add “contact juggling” to the list of things that, if i could do them, i would pretty much never stop.

(via neatorama)

another thing on that list is singin’ and dancin’ like frankie lymon.

this is amazing, but also it scares me a little.

yep, it’s cross stitched ira glass. clicky.

just a little misstep from my internet journeys yesterday:

the designated mourner is a film i have rented and rewatched every six months or so for the last few years. i do this because it’s so compelling, complicated, and affecting that i’m never really finished watching it. i learn things every time. it’s a film adaptation of the play written by wallace shawn and has no visible action. it’s three people sitting at a table, each person speaking almost exclusively into the camera. some of the themes involve class, culture, responsibility, and fascism.

anyway, i need to own it so i looked it up on amazon and found this:

now, the film i’m familiar with is that first listing, featuring mike nichols, miranda richardson and david de keyser… they look like this (and these are all shots from the film):

but, amazon has done a little dream casting, or maybe it just fell and hit its head, but it thinks that there’s another version starring jenifer lewis, joe torry and chris spencer. take a look:

see why i was so confused? i did some research and i think the second mourner listing is supposed to be for something called redrum, which makes way more sense.

you know what, though? thinking about it further, i bet jenifer lewis could pull it off…

not my favorite of max raabe‘s covers, but still fun.

i like this cd a bunch.

obviously, gillyweed25 is privy to all the new shit. and since we’re doing lebowski, you should see this too… we got a little crazy but it’s so hard to stop.

paul has been using pandora at work these days. it played him a song that he came home and played for me. it’s called “i’m sorry for what my people did to your people” and it’s by larry gallagher and it’s awesome.

thematically, it reminds me a little of “love me, i’m a liberal” by phil ochs, and nelly mckay‘s “really“… not that the songs are the same, but they have something in common at least in the way they make me feel inspired and embarrassed and smart, all at the same time.

anyway, i love it. you might too. clicky.mp3.

also, here’s a video for larry’s “ode to the nokia ringtone.”

*update* — i bought two of his cds, (this one and this one) and having listened to them both i can now report:

smart, funny, grown-up, and musically interesting… my favorites.

larry gallagher = excellence

i’m not a gamer but i do like games. what i like more are smart people who get mad when they get stupid emails from unhappy people. there’s a smart guy named yahtzee croshaw who does an animated video game review show. this week yahtzee get riled by the folks who sent him email crying about his super smash bros. brawl review. (it’s a little sweary, maybe a little nsfw-ish, so you know.)

love it. clicky.

(thanks to paul who found it at daring fireball.)

once again, the startling realization that netflix paints a portrait of me that is both accurate and hard to look at.

i know that he gets a lot of crap for… well, i guess for being randy newman. while he has become a kind of caricature of himself over time, i submit this argument:

who hasn’t? have you taken a good hard look at your parents lately?

anyway, disney theme songs aside, i like randy. here’s a reason:

here’s another, just for fun. clicky.

my friend lisa has a way with words. this review she wrote for schindler’s list never stops making me laugh.