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I saw an ad for the upcoming King Arthur Movie, and my first thought was cool, I hope this is good. Seriously though, is there any chance that this thing won’t suck? I kind of want to see Troy too. This may end up being the summer of historical movies that are major disappointments to me. I’m not sure. I hope not, but well it just seems like the cards are stacked against anything other than a perilously high suck factor.

Found Magazine is a clearinghouse for notes that people have found around town. I never find notes (unless you count crappy flyers that are littered left under wipers of my car). Maybe I need to start looking around a bit more carefully.

Came across an idea for The 23/5 Exquisite Corpse over on Incoming Signals. The idea is you grab 6 to 10 books at random off your book shelf, turn to page 23 and copy out the 5th sentence. You then arrange the sentences so that they form a story.

What the hell. I figured I’d give it a shot. The Internet has seemed kind of boring for the past few days anyway. So, here’s what I got

They do alright. They graze the backs of his knees as they bank around his husky columnar body. All that now remained was to fasten up the mouth of the enclosure; and this was readily accomplished by gathering the folds of the material together, and twisting them up very tightly on the inside by means of a kind of stationary tourniquet.

His own reckless curiosity had to take sole responsibility for the fact that he was leaving the building on his way to an unknown destination to meet a group of people who claimed to be in touch with other dimensions. Norway.

But I suppose La Louve was the more ferocious of the two.

“I’m very pleased to hear you say that,” she said, “because I should very much like him to meet you, too.”

They passed a stretch of tall, looming buildings, abandoned and lonely, bounded by a high brick wall.

Finally, my mother drives up in her Mercedes and parks the car in front of La Scala and waits for me.

“Good night,” she said softly. “Wake me at eight, won’t you.”

So, there you go. I’m not sure what it means, but you can now count me among the pantheon of literary dub masters.

A Break in the Road is kind of fun to play around with. I tried and I tried, but I couldn’t make anything that sounded like music. Maybe your skills will be more mad or crazy fresh or whatever it is the kids say these days.

So, if you’re like me, you’ve been seeing Songs to Wear Pants To linked from every site on the internet, but you didn’t click through to check it out. Fool! Click through. Do it now. Do it right now!

After seeing a segment on Tech TV’s, Fresh Gear, I really want to try Parabouncing (crappy, all flash site). It’s like a hot air balloon, but they counter balance your weight so you have neutral buoyancy in the air. It must feel like Scuba Diving or actually flying through the air or something. It looks completely cool.

They’re located in LA, but unfortunately, their really crappy, amazingly un-user-centric site doesn’t tell you where you can actually try it out.

What do you suppose it says about me that I laughed at this (I mean out loud, gut wrenching laughter) for a solid 2 or 3 minutes? Even now it’s running behind my editing window, and it keeps making me laugh when I think about it.

To be fair though, that was one of the greatest moments in the history of cinema, so… Via

I was sort of half-planning to go to this art installation/audio experiment in the park at sunset kind of thing over in Hollywood tonight. When I woke up this morning though it was raining and I wasn’t really all that psyched to drive into Hollywood and try to find parking anyway, so I bagged on the idea.

I had it in my head to get some sunset photographs though, so I figured if not a park then a beach. With that in mind, I drove down to Manhattan Beach and took a bunch of Sunset Photos. It was insanely windy, and my hands practically froze off. At least the rain cleared up though.

Ah, simple, vector graphics, classic feeling game. Noiz2 is a fun game (though I spent a long time avoiding the green stars thinking they’d kill me (when it turns out they’re actually bonuses)).

I think I may have hit upon an interesting web project that could, with the right tender loving care, became a good business opportunity. I would need somebody to help me build it though. I can manage the interface design and all of that pretty well, but I am not a programmer, and this project would require a programmer.

So, if you’re a database guy (or gal) with an emphasis in web programming, and you have some free time, drop me a line. You can leave a comment or shoot a message to willraleigh over there on that hotmail system. It would help if you were kind of in LA since I think that would help with the whole brainstorming/getting excited about late nights kind of thing. We can probably do it remote though if it comes to that. There’s no money or fame in it now, but there may be down the line a bit.