Posted by Tiffany on Mar 12, 2010 in AWESOME, Gnomes
Freshman year of college is when Aryiel and I met. Half a year later when her roommate moved out and my 3-people-in-a-2-person-dorm was getting annoying (the space situation, not the roommates), I moved into her place in Braden Hall (ah good old Chapman U.)
We’d already become quick friends and basically, somehow through her love of gnomes (hers was more obvious, mine was latent from days of watching David the Gnome) we ended up making a rule that, should either of our virgin-but-not-wanting-to-be-selves have a guy in the room, that we were serious about wanting to sleep with, we’d let the other know through mentioning, somehow, something about a gnome.
I’ll leave the story that follows that for Aryiel and another post, the main point we’re going to travel back to is that - dude, GNOMES are effing AWESOME.
So if you’re seeing this on Google reader, you might see two posts, my apologies. Wordpress and I were dueling it out, and I won victorious in the end. Time for the gnomes!
A little music to help you with your gnome viewing:
Step 1: Underpants. Step 2: ??? Step 3: Profit
From Gnome Town. Sounds like a place I'd enjoy living.
Do the seven dwarfs (dwarves?) count as gnomes?
Okay, that’s all for gnome! …I mean now. Or do I? *strokes beard*
Hey the three people who still read our blog. So a few changes, mainly being that the menu is now at the top of the page, and that you can choose from the various topics we talk about in a lovely organized fashion.
I also organized the categories, so you can find stuff easier, yay!!!
Plus for those of you obsessed with Aryiel Hartman, you’ll soon see her new website. I’ll post it when it’s up.
Now onto the meat of this real post.
SHOES. OMG SHOES. THESE SHOES ARE EFFING AWESOME. I WOULD DANCE IN THESE ALL NIGHT AGAIN AND AGAIN AND AGAIN. I would be BURIED in these shoes they’re SO AWESOME.
No, not the country. The amazing, amazing song from Toto.
There are too many amazing things about this video.
Like 1:09, where the globe spins around to AFRICA. IN CASE YOU DIDN’T KNOW WHAT THE SONG WAS ABOUT. OR THE VIDEO.
Yep, that's what the song is about. Africa.
Or whenever they cut to the band singing, they’re standing on a giant book. Was this green screen, or did they build a giant book stage? It’s probably green screen, however, still ridiculous and cheezy.
We shrunk down to be able to play for the gnome king.
Let’s not forget the main singer. Aside from the fact that he looks like a date rapist, you know that this dude got SO MUCH PUSSY when this song was in its prime.
"Hey baby, remember 'It's gonna take a lot to take me away from you' - yeah, that was alllll me."
…So did this guy.
Nice pornstache dude.
And this guy.
I LIKE TO PLAY TEH KEYBOARDS YEYYYYYYYY.
He kinnnnnd of looks like the not-right-in-the-head little brother that they HAD to have in the band or else “mom wouldn’t let us play in the garage” type scenarios.
Anyways, originally I started to really dig this song (and I mean as opposed to being unaware while listening to it on top-whatever stations when I was a kid) because of this scene from Scrubs.
That plus the combination of a best friend who was also digging the ridiculousness of the video and a fiance who is also, for whatever reason, enjoying the rock out factor of the song, lead to it being one of the best singing-out-loud-top-of-the-lungs-in-the-car songs.
I leave you with the ever lovely Aryiel, as I dropped her off at the train station in the rain from San Diego. And of course, the drive there looked like Africa. A very rainy Africa. I only WISH I was making this up. The best part was during the singing of the song at the top of our lungs, we couldn’t decide what the lyrics were. (I had sung “I guess it rains down in Africa” which… was wrong. After the use of smart phones and google, we found out it’s “I bless the rains down in Africa” – which .. I guess.. makes just as much sense…)
After this, when she got out of the car, we were magically in the plains of Africa. True story.
That is sooooooo not something you would hear me say normally.
Being an actres, there’s a certain amount of bullshit I can stand. But there is sooooo much of it right now that hollywood is practically sinking.
Now, I’m the worst person to take to a movie nowadays. I’m an extremely harsh critic because it appears that there’s no real art to the cinema anymore; it’s all become about marketing campaigns and demographics. Scary to think of how tunnel-visioned Hollywood is. And then I stumbled upon this film : “Ink”. It was recommended on my Netflix. Sounded interesting. Sure, why not? But I have to admit that after an hour and forty minutes, I can easily say it is truly one of the greatest films I’ve ever seen and one of the top films of our generation.
If you watch it, you’ll understand. I’m so glad Hollywood didn’t get their hands on this. They would have bastardized it and made it a safe PG-13 movie geared towards young adults or something while losing all of its humanity. Bravo to the directors and producers for not selling out and doing this movie with such blatent passion and integrity and vision.
It beauitfully blends fantasy and horror without shoving anything down your throat. There’s some beautiful sequences that will make your 5 year old smile and some sequences that would make any adult quiver.
There’s no giant explosions, but there is AMAZING fight choreography. There’s not a whole lot of special effects except for some crafty camera work and editing devices. There’s no big stars to name in sight but all throughout the movie the acting is remarkable. All of these brought together an actual piece of living, breathing art that I’m proud to say I will watch over and over again. I highly recommend to you all to do yourself and your sensibilities a favor, relax, take a breath, and watch this ravishing film.
It’s availalbe streaming on Hulu (with commercials) and also on Netflix instant watch (totally without commmercials which is definately how it should be watched).
I want to stick little appendages on these and make them into Tim Burton Characters
Now if only they would take my idea for a bathtub of the same design. Just sit in there, shielded from the harsh reality of the world, stewing in your own juices…..ahhhh. I can taste the pungent moisture now……
I think I just accidentally hopped onto the rich people’s side of the internet. Take a gander at these incredible thing with their even more incredible price tags.
Apparently these incredible every-little-girl-dreams-of-these-shoes are going for a mediocre price of $27,945. Yeah. Yeah, so if you were thinkin’ about gettin that car or a down payment on a house, I say throw caution to the wind!!! At least you’ll look fabulous dammit!! And that’s all that matters. Happiness through acquisition of material goods.
Ladies, please join me in perusing the above blog. Yes, it IS about shoes and yes, it IS crack. SO beware ladies. It may make you EXTRA girly and prone to fits of frolocking.
So clearly neither of us have posted in a while – we haven’t given up, it’s just that I’ve been busy and Aryiel has not-so-great internet. Either way, we both really want to do The T&A Show – so I’ll be using this as my new home for my little point-and-shoot photo journal, and Aryiel will post… once her internet gets better. PLUS! We’ll be making a Riff Trax for your listening pleasure, along with actually starting to podcast as well. Lastly I’ll be tampering with the site design. La la la. Too much, so little time. Either way, go check out my main website, Cherry Fizz – I’ve made a new splash page, which is probably how you got here in the first place.
Anyways, come back soon, we’ll have much more fun stuff of ours for you to check out.
Anyone who knows me knows that I’m really an 87-year old woman and am considerably impressed every time I find out what more technology we have discovered. But this? Seriously? This is actually real folks. Apparently a robot who was programmed to love (awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww) has gone crazy and smothering!! (That’s what happens when you only program the robots with Lifetime original movies).
“Kenji was part of an experiment involving several robots loaded with custom software designed to let them react emotionally to external stimuli. After some limited environmental conditioning, Kenji first demonstrated love by bonding with a a stuffed doll in his enclosure, which he would embrace for hours at a time. He would then make simple, but insistent, inquiries about the doll if it were out of sight. Researchers attributed this behavior to his programmed qualities of devotion and empathy and called the experiment a success.
What they didn’t count on were the effects of several months of self-iteration within the complex machine-learning code which gave Kenji his initial tenderness. As of last week, Kenji’s love for the doll, and indeed anybody he sets his ‘eyes’ on, is so intense that Dr. Takahashi and his team now fear to show him to outsiders.
The trouble all started when a young female intern began to spend several hours each day with Kenji, testing his systems and loading new software routines. When it came time to leave one evening, however, Kenji refused to let her out of his lab enclosure and used his bulky mechanical body to block her exit and hug her repeatedly. The intern was only able to escape after she had frantically phoned two senior staff members to come and temporarily de-activate Kenji.
“This is only a minor setback. I have full faith that we will one day live side by side with, and eventually love and be loved by, robots,” he said.”
Thank God. Who else wants some robot love up in here AAAOOOO!!!! >>high fives<< Mmmmmm, I can just feel those cold metal arms wrapping around my delicate and fragile body. Way to go Science.
