Hot Saturday Blog

So today it's mad hot here in Portland. It's 6:30 in the evening right now and 89 degrees. Not Arizona hot, but I had fallen into a lull with 55 and showers days. Tonight Chris is having a boys gaming night here, so I'm doing my invisible wife role and camping out in the upstairs bedroom. Not any real sacrifice what with cable and DVDs and wireless internet. Jesus, I am wicked spoiled. But still, it's a bit warm.

When I was back in school and had a project to work on, I always turned on some kind of movie in the background and used it as a work timer. My frickin blogs bookmarks cup runneth way over and I need to do some spring cleaning. Tonight I am running Batman Begins as my comfort work movie. Let's see how much stuff I can shove down your throat before Gary Oldman gives the Joker card to Christian Bale. And since I can't embed it, go here to watch a bitching new trailer for The Dark Knight.


Part One: When We Talk About Things

I like PSAs. I think they are inherently pompus and hilarious in many unintentional ways. I give you three of my favorites.

#1 PSA That Makes Me Want To Do More Drugs


#2 Robocop PSA a.k.a. "Drugs. Drugs Bug Me."


#3 PSA That Isn't Afraid To Play The Race Card



Part Two: When We Talk About The Cohen Brothers

I realized recently that I hadn't seen The Big Lebowski since it came out nearly 10 years ago. I remember it being a bit over my head, not that I was naive to either Cohen Brother movies or marijuana. I wanted to love it but I just kinda liked it. It seemed like a good time to give it a retry. My instincts were correct: I loved it this time. Thinking of Netflixing it again soon. In some non-spooky coincidence we happened to see No Country For Old Men right about the same time. It seems superfluous to add my voice to the choir of praise over this movie, but fuck it was good.

I found this fun homage to the Cohen's movies. I makes me think it's time to see Barton Fink again.




Part Three: Where We Play With Our Food

Alex Blagg at Best Week Ever posted this video ages ago. It fascinates me. His description is much better than any I'm coming up with:

Food Fight is a stop-motion short film that uses a whole bunch of yummy snacks to tell the bloody story of United States military conflict since WWII. Whether we’re pickle-bombing the German brats, dropping the atomic Big Mac on Japanese tuna rolls, or Chicken Nuggeting Iraq-kabobs into a meat-and-ketchupy wasteland, one thing is for certain - you don’t mess with the U.S of McD’s. Also, 9-11 never looked so delicious.




Part Four: When I Think About How Much I Once Loved Beck

Now he freaks me out a little mostly since I know he's a Scientologist. I still love "Timebomb" every time it appears on the iPod shuffle. Some fan made a frakkin awesome unauthorized video for it. The real video: meh. Here's the killer version.




Part Five: When I Confess My Adoration For Joel McHale

Jesus Christ, Willard Scott freaks me out. He is an embodiment of what people fear about old people. Thank you to The Soup for never forgetting to set a place for him at the table.




Part Six: Where I Love Rick Rolling One More Time

Because if anyone deserves it, it's these douchebags.




Part Seven: My Heart Swells... Bring On The Aliens!

This video. Oh. I could watch this video everyday. It makes me want to marry Hubble and have little spacestation babies. Can you believe we can see this?? It blows my mind every single time.

And again, another space video with overwrought musical themes. It's like NASA could launch its own satellite radio station of spacey rock.




Part Eight: My Elderly Aspirations

Betty White = Goddess




Part Nine: The Only Bible The Godless Need

One of my favorite genius comics of all time. Brilliant. Artistically super diverse. Darkly hysterical. It makes me laugh out my ears. Perry Bible Fellowship.











Sorry I can't get them to post bigger but they are definitely worth clicking to enlarge.


Part Ten: Where Pretty Much Everywhere It's Gonna Be Hot

I can't even remember how I found this, one of my favorite videos and it's only about 10 seconds:



But if I didn't already love it enough for the golden realtor jackets and the infectious cackle, some magnificent human being made this insane remix. It appeals to that place in my brain that finds repetition to be one of the single funniest things used in comedy. You have to be patient (or maybe high) to watch this 2 minutes and 45 seconds of the same thing over and over. It does start to mutate a bit but makes me think that if I still had the gumption to take mushrooms I would likely watch this video for hours. Basically, it makes my life.




Part Eleven: Here's Me, Permanently Swearing Off Jumpsuits

This is mostly for Chris, who will appreciate it for the mutated gem it is.




Part Twelve: For My Darling Husband, May You Remember There Are Assholes Everywhere

The neverending humanity of Passive Aggressive Notes.


Part Thirteen: My Love For Bill Nighy Has No Bounds



I am about to drop a golden nugget in your life: State of Play. Rent. This. Now!
It has Jon Simm from Life On Mars! Kelly MacDonald from No Country For Old Men! Bill Nighy from the furthest reaches of my heart! David Morrissey from the new Sense and Sensibility! John Glenister (also) from Life On Mars! And James McAvoy from about 10 movies in the last two years! You know you want something good to watch. So for God's sake, put it on your Netflix queue and you can thank me profusely later.

Sadly, the preview won't embed but you can see it here.


Part Fourteen: I'm Melting. Melting!!

Okay, it is so warm in here I'm getting little woozy so blogging is coming off the menu in favorite of a cool washcloth and a juice. Here's my last little treat. Enjoy these refreshing and slightly unsettling food scuptures (and if you're hungry for more).