Reasons to Love the Criterion Collection

"I've been around the world several times, and now only the banality interests me."

"I will have spent my life trying to understand the function of remembering, which is not the opposite of forgetting, but rather its lining. We do not remember. We rewrite memory much as history is rewritten. How can one remember thirst?"

"All women have a built in grasp of indestructibility and all men's task is to make them realize it as late as possible."


- San Soliel

Someone buy me things I want?

Bookcase by Arianna Vivenzio

I would definitely use something like this. Put up a few around the house both vertically and horizontally and start shoving stuff into it. Wouldn't be a good replacement for my bookcases since I would need about a million, but I'm sure I could find things to put in the rubber band.

..via Design Spotter

Not Dolls

Steampunk Justice League Action Figures

Murakami Quotes

"Although I didn't think so at the time, things were a lot simpler in 1969. All you had to do to express yourself was throw rocks at riot police. But with today's sophistication, who's in a position to throw rocks? Who's going to brave what tear gas? C'mon, that's the way it is. Everything is rigged, tied into that massive capital web, and beyond this web there's another web. Nobody's going anywhere. You throw a rock and it'll come right back at you." - page 55, Dance Dance Dance, Haruki Murakami

"It was spring break, so the theater was always packed with high schools students. It was an animal house. I wanted to burn the place down." - page 159, Dance Dance Dance, Haruki Murakami

The Force Sucks

Darth Vader vs Japanese Police

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Yes, it is dumb. But really, fighting against a culture that sells used panties in vending machines on the street? Dumber.

A Bit Off Course

Scientists trekking across a little visited part of Antarctica have discovered a bizarre relic of the Soviet Union is dominating the South Pole of Inaccessibility.

Like NASA for Traffic

Tokyo Traffic Control Center

"The Expressway Display Board, Central Display Board, and Information Display Board paint a picture of the immediate traffic situation by compiling information from cameras, helicopters, police, citizen reports, and over 17,000 vehicle detectors all around the city."

Don't see anything like this in Dallas. Guessing all we've got the retarded monkey throwing poop at a tv set to Fox News.

Liquor Lock

Keep “unwanted customers” from running your bar dry. Just enter a three-pin combination, then turn the top clockwise until the lock expands and is tight. Re-enter the combination and turn counter-clockwise to release. Keep the kids and help from helping themselves.

Hello Kitty Contacts

Never did understand why people like Hello Kitty products, but I think if I saw someone with these I might have to force them into wearing glasses. Preferably the dark ones blind people use. Creepy.

Hello Kitty Hell via Gizmodo

Why write a law just to not use it?

The law: It gives police officers the discretion to arrest a suspect – as they have been doing – or write citations for a series of class A and B misdemeanors for possession of less than 4 ounces of marijuana.

Other applications: Other misdemeanors for which officers can now write tickets include driving with an invalid license, criminal mischief, creating graffiti and theft, as long as the damage costs for each incident is less than $500.

Possible punishment: A class A misdemeanor can result in up to one year in jail and fines of up to $4,000. A class B misdemeanor can result in up to 180 days in jail and up to $2,000 in fines.

But the new law, which went into effect Sept. 1, is being used only in Travis County. Prosecutors in Dallas, Tarrant and Collin counties never set up a system to process the misdemeanor citations and, they say, they have no plans to do so.

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Leave it to hippieland Austin to actually enforce a method such as this. Why conserve resources when it makes much more sense to send someone down to Lew Sterrett instead?