mattequin

the museum of nature

Mon, 02 Apr 2007 23:15:45 GMT

http://koti.phnet.fi/halsilk/pagenglish/museumofn.html

wow.

Towers of Silence

Thu, 15 Mar 2007 15:35:12 GMT

[Image: A Zoroastrian "tower of silence," on top of which corpses would be left, arranged in rings, exposed to sun, weather, and vultures].

Gong Hai Fat Choi

Wed, 21 Feb 2007 20:58:16 GMT

meg and i went down to chinatown for the year of the pig celebration. it was insanely busy, the streets were packed, everything was sights and sounds and smells. highlights included the band playing ridiculous covers in the tinseltown mall, featuring a guy playing what looked like an electronic saxophone (keytar, the next generation?), buying umbrellas (of which mine broke the second i took it out in the wind), breakfast and lunch at the same time with joel on a slanted table overlooking the festivities on keefer, the smell of firecrackers in the air, confetti poppers, two giant and very disturbing paper mache heads in the parade, exhausted-looking people running a big red dragon puppet with sticks, buying a basket for meg, getting free skype headsets in red lucky-money envelopes, and easily the best of all, the weird "lion costume eating lettuce" rituals being performed on storefronts. i shot this with my cameraphone:

awesome.

omg

Sun, 18 Feb 2007 02:57:31 GMT

Workin

Sun, 28 Jan 2007 05:43:16 GMT

Meg and I made this at work tonight. After getting takeout Indian food and smokin a jay. That's what work is for us.

http://mtwill.googlepages.com/home

omg

Thu, 07 Dec 2006 03:11:02 GMT

i can't stop LJ'in

this blew my mind

two worlds collide into one insane combo of greatness

gender in videogames

Thu, 07 Dec 2006 01:51:14 GMT

What does it mean if I think this is hilarious and true?

I forgot the youtubes

Thu, 07 Dec 2006 01:38:55 GMT

Watched a sweet movie the other day:

The Harder They Come. Made in 1972, the first feature film shot in Jamaica, starring roots reggae star Jimmy Cliff and a guy with the best dreads I've ever seen.

It works on so many levels. Visually it's awesome, with the old film grain and colour, and seeing 70's Jamaican shanty towns is sweet. The music is reggae, but don't let that hold you back, it's 70's roots reggae, Desmond Dekker and Toots and the Maytals and stuff, like origin of the genre shit. Tight. The plot is engaging, the characters are complex, the themes are timeless and universal.

The awesomeness cannot be denied:

The Letter T

Wed, 06 Dec 2006 02:31:58 GMT

Thanks for the letter, Meg:

1. Tea - I couldn't live without this. Murchie's preferred, but sometimes I mix it up wth some green. If I couldn't have tea I would probably cold kill a man. Which brings me to...

2. Twenty-Four - A guilty pleasure? Debatable. It's not high art, but Jack Bauer is a hero for our times. He gets the job done, no matter what. That might mean torture, cutting off a guy's head with a hacksaw to gain credibility, constantly getting reinstated on a provisional basis... I want to have his baby. Which brings me to...

3. Tricyclen - No babies. Despite all the...

4. Tension - Crackling sexual tension...

5. Tissue - To blow my nose with. Cough.

6. Tofino - Surfing... We need to go.

7. Torrents - Not the ocean kind. The bit kind. The kind that provides me with music.

8. Two-Thousand and One: A Space Odyssey - This movie put me to sleep the first time I saw it, so I missed the space fetus. Space fetus.

9. T-Shirts - From American Apparel. It's the only clothing item I own.

10. Tzatziki - That shit is delicious.

Bonus list: Things that start with T that I dislike:

Turbidity
Mr.T
Trigonometry
Tests
Time
Tool
Tickling
Trying

Emo post

Sun, 19 Nov 2006 07:31:20 GMT

I'm gonna get all emo right now and post some pics of Meg and say that I think she's awesome. xoxoxox love you megan.

Sun, 19 Nov 2006 01:45:34 GMT

Seeing the new James Bond movie last night reminded me that 24 is coming in two months.

I can't wait to see how JB escapes from China to save the day again. It takes like 24 hours just to fly home from China, how are they going to explain that?

I'm downloading the full TV series "The Prisoner" from 1967. It comes highly recommended by Grant, the cranky old fucker at work here. He always tells me to get a haircut, but he has long scraggly grey hair. What a burnout. Here's a picture from the show that demonstrates how awesome I expect it to be:

Plus the Simpsons parodied it (all my LJ posts have youtube embeds):

I beat Miserlou on Expert today in GH2. I was proud of myself. Now I have to master Hangar 18. The shit is insane though. Probably harder than Bark at the Moon from GH1. I feel like a metal god though... I think I understand Felicity and Johnslaught a little better when I videogame shred.

what a wonderful world

Mon, 13 Nov 2006 22:59:15 GMT

omg

Wed, 08 Nov 2006 03:36:17 GMT

YES.

...

YES. awesome..

AWESOME.

FEELIN IT DOWN TO MY SOUL

Tue, 24 Oct 2006 20:29:50 GMT

THESE NEED NO INTRODUCTION.

watching tv

Mon, 16 Oct 2006 07:07:11 GMT

i'm half-watching jurassic park on tv right now. it kind of sucks, but it has jeff goldblum in it, which reminded me of this scene. probably the best scene in the whole movie. see youtube box below.

i spent today alternately working on my video->sound java program and reading about clandestine CIA activities. probably the coolest term i learned was extraordinary rendition. totally sounds like the subtitle of a spy video game. i also watched a passionate eye documentary on CIA secret prisons. real-life spy stuff is definitely awesome, but i can't wait for 24 to start again.

hahah i just noticed that samuel l jackson is in jurassic park. he's the chain-smoking computer technician who explains to the old bearded man that newman from seinfeld totally hacked the jurassic park computer system. samuel l jackson is such an acting slut. anything for a paycheque.

grindhouse: planet terror

Wed, 11 Oct 2006 19:47:15 GMT

all i have to say to this is: fuck yes

EDIT: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grind_House

PS i found the only livejournal mood i'll ever need, apparently. see below.

workin

Sat, 07 Oct 2006 19:37:23 GMT

getting paid overtime today, and there's NOTHING to do. i almost feel guilty.

saw "the departed" last night and it was AWESOME. it easily belongs in the same league as the godfather, goodfellas, scarface, heat etc. go see it just for mark whalberg's dialog. the only downside was the boston accents... Whatayou, retahdid?

i want a tshirt of this!!!!!!!

first real update

Fri, 06 Oct 2006 08:58:35 GMT

ok enough of that tomfoolery. down to the business of journaling.

today was my last day at work doing the 4:30-midnight shift at the library. the nice indian lady who cleans the bathrooms at night gave me a tuna samosa and it was MAGNIFICENT.

had a great morning hanging out with meg, making blueberry pancakes and playing animal crossing ds while she wrote a paper. found out that DESTROYER is more than a one hit wonder (EUROPEAN OILS!!!!!!!). the album "destroyer's rubies" is a goldmine. a rubymine.

part of the reason i'm majoring in comp sci is because i've always had a gut feeling that computers will be responsible for a massive cultural change, in my lifetime. i've felt this way since i was pretty young, like before the www existed.

think about that... can you remember when there was no internet? do you remember sending your first email?

i really think that we are going to see some crazy shit in our days, all because of computer technology. maybe it'll be a kind of digital enlightenment, a cracking open of our consciousness into a swirling rainbow void of limitless possibility, infinite potential, where our imagination is our only limitation.

or maybe it'll be a fucking amazing way of killing people, like a neutron bomb.

did the neutron bomb ever get built or was it only in that movie repo man?

what ever happened to emilio estevez?

i actually do think that something earth-shattering will come about due to technology in the next few decades, and i think it will happen as a result of the convergence of a lot of different research areas, ie AI, robotics, human-machine interfaces, genetics, etc.

what i mean is, i think one big thing will be made out of a million little things.

if you have the patience to watch a 5 minute video, here's an example of one of those little things. or maybe this is gimmicky. it's 2am and it's past my bedtime.

omg there's more

Sun, 01 Oct 2006 20:08:40 GMT

oh little superstar, you scamp.

bonus mp3S!!!!!!1 omg

A GOOD SONG
AN OK SONG

some famous blogs

Sun, 01 Oct 2006 05:56:45 GMT

Keith's in Australia and he's bloggin' er: http://keithinoz.blogspot.com/

And Luke's doing a blog about the canucks: http://lukenelson.blogspot.com/

I bet they both become famous bloggers and have sex with Paris Hilton.

bloggin

Sat, 30 Sep 2006 03:32:03 GMT

Time to buy a webcam and some eyeshadow.