This week: Survival
The Verve – Bittersweet Symphony
I used to walk around Provo feeling like this. Now I wake up most days with this state of mind.
Arctic Monkeys – A View From the Afternoon
As the day goes on, I feel more and more like this.
Xploding Plastix – Joy Comes in the Morning
My days usually end up like this.
There comes a point in every man’s life when he realizes it’s finally time to grow up. There comes a time when he realizes it’s time to stop running, stop hiding, and stop avoiding careers, responsibilities, and commitments. There comes a time in every man’s life when he realizes it’s time to buy a life-size, anatomically correct … doll.
Lars (Ryan Gosling) is a man who likes to be left alone. He’s friendly and people like him, but he just wants to be left alone. His sister-in-law won’t have it, she makes it her personal mission to crack him open and integrate him into modern society. Lars does what any man would do in such a situation, he turns to the internet.
Lars and the Real Girl is a film about family. Essentially, this film is one giant Bar Mitzvah, as an entire town comes together to help Lars as he transitions to adulthood. It’s clever, well-acted, and has a heart. As far as I’m concerned, Juno robbed Lars of it’s best screenplay Oscar, and I loved Juno. In it’s own dark, twisted way, Lars and the Real Girl is about a village that comes together to raise a child; a child coming of age; a child who discovers that as scary as real life is, it is a lot more fun than any childhood fantasy.
– 1,247 arbitrary stars
We just got our first batch of pictures back from our wedding, and they look great! The above picture is my favorite so far, but Meg-head put a few more choice pics on her blog. We’ll put the full set on LukeandMegan.com in the next couple of weeks and add to them as we get more, so keep checking back, hits on our website make us feel like we’re popular. A big shout out to our amazing photographer, Jessica, she’s got a great eye!
This week: Crazy-cool animation
Royksopp – Remind Me
I still can’t help being reminded of that Geico commercial everytime I hear this song, but the video is too cool to pass up. Airplane emergency guides are always good sources of entertainment.
Jason Forrest – War Photographer
There are few things cooler than vikings, especially when animated Samurai Jack style … and counter-attacking with a marching band? Brilliant!
Fujiya & Miyagi – Ankle Injuries
Michel Gondry may or may not have inspired this video, but using nothing but dice to animate a video is still crazy-cool.
I recently reinstalled StumbleUpon and was immediately re-addicted. I just can’t stop pushing that stumble button. It’s supposed to be a social platform, but I use it strictly for the purpose of getting random websites thrown at me as fast as I can hit the button. It’s like my own little internet channel-changer.
I decided to start posting some of my Stumble finds. Here you go:
Pancakes for your face – I have no idea what’s going on in this video, but I love it. Turns out these guys have a whole series of stop-motion videos on their YouTube page. There are some good ones and bad ones, but they are all very strange. I need to find some more Vegas friends to make stupid videos with.
My Boring Ass Life – The uncomfortably candid diary of Kevin Smith. It’s as crude as Kevin Smith is in real life (he’s currently working on a movie called Zack and Miri Make a Porno), so be warned, but this is as good a celebrity blog as there is. He leaves very little out. It’s a great peek into life in Hollywood. I can only dream of writing emails as cool as Kevin Smith’s and Seth Rogen’s.
High Tech Cowboys of the Deep Seas: The Race to Save the Cougar Ace – This actually wasn’t a stumble find, but it’s one of the most amazing stories I’ve ever read. Basically, a bunch of crazy jacks-of-all-sea-trades fly out to huge, busted, sinking ships and attempt to make them float again using only pumps, a laptop, and whatever is already on the ship. If they succeed, they get a percentage of the price of the cargo. If they don’t, they get nothing and the ship sinks. I would love to follow these guys around with a video camera, but I don’t think my wife would like that too much.