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Metallica's Really Creepy Music Video

Believe it or not, I had never seen the music video for "One" by Metallica until Saturday night, when my boyfriend showed it to me. We checked it out because it's the topmost popular Metallica music video on iTunes.
The video's got the song and shots of band members rocking out with interposed pictures and audio clips from the movie "Johnny Got His Gun". If you ever need an anti-war anthem and music video, check this out:



How chilling and downright awful is that? In some ways, I'd like to see the whole movie, but really I'm not sure if I'd be able to deal with such a horrifying situation - a situation that really could happen and probably has happened.

My Rolling Sauna

Okay, I live in LA... but it's HOT outside. On Weds it was mid to upper 60's. Today it's close to 100 outside, which means inside my car (affectionately dubbed "the rolling sauna") it's 110.

Kitteh Sonnet

I got this LOLz sonnet from Making Light

I in ur sonnet, doin ur ritin.
How do this hapn? I just a kitty.
Main job of catz are just 2B pritty!
(‘Cept with the doggies, then us be fitin.)
Course back in da old days catz was workin
Eatin ur mouses an axin fr milk…
Now giv me treatz or me clawin ur silk!
An bring em here fast, none of ur shirkin.
U humanz r comin under r powr
Uzin ur money to pamper n feed us,
Learnin from websitez how much u need us.
R clvr planz is comin to flower!
Now mousie are safe in his tiny holz
Nless u go catch him. I da boss. LOLz

Sad but True

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Two Great Bands

I just discovered the Flobots who I've decided I love. They are kinda a modern Rage Against the Machine, in that they are rather political.

Also, I have fallen in love with Linkin Park's Minutes to Midnight cd because of the two (also rather political) songs: "What I've Done" and "Hands Held High".

I'm excited to see artists trying to raise awareness of the situations going on around the planet.

(04/10/08) Another awesome band is Death Cab for Cutie. Their new album Narrow Stairs is out on May 13th and I'm really excited. I just heard their single "I Will Possess Your Heart" on Indie 103.1 this morning and I love it.

The Taxman and the Sign of the Devil

I have been chuckling ever since my taxes. Not my normal reaction to be sure, but the money I just mailed in to the state tax collector and the federal tax collector equal 666. That makes me chuckle a little. :)

Best Depiction of Girl from the Ring EVER

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The Painting Elephant

Okay, elephants are incredible:

Professional Prankster

I read this article this morning about John Hargrave - a prankster that takes his job very seriously. He's pretty darn funny! :)

There also seems to be a plethora of articles about various April Fools scenarios:
Wired has nerdy pranks
Yahoo warns what to look out for
Msn's front page has the top ten April Fools Hoaxes

So... if you are looking for something funny, check these out. They cracked me up! (Just don't make all my icons become affected by earth's gravitational pull please)

Frank Sinatra's Experiment

I have been pretty busy, but I ran across this and had to laugh:

LOL! I love this image...

Can you Digg it?

I joined Digg last night and I'm totally hooked. So, if anyone has any cool stories to share, comment them here or become my friend on Digg.

Can the Iraq War be Made Eco-Friendly?

How To Make Iraq War More Eco-Friendly

The World's Oldest Animation

This is pretty cool- the world's oldest flipbook. :)

Happy Birthday, Dad

It's my dad's birthday today! So, I just wanted to wish him a very happy birthday! Have a great day, dad! Don't let the Federal Government get you down. (They cut his birthday short by an hour with Daylight Savings Time- how dare they!)

The Ones Who See Things Differently

I saw this video on myspace and thought it was really inspiring:

Check out this video: The Ones Who See Things Differently

A Solemn Moment - Political Thoughts

I don't like to put my political ideas on my blogs, but I wanted to make one small comment. I have heard many people say they will vote (or have voted) for Hillary Clinton because "her husband did such a good job when he was in office."

First of all, when he was in office, people were bitching and moaning about his decisions as much as we complain about the current president (maybe less, but I do recall a good amount of complaint and I was only a kid).

Second of all, Hillary Clinton is not Bill Clinton. They are not clones and she had little to nothing to do with his decisions. We saw how much he paid attention to his wife with the Monica Lewinsky fiasco.

I just don't want people to forget how the past was, and then say it was better or worse than it is now. I was thinking about George Orwell's Animal Farm and this quote is so applicable to right now that it's scary:

"As for the others, their life, so far as they knew, was as it had always been. They were generally hungry, they slept on straw, they drank from the pool, they laboured in the fields; in the winter they were troubled by the cold, and in the summer by the flies. Sometimes the older ones among them racked their dim memories and tried to determine whether in the early days of the Rebellion, when Jones's expulsion was still recent, things had been better or worse than now. They could not remember. There was nothing with which to compare their present lives: they had nothing to go upon except Squealer's lists of figures, which invariably demonstrated that everything was getting better and better."

If you haven't read the book, Squealer is the PR man (in this case, pig) for the politicians (can I say pigaticians, or is that too punny?). Anyway, the point is that we mustn't forget history and we must always strive to improve life now, as compared to what actually was - not as compared to what some double-talking politician or even our dim memory says it was.

Let me know your opinions on this. Are the American people becoming like the animals in Mr. Orwell's brilliant book?

Improv Everywhere

Oh my gosh! These videos are so funny! I hope someone does something like this in LA one of these days, that would be fantastic:

Frozen in Grand Central Station


Red Head Protest of Wendys


I want to move to New York after this.