Recorded Live - Now Found

Craziness! - The short film that haunted my dreams for years in my childhood has been found! Special thanks to Dr. Haggis for succeeding where I failed. Check out the video on YouTube here.

Oddities and incongruities: I was 100% certain that this was a Canada Film Board project, but that appears to be incorrect as it was rather an HBO short. Also, while it is clearly the film I watched, my memories do not match. I remember the story and most of the imagery, but the point of view, the layout of the set, the order of events and timing all do not match what's in my noggin. Clearly I'm remembering the 3 years of dreams that were based on the movie, and the director there must have used some creative license.

The up-tempo piano jazz was certainly a surprise as well.

-iRob

"We are born charming, fresh and spontaneous and must be civilized before we are fit to participate in society." - Judith Martin

National Film Board of Canada - Now Online

When I was young my mother would take me to the library on the weekend where we could watch films that played for free. The National Film Board of Canada (Wikipedia) is a publicly funded film producer and distributor, and a part of our cultural heritage.

They have just recently made their archives available online - This is more than 700 films, many are excellent. Of course many are bad, and many more just bizarre.

There's one in particular that I have vivid memories of, but so far haven't found on the archive: A person receives a videotape in the mail with a note from a friend recommending that he watch it. But the video tape eats him, and writes a note to another friend, and mails itself, etc. I think it gave me nightmares for three years. If I find it I will post a link, once I'm done hiding under my bed.

-iRob

Flicker Interest

This is a photo I took of our old smoke detector after we lost our apartment in the Lakeview fire some time ago. It was made a 'favorite' by a flicker user who I don't know. All of his favorites are other smoke detectors. Very odd.

-iRob

Have a Beta Christmas this Year

Click on this link and see a faithful representation of my generations childhood. A recreation of a wood-paneled basement showing televised Christmas specials on an old-school T.V.

What are you waiting for? Click here now!

-iRob

found via LaughingSquid

Haloween is finished

and this guy wins.



-iRob

Gandalf Vs. Harry Potter

For a geek comic that makes me feel all warm inside click here.

-iRob

"Never judge a book by its movie."
J. W. Eagan

iCat v. 3.0

Interwebs, meet Maurice, (the amazing.)



There will be more later but I wanted to get these online now. The Amazing Maurice is a 3 month old kitten from the Pets For Life foundation. He was found abandoned in a grain elevator. We're not sure what he was doing there, perhaps he thought he was wheat.

Maurice (Moe) is Princess' cat, since she doesn't do well as the only cat in a single cat household, becoming sluggish and unhappy. Currently she is very 'engaged'*, so I suppose that he is working.

Casey is no longer with us, and we are still dealing with that. No comments please on that subject but feel free to wave at Moe. And yes, come and see him sometime.

-iRob

*she hates him

A-ha!

Literally A-ha. And a literal music video. Enjoy!


-iRob

P.S. "Band Montage" - Awesome.

Time Machine

Check this out. Google has made one of their oldest indexes available for searching. If you want to see what it was like to search google in 2001, click here.
My favorite search so far: iPod.

iRob

The front fell off.

Says it all, really. Thanks to iJenn for showing me the vid.

-iRob