August 2009
Stop What You’re Doing And Watch The Hell Out Of This of the Day: Musician Bobby McFerrin, at the 2009 World Science Festival, demonstrates the universality of the pentatonic scale by playing an extemporaneous tune using the audience as his instrument.
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July 2009
I am a great believer in luck, and the harder I work the more I have of it.
– Stephen Leacock.
Movie Trailer of the Day, Too: First official trailer for Wes Anderson’s first foray into animation, the big-screen adaptation of Roald Dahl’s Fantastic Mr. Fox.
The film, which stars a children’s treasury of Anderson alums such as Anjelica Huston, Jason Schwartzman, Bill Murray, and Owen Wilson, is slated for release November 13.
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Look At This Fucking Art House Cat Video of the Day: Danilo Parra’s much-lauded catcore short Cat in a Bath: The Torture Room, starring Truman Catpote — “the feline incarnate of the dead, gay writer” — is to cat videos what D. W. Griffith’s The Birth of a Nation is to cinema: A visual masterpiece that you probably won’t be forwarding to mom.
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Stray Link: Q: How to Avoid Gmail's Sponsored... →
A: Suicide death 9/11 murder.
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