Fantastic Mr. Fox, Hello Foxy

I can never get enough of Wes Anderson.  When I heard he was going to do a stop animation movie, I had a feeling it would be pretty cool because he pays such attention to detail.  Now that the movie has been out on DVD and BlueRay for a bit, I finally was able to pick this up (thanks Heather) and I have been pretty obsessed with this movie ever since.  Here are a couple videos I found on youtube that can give you a pretty good idea of how this movie is.

I love how when the animals swear they replace the word with “cuss”.  Below is a video montage that has every “cuss” in the film.  So good!

Water in the form of ice found on asteroid

A new stunning discovery concluded that the asteroid named Themis, which is currently between Jupiter and Saturn, has frozen water on it.  I found this article at MSNBC here: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/36830453/ns/technology_and_science-space/. 

I am happy that this discovery was made for a number of reasons.  First and foremost I really like science and the cosmos.  Secondly, Obama has been backing explorations to an asteroid, so this gives us all the more reason to go and it will keep his skeptics quiet.  Third and probably the most important, this could give us a little clarity on how water came to Earth.  Water covers so much of our planet, yet our planet was formed well before water was ever present.  Fascinating news and I hope we get some further exploration on that big baby Themis.  And that photo is damn cool haha.

The National - Terrible Love – Pitchfork TV Shoot

Take a peep at this super high quality shoot from PitchforkTV of The National performing Terrible Love in an old castle.  Pretty fuckin sweet!!

You and you’re sister live in a Lemonworld

I am sure at this point my National posts get old, but what can I say this stuff happens when a new album is about to be released.  One of my favorite songs on High Violet is Lemonworld.  If you read the article on the NY Times site, they almost dropped this song, and I am very happy that they did not do so.  This video is kind of rough, but it is better than nothing.  This album can be listened to though here along with the well written article: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/25/magazine/25national-t.html 

And of course it can be found on some torrent site.  Below is one of my favorite sets’ of lyrics from the song:

“This pricey stuff makes me dizzy
I guess I've always been a delicate man
Takes me a day to remember a day
I didn't mean to let it get so far out of hand
I was a comfortable kid
But I don't think about it much anymore
Lay me on the table, put flowers in my mouth
And we can say that we invented a summer lovin' torture party”

“I'm too tired to drive anyway, anyway right now
Do you care if I stayed?
You can put on your bathing suits
And I'll try to find something on this thing that means nothin' enough”