddies have the life expectancy of a Russian goon in a Rambo movie.

Also because X-Com is CLASSIC GEEK GAME. Everybody starts spouting Star Trek, Firefly, Battlestar sayings, quoting FMJ, going crazy when A REAPER SHOWS UP OMG SHOOT THE BASTERD

And in X-Com because squaddies start out with no armour and crappy little guns you have scenarios like a 12 man team storming a cramped, dark, scary alien base and coming out with (barely) 3 survivors, all alien-vs-predator style. Eventually your guys will go berserk if they lose enough morale and start shooting wildly. It’s like an Arnie movie

The game lasted about a year and pretty much took out half of the Quarter to 3 Forums in deaths

I’m really amused

Now I need to find my old thumbdrive with X-Com on it. Dammit.

i hope you’re not seasick

coz emily haines is rockin’

I’m pretty sure that little cocktail dress was not designed for such rigorous exercise

Also note how she just loses it at 4:00 plus and just goes into a kind of rock-girl fugue