Tuesday, November 23, 2010

Living up to my name

I've realized I have a fairly eclectic taste in movies. I love old classics (like Casablanca, Sabrina and Bringing Up Baby), modern action-blockbusters (like Pirates of the Caribbean, Indiana Jones and the most recent James Bond films), Disney movies (like Beauty and the Beast, The Princess and the Frog, and the severely underrated Hercules), and also camp (both the purposely campy, like Rocky Horror Picture Show and Doctor Horrible's Sing-along Blog and the unintentionally hilarious Shark Attack 3: Megaladon).

Yep, I'm weird.

Wednesday, November 3, 2010

Teh Awesum

Recently I've been finding a lot of awesome around teh interwebs, so I thought I'd just post a bunch of links with brief descriptions.


1) You know how things from the 80's are sort of simultaneously horrific and amazing?

So I was reading Topless Robot, and at the end of one post was a link titled, "Has anyone seen Tim Curry's tamborine?" Curious title. I think I'll click the link.

And was treated to this explosion of awesomeness.

(Some of the comments are also pretty spectacular.)

It's like someone asked a group of 2nd graders to come up with words that rhyme, and then they pieced together a song, and the effects guys threw in pictures of all the random stuff, and Tim Curry put on a large cape and sang it.

What part of this is not epic?

2) Another curiously titled link, this time on Mental Floss: "strange charm." Could this have anything to do with particle physics? Why YES! Yes it does!

3) As a Trekkie myself, I was glad to see that my colleagues were quick to set things straight. This article (correction, really) made my week. (found via Techland)

4) Speaking of things Trek, My dad and I are going to see Patrick Stewart on Broadway this weekend; according to my dad our seats are so close that "if he slips and falls off the stage he'll land in your lap!"

With that in mind, my friend Erin has been nagging me to watch this video; I finally got around to it and...wow.

5) And finally...THE MICHAEL BAYIFIER!!! I had far too much fun with this.