depeche sim

Oh dear god. Or God if you prefer. Trowling through Depeche Mode's site I found this little nugget of oddness. It seems Dave recorded a version of Suffer Well in "Simish", that's in Sims language to be used in the game The Sims (obviously). Scary at the very least. Pretty funny though. Check it here: Suffer Well Sims.

I've created a Flash version:
Depeche Mode Suffer Well in Simish here!
(flash 8 player + broadband required).

For anyone that cares, Depeche Mode have another live dvd on the way in September. I'm looking forward to it, I love the last few. Pretty amazing shows and great songs. Unless you don't actually like the band in which case ignore the afore mentioned.

quote for the day:
"It's about rehashing old ideas and trying to
make some money out of it, basically..."
- Dave Gahan (Depeche Mode)

man for the moment

Well finally Zach Braff's gone online. He's had a blog or two running over the years as slow-burn hype centres for his movie Garden State but finally a full site: www.zachbraff.com. It's a good looking site, yet another in fact that makes me look at my own work and weep. Oh well, woe is me and all that shite.

Anyway's he's got some good lines and a few trailers for an upcoming film called The Last Kiss. Most importantly he's got a photo with he and Borat cheesing it up. Jealousy be thy name.

Here's a bit that cracked me up:

"Welcome friends to ZachBraff.com

PLEASE WATCH THE VIDEO POST TO THE RIGHT!

it's kind of like the inflight safety video on an airplane. (someone recently told me that there's never been a successful water landing-don't know if that's true or not, so please continue to listen to instructions about how to self inflate your life preserver if it doesn't inflate. Can you imagine the day you're having if you're plane crashes into the water and your life preserver doesn't inflate when you pull the string?! I mean at some point you have to start wondering if you're supposed to be dead.)"

And that's about that. Too much work and too little time to do anything else. No input equals no output and there I am.

quote for the day:
"I told those fudge packers that I liked Michael Bolton's music. "
- Michael Bolton character from Office Space (1999)

movie review goodness

This byte grabbed my attention:

"Unlike former porn auteur Gregory Dark's semenal 1985 cumshot opus "New Wave Hookers", this rote exercise in slasher-film tedium holds zero surprises and is about as arousing as Tracy Lords' singing career. ".

Absolute gold. I love movie reviews of incredibly shite movies. Saying that, most of my movie favs are considered cultural black holes so I shouldn't throw stones.

check the review here: See No Evil at the Austin Chronicle.

quote for the day:
"There is only one thing that can kill the Movies,
and that is education."
- Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)

we are robots

Oh yeah, more time wasting joy with an animated series built in flash. Great voice acting so I'm guessing these people are connected or at least know what they're doing.

Nine episodes on offer:
:: Gothbot
:: Geekbot
:: Angrybot
:: Kegomatic
:: Tendertron
:: Angrybot-Recess
:: Robokopf
:: Sad Robot
:: Bizbot

quote for the day:
"One, a robot may not injure a human being, or through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm; Two, a robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law; Three, a robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Laws."
- Isaac Asimov I Robot (1920 - 1992)

podcasts of interest

Well my hunt for cheap thrills has led me down the free podcast road. Wicked content all for free.

My current playlist:
:: Andrew Denton's Enough Rope (fav interview: Anthony La Paglia)
:: Tony Martin Get This (loved his book Lolly Scramble)
:: John Safran's Triple J show (with Father Bob)
:: KCRW's The Treatment

quote for the day:
"Every book is a children's book if the kid can read!"
- Mitch Hedberg (1968 - 2005)

emotional blackmail anyone?

Well since I'm reading Freakonomics at the moment I can see the incentive handed out with the image below. Obviously car-pooling is a preferred choice in some areas - we've got P2 and P3 lanes on some main roads during peak hours and you can get fined for using the lanes - i'm guessing in some areas that hasn't happened. So here we have the ease and monetary incentives, use the lane to get there faster but if you do on your own you'll get a fine. The image below is tackling the emotional or moral incentive. Do it or be a complete prick. Classic. I still crack up looking at it.



quote for the day:
"There are three basic flavors of incentive: economic, social, and moral. very often a single incentive scheme will include all three varieties. Think about the anti-smoking campaign of recent years. The addition of a $3-per-pack 'sin tax' is a strong economic incentive against buying cigarettes. The banning of cigarettes in restaurants and bars is a powerful social incentive. And when the US government asserts that terrorists raise money by selling black-market cigarettes that acts as a rather jarring moral incentive."
- Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner Freakonomics

if a picture's worth...

...then the following is worth way more than 4000 words so I don't need to say a thing. Who could write anything worse about this idiot than the poses he pulls. It could never be said that Cruise is a character actor (if you don't agree, email me the film he's in that he's not playing a capable, driven, arrogant and physically superfit person) but it's still a shame that the worst acting he does is in fact as himself, or at least the 'him' he's trying to sell us.









photo's nabbed from news.com.au care of reuters.

quote for the day:
"It's not denial. I'm just selective about the reality I accept."
- Bill Watterson (1958. Creator of Calvin & Hobbes)

some club members revoked their cards...

Strangely enough it seems Culture Club are getting back together. I guess with all the old bands with members still not dead from overdose, heart attack or in jail for kiddy-fiddling touring again it was only a matter of time. The really funny side of the story is that Boy George 'aint touring with them. No surprises, his DJing and fast food addiction must make a team sport seem just too pointless. Still, even back then the band was only ever a backing troupe to ol' Boy so I can't imagine too many people are going to care 20 years on.

Check a small factoid here at playlouder.

quote for the day:
"Morning, class. As residency director, it is my pleasure to have both Surgical and Medical personnel here with us today. In fact, in this room we have enough brain power to light up a city! Not a real city, mind you, but definitely a tiny ant city whose government has recently passed a series of stringent energy conservation laws."
- Dr Cox, Scrubs

home remedies

Well I've obviously become slack in the furthering of this blog's content so today I'm stamping it with a "will be updated daily" statement. I of course have so little of interest to say but there's enough crap appearing in my email these days I can pad it out. To that end, here's today's.

1. If you are choking on an ice cube, don't panic. Simply pour a cup of boiling water down your throat and presto! The blockage will be almost instantly removed.

2. Clumsy? Avoid cutting yourself while slicing vegetables by getting someone else to hold them while you chop away.

3. Avoid arguments with the Mrs. about lifting the toilet seat by simply using the sink.

4. High blood pressure sufferers: simply cut yourself and bleed for a while, thus reducing the pressure in your veins.

5. A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from rolling over and going back to sleep when you hit the snooze button.

6. If you have a bad cough, take a large dose of laxatives, then you will be afraid to cough.

7. Have a bad toothache? Hit your thumb with a hammer, then you will forget about the toothache.

8. Everyone seems normal until you get to know them.

9. AND..... Sometimes we just need to remember what The Rules of Life really are: You need only two tools: WD-40 and duct tape. If it doesn't move and it should, use WD-40. If it moves and shouldn't, use the duct tape.

10. If you woke up breathing, congratulations! You have another chance!

11. And finally... Be really good to your family and friends. You never know when you are going to need them to empty your bedpan.

quote for the day:
"The 'what should be' never did exist, but people keep trying to live up to it. There is no 'what should be,' there is only what is."
- Lenny Bruce (1925 - 1966)