Category: Video

Everything changes, everything stays the same

One of the most catchy commercial jingles I’ve ever heard. This ought to be sampled and used in techno musik.
It could even develop into a dance. Like Macarena.

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Old computer commercials bring a tear of joy or something to my eye or something:

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The time before Wikipedia, we all had long hair and wanted lexicons. I know I did.

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As the blog title implies: Some ways of selling out change, but the selling out remains.

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I wonder if Madness got any money for this. And I’m sure there’s a joke about the British and dental hygiene in there somewhere, but I can’t be arsed.

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Today, I don’t think you could advertise a candy as “something that squirts in your mouth.” I blame the internet for ruining a perfectly innocent word.

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Another “sign of times” thing: This might not pass anti-pedo muster today.

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When I was eight I borrowed a VHS with wrestling from a friend who was a bad influence on me. Turns out I didn’t like it back then either, but the colours! The hairdos! The cocaine and horse steroids!

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Ninja fail. Drinking buddies. Well hung.

Shortly after a ninja tried to kill the princess of Sweden, I and Petter visited Tobias. As it turns out, there’s not all that much being offered in ways of entertainment in Trollhättan, so all too much money was spent on drinks in hotel bars and such. We were good and tight when we finally stumbled back to his place and fell asleep in front of burning cars in Grand Theft Auto 4. It’s what I believe is called a guys night out except that none of us contracted syphilis.

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I’m infatuated with the time lapse function of my IXUS 70, and will use it until it’s just not fun any more.

We discussed how to best remedy the climate change and global warming and such, resolute to have an email with a solution ready to send of to the UN the next day. We might have to revise our Stalinistic suggestions a bit before going public.

I think we sort of decided to go sailing in a couple of weeks time, and in a vulnerable moment I brandied about the idea of foregoing cigarettes during the cruise. Should we go through with this, it’s not certain that all of those setting out on the trip will return. Imagine something between Lord of the flies and Deliverance, sans banjos.

I’ve been nursing a hangover all day, and had plenty of white rice for brunchinner. For some reason I’ve been reading about different kinds of bows and arrowheads the past hour. If you are a hunting person and wish to buy blunting or shredding implements, you’re in luck: www.bowtechproshop.com.

Mint tea, the.

When living in Karlstad I would drink mint tea all the time and flush the leaves down the toilet. It used to freak people out because I’d have this toxic green rim around the water-line in my toilet, giving the impression that the Hulk was pooing at my place.

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Happy 4th of July you imperialist bastards!

There’s a comfort in watching crappy movies, because you can always assume that it’s bad and you can concentrate on finding the gems. And then there’s the campy stuff that you can’t help but love. The silent agreement that “this is what the audience wants” and the response from the audience that “yes, this is in fact what I imagine that someone thinks that I want.” Or maybe I’m just getting old and have had a change of standards.

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Birthday. Density. Flaaaaaanders

Looking for music in 5/4 tempo, I ended up with this:

And what in holy heaven:

Birthday get-together yesterday ended up with minigolf. Neat. I got two shirts, a pack of Lucky Strikes, an old Polaroid camera (need film) and a bed which is to be delivered curtesy of Hanna sometime in the future. Awesome. I did not know that you could give away beds. This raises the bar for the future.

We had strawberry wine and went for a few beers. I’m feeling better, although the solidity of my corporal production leaves something to be desired. My dear brother Tomasz calls it “peeing through the butt” but it leaves a rather unpleasant image in ones head, don’t you think?

I’m enjoying oatmeal and organising my music collection.

Sporn: Subversion of innocence in service of lolz

People have been looking forward to Spore, an evolutionary game that moves from the microscopical to the interplanetary. It has been hyped beyond belief, and just the other day a demo was released of the “creature create” portion of the game (where you can play a mad scientist putting together a creature to your liking)

Here’s a video introducing the creating part of the game:

And here is sporn:

There’s a whole list of the atrocities visited on the poor game here: rockpapershotgun.com