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Here kitty, kitty!

loudhail — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 15:45:56 +0000

This morning Scott showed me this amazing video – which combines two of my favourite things: kitties and IKEA. I am not sure he realised at the time how much more I will bug him now to a) get kitties and b) go to IKEA. In that order.

Books on tape

loudhail — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 18:03:11 +0000

So apparently the best selling books on the iBook store have been removed from the bestseller charts, because Apple is against nakedness for fun. Luckily, the books are still there – once I finish writing this I must get a sample on my iPad;))

Just a day after I read about this though I stumbled across this incredibly entertaining image:

Apparantly it is the cover of “porn on tape” – an audio pornograpic novel. My buddy Wolfgang found it in his friend’s record collection. The German title means “The chastity belt”, and it sounds like a great book!

I want one of these!

loudhail — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 13:57:54 +0000

Just as I though that my life was almost complete (translate: I have an iPad;)) I discovered another void that needs to be filled. I NEEEEEED this pet:

Now that’s what I want in my ads!

loudhail — Wed, 12 May 2010 14:42:48 +0000

More KKK!

This morning Roxanne, one of my students at INSEEC in London, showed me this poster from a DDB Paris campaign for Live Poker. She said she had to laugh and think of me when she saw it. But why, but why?!?!

This may be one of the most hilarious ads I have seen in a very long time. 10 out of 10!

For your consideration

loudhail — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 13:56:15 +0000

So, I haven’t given crowdfunding a go myself yet. I know it works, over at FilmTiki we are working on a few crowdfunding projects. But for myself I haven’t tried it yet. Yet!

Lots of things can be crowdfunded. It is all just a matter of whether or not you and your network cares enough about you and/or the thing you want to dish out a buck or two (or even more). Now, there is a lot of things I would like funding for, but this is definitely on my list, and maybe I have quite good chances to get money for it, as I am not the only one who cares about it. (Only question is, do others care about me having one…)

So, here it goes: I want a DeLorean time machine, from one of my all-time favourite movies Back to the Future. And apparantly there is a guy building them! Check this out:

I would like you to seriously consider dishing out money for this. Think about it. For a little while. Get back to me if you want. I am considering crowdfunding this. Will let you know if I actually get around to doing it. Or if I put efforts into crowdfunding something more worthwhile, though I seriously don’t know what that could possibly be!

P.S.: Found this video on the ever entertaining YesButNoButYes. Great Scott!

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!

loudhail — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 23:21:44 +0000

Watch this:

O for awesome! Found on the hilarious YesButNoButYes site.

Fuck you and your blog

loudhail — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 11:40:37 +0000

I know I haven’t been around here as much as I used to, because I have been over here.

However, I want to share this with you. Last Saturday I was out and about my beautiful home town of Brighton, and I saw (and immediately had to acquire) this awesome journal.

Here’s a picture of the cover.

And here’s a picture of the inside (note that the Comments Section is disabled. Hehehehehe.)

Love this journal. Haven’t used it yet, but surely will start any day now. Go get it for old school blogging i.e. diary writing on – shock horror – paper, without – double shock horror – anyone else reading or commenting it. Wow!

You gotta love Santa with a buttplug

loudhail — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 09:24:46 +0000

I found this picture here. O for Awesome!

Capitalism: a love story. Compulsory viewing.

loudhail — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 12:34:22 +0000

Coming out October 2nd in the US, this is compulsory viewing for the readers of this blog. Though I think that Michael Moore doesn’t convey as much information and background in his docos as the guys behind the fantastic The Corporation, or Enron, he does a very good job at making a point to a wider audience (which normally might not think about these things quite so much), and a good one at that. Go see this movie!

Why the Sound of Music is so popular, really…

loudhail — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 12:26:22 +0000

The hills are alive where I come from. We are all dressed in Dirndls, spin around our own axis with dizzying grace and break out in yodelling for no particular reason. At least that’s the image that is being conjured up in – excuse me but you know it’s true – mostly Americans I meet abroad.

Truth is, I don’t own a Dirndl – yet! I am gonna buy one with my friend Eva in August, because having been an ex-pat for over 5 years now I really need one. I do sing, and I’d like to say quite well (at least when I and everybody around me are drunk), but not that randomly, and certainly not in a yodelling fashion (though I would love to be able to do that). And: before I moved to New Zealand, I had never, ever seen the Sound of Music before. Shocking, I know! Especially as a media theorist/activist I feel it is my obligation to watch, deconstruct and churn out what it means to people on an individual level and on a shared consciousness level with all sorts of products of popular culture.

Well, I finally did watch it 3 years ago. And something never quite sat right with me. Why on earth is that movie so popular? Ok, Julie Andrews twirling is beautiful. I knew the songs by heart after just seeing this thing once. For a movie geek like me: first big scale aerial shot at the beginning of the movie: that is pretty awesome. As movie goers, we do have a good excuse to watch it: wholesome family-ness resisting evil Nazis. But it is a pile of crap, really.

Now, Matthew just sent me this video, and this guy is totally onto something here. It pretty much sums up the underlying awefulness and twistedness of the visual messages in The Sound of Music. Watch it, remember the movie, and go “aaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!”