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YouTube user someoneelsestrain -a The Cure reference, I guess- has two sets of very interesting videos: one of Jim Henson’s live-action The Cube, an parts of the live-action The Tick. The Tick? Man, it was one of the more interesting -and very funny- animated series of the 90s.

Sultry Katwo does a bit of her live Nazi arms-raised marching on a very rough video of Narda performing Molotov at YouTube. Half of the video is just-black, so bear with it. Unless you’re into that kind of thing.

Me status: my photos are currently uninspired, and I’ve been actively watching online videos, though I do have about half-a-dozen DVDs to weed through.

So here’s what I’d post about: err, online videos.

Taken from the TWiT podcast:

In this hilarious send-up of Lovecraftian horror and steampunk adventure, President Abraham Lincoln’s top spy is a bodyless head known only as Screw-On Head.

When arch-fiend Emperor Zombie steals an artifact that will enable him to threaten all life on Earth, the task of stopping him is assigned to Screw-on Head. Fortunately, Screw-On Head is not alone on this perilous quest. He is aided by his multitalented manservant, Mr. Groin, and by his talking canine cohort, Mr. Dog.

Definitely funny, in a not-everyone-will-think-its-funny way.

And since I’m on I’m-trying-to-remember-the-really-good-stuff-of-olden-days, here’s a user-made music video of Serial Experiments Lain the TV series, as well as the Playstation game:

Nice screenshot, eh? Watch the video. I’m no hardcore anime fan, but anything Lain-related gets me pants-pissing.

Oh, and see the pilot of Wonderfalls -I am fan- with Mahandra and Jaye’s brother played with different actors – so glad there was a cast change. Some slight differences with the show’s score, too.

Maybe its just my odd-brow (not high-brow, nor low-brow; err) sense of things, but most funny YouTube videos are hardly laughable. This video of Stephen Colbert ‘losing it‘ made me red from laughing.

City hot spell breaks 130-year-old record: SHANGHAI suffered through the hottest June 21 since record-keeping began more than 130 years ago as the mercury topped 37.3 degrees Celsius yesterday (June 21, 2006)[source]. So what do we night-shifters do? Go to work in flip-flops. Oh, but what also happens during this heatwave? Constant rain. Great, I know.

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Finally! Was able to do a WordPress upgrade; no more sending referrers error. This also means I can post to Litratista.org now. Oh, and a blog theme update? Sometime soon, maybe. I’ve been using the same blue-white color scheme across different color schemes since… 2002? 2003? Yes, even those days when Movable Type was the blog-cms-of-choice. UPDATE: I’m running Hemingway Birght now, and it needs major customizing.

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I’m eyeing the fairly new Sigma 17-70mm F2.8-4.5 DC MACRO lens, for my 350D, same as what Markku bought. I really have to, you know. Its for the future Hangzhou and/or Beijing trip.

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And here’s what’s probably now normal for a blogger with not enough content to publish: a YouTube video. Here’s a two-minute clip of Zhang Ziyi dancing in Touching Starlight, which was released before Zhang Yimou’s The Road Home.