John Pizzarelli at Montreal Jazz. “I’ve Just Seen a Face”

Great jazz!

My favorite thought-piece about Ferris Bueller is the “Fight Club” theory, in which Ferris Bueller, the person, is just a figment of Cameron’s imagination, like Tyler Durden, and Sloane is the girl Cameron secretly loves.

One day while he’s lying sick in bed, Cameron lets “Ferris” steal his father’s car and take the day off, and as Cameron wanders around the city, all of his interactions with Ferris and Sloane, and all the impossible hijinks, are all just played out in his head. This is part of the reason why the “three” characters can see so much of Chicago in less than one day — Cameron is alone, just imagining it all.

It isn’t until he destroys the front of the car in a fugue state does he finally get a grip and decide to confront his father, after which he imagines a final, impossible escape for Ferris and a storybook happy ending for Sloane (”He’s gonna marry me!”), the girl that Cameron knows he can never have.

Bueller? | MetaTalk.

I like this overly-thought out bit of existentialism from great 80s movies.

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“”We are living in a new era. Changes are unavoidable. Leaders just pass through; peoples prevail.” -Fidel Castro

Albeit a dictator, Castro can be a poet at times.

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Very clever piano piece that sounds enchanting

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A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.

-Robert A. Heinlein

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Subtitle: Or, how I love thee, random & crazy Japanese TV show.

When you watch this video, you may get a sense of animal cruelty at first, but it becomes a testament to the intelligence of a chimpanzee at the end.  It’s quite remarkable…

Remember when our previous president had a brush with a Segway?  Humanity: we’ve come a long, long way together, baby!

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Forklift Fail

Forklift Fail

These things make us all laugh…

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