Saturday, February 21, 2004
In the happy time between days...
Something Positive is quite possibly one of the most balls-out funny comics ever, web or non. If you like the stylings of Maddox or Something Awful, then this is right up your alley. Sarcasm and bitterness, when combined in the right situations make for funny of monolithic proportions, and where Maddox and SA fail sometimes (or often, in the case of SA) due to making the butt of their jokes more or less real, S*P just makes up its own due to being fictional, and is the better for it. Best to start from the beginning though, since many of the characters some warming to before you know what they're about.
Linux, part deux
Gentoo Linux rules. It really does. From what I've used of the emerge/Portage system, it's like software installation heaven. You just say "Hey Linux! Go fetch me GAIM!" or "Yo! Go get me Gnome!" or "Bitch! Go make me a sammidge!" and like an obedient little serving wench, Gentoo runs off and prepares whatever you want, and even checks to see that you have everything you will need to enjoy said program before doing so. Best of all, everything ends up being compiled on your system, tailored to your setup, so it all runs like a dream... in theory. See, as cool as this is, I didn't actually get to do anything with it. All the Portaging I did was in the very extensive and complicated install process. I thought I had enough Linux in me to get through a stage 2 install, set everything up and be off to the races like I was when I installed Mandrake. Gentoo, well she is not so easy.
So after literally 18 hours of compiling and setting up, I finally decided to cut my losses after going for the magic reboot and watching my root partition not mount. That, in English, basically means that nothing happens, right quick. So I am back in Windows yet again, to my shame. I really so very much wanted to use Gentoo, but I need to nurse my wounds and learn a bit more about Linux first. I hear there's a newer Knoppix disc out, so I'll have to play with that a bit.
On the bright side, at least I can still play Gunbound!
Movies and thumbs
I've recently seen a few movies that I'd like to share my opinion of, first of which is Amelie. For the longest time, the best romatic-type movie that I've seen has been Chasing Amy, mainly because it's a romatic comedy, but with dick, fart and gay jokes. Oh, and lesbians. Now, however, Amy has been dethroned by Amelie, mainly since Amelie is just too quirky not to like. I am also completely convinced that it could not have been made in any language or culture other than French. Simply from the opening credits with the narrator talking about flies and tablecloths, the movie sounds just right exactly the way it is. They said in the extras that Jean-Pierre Jeunet was a control freak, and it shows. Thumbs way up on this flick.
The other one is a rerun, and that is Brazil. Gilliam is one of my favorite directors, mainly because he does things in very surreal and weird ways. Brazil is no exception, and it has the further bonus of being a black comedy. Sure, on the surface it's a love story, but the thing I really love about the film is that it's so layered. Under the main love story is a layer of nicely black laughs, some of which you just need to stop and wonder at, since it's so believable. I'm positive that if it weren't for computers rendering things paperless today, we would be just like the people in Brazil, all caught up in bureaucracy and paperwork. It's even kind of scary, since we just might still. The DVD I have of Brazil is not the greatest. The video quality and the audio leave much to be desired, and there is nothing at all for extras. I so very much want the Criterion Collection, but it's at least 75 dollars online and 100 if I buy from the local HMV. If anyone should happen to send me a copy though, I'd probably make you my new best friend... Anyways, thumbs way up on this guy as well.
I'll probably give my opinion on Rushmore soon, since it was recommended to me by WhatToRent.com, and I liked another of Wes Anderson's movies, The Royal Tenenbaums. Only left for me to decide is whether to just buy the DVD sight unseen (which my track record of doing isn't too shabby...) or just rent (which, for various reasons, I hate doing for disc media).
Gnomes ate my spleen, and other delightful stories
Well, only if you consider gnomes to be Sims. For your daily prescribed dosage of mind-tripping, just think: You're playing the Sims, in which your Sim is playing SimCity, and in the SimCity, there are more Sims playing the Sims whose Sims are governing SimCities populated by more Sims playing SimCity... We might just start some bizarre quantum Sim-explosion or something.
Just when you think you've figured out how to "guess the number of M&Ms in the goldfish bowl", someone comes along with something like this. I mean, really! How would you think of this? Just staring at a bowl of candy and think... I wonder if I can get more M&Ms into that bowl than that other, spherical candy? Probably the same people that measure the friction of dragging sheep over various surfaces.
Listen to this once, and you'll be hearing it all week in your head. I remember seeing another cartoon of the same song that was much funnier, but damned if I could find it again.
So yeah. Seeing as how it's like 1:30am where I am, and I've basically spent the whole day trying to get my computer to work like I want it to, I'm going to bed now. Ciao. ¶ 10:53 p.m.
"Look Peejee, I'm a zombie sex-kitten. 'Cunnilingus and braaaaaains... cunnilingus and braaaaaains!'"
Aubrey, from Something Positive
Something Positive is quite possibly one of the most balls-out funny comics ever, web or non. If you like the stylings of Maddox or Something Awful, then this is right up your alley. Sarcasm and bitterness, when combined in the right situations make for funny of monolithic proportions, and where Maddox and SA fail sometimes (or often, in the case of SA) due to making the butt of their jokes more or less real, S*P just makes up its own due to being fictional, and is the better for it. Best to start from the beginning though, since many of the characters some warming to before you know what they're about.
Linux, part deux
Gentoo Linux rules. It really does. From what I've used of the emerge/Portage system, it's like software installation heaven. You just say "Hey Linux! Go fetch me GAIM!" or "Yo! Go get me Gnome!" or "Bitch! Go make me a sammidge!" and like an obedient little serving wench, Gentoo runs off and prepares whatever you want, and even checks to see that you have everything you will need to enjoy said program before doing so. Best of all, everything ends up being compiled on your system, tailored to your setup, so it all runs like a dream... in theory. See, as cool as this is, I didn't actually get to do anything with it. All the Portaging I did was in the very extensive and complicated install process. I thought I had enough Linux in me to get through a stage 2 install, set everything up and be off to the races like I was when I installed Mandrake. Gentoo, well she is not so easy.
So after literally 18 hours of compiling and setting up, I finally decided to cut my losses after going for the magic reboot and watching my root partition not mount. That, in English, basically means that nothing happens, right quick. So I am back in Windows yet again, to my shame. I really so very much wanted to use Gentoo, but I need to nurse my wounds and learn a bit more about Linux first. I hear there's a newer Knoppix disc out, so I'll have to play with that a bit.
On the bright side, at least I can still play Gunbound!
Movies and thumbs
I've recently seen a few movies that I'd like to share my opinion of, first of which is Amelie. For the longest time, the best romatic-type movie that I've seen has been Chasing Amy, mainly because it's a romatic comedy, but with dick, fart and gay jokes. Oh, and lesbians. Now, however, Amy has been dethroned by Amelie, mainly since Amelie is just too quirky not to like. I am also completely convinced that it could not have been made in any language or culture other than French. Simply from the opening credits with the narrator talking about flies and tablecloths, the movie sounds just right exactly the way it is. They said in the extras that Jean-Pierre Jeunet was a control freak, and it shows. Thumbs way up on this flick.
The other one is a rerun, and that is Brazil. Gilliam is one of my favorite directors, mainly because he does things in very surreal and weird ways. Brazil is no exception, and it has the further bonus of being a black comedy. Sure, on the surface it's a love story, but the thing I really love about the film is that it's so layered. Under the main love story is a layer of nicely black laughs, some of which you just need to stop and wonder at, since it's so believable. I'm positive that if it weren't for computers rendering things paperless today, we would be just like the people in Brazil, all caught up in bureaucracy and paperwork. It's even kind of scary, since we just might still. The DVD I have of Brazil is not the greatest. The video quality and the audio leave much to be desired, and there is nothing at all for extras. I so very much want the Criterion Collection, but it's at least 75 dollars online and 100 if I buy from the local HMV. If anyone should happen to send me a copy though, I'd probably make you my new best friend... Anyways, thumbs way up on this guy as well.
I'll probably give my opinion on Rushmore soon, since it was recommended to me by WhatToRent.com, and I liked another of Wes Anderson's movies, The Royal Tenenbaums. Only left for me to decide is whether to just buy the DVD sight unseen (which my track record of doing isn't too shabby...) or just rent (which, for various reasons, I hate doing for disc media).
Gnomes ate my spleen, and other delightful stories
Well, only if you consider gnomes to be Sims. For your daily prescribed dosage of mind-tripping, just think: You're playing the Sims, in which your Sim is playing SimCity, and in the SimCity, there are more Sims playing the Sims whose Sims are governing SimCities populated by more Sims playing SimCity... We might just start some bizarre quantum Sim-explosion or something.
Just when you think you've figured out how to "guess the number of M&Ms in the goldfish bowl", someone comes along with something like this. I mean, really! How would you think of this? Just staring at a bowl of candy and think... I wonder if I can get more M&Ms into that bowl than that other, spherical candy? Probably the same people that measure the friction of dragging sheep over various surfaces.
Listen to this once, and you'll be hearing it all week in your head. I remember seeing another cartoon of the same song that was much funnier, but damned if I could find it again.
So yeah. Seeing as how it's like 1:30am where I am, and I've basically spent the whole day trying to get my computer to work like I want it to, I'm going to bed now. Ciao. ¶ 10:53 p.m.
