"The meters are over in the red"

I stumbled across this on youtube, and its a total blast from the past. Not the best Kate Bush song, but IMO her best video.

Definitely look for a very very young 'Dr. House' (its circa 1986) as one of the scientists.

More music I love from car ads...

Phoenix 1901

Quote of the Day

The Criterion Contraption is flat out one of the best film blogs out there. Period. The shame of it is that he posts once a month. Maybe. Often much less. Which is a ridiculous pity really, because when he does post he gives us gems like this;

"If you've gotta make a movie, though, there's one other option: work in a genre that studio executives don't pay too much attention to. Take that genre's conventions and turn them up to eleven, so no one can accuse you of not making the movie you're getting paid to make. Put so much bombast into your filmmaking that inattentive viewers won't pay attention to the underlying message, but clever viewers will hear what you want to say. Then you just wait fifteen years or so for Andrew Sarris to let everyone in on the joke.

It's an interesting strategy, and it's one several filmmakers have adopted over the years. The current world-record holder for subversive, poison-pill filmmaking is Paul Verhoeven, for Robocop and especially Starship Troopers, in which Verhoeven spent $100 million of Sony's money to more or less explicitly accuse Americans of being latent Nazis waging endless war against vaginas."

Another Debate

Quote of the Day

Q: If you're elected, will you quit porn?

A: Probably, but only because of HD...and gravity.

Porn star 'Stormy Daniels' in response to questions about her bid to unseat Louisiana Senator David Vitter.

Happy 75th Birthday Carl

Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
– Carl Sagan, 1934 – 1996

Quote of the Day

"I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize"

- Steven Wright

Thinking Big - Infinitely Big

Severed Heads Live on Australian TV in 1986

Wow - I bet Tom Ellard wishes that haircut never happened.

Pilots Hate You - new video!

Obama's Nobel Peace Prize

“Conservatives say the award represents everything they stand against: black people, foreigners, and peace.” – Bill Maher

"St. Francis’s sermons to the animals must have really stuck, because our furry and feathered friends have at least one of those allegedly unique Christian virtues, according to Frans de Waal. His book, The Age of Empathy, describes “Bengal tigers that nurse piglets, bonopo apes that help wounded birds to fly, seals that rescue drowning dogs, [and] a rhesus monkey [that] will forego the opportunity for food if pulling the chain that delivers it will electrically shock a companion,” writes Andrew Stark in the Wall Street Journal. Humans’ far more complex moral sense is rooted in our self-awareness and the awareness of our place in a social order, but the evolution of that moral sense long predated Christianity."

- Heather Mac Donald at Secular Right