The Matrix Reloaded Club/Dance/Sex Scene

So I just walked into my common room, and people were watching Matrix Reloaded, and I forgot how ill this scene was. Pretty much you see the humans dancing and clubbing while also seeing Trinity and Neo doing it. The message is simple: its way cooler to be a human then a machine.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMzw5ARknRM

Street Art (the new pretentious term for Grafitti!)

My Professor showed this video the other day, he was doing a lecture on street art--he showed us this sick video. Check it out, watch the whole thing, I think the beginning might be a little slow, but by the end your jaw will be dropping due to amazement.


JR - EXTRAIT "WOMEN ARE HEROES", Kibera, Kenya
Uploaded by JR. - Discover more animation and arts videos.

The Pura Principle

Recently read this short story in the New Yorker. An excellent little tale. Junot Diaz has a sick style, writing in an authentic sounding Dominican voice. Here is the first paragraph:

Those last months. No way of wrapping it pretty or pretending otherwise: Rafa estaba jodido. By then it was only me and Mami taking care of him and we didn’t know what the fuck to do, what the fuck to say. So we just said nothing. My mom wasn’t the effusive type anyway, had one of those event-horizon personalities—shit just fell into her and you never really knew what she felt about it. She just seemed to take it, never gave anything off, not light, not heat. Crinkled her eyes, maybe, or frowned, but that was it. Me, I wouldn’t have wanted to talk even if she had been game. The few times my boys at school tried to bring it up, I flipped. Told them to mind their own fucking business. To get out of my face. I was seventeen and a half. Smoking so much bud that if I remembered an hour from any one of those days it would have been a lot.

Read more: http://www.newyorker.com/fiction/features/2010/03/22/100322fi_fiction_diaz#ixzz0jIKNCAih

Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World The Official Trailer

I'm not going to lie, I am not a huge fan of this trailer. Hopefully the movie is still good. A second viewing has made made me come to the decision that the problem lies in Michael Cera...he is doing his regular thing, and that's not a very accurate portrayal of the character in the comic. But, here's hoping the movie is good (I mean we got the Shaun of the Dead director, amazing source material, and Jason Schwartzman is in it to.) Let us hope. :)

Awesome Video of Festival in Thailand

This is a really cool clip of this festival in Thailand. Surreal.

MGMT - Congratulations

The Swearing Episode of Arthur

This is actually the craziest video I have ever seen. I first saw this episode of Arthur when I discovered they had started making new episodes. This is probably one of the better new episodes and it isn't even that good. Its only cool due to the shock value of all the swearing. 

New MGMT album!

New MGMT album is out. From the one listen I gave it, it was a pretty sick album. Shout out to Nathan for linking me the link that I am now linking to you. : )

http://www.whoismgmt.com/

Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody (the greatest live video ever!)

Woke up this morning with my roommate playing this across from me. Seeing this made my day, I should have just slept for the rest of the day--there was no potential for anything as great to happen.

Belle & Sebastian - She's Losing It

Interesting New York Times Article On Scientology

Last night I sat through the not so uncommon debate on religion. You know the one, where everyone waits for their turn to speak, throw some big words around, and then let the next person have a go. For a minute I thought I felt a slight superiority realizing how silly the conversation was--but then I think I realized I was truly just jealous that I didn't get to throw my own pretentious comments into the bag.

Anyways, the conversation inspired me to read this article on New York Times about Scientology. And wow, I recommend reading, very interesting. Its weird because you read up on the practices and you think, how eery, creepy and strange the whole religion is--but then at the same time think about how moronic it sounds. Though, the article I have linked below was really interesting because for scientologists it really isn't a joke--its their life--they believe in what they are doing. Though, after reading the article it seems that there is a growing  divide between scientologists and their subsequent church. It seems like scientology soon might be going through it's own 'reformation.' Nuts!


http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/07/us/07scientology.html?pagewanted=1&sq=scientology&st=cse&scp=2

All this scientology business had me thinking about the South Park episode. The controversial episode that lead to Isaac Hayes leaving the show, and subsequently lead to Tom Cruise trying to ban the episode.

Chat Roulette Funny Piano Improv

Ken Robinson says schools kill creativity

Interesting Essay on George Orwell

The writer of this piece is talking about how it's difficult to place George Orwell as a journalist, novelist, political scientist, and more. It is for this reason that his ideas have endured. I didn't really care, I just thought it was fun to read what to me was a mini-bio of George Orwell.


http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/14/books/review/Wheatcroft-t.html?scp=2&sq=george%20orwell&st=cse

Gorillaz - On Melancholy Hill

Super Mash Bros - Meet Me At Fantasy Island

MGMT - Flash Delirium

A Monster Lecture on Justice and Law by Friedrich Durrenmatt

I'm reading this short story/lecture/philosophical article/essay by this dude known as Friedrich Durrenmatt (picture above this.) I have an essay of his linked at the bottom. I haven't read the whole thing and I probably won't, though I recommend reading the first page and a half (start on page 74 'first story' or so I have linked, as it is a bit of a laugh. The story concludes with the prophet Muhammad being explained to by God his reasoning for the injustices Muhammad observes. Suggesting a sort of cosmic view of justice/injustice which Durrenmatt then goes onto discuss (his conclusion: I have no idea, I stopped reading to make this post. Can someone say procrastination!)


http://books.google.ca/books?id=4IwtDDSO554C&pg=PA73&lpg=PA73&dq=a+monster+lecture+on+justice+and+law+friedrich+durrenmatt&source=bl&ots=yxeX22wUdd&sig=_VZ2pQNjanINWCGtRoBf_LrUG84&hl=en&ei=cSGVS5CBC4_iNfuzmKsN&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4&ved=0CBIQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=&f=false

Dave Chappelle - Kid's Cartoons

Die Antwoord - Zef Side.

New Roman Polanski film: The Ghost Writer

So this movie looks dope. Roman Polanski (director of Chinatown and The Pianist. And also on another interesting note: Roman Polanski can't go to the United States due to charges related to molestation and rape of some little girl!!!) is coming out with a new movie called Ghost Writer. And it's some mystery/thriller, I don't really care, the guy is an excellent director as well as the movie gets 85% at rotten tomatoes.com. All systems are go. This movie looks sick.

Plastic Bertrand - Ca Plane Pour Moi

The J-List: An Everchanging List of Awesome Stuff (Not Just Great Music)

Hello to the supposed 24 viewers who view this blog (this statistic is taken from my google analytics account, I doubt it's true.  So I correct myself, the four of you). I've been meaning to do this for a long time, but with a certain level of .html retardation I've had no real initiative to begin the endeavour. I plan to change the content of this blog. I will not be getting rid of the music recommendation, I will just be adding interesting articles, essays, short stories, trailers, funny videos, and other interesting/cool/awesome things I find over the inter-web. Reason for change is pretty simple: I don't listen to music as meticulously as I used to (i.e listening to podcasts, frequently going to music blogs, etc.) Now it seems, at university with all the work, that I only hear music when I'm partying. A few days after adding such tunes in my hungover-ness, I realize that half of it is shitty, so to retain the quality of the music on this blog but at the same time have frequent amount of posts, I've decided to up the content. Hope that makes sense. Anyways, on the right side, you can see a section entitled 'labels' that is where everything will be going now, expect that list of labels to grow. Umm, the painting above is one by Francisco Goya, and I only put it up to grab your attention. Hope you liked it.

Jakob