Again, as always, I reach a point where I want to talk about too many things and just don’t get around to it.  So here’s a little recap.

- New Bjork video for Wanderlust.  Amazing.  Can’t wait to see it in 3D.  Might be worth buying her new DVD just for that.  See it at the bottom.

- I love Jason Segel.  Whether it’s Freaks and Geeks (best TV show ever?), How I Met Your Mother, or Knocked Up, the guy is hilarious.  Here are two things related to Segel.  The first is an interview with him and SNL member Bill Hader.  They talk about Sarah Marshall along with some of their upcoming endeavors (via Comingsoon.net).  The second is an announcement about the new Muppet movie (via Aint It Cool).  For those that didn’t know, Segel is writing the next installment in a series of…well..interesting movies featuring those crazy Muppets.  This little blurb explains the basic plot of the new movie, and is pretty much just there to get people excited.

- Being a vegetarian and also having chef/traveller/writer Anthony Bourdain as your role model is kind of tough.  The guy hates us (thank god I’m not vegan..) and can’t understand how people can live without some of the crazy things he loves so much.  The blog Hezbollah Tofu combines the best of both worlds.  The goal of the creator is to bring interesting vegan/vegetarian recipies together in one place, as well as veganize some of Bourdain’s own recepies.  I just might have to learn to cook…

- Okay I grow tired and want to get to the Bjork video but lastly… Buy or rent your own islands?!?! Whhhaaaa? (via Random Good Stuff)

Here it is:

Looking back on my childhood, I can think of many things that shaped/affected my life.  Video games, cartoons, Nickelodeon (the good ‘ol days), Mr. Bean.  Those are a few of many that popped into my mind just now.  But possibly the one thing that sticks out more than anything else is Calvin and Hobbes.

Now I didn’t read too much as a kid.  You coulda given me a Nintendo and Super Mario Bros. any day over the crap I had to read in school.  A few things did fall through the cracks, like The Phantom Tollbooth or The Giver, but for the most part, I was having none of it.  Enter my cousins, four or five years older than me, at a Crown Books store in Pasadena.  Being an only child, they were the closest things I had to siblings, so I kinda looked up to them.  Anyway, we were browsing this magical bookstore (I may have hated reading books but, let me tell you, I sure as hell loved buying them), just wasting time, when I saw one of them pick up a copy of The Essential Calvin and Hobbes (I was about six, so the treasury was probably about two or three years old at the time).  I picked up a copy of the same book and, for some reason, instantly fell in love.  I forced my mom to buy it for me and immediately started reading it in the car.  I’m not really sure what drew me to the comic at such a young age.  It could’ve been the fact that Calvin was a six year old only child (just like me!), the fact that there was a talking tiger, or even simply the fact that my cousins read the comic and I wanted to be like them.  Whatever the case, I loved it and would read it every night before bed over a cool glass of chocolate milk.  At the time, there was nothing I wanted more in the world than for Hobbes to be real.

Almost seventeen years later, here I am.  I have every single Calvin and Hobbes book and treasury (I didn’t really care if treasuries were the same books printed over again, I still had to read them), and a few years ago I got The Complete Calvin and Hobbes, which is a three volume, nicely bound set of every strip in the series.  It has been about tweleve and a half years since I cried reading the last strip ever in the Los Angeles Times (it was one of the hardest things I had to deal with at age ten…on New Years Eve nonetheless) and I miss Calvin and his pal more than ever.  Here’s a scan of the final strip for your viewing pleasure:

Okay..so I realize I’ve gone waayy too far into my childhood love of the show for the this post’s own good, but whatever.  The reason I bring Calvin and Hobbes up is for this image I found on Neatorama.  It’s a deviantART drawing in the style of Calvin and Hobbes, but instead of a little boy and a tiger, it’s actually the philosophers John Calvin and Thomas Hobbes (Bill Waterson actually named his two characters after these philosophers).

So yea..that’s really about it.  Just wanted to share this picture.  Now you know more about my love of this comic than you probably want to.  Enjoy!

Whoever doesn’t think Fred Armisen is funny needs to take a look at this video.  Also, whoever needs to learn how to play the drums and only has 30 minutes needs to buy this video.

Click here to purchase.

Thanks to Laughing Squid, I came across the site of Brandon Bird.  Bird is an artist currently based out of San Francisco that, well, paints pretty awesome things.  Provided are a few examples.  Be sure to click on his name to check out more. And buy his prints!

(Lazy Sunday Afternoon Click to purchase prints!)

(No One Wants To Play Sega With Harrison Ford Click to purchase Prints!)

When I was little, I would always worry about going to bed.  I would lie there, wondering what would happen if someone broke into the house right then.  They were scary thoughts.  In my mind, I thought it would be cool if my mattress/bed had this button you could push in case of emergencies that would cause me to sink down into the bed.  This way, if I heard some suspicious noise, I could push the button and sink in, so when the robber came into the room, there would be no one there!  Think about it.  Not only would it potentially save your life, but it would also be a cool secret hideout.  You could decorate the area, get some lights, maybe keep your Gameboy in there in case you wanted to hang out/get bored.  It would be sooooo fun

Someone apparently shared my vision, but unlike me, has decided to act on it..kind of.  The Quantum Sleeper is basically a bed that transforms into shelter.  It takes my vision a step further by claiming protection not only from people, but from nature as well.  It can also be fitted to view DVDS, play CDs, and even can have an installed microwave and fridge.  This thing may not be exactly what I was imagining when I was a kid (I’m pretty sure all I wanted back then was a little fort made out of pillows or something..I was a simple kid with simple desires), but it comes close.  So if you’re constantly worried about being vulnerable to terrorist attacks and tornados while you’re sleeping, check this thing out.  If you have a lot of money, you could even invest in it to help build a prototype.

Link (via Neatorama)

Okay.  So I’ve started writing this post about three times so far and just haven’t been happy with it.  I initially wanted to make some sarcastic intro, stating how much I love The Hills, but in the end I just couldn’t do it.  I strongly dislike that show.  I know a lot of people watch it to make fun of it, but every time I see it, it just hurts inside.  That being said, switch all those characters with senior citizens, and we may have something to work with.

Enter Over The Hills, a show currently viewable on heavy.com.  Basically what happens is, the show’s characters are switched with old people, who reinact specific scenes. Here’s a clip:

Now this is something I can watch. So click here and enjoy.

Well..I decided to buy hosting and do this thing here.  I currently have no idea what css is or how to use it…so I’ll try to work out the bugs as I go on.  Enjoy!