….Found out that a ‘group’ of errors is actually called a ‘comedy’. I honestly didn’t know this! :P
So I should be writing a paper for my Media Studies course, but I’m taking a short break to write away on here. Oddly enough the paper is about the free societal nature of the Internet and WWW… so I’m essentially taking a break from writing about the Internet to use it. Consider this a “field study”. :P
So I stumbled across a short experimental film on YouTube that we watched in my Film course yesterday, entitled “tellinglies”. The film focuses on what people say versus what they mean, and the result is a bit startling. It’s also a bit crude, so bear with me.
Thank goodness I’m in a dedicated relationship as opposed to that poor chap. Sounds like his life is spiraling downhill fast.
Speaking of films, though, yesterday we started to watch a movie called “Why We Fight” in Media Studies. It’s an interesting insight on why we entered Iraq and why we haven’t left yet. I can’t say much more because we only saw maybe the first half of the movie… but another movie I can comment on more fully is the one we just finished watching in Health: “Super Size Me”.
This movie, despite pointing out the obvious, was rather terrifying. @_@ The man almost destroying his body permanently over the course of eating McDonald’s for a month straight, and the facts that were thrown around about American eating habits were just as frightening. The perspectives on what is okay vs. what is not okay to eat based on filmed candid interviews was just disappointing. One schoolgirl in the movie even claimed that french fries were her “vegetable” in her school lunch “meal” (I place meal in quotations as the only items she was purchasing in the lunch line were the french fries and a carton of milk). Another scene featured a man preparing for a partial gastrectomy and commenting to the camera and Morgan Spurlock that “this is the only thing that can save him”. Sitting next to his hospital bed was a 64oz “GIANT GULP” of Diet Soda, which he claims he drinks “2 or 3″ of a day. That’s several GALLONS of syrup and carbonation – he could have easily prevented all this! And a partial gastrectomy isn’t going to change a bad habit like that – it’s only going to make things worse… I felt bad for him.
Onto happier subjects, I came across a rather amusing video online on YouTube (again, I know), entitled “If Pigs Could Fly…”, claiming it to be a freak betrayal accident in Halo 3. Watch the video to get what I mean – it’s pretty damn amusing:
It’s almost as if the game atmosphere has a twisted sense of consciousness. I’ve noticed accidents in games like this before, especially in Halo 2 or 3 and in GTA series games. As random and slightly disruptive as they are, they’re certainly amusing enough to keep around. XD
Finally, a great picture I got in an email earlier (say it outloud if you don’t get it right away):
That’s all I have for now (expect more survey questions later!), aside from an amusing quote to round this entry off:
“What can be more palpably absurd than the prospect held out of locomotives traveling twice as fast as stagecoaches?” – The Quarterly Review, 1825
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