An Awesome "Banksy" Stencil
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stencils
From what I hear, this is a relatively new stencil from London-based graffiti artist "Banksy." What do you think?
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Thursday, January 15, 2009
One of my top 3 music videos of all time
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music
Check it out! Its by Muse, and its called "Knights of Cydonia." If I lived in a fantasy world, this would be it. According to a certain source (no, not Wikipedia):
"The KOC video was shot over five days: three days in Romania; one day in London; and one day in Red Rock, California; it was made available on July 11, 2006. It was filmed and edited as a thematic smörgåsbord: a spaghetti western film with post-apocalyptic influence, complete with beginning and end credits, livened with the occasional kung-fu cowboy or metal-clad maiden astride a unicorn. At the end of the video one can see Roman numerals MCMLXXXI which translates as 1981. However, in the introduction the numerals MCLMXXXI are seen, which do not represent any number due to incorrect nomenclature.
The video was directed by Joseph Kahn, and stars British actor Russ Bain as the protagonist (The Man With No Name), Richard Brake as the antagonist (Sheriff Baron Klaus Rottingham), and Cassandra Bell as the love interest (Princess Shane Kuriyami).
Throughout the video, the actors mouth out the lyrics, such as Russ Bain ramshackled in town square mouthing ‘No one's going to take me alive’, and Cassandra Bell at the gallows ‘You and I must fight for our rights’. In both instances, the mouthed words occur after the song lyrics and complete before the song moves on to the next line. The band appears in some scenes as holograms, and there are also some scenes featuring lead singer Bellamy. Also, when it shows the population of the town Cydonia it is shown as "143" a common symbol for "I love you" although, it is unknown whether this is just a random number, or it was put there for a reason by the director or band.
Shortly after the making of the music video, Muse announced that they were giving away 1000 movie posters depicting the characters and general plot of the video itself to the first 1000 people who correctly guessed the fifteen major motion pictures referenced by the music video. Although various other references have been proposed, the fifteen responses accepted at the contest website include Star Wars, The Matrix, Westworld, Mad Max, The Lone Ranger, Batman, Battlestar Galactica, Buck Rogers, Kung Fu, Legend, Maverick, Heavy Metal, The Searchers, Planet of the Apes and Blade Runner.
You can watch the video below. Enjoy!
"The KOC video was shot over five days: three days in Romania; one day in London; and one day in Red Rock, California; it was made available on July 11, 2006. It was filmed and edited as a thematic smörgåsbord: a spaghetti western film with post-apocalyptic influence, complete with beginning and end credits, livened with the occasional kung-fu cowboy or metal-clad maiden astride a unicorn. At the end of the video one can see Roman numerals MCMLXXXI which translates as 1981. However, in the introduction the numerals MCLMXXXI are seen, which do not represent any number due to incorrect nomenclature.
The video was directed by Joseph Kahn, and stars British actor Russ Bain as the protagonist (The Man With No Name), Richard Brake as the antagonist (Sheriff Baron Klaus Rottingham), and Cassandra Bell as the love interest (Princess Shane Kuriyami).
Throughout the video, the actors mouth out the lyrics, such as Russ Bain ramshackled in town square mouthing ‘No one's going to take me alive’, and Cassandra Bell at the gallows ‘You and I must fight for our rights’. In both instances, the mouthed words occur after the song lyrics and complete before the song moves on to the next line. The band appears in some scenes as holograms, and there are also some scenes featuring lead singer Bellamy. Also, when it shows the population of the town Cydonia it is shown as "143" a common symbol for "I love you" although, it is unknown whether this is just a random number, or it was put there for a reason by the director or band.
Shortly after the making of the music video, Muse announced that they were giving away 1000 movie posters depicting the characters and general plot of the video itself to the first 1000 people who correctly guessed the fifteen major motion pictures referenced by the music video. Although various other references have been proposed, the fifteen responses accepted at the contest website include Star Wars, The Matrix, Westworld, Mad Max, The Lone Ranger, Batman, Battlestar Galactica, Buck Rogers, Kung Fu, Legend, Maverick, Heavy Metal, The Searchers, Planet of the Apes and Blade Runner.
You can watch the video below. Enjoy!
Hottie of the Week!
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hottie
Because I'm awake and I really enjoy posting "hottie of the week," you'll get yours a little early today. But hey - it IS Thursday, right?
Bright Eyes - Loose Leaves
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lyrics
The story is in the soil
Loose leaves cover the ground
There are volumes in the forest no one reads out loud
If I could take them down off of that mountain shelf...
we used to climb but no one tries to go up that far now.
Yeah, we're all too busy working, entertaining ourselves
40 hours, television and prescription pills
Well, I take two a day to make my brain behave
It never does but who is to say,
at least my doctor gets paid!
So that's fine, yeah come by, we will take the afternoon off
We can kiss and undress or if you want just talk
Because I have got nothing real,
just empty space to fill
And you are my girl, I like your style,
just imagine all the time we could kill!
And time's not poison but once you drink it all you'll die
So lets just sip it real slow, yeah, we can nurse it all night
Try to believe that once its gone they will pour another round
and come back to life....
We'll come right back
Well, it's all moving faster now, yeah, and that's what they said
And though some days still take forever I can't disagree
Because it seems to me that I wake up and sleep,
look in the mirror have no idea what happened in between
But I remember counting days down until the year could be done
So I could scatter all my notebooks on the prep school lawn
And disappear again into a summer's bliss
of staying out and sleeping in and getting drunk with my friends.
Now that's gone and I know that it won't ever come back
I accept
I won't cling to what I had in the past
but life's a slippery slope
Regret is the steepest hill
Hope for the best
Plan for the worst
and maybe wind up somewhere in the middle!
And I'm not saying that I know what I want
But I know what I don't, don't want to rot in my room
and never know what could have been,
believe what everyone else tells me is true.
They will say 'true'
(yeah, they say its true!)
yeah they say 'true'
(they say, yeah they say, they say
yeah they say 'true')
(That's what they say
that's it) Read more!
Loose leaves cover the ground
There are volumes in the forest no one reads out loud
If I could take them down off of that mountain shelf...
we used to climb but no one tries to go up that far now.
Yeah, we're all too busy working, entertaining ourselves
40 hours, television and prescription pills
Well, I take two a day to make my brain behave
It never does but who is to say,
at least my doctor gets paid!
So that's fine, yeah come by, we will take the afternoon off
We can kiss and undress or if you want just talk
Because I have got nothing real,
just empty space to fill
And you are my girl, I like your style,
just imagine all the time we could kill!
And time's not poison but once you drink it all you'll die
So lets just sip it real slow, yeah, we can nurse it all night
Try to believe that once its gone they will pour another round
and come back to life....
We'll come right back
Well, it's all moving faster now, yeah, and that's what they said
And though some days still take forever I can't disagree
Because it seems to me that I wake up and sleep,
look in the mirror have no idea what happened in between
But I remember counting days down until the year could be done
So I could scatter all my notebooks on the prep school lawn
And disappear again into a summer's bliss
of staying out and sleeping in and getting drunk with my friends.
Now that's gone and I know that it won't ever come back
I accept
I won't cling to what I had in the past
but life's a slippery slope
Regret is the steepest hill
Hope for the best
Plan for the worst
and maybe wind up somewhere in the middle!
And I'm not saying that I know what I want
But I know what I don't, don't want to rot in my room
and never know what could have been,
believe what everyone else tells me is true.
They will say 'true'
(yeah, they say its true!)
yeah they say 'true'
(they say, yeah they say, they say
yeah they say 'true')
(That's what they say
that's it) Read more!
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