i'm not dumping links so much as recycling them

[rone]

divisadero embedded a preview to possibly the greatest videogame-based movie of all time.

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Remember Liquid Television?  sanspoof linked to something that reminds me heavily of the best parts from that show.  As far as LTV goes, one short that always stuck with me was "The Running Man" (part 1/part 2); the haunting music in the final minute remained imperfectly in my memory, so that when i first heard Michael Hedges's "Spare Change", i thought it was the music they used in the cartoon (it isn't).  Although there isn't a performance of "Spare Change" on YouTube, there is a huge amount of Michael Hedges content there, and, well, thank god for YouTube, because now i've seen Michael Hedges play.  Unless you know tronpublic, you've probably never seen anyone play guitar the way Hedges plays "Silent Anticipations".

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Theo Jansen is a kinetic sculptor.  He does amazing stuff.

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Via warrenelliscom, a levitating, powered lightbulb.  Thank you, Nikola Tesla, wherever you are.

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"It took my 8-year-old son just a few seconds to shake loose some hidden history from within the official transcript of the [Coalition Provisional Authority]."  Thank you, Microsoft Word.

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"Just think about your options.  You know Coach isn't going to give you back your scholarship just like that.  If she finds out [that you're pregnant] and if you decide to keep it, that's gone."

Comments

[racerxmachina.livejournal.com]

Hashiru Otoko was first in a compilation movie called "The Labyrinth Tales/ Meikyuu Monogatari". (Its release in the US is called NeoTokyo.) I can't find the name of the composer for that particular short film-- the other two films have credited music.
I THINK have an old copy of the original Japanese movie-- I've been meaning to get a VHS player for a bit, being a research nerd for you might be the impetus I need.

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

Wikipedia knows all. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neo_Tokyo_%28film%29)

[racerxmachina.livejournal.com]

Wikipedia knows SOME. I'm hesitant to claim that Yoshino did the music for the whole set of movies because they were created by three different directors. I only know for SURE that Yoshino did the music for The Order to Stop Construction. The first story, Labyrinth/Labyrintos, is set to Gymnopedie, by Satie. Yoshino may have played the piano piece but he sure didn't compose it. Hence my saying that I'd watch it and find out.