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Another YouTube night at the Ryan and Bobby’s.  This week’s theme: old-time Disney.  Mathmagic!

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Wwwwwwwwhat.

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Andy Irvine and Paul Brady - Martinmas Time and the Little Stack of Wheat

I felt posting this song was appropriate given the time of year.  Seriously, if this song fails to completely delight you … I have nothing to say to you.

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masterblaster:

Lisztomania by Phoenix, The Alex Metric Remix

Daaaaamn.

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funktastik: via izismile.com Clearly a Disney win. You know, I’m so sick of seeing this image that I’m just going to copy and paste the text of this response. I’m calling bullshit on this — certainly some of these are pretty spot on, but really you’re going to reduce Belle’s story to that one moment? Never mind the fact that she is a compassionate thinking girl, who refuses to buy into the town’s narrow minded views on a woman’s place. A girl who refutes an easy life and outright rejects the town’s most arrogant asshole on the grounds that he is shallow, stupid, and chauvinistic. Never mind the fact that in an awful living situation she stood her ground and defied a monster twice her size, boldly speaking her mind to his face on principle alone. Truly the story of Sleeping Beauty is one of a beholden woman, but let us not forget that Prince Phillip, at the end of the movie is utterly unable to rescue Aurora, bound and shackled as he is in Maleficent’s dungeon. In the end it is the cunning, bravery and wit of three elderly women who save Phillip — on the grounds not that he is a prince, a man, or even a handsome one, but rather on speculation that he is Aurora’s true love. It is not the kiss of a man that breaks the enchantment, but rather the token of true love. Sure the story is not quite so progressive as to portray a woman’s varied options, but you know, I’m not sure which ones are available to a girl that is cursed at birth by the Mistress of all Evil. And let’s not pass up Maleficent. Arguably the best drawn and most powerful of Disney’s villains, she appears a self-made woman, answering to no-one, the leader of a small, but terrible army of demonic soldiers. She curses Aurora not out of spite of her beauty, or anything petty, but rather that as an important woman of power and distinction she was not included in celebratory ceremony to which the rest of the entire kingdom was invited. Sure, she essentially pulled a Kanye in the middle of the awardsblessing ceremony, but let us take a minute to instead look at the sacrifices you need to make to assert yourself as a major player in any arena: being well-liked sometimes comes at the cost of standing by your principles, Mephistophelian as they may be. Maleficent understood this, and essentially answered “Fuck YOU, Stephen.” You could argue that this is simply an allegory on the assault of the traditional family by the liberated, single working woman — but then you are faced with, again, the counter force of Flora, Fauna, and Merryweather three other, single working women; women who in their very name embody all the forces of creation and nature. Women who, frankly, appear to be healthy and happy in their manless (single? I’m not so sure) lives. I’m tired of all the revisionist back-biting, let the movies simply be a product of their times, they are entertainment pure and simple, and often pretty amazing ones at that. If you are concerned about what apparently insidious morals they are teaching today’s young girls, maybe its time to think about the intelligence in allowing a fucking DVD to have the final world in a child’s upbringing.

funktastik:

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Clearly a Disney win.

You know, I’m so sick of seeing this image that I’m just going to copy and paste the text of this response.

I’m calling bullshit on this — certainly some of these are pretty spot on, but really you’re going to reduce Belle’s story to that one moment? Never mind the fact that she is a compassionate thinking girl, who refuses to buy into the town’s narrow minded views on a woman’s place. A girl who refutes an easy life and outright rejects the town’s most arrogant asshole on the grounds that he is shallow, stupid, and chauvinistic. Never mind the fact that in an awful living situation she stood her ground and defied a monster twice her size, boldly speaking her mind to his face on principle alone.

Truly the story of Sleeping Beauty is one of a beholden woman, but let us not forget that Prince Phillip, at the end of the movie is utterly unable to rescue Aurora, bound and shackled as he is in Maleficent’s dungeon. In the end it is the cunning, bravery and wit of three elderly women who save Phillip — on the grounds not that he is a prince, a man, or even a handsome one, but rather on speculation that he is Aurora’s true love. It is not the kiss of a man that breaks the enchantment, but rather the token of true love. Sure the story is not quite so progressive as to portray a woman’s varied options, but you know, I’m not sure which ones are available to a girl that is cursed at birth by the Mistress of all Evil.

And let’s not pass up Maleficent. Arguably the best drawn and most powerful of Disney’s villains, she appears a self-made woman, answering to no-one, the leader of a small, but terrible army of demonic soldiers. She curses Aurora not out of spite of her beauty, or anything petty, but rather that as an important woman of power and distinction she was not included in celebratory ceremony to which the rest of the entire kingdom was invited. Sure, she essentially pulled a Kanye in the middle of the awardsblessing ceremony, but let us take a minute to instead look at the sacrifices you need to make to assert yourself as a major player in any arena: being well-liked sometimes comes at the cost of standing by your principles, Mephistophelian as they may be. Maleficent understood this, and essentially answered “Fuck YOU, Stephen.”

You could argue that this is simply an allegory on the assault of the traditional family by the liberated, single working woman — but then you are faced with, again, the counter force of Flora, Fauna, and Merryweather three other, single working women; women who in their very name embody all the forces of creation and nature. Women who, frankly, appear to be healthy and happy in their manless (single? I’m not so sure) lives.

I’m tired of all the revisionist back-biting, let the movies simply be a product of their times, they are entertainment pure and simple, and often pretty amazing ones at that. If you are concerned about what apparently insidious morals they are teaching today’s young girls, maybe its time to think about the intelligence in allowing a fucking DVD to have the final world in a child’s upbringing.

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For instance, it’s how I found this.  It renders all those crappy Mario Paint videos totally unnecessary.

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KnowYourMeme.com

Recently discovered; indispensable.

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THE VENTURE BROTHERS JUST SPENT 2 MINUTES TALKING ABOUT PROGRESSIVE ROCK.

My life is complete.

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postpunk:

Sesame Street - C Is For Cookie (Larry Levan remix)

Egg City Radio recently posted some Sesame Street disco LPs, and I was quite pleased to find a remix by Paradise Garage legend Larry Levan. (Granted, “Me Lost Me Cookie At The Disco” is equally wonderful.)

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vertigo25:

Skhizein (Jérémy Clapin,2008) on Vimeo (via Vimeo)

Wow. On so many levels… wow.

WATCH.

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Happy Halloween, mes amis.

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laura9: comicbooks: hoarr:

laura9:

comicbooks:

hoarr:

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The Invisible Man: Liu Bolin Gallery here.

The Invisible Man: Liu Bolin

Gallery here.

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goldenfiddle: Unmasked, by Chris Ware

goldenfiddle:

Unmasked, by Chris Ware

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Kindle 2 Fails Man's Drop Test, Forces Amazon To Pay Him $400

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