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[skonen_blades]

Lovely.

This is a beautiful video and song.

Watch on YouTube

and jeez, what is wrong with me? This ad almost had me in tears.

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This is kind of a cool ad for the good samaritans hotline. I think it kind of loses it about halfway through but hey, judge for yourself. Most of it is awesome.

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And this is nice. They used the music from the first one for a nice little advertisment here. I think it's for a bank or something?

Watch on YouTube

So there you. Hope you're all doing well.


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[molasses.livejournal.com]

wow!

[skonen-blades.livejournal.com]

yeah, there's good stuff there. Loving the rabbit nose, by the way.

[molasses.livejournal.com]

i'm a furry. (furrie?) (fury?)
just kidding!!
i'm very "lippy" today!
heee!

[skonen-blades.livejournal.com]

Oh, those pesky furries, ruining the orgies for everyone who has allergies.

[molasses.livejournal.com]

see, i'd have to show up naked and say i got skinned.

i'm all cheeky today, pardon me.

[skonen-blades.livejournal.com]

Nudity = forgiveness

[zenrender.livejournal.com]

And if you need to lighten up with something silly, try Lemon Jelly's 'Nice Weather for Ducks'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8yx4k4tzqE

[skonen-blades.livejournal.com]

Magnificent. Cheers.

[jeff2001.livejournal.com]

That Laika ad is awesome -- it's good to see Laika with a happy destiny, and nothing that I haven't essayed several times myself.

Zune, however, can go fuck itself.

[skonen-blades.livejournal.com]

While I'm indifferent to zune, I share your sentiment regarding the commercial. It's nice to imagine this kind of destiny for poor Laika who undoubtedly spent the last few hours of her life whining into the microphone as she asphyxiated and overheated.

[skonen-blades.livejournal.com]

Bad experiences with Zune?

[jeff2001.livejournal.com]

Indifferent, like you -- I don't care to have companies hijacking sentiment. For example, it makes me like the M&Ms people less to hear "This Is The Day" on their commercial. This is a song that brings back pleasant memories -- I feel like they're trying to associate that with their product. Course, I do like M&Ms, so I guess I'm screwed.

[skonen-blades.livejournal.com]

ha ha. yeah. I remember when I was a kid, it was the long distance companies that really swamped the market with tear jerkers.

Is your last name Swanson?

[jeff2001.livejournal.com]

Yeah...why, you know me? From the Outside?

[skonen-blades.livejournal.com]

No. We have a mutual fan who mentioned that she was a big fan of myself and someone named Jeff Swanson. After careful investigation and hours of concentration, I realized that your name was Jeff.

It also occured to me that your last name is one letter away from being Swansong which I thought was a funny thing to occur to me especially considering the way you play so beautifully with words and spoonerisms and changed meanings.

[jeff2001.livejournal.com]

You gonna tell me who?

Thank you for the compliment. How weird that Swansong occurred to you when you heard my name Swanson. What're the odds? I mean, that is really really unusual... ;-)

[skonen-blades.livejournal.com]

Carol? Carol. Brushstrokes. Ring any bells? She says that sometimes, reading our comments to each other is just as entertaining as reading out stuff. : )

Ah. So I'm not the first? Apologies. Sometimes, with things like that, it's the first time a person's heard it. This time? Not so much.

[jeff2001.livejournal.com]

She's a good one for backchannel communications...I'm not sure why, I just think she's too shy to be public.

I was working on something earlier with "hurled 'gainst the duncan shields" in Shakespearean iambic pentameter. I'll let you know when I have something. Although I did come up with "she thrust herself against the duncan shields and thus saved the space station from decompressing", which suggests a story. If I ever need shielding in a sci-fi story, you'll be famous.

[Pithy edit!]

[skonen-blades.livejournal.com]

yeah I got that feeling. Well, she's a big fan and no mistake, bless her.

Ha ha, iambic pentameter. BRING IT! Looking forward to it. I may have to do the same for you.

[skonen-blades.livejournal.com]

My middle name is Magnus if you want to throw that in there somewhere.

[lafinjack.livejournal.com]

Re: Laika

Come on, let's go drink pink martinis with our pinkies out while wearing bikini-tops and grass skirts and remark upon the fat ankles of the waitress while crying out eyes out. It'll be very manly.


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Re: oscilloscopes

[skonen-blades.livejournal.com]

Manly indeed.

Oooo girl, who does that waitress think she is? She think she cute. Mmmm-hhmm! Well, she ain't! Hell nah. She's just a two-ton heifer pretending to be a deer. Can I get an amen? Sheeeeyit.

Pinky. Sip. Mascara running down my old, fat face.

That's a great little web cartoon there. Something about wish-fulfillment death fantasies turn me inside out. Did you ever see Babe 2: Pig in the City? Fucking awesome film.

I really liked that oscilloscope stuff. Nice.

[lafinjack.livejournal.com]

I thought the first one was OK, but haven't seen the second. Wouldn't be the first place I'd look for great film, but then... my favorite movie of all time is Hudson Hawk, so my judgment is probably flawed.

[skonen-blades.livejournal.com]

Ain't nothing wrong with your judgement.

"Hey mister, are you gonna die?"
"Well, I can see who wears the penis in this family."
"Duh, I heard something."
"One hundred million and ONE, waldo!"
"Outbid by mine own wench."
"I did my first bare-handed strangulation here."
"Bunny! Ball ball!"

Great movie. Love it to pieces.

Babe 2 kicks the ASS of the first one. It's not even in the same league. There were so many cash-grab lame-assed sequels floating around at the time, especially in the family market, that Babe 2 sank without a trace, regardless of the fact that it was nominated for an Oscar (well, for soundtrack) and Gene Siskel called it his film of the year. It has circus monkeys! It had a drunk Mickey Rooney playing a clown! It has a bizarre metaphorical city that represents ALL cities! It pulls hearstrings!

I seriously think it'll surprise you with it's magnificence.

[lafinjack.livejournal.com]

Yeah, HH was another one that was flogged without merit. Everyone was expecting another Die Hard, forgetting that he cut his teeth showing up Sybil Shepherd on Moonlighting. Accordingly, the Fifth Element follows it on my list as a close second.

Sounds like I'll have to put Babe 2 on my list.

[lafinjack.livejournal.com]

Oh, and the oscilloscope game was made in 1958, fourteen years before Pong came out.

[skonen-blades.livejournal.com]

SWEET! That's good to know. I thought it was current but just retro, y'know? That's actual footage from the way back machine then, is it? Sweet. Nerd factor: 5¹²

[lafinjack.livejournal.com]

Hmm, that's a good question. Some digging (one and two) suggests that the video was made much later, with the project being mostly unknown outside the government facility it was made at until the '80s.

[jeff2001.livejournal.com]

That comic...where'd it come from and where can I see more?

[lafinjack.livejournal.com]

Those are two very good questions.

[jeff2001.livejournal.com]

Ah, authored by the Ether.

Well, quality will out.

[lafinjack.livejournal.com]

I'm back from work, and did some digging.