I honestly can't wait till this guy's famous. So I can be all "I blogged about him first!" and "I knew him from when we were five years old".
Though filming him (and his singing buddy) in the early hours of the morning after some serious drinking was perhaps not the best idea.
Definitely excited for when he records properly, but until then, I have this.
Greenwing is absolutely one of my favourite programmes in the world, ever. Even though I can't watch the above scene without curling up into a ball of pain and humour and amazement and shock. I think it's one of the best scenes to define the series, as those are the emotions that you end up feeling throughout the majority of the show. But as well as being one of the funniest programmes I've watched, it can also be very deep and almost profound.
I'll stop with the videos now. I could literally put the whole series in a post. I just can't find any part of it that I don't entirely 100% love. They can put such meaningful conversations in such unpredictable places, and although many people consider it a "surreal" series, I find it one of the most true to life series' that I've ever seen.
The creators of the show have reffered to it as a "soap/sketch/sitcom", and there really is no other way to define it. There are dramatic turns of events and you get surprisingly involved with the characters and the storyline, however, there's also elements of sitcom as it has some lesser characters with more light-hearted storylines. The sketch aspect is very important to the show and many of the scenes feature improvisation from the actors. I would add another clip, but I'd never be able to narrow it down to just one that I want, so I'll be sensible.
Tim Minchin is just like a great big bundle of awesomeness. He does comedy songs which never fail to crease me up (Prejudice is one the of greatest works I've ever heard) but this is one of his more serious songs, which was written for an Australian film (which I sadly may never see, due to the fact it's not being released anywhere apart from Australia).
I love the song because, in my opinion, it's so much deeper than most rubbish and cheese that gets people teary eyed. I hate the concept of "depth", it's just too subjective and predictable. For example; teenage whining about how "rain makes it look like the windows are crying". I mean, really, just pass me a bucket.
Being "deep" means being original and creative! At least to me it does. I always get quite offended when people call me "deep" (here, air quotes denote derogatory tone). It's like; "well gee, thanks for telling me I sound like everyone else". I don't know. Maybe this makes me shallow. Well: I'd rather be shallow than a cliche any day, that's for sure.
This is done so beautifully. I've watched it countless times and it doesn't get old. Taken from the German film, The White Ribbon, 2009.
This film is so clever!
I completely assumed the worst. I feel like a terrible human being.
The crow looks so happy with his beak all wide. Gold stars all round!
I've watched quite a few of Jr Canest's videos on youtube, and thought they were all great, and this one really interested me. However, it took me several months to actual get around to watching the full video. I did yesterday; it was brilliant.
So what is the problem? Maybe there's a lot of them, but maybe, it's just one problem with many, many symptoms. Personally, I agree that the main problem's people. Without people then the world would get on fine. Probably. Or maybe the animals would go crazy and destroy each other along with the planet. But then, perhaps, maybe that's destiny? How do we know that this isn't the way the world was intended to go? To just get a bit lame and peter out. It looks like eventually Earth's going to end up either some glorious Utopia or fall into some pitiful dystopia.
The problem? Some say people need to talk to each other. I think people do plenty enough talking. What needs to happen, is for people to start listening. But we have better things to do, like work, or mowing the lawn, or defrosting the cat, and besides, why should we have to do something. Someone else will do it, right? Someone's got to, but it's not my problem.
I learnt about this woman in psychology a while ago. She was murdered in the street and there was loads of people in the apartment block next to her, all watching. Nobody phoned the police. They all thought, "well someone else will see. Someone else will phone." No-one did.
The problem is that poor woman, and the people in the apartments. We can't worry at the attacker, the antagonist; not right now. We just need to fix what we can.
And if we don't? Well stop stressing about it! If you're not going to do something, there's no point fretting. You'll just yourself get in a state!
http://www.youtube.com/jr0canest
http://jrcanest.com/WHATSTHEPROBLEM/
I bloody love wind farms
Finally.So, I watched this short film, which I thought was quite lovely, the music especially and the colours and stuff, but the problem I had with it, was that I realised the "twist" by about 1:30, which meant the rest of the film was spent waiting for the inevitable. Which was fine. Maybe it was intentional, I don't know, I just feel that the time lapses towards the end seemed to drag on, and made you forget what the film was actually about.
It was quite lovely on the whole though, and it seemed very similar to the short film I wrote in college. Perhaps even too similar, which is saddening to me. Then again, they do say that there's only like, what? Seven actual stories in the world. Everything else is just variation on the theme.
Oh, and by the way: Who are these "They" people anyway? Why do they get to decide everything?
The comic is something that I've been writing with my friend since we were about 13 years old, it started as a series of short, humorous stories with unrelated characters and plots: