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MAN: What are your influences?
MEGAN: “Your influences”? Mumblecore movies.
TAO: Mumblecore.
MEGAN: Shrimp.
TAO: I like the, uh. Uh. I don’t know.
MEGAN: Stuff we like. Mumblecore.
Around 3:20 it starts getting a bit awkward. Then he has the music turned down. I think I hear some “Oh my gods.” People begin laughing nervously. Then he talks blogs, his Pitchfork score, George Bush, Matt Lauer, and Taylor Swift in a defensive and uncomfortably long rant that’s mostly themed “Beleaguered Kanye West Against the World.” Video inside.
“To us it’s more about being first, and having the whole experience of what this brings to you. We never thought we need to be first for any sort of firstness, just for our own firstness, to make ourselves happy and that we accomplished something, it was a personal goal.” Video inside.
If I was this woman I might go to the hospital to sedate my fetus. Is this normal? Having second thoughts about pregnancy. Uncomfortable video of a fetus attempting escape the prison of its womb after the jump.
“My wife came downstairs and shook me awake. The entire room smelled of Four Loko – it was like the worst prom after-party ever. I opened all the windows and walked upstairs, where I passed out again in bed. I slept fitfully for another four hours. When I woke up, I stank of the stuff. My mouth was dry and there was a giant sweat stain on the bed.” Video inside.
A 12-story hotel in China recently fell over – in three seconds. How? A combination of poor choice of location, heavy rains, weak construction and physics. Lucky there weren’t other similarly constructed buildings close by, otherwise there might have been a domino effect. Video inside.
Bad things can happen. People get pissed. Fights ensue. There’s a near hit and run. Video inside.
“At the heart of the controversy over ‘body scanners’ is a promise: The images of our naked bodies will never be public,” starts Gizmodo’s recent report titled One Hundred Naked Citizens: One Hundred Leaked Body Scans. “U.S. Marshals in a Florida Federal courthouse saved 35,000 images on their scanner. These are those images.”
This weekend at the annual Goodwill designer shopping event in Seattle, the local news stumbled across/ interviewed a very excited person shopping for “tons of fucking sequins.” Video inside.
That’s right. You can now use the internet to play with a group of cats at The Oregon Humane Society with little robot arms! Sadly, you only get 2 minutes with the little webcelebs, and they’re liable to ignore you entirely. But it’s really cute.
