Yellow Submarine

Not the song, the movie.

Easily the most trippy movie I have ever seen.

It’s an animated movie about a land called Pepperland which is destroyed by the “Blue Meanies” (the Meanies achieve this by using giant apples and a large floating glove). Young Fred, captain of the Yellow Submarine, then travels to Liverpool, and enlists the help of The Beatles.

That’s basically the plot. The rest is nothing more than a crazed animated drug trip with Beatles songs. It predates MTV by several decades, essentially inventing music videos.

And it is awesome.

Really, I don’t know how to describe it. Just search for clips on Youtube, or get the video/dvd, or whatver. But find a way to see it.

Dream Chaser

Title: Dream Chaser
Author: Sherrilyn Kenyon
Genre: Supernatural Romance

When a romance novel contains as much hokey dialogue and deus ex machinas as this, it better have some damn good sex scenes to make up for it.

The Visitation

Title: The Visitation
Director: Robby Henson
Year: 2006
Rating: PG-13

The Visitation in a nutshell: A small town is enraptured by the presence of a young man with healing powers, played by greasy-faced, rat’s-nest haired Edward Furlong. Edward fuckin’ Furlong, folks.

Gsus luvz u, say church leaders

Bill Bowtime, The Daily Trudgeon

Christianity needs to re-vamp itself and make it more modern to compete “wit teh hordz of izlam lol”, according to a recent text message sent to many church-goers.

Happy Smiles Corporation – Letters Program

Feeling depressed? Need a laugh? Do you want a bit more adventure in your life? Wish you had a girlfriend?

Happy Smiles Corporation has the perfect solution- why not read other people’s mail! We know it sounds crazy, but there could not be a better way to start your day!

Fitna.

The anti-Muslim film Fitna has been released onto the web by far right Dutch Politician Wilders. I have to say, it’s particularly disturbing. Not because it convinced me of the evil Arab conspiracy to rule the world, but because it seems like something the Nazis could have made.

It quotes selectively from the Qu’ran. In the sense that, it only quotes from one section of the Qu’ran (“Surah”). And it splices it up with movie footage of Islamist fundamentalists ranting about how they are going to kill Jews and Westerners.

Now, if this was a movie against Islamic theocracy then this would be fine. But it’s not. It says that *all* Muslims are anti-Semetic terrorists, which is fairly obviously a pile of bullshit.

You could make a video like this for *any* faith. For example, Catholicism. Just take a few isolated paragraphs from the Bible, scenes of the IRA killing people and children being molested, and there you are. Every Catholic is a child-raping terrorist!

Valentine’s Day

This is a rant.  This is not a rant about Valentine’s Day.  This is a rant about people pissing on Valentine’s Day.

I’m not a typical romantic by any means, and honestly, February 14th fails to persuade me to join the mushy side no matter how much chocolate it offers. In fact, I even lean the opposite way and wonder why we need a holiday specifically for showing our swains how much we love them when it’s quite possible to show that every day — and without the need of flowers and candy. Well, maybe the candy.

No, I’m talking about the people who are bitter and angry that they can’t celebrate it. Yeah, it’s a bummer knowing that most of your friends, coworkers, and (*gulp*) parents will receive a nice dinner, red roses, and hot sex while you’re stuck with the Sad Single Special of a gallon of cheap ice cream, a Meg Ryan movie, and your hand. But you know what? It’s fucking annoying listening to someone whine, and if I’d have to choose between sitting next to a couple tongue-fondling each other’s tonsils or someone bitching about overcommercialization and the meaningless ritual of it all, I’d gladly take the fondlers.

Maybe they’d even let me in on some of their action.