Scrapplefest

Here it is, at long last. I suggest going to the actual Youtube site and watching it in "high quality" but to each his or her own. I'm a little embarrassed by how slapdash I threw this together, but there's no point in second-guessing (or making excuses for) 22-year-old me.

Interesting

This map, from here, makes things even more confusing for me. I've always said soda and so has everyone I know but on this map it's the least popular of the big choices. I appear to be situated firmly in pop territory but I never hear that! Am I hanging out with the wrong people? Don't even get me started on the ridiculousness of "Coke".

What do you all say?

Contemplating Credit

For the past week or so I've been working as the assistant editor on this film. So how should I go about getting myself on IMDb? Should I submit myself now or should I wait for the film to hit the festival circuit? Will someone else update the listings in a few months and I'll just be confusing the system? Oh the anxiety.

Beatlemania

The one time in history that hordes of hysterical 14-year-old girls were right about music.

Chaplin on Relevance:

"I am surprised that some critics say that my camera technique is old-fashioned, that I have not kept up with the times. My technique is the outcome of thinking for myself, of my own logic and approach; it is not borrowed from what others are doing."

-Charles Chaplin, 1966

I'm still deciding how I feel about this. On one hand, yeah, why should he have to ape Godard to be relevant? On the other hand, how can you communicate with an audience when you refuse to innovate on the advances made by your peers and likewise refuse to speak the cinematic language of the time? If Chaucer had lived into the 21st century, but never learned to speak modern English, who would read his new books? That is, assuming the books weren't titled "How I Got to Be 700."

Count Barackula

Here's something to consider next time you want to make a joke/slogan/catch phrase out of Barack Obama's name: It's all been done. Google can confirm this for you:

Obamarama

Barack O'Bama

Barack & Roll

Between Barack and a Hard Place

Obamanation

Maraca Kabob

Count Barackula

Seriously. TRY and come up with something original. If he's elected, I estimate that by February 2009 creating name-inspired puns for Barack Hussein Obama will be literally impossible.

Clear Channel's 166 Inappropriate Songs for Post-9/11 America

I find this list truly fascinating. (Sorry if this is very old news to some people.) The list clearly wasn't paid much credence, as 3 Doors Down's revenge-themed "Duck and Run" was ubiquitous around that time.

Some of the connections to 9/11 are obvious (Bruce Springsteen's "I'm Goin' Down"), others (Louis Armstrong's "What a Wonderful World") not quite as much. But I like the fact that ALL of Rage Against the Machine's songs are inappropriate.