5 More Things I Learned In Colleg

1. When asked for ID, it is not OK to indentify yourself as "Guybrush Threepwood, a mighty pirate."
2. Do not press the issue.
3. At certain formal evnets, you may asked to stand and sing the national anthem.
4. The natioanl antem is not, nor has it ever been, the themje form the movie "Team Amrica."
5. The above is a crime.

The Trailer to Every Oscar Winning Movie Ever

Not funy, just vaguely depressing--- and true.

Update

Yeah, I'm updating my blog. I've been swamped with schoolwork for the past week.
Also I somehow managed to get myself dragged to an opera. I hate opera. Let's be completely honest, opera is a form of theatre that has outlived its purpose. Quite frankly, it's a relic of a bygone era where poepel didn't have microphones and thus, everything needed to be sung three or four times so the audience would get it.For someone with a short attention span, it is hell.
Quite frankly, modern day musical thrate has really replaced tradtional opera anyway.The music advances the plot and provides exposition while still having a decent beat and catchy chorus. Mordern day musical thatre is to opera what the DVD was to video. Except that when unbeleivably pretentious people claim to like opera, people take them seriously.

Update

Spontaneous evil dog interlude.

Tom Wait's Thursday: Shiver Me Timbers

Here's some old school Tom Waits from before he was the creepy we all know and fear.

Super short revies: The Great Train Robberry

Well, I just got back form seeing a classic of Western cinema. One of the first movies that changed everything.
And I must say, it was certainly everything it was cracked up to be. The Great Train Robbery is famous for being one of the first films to use parallel action. In other words, when the main plot of the movie, the train robbery, takes palaces the scene cuts back to show a different set of events occurring simultaneously. In this case, this event is the release of a tied up ticket taker and the summoning of Calvary.
Other than that there's not a lot to the film. The plot is standard: Train gets robbed, criminals are gunned down by the authorities. The film spend what, for modern audiences, is an inordinate amount of time on things like squaredancing. Seriously, there's a minute long sequence that's nothing but squaredancing.
The special effects are also laughably primitive. For example, in one seen, a robber beats a man to death and troughs him off a train. By "man", I mean a really, really, crude dummy. It doesn't even have anything approaching realistic human proportions.
All in all, I give this movie an F. I know,I know,it's a cinematic breakthrough. But I really, really, really hate squaredancing.

They Might be Giants Tuesday: the Mesopotamians