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My weird dream. With dolphins and buzzsaws.
Ok, so I woke up this morning, late for work. But before I did, I had a dream. Here it is in all its weirdo glory, just so I don’t forget.
It starts with a dolphin
So there’s a dolphin. We’re sitting next to a beach, and there’s an injured dolphin. I don’t remember why or how the dolphin was injured, thus it goes with most dreams. Several kids and myself, apparently I am a kid at this point, successfully help the dolphin swim back to sea and we all joyously jump around with joyful jumping.
(This, BTW, is an actual dolphin that I found on the beach when I visited Cannon Beach, Or.)
When I turn around, we transition into the backyard of a Minnesota-esque lake home. (So, yes, apparently there are dolphins that swim in Minnesota lakes. They feed off the bird-sized mosquitoes. You heard it here first.)
As we usually did every Fall, my family and I were helping my grandparents chop wood. Except, of course, that it was Summer in my dream. People were cleaning up this, and cleaning up that. Raking leaves, that sort of thing.
And then a ginormous tree falls on my head. Well, not on my head, around my head. It was like a great big oak tree with lots of limbs and leaves, and it spread out over something like 40 feet across. My dad, as dads tend to do in dreams, had an axe and was standing at the base of the tree, yelling at me for being in the way, as was usually the case in reality.
Enter the buzz saw
On the ground underneath the tree was a large buzz saw, the type of which you would imagine Snidely Whiplash trying to cut a tied up Dudley Do-Right with. Now folks, these saws are dangerous. (See the movie “Walk the Line” about Johnny Cash. His brother gets dead by one…)
(We actually had one that looked just like this, sitting in my yard in Mn. It was so cool. I think it’s still there. I’ll have to ask.)
I don’t know how I did it, but I managed to knock the buzz saw to the ground, while it was running. The saw blade broke off the machine, spinning across the yard.
Into the lake.
“Not again! We just got that back out of the water!”, my dad yells at me. And thus I discover the hows and why’s of the injured dolphin.
The End.
Berries and Creme – My “What the heck” video of the day
I mean, seriously? This is awesome.
The perfect roll model
Credit goes to Matt H.
Why night/low light photography is awesome
I find it’s actually harder at times trying to make something interesting in perfect daylight. The reason?
The light isn’t interesting.
Photography literally means “light drawings”, and if your light isn’t interesting, or the contrast between the good light and the boring light isn’t high enough, you are going to have a hard time making interesting photos.
At night, you’re FORCED to find interesting light, because it’s often the only light you have. A street lamp. A broken window in an old building that is letting the light leak through. Moonlight.
So yeah, learn how to coax the best low light quality out of your camera, get yourself a tripod, and get to it!
All photos by me, if you’re curious. Ask permission if you want to use them.
Pink Floyd’s Welcome to the Machine — All on guitar
I’m an effect gearhead, and a lover of some fine Pink Floyd. I used to listen to the Wish You Were Here album every night before going to bed, and what Bill Ruppert does here for the song Welcome to the Machine is flippin’ amazing. That song is an effect heavy, synthesizer-laden mind trip, and the dude does it here all on guitar. (I guess this was so cool that even NPR did a piece about it.
Watch it:
Bacon Flavored Breath Mints
Bacon. Flavored. Breath. Mints.
Call me heretical, but I’m pretty sure that this is part of the sign of the Apocalypse:
And I saw, and, look! a pale horse; and the one seated upon it had the name Death. And Hades was closely following him.
The Revelation of John, Chapter 6, Verse 8
If you’re so inclined, you may purchase these on Amazon: Bacon Flavored Mints. Not an affiliate link, BTW.
UGG Boots are stupid
There was a giant ad in my email inbox for UGG boots, and it dawned on me how stupid they were. Not so much the boots themselves, but the fact that the company managed to convince otherwise sane girls to walk around all summer long with WINTER BOOTS ON.
Give credit to their marketing department though. Genius. It must have gone something like this:
“Sales are down Jim, what ya got?”
“Me? Uhh… Convince pretty girls that their feet need to be warmed by our cozy sheepskin boots, not just in the winter, but all year ’round?”
“Jim, you’re a natural.”
That’s how I imagine it must have went, except with an Australian accent.
And their logo is uggly. Sorry, I couldn’t resist.
Ace Ventura Rhino Birth – Funniest Scene in the History of Ever
I don’t care what anyone says, the “rhino birth” scene from Ace Ventura – When Nature Calls is the funniest scene ever caught on film. Sure, there may be some close contenders, but this takes the cake for Funniest Scene Ever, according to Dan’s Über Best Movie guide.
Rhino Birth – Funniest Scene in the History of Ever
Other Awards
Here are a few other scenes that the Dan’s Über Best Movie guide gives awards to:
The Black Knight – Best Action
The Battle of Wits – Most Thought Provoking
One Out of a Million – Most Romantic
FREE Radiohead OK Computer tribute album
Stereogum.com is giving away as a free download the album OKX: A Tribute to OK Computer, a song-by-song covers compilation of one of the greatest recordings of all time.
First of all, if you’re not intimately acquainted with Radiohead’s OK Computer, you need to drop everything you’re doing and go hide in a closet. Because I’m going to come kick you. Second, download this disc, because it’s pretty good. It’s not Radiohead, but it’s good. (Probably because Radiohead wrote the songs, duh.) The arrangements aren’t too shabby, and the interpretations aren’t annoying at all, which is something of a crap-shoot when it comes to tribute albums.
Download it here: OKX: A Tribute to OK Computer
No Surprises by Marissa Nadler Feat. Black Hole Infinity
Download now or listen on posterous
Download now or listen on posterous
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