All we are is entertainment

... caught up in our derangement

Was just watching a news report on the London riots.  The reporter said something along the lines of "we don't know why this is happening, there doesn't seem to be any real reason.  This riot is so severe that the prime minister is cutting his summer vacation short!".  ... *sigh*, I think you found some of the reason right there.  It's pretty safe to say that a lot of people are pretty well fed up with the world, I know we are in Vancouver (hey, we rioted too!) - the global economy, ridiculously expensive housing (1+ mil for the now "run down" shack some 50 year old bought for 14k, 30 years ago), arrogant and corrupt politics everywhere you turn....

It is absolutely terrible that innocent people are losing their houses, but I can't fully blame people for wanting to light something on fire or smash in a window out of frustration.  Normal human beings suppress those primitive urges, and as a 'normal person' I'll continue to watch.  And post old, partially related comics. 

Tonight there are ~1000 on duty police officers in London, there were ~5000 on duty during the Royal Wedding.  Let's get some priorities straight - when we do that, we might find that magically a lot of the reasons to riot have been solved.

I saw a magician cut you in half, so bloodless

... daunted I applauded.

"Carmageddon" didn't turn into a newsworthy happening (big surprise), but this video is sweet.  Take enough hours of film on any busy road, and sooner or later you'll have enough frames to compile a single complete road without cars.  Throw that in front of a moving background, and you have LA without cars.  Looks great too.

Running on Empty (Revisited) from Ross Ching on Vimeo.

And everyone lives to tell the tale

...of how we die alone some day.

So, the whole "blog" thing doesn't work.  Who has time to actually blog anything, especially when you can just press 'reblog', tweet, share, or countless other 'easier' ways of achieving the same end goal?  So here is the new plan; although this page has basically existed like this already, I am officially switching this to a "sharing of things that I think are cool... place". I'd bet I see at least one cool thing a week, right?  And if I do, I'll put it here!

Also, I don't know how to properly use a semi-colon, but I like them, so I am going to continue just using it and sooner or later I'll get lucky.

Anyway, let's get started.

A few posts ago (and years...) I shared pictures from the Blink reunion tour that I went to.  Well, tonight Blink released their first single off their new record.  You can listen to it below.  It is good, nice new sound, and I am properly "happy" just to hear new music from them.  You should listen to it too!

One of Many Possible Responses

Via Penny Arcade:

Duke Nukem is no doubt, and no argument, an organism which is guaranteed (indeed, engineered) to be offensive.  So, if we get offended...  does he win, somehow?  Is that how it works?  

Yes. 
 

Λɴɢᴇʟs & ʌɪʀᴡʌᴠᴇS

I'm 23.  As a side effect of that number, almost all of my favorite bands were formed 10-20 years ago.  Angels & Airwaves, however, is easily my favorite band that formed within the last 10.  The album is free if you want it to be, but if I had paid $100 for any of their albums over the last few years I would have easily gotten my money worth.  You can't afford to not download this.  Link below.

 

EDIT (July 14-11): Link is down.  Can probably find it here somewhere.  http://modlife.com/angelsandairwaves/love