Monday, December 31, 2007

it's dark here in the future

In India we reached the year 2008 a few hours back, and I thought I'd take some time here to let those of you lagging behind in on what to expect from the future.

robot car wash revolts.

jet packs AND flying cars.

ill-tempered mutants with prehensile spit.

snortable Tang.

carbonated grapes.

orange flavored watermelons AND watermelon flavored oranges.

talking dogs with monkey brains.

sharp poisonous radioactive fire.

undersea cities.

no money.

nuclear powered segways.

and it's dark. I haven't seen the sun all year.

update: I've seen the sun now.

Wednesday, December 26, 2007

vintage Disneyland home movies [part 1]

I love youtube, especially for all of the user-generated and uploaded content.

Here are some clips of Disneyland when it was apretty unique place and there weren't 37 of the parks scattered across the globe.



if you look carefully you can see a guy scaling the Matterhorn.



The Osmond Bros. [whenever someone asks me for a good band name I ususally suggest "The New Osmonds", especially if it's for a metal band.]


This ABC documentary isn't a home movie, but I thought it would be interesting to put up here because it shows Disneyland being built.



This last one also isn't a home movie, but it's cool because it shows the Shaw of Iran riding the Matterhorn with Walt.

Space Mountain with the lights on

that last video got me searching for some cool Disneyland clips. I really like the surreal ride-through-scaffolding aspect of this video.

wtf?! [part 3]

wet empty tea cups ride

Tuesday, December 25, 2007

wtf?! [part 2]

Catholic mom upsert that her son is an atheist. She reminds me of a high school friend's dad -- but she's not as scary.


wtf?! [part 1]

The first in a series of youtube wtf clips.





these guys jump over camels, sort of mid-est evel knievels;


old guys rapping in finnish:

Turkish Star Wars

As a Christmas bonus, I thought I'd post a clip of the Tuskish "remake" of Star Wars.



Splicing together footage from the orignial (that appears to be filmed by pointing a video camera at the tee-vee) with the hero bouncing around the desert decapitating furries with his judo chops, this truly has to be one of the most bewildering, bizarre, and awesome remakes ever.

[Although having heard of the majestic awefulness that is this movie, I found this clip while browsing on cracked]