In 1997, MTV produced one of the most prescient shows in television history about privacy, surveillance, technology. It was partially funded by U2, had nothing to do with U2 (album outtakes were used (more…)
NEWSLETTER #0004 WHAT HAPPENED I JUST SENT IT AND THERE IS NEW STUFF SHEESH
TL;DR – In this edition: That space walk is unreal, the Focal Point Mech Suit is probably #1 to look at. And watch Alan Tudyk in Resident Alien on SyFy. Lastly, click the Amalfi Coast 4K video to see kayak (more…)
Newsletter #0003 – My newsletter is an NFT! You get to own Baffled Perculosis as part of it!
Sharlken Barkem Nargotam! Making up words is easy when you listen to drunken writers and comedians speak in tongues to do invocations against REALLY mean and sassy skeletons. Speaking of that fact, know (more…)
Memories are quite weird. So was when Marilyn Chambers touched my bottom.
I watch bunny ear rabbit TV. A network is doing a great job showing old horror films that deal with pandemics and social fears. All of a sudden Rabid is on, and I totally forgot about how much I loved (more…)
You’re not going to see me talking about the intersection of Buddhism, suffering, the human condition, meaning and purpose, and the notion of a broader concept of leisure. NO SIR NOT AT ALL.
So we’ve all been totally fine during the pandemic, right? ha… In my case, i’ve gone through about 3 distinct intellectual ringers of annihilation and rebirth (funny enough, a post about that film (more…)
People fighting the good fight, and who get down on the complexity of our past… sit on and think about this simple lyric.
“Don’t let the past remind us of what we are not now”. I’m thinking this Crosby Stills and Nash lyric is more important now than when they wrote it. I can’t stop thinking about it, so I share it. I’m (more…)
Adam Ruins Hawaii, or the horrifying story of how Hawaii became a state, aka “The history you never knew, and the real history you don’t want to know”.
2 mins clip: The season 2 episode 9 “adam ruins his vacation” goes into a little more depth, longer segment in the last 1/3 of the show. Honestly, as shocking as those 2 minutes might seem, it’s oversimplified, (more…)
The Next Intellectual Property Gold Rush is coming, ie the post-comic push for meaningful use of video gaming intellectual property
I sort of wish I had known / realized that the Resident Evil 2 game I am finishing up was so different as a remade/remastered version of the original from 20 years ago. I wasn’t even thinking of 90s graphics (more…)
Mozart wrote for silly rich people, and Khachaturian wrote for the Gods.
So many things are complex, and such as it is, so are they with my emotions with this video. We’ve been watching mucho live jazz and classical at night. I know I am just a DJ, but I’ve been a competent (more…)
Going from sanity to being locked into the subjectivity of existence, a note from the movie Annihilation.
In researching Annihilation, Alex Garland’s (yes) masterpiece (and one of my favorite films of all time), I am also taken with how the film could hit different now vs its release, simply because so much (more…)