I always wonder what a space death would be like every time they jettison someone out the airlock on Battlestar Galactica. Dramatic and painful perhaps, similar to drowning…but just imagine the view. I’ve never thought of asphyxiation as an acceptable dramatic death for myself, but soaring through space may be an exception.
At most, an astronaut […]

Last week I watched Battlestar Galactica on my computer, full screen, 10 hours before it aired on the sci-fi channel. There were 3 or 4 Intel commercials that were really short. I think networks are starting to get the picture. TV is going away, like CDs are, and like radio is, like all traditional media […]

Words of wisdom, no doubt:

Or are they? Here’s a rebuttal from my favorite anger movie of all time, Falling Down:

I think blowing shit up wins.

Long, somewhat overdone, philosophical analysis of the cult of Rambo. I remember reading the book First Blood as a young boy scout, before seeing the movie, and really liking it. Had no idea back then that this book was originally published in 1972. Rambo was the coolest male survivalist role model for young boys […]

I bring you…from the dead…a BBC documentary on Nietzsche. Haven’t seen it all the way through, but I love when Will Self describes Nietzsche as the first “punk” philosopher.

Eventually, I knew something with Albert Camus would turn up on The Youtubes, which should be renamed JesusTubes, because it is as awesome as Jesus, and maybe even more influential. I don’t think I’ve ever seen video of Albert Camus before, but here he is being interviewed at a soccer game in Algeria, the country […]

If you thought your hobby was weird…

The Yes Men, with some alternative energy sources…

“ahhh. you fear jazz. you fear the lack of rules, the lack of boundries…’what’s happening, all the shapes, the chaos!’” Tell him, Howard Moon.

Christ, I wish someone would hurry up and remake Logan’s Run. Damn those Wachowski brothers and their Speed Racer!
It occurred to me that Logan’s Run is perhaps little more than the dystopian imagining of the uber-welfare/warfare state gone slightly awry. After all, we may not have Sleepshop, the public sporting-extermination of those over 21, […]