8-Bit Videos

Jeremiah — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 08:13:12 +0000

I’m a sucker for 8-bit mash-ups. Just happened to see these two Super Mario Bros.-influenced videos tonight:

The Bride vs Gogo to the sounds of Super Mario Bros.

[via livejamie.com, cool color schemer, btw]

Beatboxing Flutist Greg Patillo covers the Mario theme

[indirectly via Duyu, Kid.]

Season’s Greetings

Jeremiah — Sat, 25 Nov 2006 08:08:59 +0000

So what’s up with text spamming “happy turkey day” to everyone on your phone’s contact list? One i got was from a number i didn’t recognize (apologies if it was someone i should remember), and another coasted in after midnight.

Movie Literacy 102

Jeremiah — Sun, 30 Apr 2006 04:17:41 +0000

Fine, i give. I don’t usually post these kind of me-too, MySpace bulletin, meme things, but i kinda like this one. Film critic Jim Emerson says you don’t know movies unless you’ve seen his list of 102 films he pulled from the 20th century [via Elliot Back < via kottke.org]. Supposedly the list is the minimum curriculum to be “somewhat movie-literate.” Somewhat? Though the list was created in 1999 and so only included movies made up until then, i think there are plenty of movies not on the list that are “common cultural currency.” I also think there have been plenty since that are essential. But maybe that’s because i’m illiterate. Let’s see how i score (i’ve seen the bolded ones):

2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), Stanley Kubrick
The 400 Blows (1959), Francois Truffaut
8 1/2 (1963), Federico Fellini
Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972), Werner Herzog
Alien (1979), Ridley Scott
All About Eve (1950), Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Annie Hall (1977), Woody Allen
Apocalypse Now (1979), Francis Ford Coppola
Bambi (1942), Disney
The Battleship Potemkin (1925), Sergei Eisenstein
The Best Years of Our Lives (1946), William Wyler
The Big Red One (1980), Samuel Fuller
The Bicycle Thief (1949), Vittorio De Sica
The Big Sleep (1946), Howard Hawks
Blade Runner (1982), Ridley Scott
Blowup (1966), Michelangelo Antonioni
Blue Velvet (1986), David Lynch
Bonnie and Clyde (1967), Arthur Penn
Breathless (1959), Jean-Luc Godard
Bringing Up Baby (1938), Howard Hawks
Carrie (1975), Brian DePalma
Casablanca (1942), Michael Curtiz
Un Chien Andalou (1928), Luis Bunuel & Salvador Dali
Children of Paradise / Les Enfants du Paradis (1945), Marcel Carne
Chinatown (1974), Roman Polanski
Citizen Kane (1941), Orson Welles
A Clockwork Orange (1971), Stanley Kubrick
The Crying Game (1992), Neil Jordan
The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951), Robert Wise
Days of Heaven (1978), Terence Malick
Dirty Harry (1971), Don Siegel
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972), Luis Bunuel
Do the Right Thing (1989), Spike Lee
La Dolce Vita (1960), Federico Fellini
Double Indemnity (1944), Billy Wilder
Dr. Strangelove (1964), Stanley Kubrick
Duck Soup (1933), Leo McCarey
E.T. — The Extra-Terrestrial (1982), Steven Spielberg
Easy Rider (1969), Dennis Hopper
The Empire Strikes Back (1980), Irvin Kershner
The Exorcist (1973), William Friedkin
Fargo (1995), Joel & Ethan Coen
Fight Club (1999), David Fincher
Frankenstein (1931), James Whale
The General (1927), Buster Keaton & Clyde Bruckman
The Godfather, The Godfather, Part II (1972, 1974), Francis Ford Coppola
Gone With the Wind (1939), Victor Fleming
GoodFellas (1990), Martin Scorsese
The Graduate (1967), Mike Nichols
Halloween (1978), John Carpenter
A Hard Day’s Night (1964), Richard Lester
Intolerance (1916), D.W. Griffith
It’s a Gift (1934), Norman Z. McLeod
It’s a Wonderful Life (1946), Frank Capra
Jaws (1975), Steven Spielberg
The Lady Eve (1941), Preston Sturges
Lawrence of Arabia (1962), David Lean
M (1931), Fritz Lang
Mad Max 2 / The Road Warrior (1981), George Miller
The Maltese Falcon (1941), John Huston
The Manchurian Candidate (1962), John Frankenheimer
Metropolis (1926), Fritz Lang
Modern Times (1936), Charles Chaplin
Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975), Terry Jones & Terry Gilliam
Nashville (1975), Robert Altman
The Night of the Hunter (1955), Charles Laughton
Night of the Living Dead (1968), George Romero
North by Northwest (1959), Alfred Hitchcock
Nosferatu (1922), F.W. Murnau
On the Waterfront (1954), Elia Kazan
Once Upon a Time in the West (1968), Sergio Leone
Out of the Past (1947), Jacques Tournier
Persona (1966), Ingmar Bergman
Pink Flamingos (1972), John Waters
Psycho (1960), Alfred Hitchcock
Pulp Fiction (1994), Quentin Tarantino
Rashomon (1950), Akira Kurosawa
Rear Window (1954), Alfred Hitchcock
Rebel Without a Cause (1955), Nicholas Ray
Red River (1948), Howard Hawks
Repulsion (1965), Roman Polanski
The Rules of the Game (1939), Jean Renoir
Scarface (1932), Howard Hawks
The Scarlet Empress (1934), Josef von Sternberg
Schindler’s List (1993), Steven Spielberg
The Searchers (1956), John Ford
The Seven Samurai (1954), Akira Kurosawa
Singin’ in the Rain (1952), Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly
Some Like It Hot (1959), Billy Wilder
A Star Is Born (1954), George Cukor
A Streetcar Named Desire (1951), Elia Kazan
Sunset Boulevard (1950), Billy Wilder
Taxi Driver (1976), Martin Scorsese
The Third Man (1949), Carol Reed
Tokyo Story (1953), Yasujiro Ozu
Touch of Evil (1958), Orson Welles
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948), John Huston
Trouble in Paradise (1932), Ernst Lubitsch
Vertigo (1958), Alfred Hitchcock
West Side Story (1961), Jerome Robbins/Robert Wise
The Wild Bunch (1969), Sam Peckinpah
The Wizard of Oz (1939), Victor Fleming

I’ve only seen 25, which is a failing grade no matter how you look at it. And some of them it’s been so long it’s probably not even worth claiming.

I’ve probably seen north of 50% of IMDb’s Top 250. Last year IMDb’s editors assembled the top 15 films of the past 15 years (from 1990–2005), which is maybe a more currently relevant metric than Emerson’s 102 of the last century, though not quite as complete. But i probably only mention it because i aced that list.

Watch Out, Crump, Here Comes The Yellow Bus

Jeremiah — Thu, 20 Apr 2006 18:52:19 +0000

From the Bay Area: Hyphy and Ghostriding:
I wonder how long this has been going on. I think a friend of mine was born hyphy—he’s been known to jump out of his car and dance.
[via chartreuse < via Photo Matt]

Trendishly Late

Jeremiah — Wed, 18 Jan 2006 21:59:32 +0000

There i go, walking down the hallway in my black jacket with a white cord dangling from my ear and a cup with a brown corrugated cardboard sleeve around it in my hand.

Pathetic

Jeremiah — Fri, 06 Jan 2006 06:44:16 +0000

So we were on vacation visiting family for a week, but the first thing we did was ‘drive the laptop around the house trying to find a wifi signal. There is no more getaway.