If you’re a child of the 80s like me, it’s entirely possible that you are deeply, deeply afraid of clowns. Do you want to know why? Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure. Seriously. Behold the scene that turned me, and a generation of kids, into gigantic coulrophobics:
By the way, there is no mistaking that that movie was Tim Burton’s directorial debut, huh?
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Cooper’s Animal Sounds from Okay City Nate on Vimeo.
Captured the other night at my brother’s birthday party. He’s been doing this for several months and I wanted to make sure to get it before he stops being such a willing little monkey and performing for all his parents’ adult friends.
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I mentioned this show once before, but I wanted to again because of how f***ing addicting it is. It’s a wonderful, but very, very dark comedy about an older, wealthy British couple. It stars Joanna Lumley, most famous for her portrayal of Patsy on one of my favorite shows ever, Absolutely Fabulous. The entire first series is available on YouTube, and I really, really think you should watch it. It may go without saying, but both videos are NSFW, though only just.
And just for the hell of it, here’s a great, classic Patsy moment. Note the contrast between the two portrayals; Lumley’s a seriously great actress.
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Oklahoma’s long been known to its residents as the birthplace of a bunch of really cool – and some not so cool – musicians. Exhibit A, of course, are the Flaming Lips, who every New Year’s Eve hold a concert in downtown OKC and every Halloween march through the streets of downtown with a thousand torch-carrying fans dressed as skeletons. Then, of course, there are the All-American Rejects and Hinder, neither of whom are my particular cup of tea but hey. I’ll try not to judge your crappy taste in music. There are also a plethora of amazing local bands, musicians, and cool places to hear live music. So it’s rather cool that the University of Central Oklahoma is opening up its Academy of Contemporary Music in the heart of OKC’s main entertainment district. I continue to hope that it will be things like this, rather than things like, say, Sally Kern, that create Oklahoma’s reputation going forward.
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I’ve been having a lot of trouble creatively of late. Not the kind you’d think, exactly, but just a lot of general frustration and lack of focus, rather like a fire hose that’s been turned on full blast, and then turned off, then back on again. I’m just spewing words and notes and ideas out, into a stack of no fewer than five various journals, notebooks, moleskines and stacks of paper that accompanied me on vacation and are with me all day long. It started to panic me, to spin me up and then knock me back down, and so I did the only thing I know to do in that situation, which is to pray. I said, "I need to see the next little circle of light to step into, the next right thing." I realized that I wasn’t going to get any good work done just now, so I gave up and started reading Andrew Sullivan. And I came across this video below. I don’t know if it’s the next right thing or not, but it is beautiful, and I try to live my life by a motto that when all else fails, give something away, even if it’s tiny. So here:
Niagara Falls in Motion from Matthew Wartman on Vimeo.
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Now that I get home an hour after Brian does, I often come home to find him playing Wii in the living room. Imagine my delight to come home the other night to find him about to complete a puzzle on the mid-1980s video game edition of Wheel! Of! Fortune!, especially since I not only got to yell out "MISTER BELVEDERE!" really loud, but also to start up singing the theme song, which I remember very, very well, thank you:
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Galactic Center of Milky Way Rises over Texas Star Party from William Castleman on Vimeo.
Thanks to Sweetney for posting this; it really does murk with my brain to realize just how tiny we all really are.
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This has gone around the world and back this week, but I’m going to go ahead and join in the party in case you haven’t seen it yet. There are a lot of "literal" versions of music videos out there, but this one is undoubtedly my favorite.
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Yellowstone from Andrew Curtis on Vimeo.
My dad’s doctoral thesis was all about Yellowstone, and can you believe that I’ve never been there? This video makes me want to go; it is, after all, in one of the 14 contiguous states I have yet to visit. This video also makes me want to trade up my SLR to something that can do HD video, but if I had to guess which one of those two things was gone to happen first, well, it’s anybody’s guess. Someday!
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A building that generates its own power and supplies the surplus back to the grid. THESE are the kinds of solutions we need, people; we’ll see what feasibility studies have to say about whether or not this is a real possibility, but if it is, I can’t think of a better place for it than OKC. Read more about Turbinomic here.
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