The Meme-Mandated, Semi-Regularly-Updated, Occasionally Coherent Thoughts of G.M. Skarka
Atomic Fire At Your Fingertips!
I spotted this over on my friend Theron’s Livejournal:
BROTRON LABS: “Yesterday’s Future, Today!” A website for a sculptor who makes retro-futuristic death rays and combat robots out of old machine parts and the like. Check “Gallery” for some great photos, and “Test Footage” has an absolutely hilarious Death Ray commercial.
Seeing stuff like this really makes me wish that I had done something with my proposed RetroFuture game concept from 4 years ago.
Music Meme
A good antidote to the seething anger that thoughts of politics and current affairs engenders within me: a meaningless net-meme!
Here’s how it works: Set your playlist to random and choose your favorite line from each of the first twenty songs that come up and then make all your friends guess what the songs are. Avoid lyrics that give the title, obviously.
For the sake of fairness, I guess I’ll skip over the tons of instrumentals that are sure to come up, and just do 20 songs with lyrics. Be warned, however, that this will be an eclectic mix, with some obscure stuff.
Here we go:
1. “I won’t forget all the times I waited patiently for you, as you do just what you choose to do”
2. “Radio, video…boogie with a suitcase…you’re living in a disco…forget about the rat race.”
3. “I’m not braggin’ on myself, baby, but I’m the one who loves you, and there’s no-one else.”
4. “Been around the world and found that only stupid people are breeding…”
5. “So you go and you stand on your own, and you leave on your own, and you go home, and you cry and you want to die.”
6. “Don’t take the fire from your eyes, must make them feel the heat. They build castles underground for the rich politic elite.”
7. “For the first time in the history of the world, a young girl climbed into a tree one day. She climbed down from the tree next day–God bless her.”
8. “I keep your picture on the wall…it hides a nasty stain that’s lying there.”
9. “Try to make ends meet, you’re a slave to money, then you die.”
10. “Echoing reverberations…I am now remembering your kiss is a dream…Elations extreme.”
11. “…and love is a stranger who’ll beckon you on. Don’t think of the danger, or the stranger is gone.”
12. “I won’t tear the sack up…Punk you’d better back up…Try and play the role and yo the whole crew will act up.”
13. “Don’t want to leave you really. I’ve invested too much time to give you up that easy to the doubts that complicate your mind.”
14. “Never gonna stop, give it up. Such a dirty mind.”
15. “Close the city, and tell the people that something’s coming to call…”
16. “My mind is clearer now. At last, all to well, I can see where we all soon will be.”
17. “There’s dancing behind movie scenes, behind the movie scenes – Sadi Rani”
18. “…And then there’s those other things which for several reasons we won’t mention.”
19. “When I looked in her eyes they were blue but nobody home”
20. “I miss him…that man I almost met. How can it be that we shared a secret?”
Wow. That is a strange mix. Have at it, folks.
Don’t Just Bitch. DO SOMETHING
Tonight, ABC’s Nightline will devote their entire program to Ted Koppel reading the names of all 722 American service men and women killed in Iraq since the start of military operations over a year ago.
However, Sinclair Broadcast Group has commanded it’s ABC affiliates to pre-empt the show, stating that “despite the denials by a spokeswoman for the show, the action appears to be motivated by a political agenda designed to undermine the efforts of the United States in Iraq.”
You read that right. A private corporation (which JUST HAPPENS to be run by major Bush contributors, but I’m sure that’s just a coincidence, right?) is deciding what the American citizens in 7 cities need to hear, for their own good. They are quoted as saying “”We find it to be contrary to public interest.”
For fuck’s sake, people…wake up already. This is the 21st century…shit like this was supposed to have gone by the wayside by now. They’re only going to get away with it if you let them.
Even if you don’t live in one of the seven markets directly affected (Columbus, Ohio; St. Louis, Missouri; Pensacola, Florida; Asheville, North Carolina; Charleston, West Virginia; Winston-Salem, North Carolina; and Springfield, Massachusetts), you can make your voice heard. Sinclair owns 62 television stations in 39 markets. If you have a Sinclair-owned station in your market, contact them today and tell them that they’ve just lost you as a viewer….and tell them WHY.
Enough is enough.