another variety assortment (mostly videos)

from asarwate, via ergodicity: from Sepia Mutiny, a video clip of a song in the 1981 Tamil film Ellaam Inbamayam, in which there is, indeed, some of the funk. complete with gold-fringed vest and shiny shiny boots.

from hammercock, perhaps an even more odd-expression-producing video: Yatta!

from tparnell: OMG PONIES!!! on Slashdot.

from officialgaiman: the trailer for Terry Gilliam's next movie, Tideland, which looks to be as strange as you'd expect, and with heavy southern accents.
and a very neat zoomable photo of Sydney Harbor.

from lastreetart: an interview with Shepard Fairey on the origin of the Andre the Giant/Obey art
...and then i go look at the wikipedia article on Fairey and discover that he's from Charleston. but...i kinda think i knew that, but i don't know why. anyhow. small, small world.

[booklog 2006]

45. The Years of Rice and Salt, Kim Stanley Robinson. epic alternate history, definitely an interesting read, but the quality of writing is inconsistent, and it's a bit much taken all at once. still definitely worth reading, and there are some neat thought-experiments there.

46. Invisible Cities, italo calvino. elegant, gorgeous writing, in such tiny packages.

47. The Essential Bordertown, an anthology of stories set in, & 'guidebook' entries for, the town that exists on the border between the human world & the realm of Faerie. the stories were of varying quality, but the good ones were lovely, and the idea of such a place is an interesting one to play with. the best went beyond the given tensions between 'human' and 'elvin/faerie' and looked more at what it means to live in the in-between places.

48. & 49. Lost in a Good Book and The Well of Lost Plots, Jasper Fforde. more tasty not-entirely-fluffy escapist fun. i went through these in less than a day each, i think.

currently in the stack: another two Calvino books (a novel & a collection of short stories), the next Fforde novel, Reading Lolita in Tehran, which is textured and rich and makes me slow down and read it at least a little carefully, the little Cometbus i picked up the other day, and A Time Traveler's Wife, which i borrowed from l_stboy and haven't looked at yet.