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Inspirations for Raiders of The Lost Ark
Fantastic, meticulously researched and edited video comparing the opening scene of Raiders of the Lost Ark to shots from movies released earlier:
Aspie Talk: Phobias
My friend Sue’s son, Adam, has Asperger’s Syndrome, and he’s started a video series on YouTube to share his experiences. It’s brilliant — I love his editing style.
Here’s a great example: a video about phobias, particularly his fear of one particular toy in his childhood.
You’ve Got to Hide Your Love Away – The Beatles
Apropos of nothing, here are the Beatles singing in their fabulous house in Help!
The human brain is a strange thing: examples of the placebo effect
A world of words
If you enjoy language, deep thinking about humanity, or any kind of provocative thought, I encourage you to watch a new five-part series on BBC 2, Stephen Fry’s Planet Word.
In the BBC’s impenetrable wisdom, it has chosen not to show the series on BBC America yet, nor in the near future. There is, after all, only so much time left after one has scheduled the required doses of Gordon Ramsey’s various series and long-ago episodes of Star Trek: Next Generation.
Fortunately, we Americans can currently find the episodes posted online…. Continue reading
Who knew Trinculo could be so interesting?
Brilliant spur-of-the-moment improvisation of a Shakespearean character’s backstory, by Russell Brand. Is he the most astonishing entertainer alive? I think so.
“Simon Pegg, remember the name, you saw him here first”
I didn’t know that Simon Pegg — of Spaced, Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, Star Trek, and much more — had ever done standup.
But he did. And he was rather funny. This is from 1995:
“What is it like in your funny little brains. It must be so boring.”
If you’re reading this tonight, Sunday night October 24, you still have time to get to your TV and set your DVR for this show: Sherlock on PBS.
Masterpiece Mystery: Sherlock (trailer)
And if you are reading this Monday or later and missed it, you can catch one of the many repeats. Which you’ll want to do, so you’re set for the next two Sundays, when episodes 2 and 3 are broadcast. Or in the worst case, preorder the DVDs.
This new Sherlock series is amazing. It was produced by the BBC and broadcast over the summer in Britain. I watched it via (illegal) YouTube uploads, 15 minutes to a segment, the moment they were available. Clever, fast-paced, funny, suspenseful, high-stakes, beautifully shot and edited, with characters that you like instantly and care about.
My friend Christina, who clued me in before the BBC’s original broadcast so I’d be on the lookout for it on the Internets, described Benedict Cumberbatch’s Sherlock Holmes as the “adorable bastard child of Doctor Who and Sheldon from Big Bang Theory.” This is just about right, assuming that child had been raised by Gregory House.
Please watch and tell me what you think of the show. Then let’s all band together to get the BBC and PBS to show future episodes in a much more timely manner. Three months’ delay is far too a wait for great television.
The science of animal marketing
“Introducing Cat! The new compact, selfish dog.”
David Mitchell’ Soapbox: David Mitchell ponders the origins of the word Camelopard