Muscle March turned my 6 year old white son into a 6,3” jacked black man! Muscle March!

Hot damn! The first 10 minutes of The Road Warrior are just as awesome as I remember. Great narration too:

“In the roar of an engine, he lost everything. And became a shell of a man, a burnt out, desolate man, a man haunted by the demons of his past, a man who wandered out into the wasteland. And it was here, in this blighted place, that he learned to live again…”

Think I know what I’ll be watching tonight!

As a kid, a few films defined my existence. They were Aliens, The Terminator, Predator and The Road Warrior. I still love all of those films, I’ve seen em hundreds of times. That said, I’d say that these fearless nerds may have seen The Road Warrior a few more times than me. Welcome to Road Warrior Weekend 2009! How did I miss this!

BEWARE, Magnets! This guy got his finger crushed when 2 Neodymium magnets with pull forces of 700lbs and 400lbs slammed together unexpectedly. They were almost 2 feet apart at the time of the accident. Crazy!

BEWARE, Magnets! This guy got his finger crushed when 2 Neodymium magnets with pull forces of 700lbs and 400lbs slammed together unexpectedly. They were almost 2 feet apart at the time of the accident. Crazy!

Calling all fellow Chicagoans from the 80’s… remember this once loved tragedy?

From “The Story of Stuff” crew comes a new video about “Cap & Trade”. For those not following the future of Earth, Cap & Trade basically ties pollution regulation to the free market. Time and time again people (and their governments) have been duped into embracing free market policies by convincing and selfish institutions, often to their own detriment. Just talk to the people of Argentina or Chili or any African nation that has ever agreed to take a loan from the IMF or World Bank. The poor and underrepresented will always loose because the free market is definitely not a fair market and it has nothing to do with freedom… it is all about self interest. The last thing I want to see is the future of the planet hedged on the market. We should not be trading our future, we should be building it. Why do we never learn?

The Promised Land

John Hillcoat is directing. Nick Cave is writing. The story follows three brothers at the center of the moonshine trade during the great depression. That is all that needs to be said. It’s definitely at the top of my must see list. If you haven’t already seen the 2005 Hillcoat/Cave masterpiece, The Proposition, you really must. It is one of the most impressive (and brutal) films I’ve ever seen. Hillcoat also recently directed the adaption of Cormac McCarthy’s, The Road, which I hear is getting favorable reviews.

I was talking with a friend today and she reminded me just how awesome the video for Aphex Twin’s Windowlicker was. For anyone who somehow hasn’t seen it, you’re in for a great ride. Some golden stuff from the end of the 90s here.

Olly Moss does some excellent illustration. I found him while browsing the artwork for the superbly named podcast, “A Life Well Wasted”. I think I’m going to buy the new piece he did for the 5th episode, it’s fucking awesome.

Olly Moss does some excellent illustration. I found him while browsing the artwork for the superbly named podcast, “A Life Well Wasted”. I think I’m going to buy the new piece he did for the 5th episode, it’s fucking awesome.

I just finished reading some translated minutes from top Soviet military and political officials discussions regarding the failure of Soviet efforts in Afghanistan in the 80s. The NSA released these documents to the public domain on October 30, 2009. There are some striking similarities and prophetic quotes to be found…“Military actions in Afghanistan will soon be seven years old. There is not one square kilometer left untouched by the boot of a Soviet soldier, but as soon as they leave a place, the enemy returns and restores it all back the way it used to be. The whole problem is that military results are not followed up by political actions. At the centre there is authority; in the provinces there is not. We control Kabul and the provincial centers, but on occupied territory we cannot establish authority. We have lost the battle for the Afghan people.” - Soviet armed forces commander, Marshal Sergei Akhromeev speaking to Gorbachev in 1986“We just need to be sure that the final result does not look like a humiliating defeat: to have lost so many men and now abandoned it all… in short, we have to get out of there.” - Mikhail Gorbachev speaking to his military commanders on withdrawal from Afghanistan in 1986 Never has the famous quote from George Santayana been truer. “Those who fail to study history are doomed to repeat it.”

I just finished reading some translated minutes from top Soviet military and political officials discussions regarding the failure of Soviet efforts in Afghanistan in the 80s. The NSA released these documents to the public domain on October 30, 2009. There are some striking similarities and prophetic quotes to be found…

“Military actions in Afghanistan will soon be seven years old. There is not one square kilometer left untouched by the boot of a Soviet soldier, but as soon as they leave a place, the enemy returns and restores it all back the way it used to be. The whole problem is that military results are not followed up by political actions. At the centre there is authority; in the provinces there is not. We control Kabul and the provincial centers, but on occupied territory we cannot establish authority. We have lost the battle for the Afghan people.” - Soviet armed forces commander, Marshal Sergei Akhromeev speaking to Gorbachev in 1986

“We just need to be sure that the final result does not look like a humiliating defeat: to have lost so many men and now abandoned it all… in short, we have to get out of there.” - Mikhail Gorbachev speaking to his military commanders on withdrawal from Afghanistan in 1986

Never has the famous quote from George Santayana been truer. “Those who fail to study history are doomed to repeat it.”