...and watched an excellent video of astronaut Edgar Mitchell talking about Quantum Holography as a model for the universe and how it explains so facets of ESP.
Who likes crazy YouTube vidz more than me? Started Saturday morning off strong with a solid video on NLP techniques in the media.
(Hannity's always throwing up sixes!)
Friday afternoon Youtubin so hard with Michael Persinger's insane lecture "No More Secrets" about how your brain works by conductance of the earth's magnetic field. FOR REALS. (He is the neuroscientist who invented the GOD HELMET.)
Listened to an interesting podcast outlining Robert Deniro's shift to heavily CIA-themed movies in his later career. The CIA and Hollywood: Robert DeNiro
I decided to stay in NYC and spend Thanksgiving by myself. Spent the day feeling a little lonely and reading. After dinner, my brother and Amy called...
If you don't plan on seeing the movie, you should at least watch this part. Willy the Shaman's voice is the same as the internal narrator in my head. Hahaha.
...this AMAZING video she edited together for us. It's one of the best gifts I've ever gotten! I smile ear to ear every single time I watch it. It's set to one of my favorite songs of all time (Jump in the Line by Harry Belafonte) and all the edits are INSANELY TIMED to the lyrics! It's SOOOOO GOOD! BTW: The auteur herself makes only a brief, hidden appearance at 2:59. (You can see her blue-painted fingernails reaching out to accept a VDC from the bartender. Haha.)
Leigh took all of her video footage from the day and made this awesome movie. It makes me laugh out loud EVERY SINGLE time I watch it. Holy shit, is it funny.
A couple days after the party, we all received an email from him with a link to a surprise video he'd edited together with all the clandestine hula hooping video he'd shot. It. Is. Amazing. My favorite part is the highlight reel of everyone throwing their hands up and leaning that starts around the 1:45 minute mark (right after Siege does the "white man's overbite") and just keeps getting better. (PS - Make sure you check out Ellen's sideways "tit-sway" at 2:14. Amazing.)
Here's the whole thing captured on video courtesy of Siege. (My favorite part is after all 15 seconds of kissing and the room yelling of the word "woo," it gets quiet for a second and Sarah goes "WAIT, DID SHE SAY YES?")
The thing wriggled like that for almost 2 minutes before finally running out of juice. A few minutes later, a pet-store employee walked by and we told what we'd witnessed and showed him the video and he was like "Oh, man. I gotta show this to my boss. I keep telling him this is why nobody but me should be allowed to do the lizards! You can't put a little guy like that in with the skinks! What was he thinking?" Anyway, it was pretty crazy. Put Discovery in HD to shame!
No matter how many times you tell your rational brain that a shark doesn't really pose all that much of a risk, there's no stopping your limbic system from reacting. I'm surprised you can't hear the sound of my heart pounding against my ribcage in this video. The shark is a gray reef shark. And he was probably about 5' or 6' feet long.
This second shoal was much, much larger than the first I'd swam through. Even after snapping a bunch of photos, I still had time to switch to movie mode and film this!
The driver is buckled into a racing seat that sits on a platform that's supported by four hydraulic legs that tilt, shake, vibrate and dip the "car" to mimic exactly what the car would feel like as you drive it on the track.
No caption I can write will really do this ride justice. Not only was the ride awesome and huge, it was made all the better by the fact that it was hard for your brain to believe that something that big was operating indoors.
This thing was RIDICULOUS! It wasn't so much of a ride as much as it was a robot-experiment in how much g-force humans can sustain without dying. No rhyme, no reason. Just a giant robo-arm whipping us around hurky-jerky and willy-nilly!
By the way, I'm writing this almost a year and a half later and after years and years of touring, Antony's band is finally starting to blow up! Check out this vid of Pamela Anderson introducing them as the musical guest on The Sunday Night Project, a big variety show that airs in the UK. Insanity, right?
Time-elapse video of the plane approaching the airport and then landing in Orlando! It's really cool to see how the wing-flaps move when the film is sped up. (Features extra-special "surprise ending!")
This time I managed to get him on video! I love how he causally swims over to check me out before swimming away! (You'll probably also get a kick out of listening to me make noises into my regulator trying to get his turtle-attention underwater! Hahaha).
After a few more passes, Meredith had gotten used to the stingrays and was feeding them and petting them like a seasoned pro! The creatures are so big and heavy (they must easily weigh 100+ lbs!) it takes a while to figure out how to feed them without getting knocked over when they get friendly and swim into you!
After a full day of unpacking, Mer and I headed out to a warehouse in Greenpoint, Brooklyn (that was just one block away from IndoorVillage, my old Brooklyn loft) to attend the Nightmare of You's video shoot for their song My Name is Trouble
Make sure you also check out the hot, locker room jam, "I Like Boys."
Teen Witch was one of my favorite movies when I was growing up and now that I've seen it as adult, I've gotta honestly say I'm pretty surprised that I turned out to be not-gay.
If you're looking for a little bonus material, here's a video of Baron hulahooping naked. I wish my camera had sound so you could hear Sarah cackling while Greg the Boyfriend moans "Oh, Jesus! He's hulahooping naked! Oh, Jesus!" (By the way, I had this up on YouTube but it kept being deleted! I actually had to sign up for something called Yuvutu, which is like the amateur porno version of YouTube, in order to bring you Baron's floppy-penis hijinx in all their full-motion glory! Enjoy!)
Before you check out the rest of the pics, you should watch Fiasco's one and only music video! It's for a song called Those Feelings and Nina's friend Caleb edited together hundreds of hours of footage from Manhattan Public Access TV Show The Robin Byrd Show to make it happen. It, in a word, is incredible. Enjoy!
But when she took the camera from me, she accidentally flipped the camera from "picture mode" to "movie mode" and so when she leaned in and pressed the shutter to take a sneaky photo, she started filming herself!
The best part of the movie is when she accidentally bumps into the old guy and he wakes up! Almost as funny as the two of us having to turn away quickly and pretend that we weren't up to anything. Hahahah.
And for all those people who are feeling sorry for poor Fatty, here's the video of Fatty scaring the shit out of Grant a few hours later in the now infamous "Double Cross" video.
The pics above are sorta funny - but they do not, in ANY WAY, compare to the video. If you don't have Windows Media Player installed, this is the REASON to install it. For seriously.
Grant announced that he was going to take a shower before dinner and headed for the bathroom. As soon as we heard the water turn on, Chris and I grabbed the video camera, climbed out the bedroom window and went around the condo to the shower window. Hehehe.
All the girls walking by us on the street were wearing ridiculously tight pants (to showcase their bums) A great side effect was that half of them all had these totally obscene cameltoes in the front. At one point, a girl walked by our table with such a big, visible mooseknuckle an atypically crude Fatty exclaimed "Oh my god! Look! It's so big it looks like she's got a pair of nuts in her pants!" He then performend an on-camera demonstration of how he'd like to "nuzzle all of their Greek bunches."
Here's a video of the kiss. It's a bummer because you have to tilt your head to the left and because you can only see the kiss clearly for one split-second when the flash goes off, but it's still totally worth watching just so you can hear that Sexual Healing by Mr. Marvin Gaye was playing on the jukebox when this all went down. Hahahaha.
Added bonus (of embarrassment)! Here's a 30-second video-clip of Grant getting picked up and fucking body-slammed!! I kid you not. After dropping him like a two-foot putt, Maxine twists him like a pretzel until she finally gets him in a scissor-hold leg lock which cause Grant to do a submission tap-out right at the end of the clip (that's right, listen carefully and you can actually hear him wheezing and banging his little hand against the mat).
An excellent, mind-bending two-hour interview from 1992 for anyone who's interested in early disclosure about a secret group of government insiders who are vying for a "new world order."
I edited together all the video footage into a seven-minute movie! Thanks for having me along, everyone! It was like the summer-camp for grown-ups I've always dreamed about and I had an awesome time! <3
In addition to trying to get better at formal songwriting - I've also been trying to get better at just letting music flow out of me! Celebrated the longest day of the year by writing a quick 8-bar loop, then pressing record and playing without thinking. Came out sounding summery.
I edited together this montage of some choice cuts of the hits from the evening. (My favorite moment is Fatty's expression at 3:20) Enjoy! Track listing:
1. Christmas Wrapping
2. I Can't Go for That
3. Christmas Wrapping (part 2)
4. Head Over Heels
5. Plush
6. Peace on Earth / Ziggy Stardust
7. Let's Go
8. Fairytale Of New York
9. Creep
10. Don't You Want Me
11. Do They Know It's Christmas?
