I was initially excited to find out that The Knife had released another album. Then I was kind of dismayed to see that it was an opera. But I still wanted to hear it anyway.
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Tomorrow, In a Year
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Tagged birds, charles darwin, evolution, mt. sims, opera, origin of species, ornithology, planningtorock, richard dawkins, the knife
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Doesn’t Sam the Eagle from The Muppet Show resemble this endangered bird endemic to New Zealand (the North Island Kōkako)? I think he does, if only a little. Also, Kōkakos have a beautiful call.
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Tagged bbc, birds, david attenborough, kokako, new zealand, sam the eagle, the life of birds, the muppet show
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The Straight Story
The Straight Story (1999) was a thoughtful and well-constructed film about a man and his cross-country journey on a lawnmower. David Lynch directed it, but didn’t write it, so the things which I don’t always appreciate the lack of in Lynch’s films, like a coherent plot, linear continuity of time, and so on, were present. […]
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Tagged buy n fly, cancer, david lynch, old people, richard farnsworth, suicide, the straight story
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Album covers for Judas Priest’s Ram It Down (1988) and Red Hot Chili Peppers’ Californication (1999), respectively.
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Tagged album covers, californication, judas priest, ram it down, red hot chili peppers
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Everybody died
This is what I thought was actually said the first time I watched this scene from Exorcist: The Beginning. Of course, the line was: “Who buried them? Everybody died; who buried them?”, but I didn’t hear it correctly. So I made this clip to illustrate how stupid this scene seemed to be when I watched […]