Radio Diatribe

WSJ., the new “lifestyle” magazine from The Wall Street Journal, has an article on safety video shown by various air carriers around the world.

The WSJ. article picked Delta’s new safety video as the best, noting that the narrating flight attendant has a striking resemblance to Angelina Jolie.

And, I agree. Assuming “striking resemblance to Angelina Jolie” is a code phrase for “striking resemblance to transsexual party promoter Amanda Lepore,” of course.

Delta’s new face

Amanda Lepore, the face of Heatherette

Delta’s new video in full

Al Gore’s current.tv has some things to say about the video also.

Learn sewing.

I am going back to Waterloo on the 31st on AC8225 and then on AC156.

From Life of a UW Math Student:
“It’s a video of him at a park just filming stuff interspliced with footage from Fire Birds. I don’t really know how to describe it, it’s creepy as hell. Like he kept zooming in on people and then zooming out to the scenary.”

I wish I had thought of this.

I voted in B.C. provincial election by absentee ballot.

It was the most enjoyable vote so far as I was actually able to vote for the party I want to vote for, not the Liberals for the fear of the Conservatives, as I had in every other election that I cast vote in (2003 Ontario provincial and 2004 federal). See, there’s no chance that anyone other than the B.C. Liberal (read B.C. Neo/Social-Con Alliance - it’s not affiliated with the federal Liberals at all) candidate is going to get elected in my hillbilly inland B.C. riding, so there’s no point wasting my vote for NDP, which I don’t really trust anyways.

I should also mention that B.C. is having a referendum on whether to replace with the completely retarded “first past the post” system with “single transferable vote” system. There has been a lot of bitching about the new system, but I voted yes as I found most of them pretty unconvincing.

For example, some have claimed that Ireland, which use the STV system, have very few women and minorities in its parliament and the same thing’s going to happen in B.C. WTF? It’s like that in Ireland because it’s a ultra-conservative, hyper-religious country that was ruled by the Catholic Church until just a few decades ago. More popular is the one that goes like “oh my fucking god, B.C. Liberals are going to be in power for ever and ever because STV will stop people from voting strategically and the left vote (which NDP currently gets most of) will be split between NDP, Greens, Marijuana, and Sex Party.” Considering that the two major factions (Jesus-freaks vs. secular neo-cons) in the B.C. Liberal Party are always out to get each other, and that the party’s made up mostly of ruthless opportunists, with a electoral system that allows candidates from small parties to get elected (such as STV), it’s quite possible that the right will be split into even smaller pieces than the left.

Well, at least that’s what I think.

I have to work tomorrow; I should sleep.

I’ll be flying home on Tuesday, just in time for the birch pollen alergy season. Pus will be oozing from my eyes the moment the plane starts descending.

I made a startling discovery a few weeks ago.

Three songs on Discovery (yes, the album from Daft Punk) are ripoffs.

(I didn’t intend to make that horrible pun; it just happened. Speaking of pun, I couldn’t help but notice that every other review for Daft Punk’s latest album, Human After All, contained the same pun - something along the line of “This album kinda so so. I guess Daft Punk’s human after all. OMG LOL!!!” I didn’t realize that there were so many Peggy Hill clones walking among us.)

Other news:
LCD Soundsystem (a.k.a. Jame Murphy, everyone’s favourite lumberjack) and M.I.A. are performing at the Opera House in Toronto on May 21. I am going. (I’ve never been to the place; I hope the atmosphere there isn’t too Queen-St.-scary/skanky.)

Michel Gondry is at MIT, like, right now. Had I the time (and a roundtrip plane ticket, and a camouflage kit, and money, and …), I would be in Cambridge, MA stalking him right now. Argh!

Guero Deluxe 2-Disc Edition: $36.99 * 1.15 = $42.54 (at HMV).

Outside. 

Inside. 

A quote from a post on Lightning Struck Itself, a blog by Clem Bastow:

Somebody once said, in relation to Beck’s eclecticism, that ‘no one in real life likes country and hip hop’ … It is his tenth album and his second made having returned wholeheartedly to the arms of a certain celebrity church/cult, the one that actively encourages its members not to seek inspiration, friendship or collaboration from ‘no-case-gains’ … Guero led me to something of a revelation: could it be that this ‘faith’s’ cultural isolationism is at the root of Beck’s legendary eclecticism? If you’re raised within a vacuum, it’s pretty hard to worry about liking country and hip hop - and samba and jazz and metal and rock and, and…

This made me remember something I read a couple months ago.

“The revolution that failed”, Salon.com:

Spike Jonze, while not as cantankerous as those three, comes off as an immature, insecure skate-punk prankster with little intellectual curiosity and a blissful ignorance of pre-”Star Wars” culture. This may be why his movies, “Being John Malkovich” and “Adaptation,” seem so original — he isn’t imitating classic films of the past because he’s never even seen them. Waxman reports that one day on the set of the former film Jonze took Malkovich aside to tell him he was overacting a scene. “I was getting a little Blanche there, wasn’t I?” the star agreed. Jonze looked puzzled. “Blanche Dubois,” responded Malkovich. “Tennessee Williams? ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’? Blanche Dubois?” Jonze could only shrug; he had no idea what Malkovich was talking about. “What did you get me into?” Malkovich moaned to producer Steve Golin, who could only respond, “At least it won’t be derivative.”