Fantastic round table lead by Stephen Fry on the out of control incarceration rate in this country. We imprison more people, per capita, than any nation in the history of the world. Fortunately for the Prison Industrial Complex, the coming double-dip recession will surely provide ample opportunity to sweep thousands more into our penal/human chattel holding cells, that we may create more wards of the state and more productive slave labor. Huzzah for free societies.
I half expected this short film to turn into a bizarro version of Planet of the Apes. I wanted this aged space chimp to land on an irradiated Earth, thousands of years after his departure (due to the temporal demands of general relativity) and scream to the heavens in chimp language, “You blew it all up, you bastards!”
Glenn Donnellan, a fiddler for the National Symphony Orchestra, crafted an electric fiddle out of a Derek Jeter-model baseball bat.
His fiddling rendition of the national anthem on July 4, at a Washington Nationals game, gives me the chills. It sounds like something out of a Ken Burns’ Civil War documentary.
Here’s some skillfully assembled montaging by Broken Social Scene. The video draws an important connection between the riot police defending consumerist society to the last and vapid pop icons distracting would-be supporters of future protest movements.
This is one of those serendipitous finds that is a little bit too Meppy for coincidence’s sake. Here we have footage from Mep favorite Koyaanisqatsi set to music from progressive rock band, King Crimson, which just happens to be one of the major influences of The Road.
I’m a bit late to the party on this, but something this absurdly awesome really has no expiration date. Next question: what’s it going to take to get this to the top 40?
There has been a great deal of sickness, sadness, and strife in Mep Land recently. I don’t feel the need to get into grizzly details as of yet, but hopefully you will excuse the lack of posting as a consequence of that.
In an effort to distract you, here’s a dazzling video entitled ‘Internet Warrior’ by Oh No Ono.
Sure, the World Cup is over, but that doesn’t mean the soccer/football fun has to stop. And if you’re Icelandic and spending your time watching your country try to avert bankruptcy, I guess you’ve got to get your fun somehow…
This promising new web series stars Eddie Pepitone, one of the most consistently hilarious comics I’ve seen since moving out to the left coast. Hiking Runyon is certainly a thing for LA-folk, as one of the few approved public walking areas within the county.
