Odell Memories

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Remember Odell Lake on those old Apple IIe computers? I played the crap out of those when I was in 4th-5th grades. In 6th grade, we got Macs, and I was really annoyed because they didn't have Odell Lake, Mystery House, or Oregon Trail on them.

Go to Odell Lake!

Fondling Interviewers and Scary Robert Stack

Marilyn Manson being fondled by a drunken (seems like it, anyway) reporter.

WARNING: Contains Manson ass.



AMAZING. I'm imagining what someone like Nick Cave would do...get all offended. Manson just fondles the interviewer right back.

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I need this Unsolved Mysteries DVD. That show scared the shit out of me when I was little. Seriously...creepy.

Lights, Camera, 19th Century Action!

I want some mad scientist lights. Don't you? I am coming to the conclusion rather quickly that perhaps I should have decided to be an inventor. First, I'd have to invent a time machine, then travel back to when shit like this was actually used. Or maybe I should just become a director of B movies. That might be easier.

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This is absolutely amazing. 19th century views on what a Christian wife should do on her wedding night.

Excerpt:

"Once the bride has donned her gown and turned off all the lights, she should lie quietly upon the bed and await her groom. When he comes groping into the room she should make no sound to guide him in her direction, lest he take this as a sign of encouragement. She should let him grope in the dark. There is always the hope that he will stumble and incur some slight injury which she can use as an excuse to deny him sexual access.

When he finds her, the wife should lie as still as possible. Bodily motion on her part could be interpreted as sexual excitement by the optimistic husband."

From the 19th century Christian sex manual.

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Now, get off your ass and go play a Flash game that requires a bit o' brainpower!

Now, I go resume watching the lovely John Cusack in 1408 yet again. I enjoy crappy thrillers and good ones alike...this one, IMO, is good.

Doc from Back to the Future, Watch Out!

The art of Chris Mars is very creepy, and very, very, very good. I'm at school, and I kept thinking I was going to freak people out by looking at stuff like this guy does. It's very twisted, macabre, horror comic stuff. Brilliant.

I didn't know which image to use to lure you into his site, so you'll just have to take the initiative to visit the site and see it all for yourself. I particularly enjoy the scratchboard section.

NOTE: Lovely, grotesque horror images; use common sense when viewing in public.


Exchanging recipes in Pipe Town, depicted at right.

Other favorites:
Aftermath Monument
Bottle Town of New Myths
Church of Bob
Clyde Below the Mumphrey
Dull and Groggy
Extractions in the Suicide Ward
Forgotten Town
Gear Graphic
Instruction from Engine Vowel Phonics
Receiving Indoctrination Immunity
Sleeper's Wake
Tempest
Transmigration

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If more beautiful (yet still, mind you, a bit creepy) things are your style, why not delve into the artwork of Jessica Joslin? She obtains any bones she uses through the same places museum exhibitions get theirs from. However, Ms. Joslin makes creations that are like large pieces from music boxes.


These are real bones, so steer clear if that'll creep you out or something. I find her art to be gorgeous. Maybe that's what I'll have my cat turned into when she dies in, like, ten years.

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Okay, whoa. Found this site completely by accident. I. Love. Clocks. Ever since my parents took me into a gift shop when I was about five, they've fascinated me (they were getting me a Fraggle Rock stuffed animal, but the place had a lot of clocks). Clocks are gorgeous and, in my opinion, the more mechanical and ancient-looking, the better.


Well, these are just about the coolest clocks I have ever seen. I mean, seriously. You know you want this Elton John meets Liberace meets Las Vegas Elvis work of tacky. :)

I kept expecting to see a clock put into an old telephone, you know...the kind the mom in Lassie had? Put a clock in one of those, jazz it up, make it look awesome, and I'll pay $2000.00 for it. GLADLY.

Anyway, the site is Klockwerks.com, and it makes me feel like I'm in Doc's workshop in Back to the Future.

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I'm not sure, but I think this Andrew Smith fellow may be the guy who created the rolling ball sculpture at OMSI. His site's in flash, so I can't direct-link to what I want to show you, but go to his "NEW WORKS," then click on "Bubbler #1". I. Want. That. And the thing that is similar to the OMSI piece is found at "ROLLING BALL", then "Grandfather Time," only without the clock.

I also want the tornado machine, found at "KINETIC," and then "Tornado II". That guy is amazing. All this stuff that's futuristic, yet looks like it's from old science fiction movies. AMAZING.

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I end with this lovely collection of wallpapers featuring old, antiquated machinery, gadgets, and gizmos.

Oooo, purdy.

Nostalgia Lane, Faceplants, Robots

I don't know why, but I find this robot very, very disturbing.

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Successful face transplants are now possible:
Creepy. But...I want to know what the dead person really looked like, because the lady seems to look like herself. Isn't it mostly the underlying bone structure, after all, that makes you look most like yourself?

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Cardboard furniture! YAAAAY! I need to dig up the photos of the cardboard desk (yes, desk) that my brother and I made as a joke for my mom a few Christmases ago. Awesome.

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x-entertainment has been my favorite site for years. Yes, YEARS. It's been online since 2000, and it's an insanely huge, amusing, chuckle-inducing trip down nostalgia lane. 80s commercials, shows, food items, trips to 99 cent stores. It's amazing. Best. Blog. EVER.

Come on! There are cheezy/awesome commercials (download the Slim Jeans one - it is AMAZING!), things in x-e's freezer, 80's era sticker albums (you KNOW you had one!), practical joke/gag items, children's vending machines [and more], cereal prizes, carnivals, arcades. I don't need to continue. X-Entertainment is God. Just make sure you never visit the Worst Game Room Ever.

Poop Freeze That Melting Cow!

In January, 2005, there was a massive ice storm in Geneva. I'm sure it really sucked at the time, but there's no denying it led to some astoundingly beautiful photos to be created.

A gorgeous gallery of ice storm photographs can be viewed here.

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You know how, when you swirl a flashlight around in the dark, afterimages of the light remain for awhile? Ever taken photos of something like that? Yeah, well, imagine any photos you've ever seen of such things multiplied by a coolness factor of a hundred.

Loads of beautiful light art.

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How about some very interesting sculptures? This one fascinates me...both because of the melting, and its bright blue color. I love weird art, and this is weird art that is, as a plus, really, really good.

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Something about art of animals dressed like people has always scared the living crap out of me. I think it all started with a set of rubber stamps my mom had, which showcased cats dressed in Victorian garb. Very, very terrifying.

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I leave you for now on a crappy note. Have a prize turd you want preserved? Buy Poop Freeze today! Only $12.99 a can, and hell...with the demand for poo art on the rise, how could you go wrong? BUY TODAY!!!

Evening Wrecked Cars

You wouldn't think night-time photos of wrecked cars would be this beautiful, would you?

Clicky-click.

Steve Buscemi's Interview : Movie Review

It takes a certain something to draw me into a film and fully commit to it emotionally. This emotional connection, I feel, is what can make a movie truly great.

There are varying degrees to this emotional depth, it is true. Usually the emotional commitment made is so intense that I have to stop at the end, giving myself time to digest and process what I have just witnessed on screen. I have, to the best of my knowledge, never seen a movie that seemed incredibly simple on the surface, only to have it pull me apart unexpectedly.

Well, I have just watched a piece of magnificent film work that I went into thinking it would be one way, only to have it be so much more than expected. That film is Steve Buscemi's remake of Interview [ link ].



At base level, Interview is a film about celebrity and all it entails. Steve Buscemi plays Pierre Peder, a journalist whose pieces generally center around politics and war. When his editor-in-chief gives him a fluff piece assignment, to interview famous actress Katya, he is dismayed to be reduced to such a low level.

He meets up with Katya in a restaurant, after she arrives over one hour late. Things do not go smoothly. He is peeved to have to interview such a person, and she, in turn, is offended that he has not seen any of her films or brushed up on her life. Their interview ends poorly, with her storming out, and Pierre left without a piece to turn in to his editor.

Upon leaving the restaurant, Pierre ends up in a minor car wreck caused in part by Katya. Feeling bad for Pierre's minor injury, she takes him up to her loft to get cleaned up.

Over the course of the proceeding hours, we experience a ping-pong match between the two characters. They get along, then they don't. They find a minor connection between them, only to have their disdain for one another shortly reemerge.

The premise seems as though it will center around celebrity, and while this is certainly a large aspect of the film, it is by no means the most important one. This is a film about how, no matter where you come from or what you do, we are all flawed human beings. It is a statement of truth and deception, and a testament to the fact that, sometimes, life's greatest complexities are lurking behind things which seem so simple.

Interview is not easily summarized, since to do so in-depth would be to give away key points of the plot. Suffice it to say that Sienna Miller and Steve Buscemi portray their characters exquisitely, bringing realness to the wonderful script.

This film sucks you in gradually. You don't know how far you've fallen into it until you are submerged beyond retrieval. As previously stated, this film is deeper and more meaningful than it at first appears.

Interview is unique in the sense that it is a rare example of a film successfully being carried by only two actors. Buscemi and Miller are so genuine, their chemistry so great, that you forget you are watching two actors.

You see these two characters, from two different worlds, gradually realizing more about each other and the world. Through their constant battle between understanding one another and bickering, we are left with a realization. We realize that sometimes, it is not our similarities that make us relate to one another, but our differences. It is oddly moving witnessing two people finally open up and bare their true souls to one another.

Or do they? This is the question that makes the film, above all else, worth watching. You end up feeling emotionally pulled in different directions, and just when you think you have it all figured out, you realize you don't.

A superb film standing as a testament to the way humans are, and a well-acted, well-directed film about our society's fascination with celebrity.

GRADE: A-