the adventures of buckaroo bonzai
Last night, Laura and I went (with Mark and Serena) to see the Ashes 2 Ashes B-boy Championships. I can’t even describe how awesome it was — there was even a 6 year old one one of the teams (though most were probably early 20’s). People from all over the US, Korea, Japan… defying the laws of physics.
To get a faint idea of what we saw last night, check out this video on YouTube:
(Yeah, we saw him live!)
And last but not least, look what happens when breakdancing goes wrong.
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I’ve always pretty much thought that bottled water was a scam. Essentially, why pay for something that you can get for free? Why are people so fucking lazy that they can’t go out and buy a stainless-steel (or lexan) water container and refill it from the tap? I really don’t get it. Really, send me 10 cents and I’ll bottle up some air for your dumb ass while we’re at it.
Seriously, does no one care about the future of the planet? Or is everyone just so self-absorbed in their suburban, alienated, Wal-Mart world that they can’t see the bigger picture?
Why not buy a re-usable water bottle? Anyway, this article on bottled water over at Fast Company sums it up nicely:
Message in a Bottle You can buy a half-liter Evian for $1.35–17 ounces of water imported from France for pocket change. That water seems cheap, but only because we aren’t paying attention. In San Francisco, the municipal water comes from inside Yosemite National Park. It’s so good the EPA doesn’t require San Francisco to filter it. If you bought and drank a bottle of Evian, you could refill that bottle once a day for 10 years, 5 months, and 21 days with San Francisco tap water before that water would cost $1.35. Put another way, if the water we use at home cost what even cheap bottled water costs, our monthly water bills would run $9,000. . . . Packing bottled water in lunch boxes, grabbing a half-liter from the fridge as we dash out the door, piling up half-finished bottles in the car cup holders–that happens because of a fundamental thoughtlessness. It’s only marginally more trouble to have reusable water bottles, cleaned and filled and tucked in the lunch box or the fridge. We just can’t be bothered. And in a world in which 1 billion people have no reliable source of drinking water, and 3,000 children a day die from diseases caught from tainted water, that conspicuous consumption of bottled water that we don’t need seems wasteful, and perhaps cavalier.
I don’t watch flims much, and when I do, I usually don’t like them (or fall asleep during) — but — here are some that I thoroughly enjoyed.
Ghost World is a 2001 film by Terry Zwigoff, based on a graphic novel by Daniel Clowes, also titled Ghost World. It stars Thora Birch, Scarlett Johansson and Steve Buscemi. Although the film wasn’t a box-office blockbuster, it was heavily praised by critics and established a strong cult following. The story focuses on the life of two teenage friends, Enid (Thora Birch) and Rebecca (Scarlett Johansson), who are outside of the normal high school social order in an unnamed suburb, often assumed to be in or around Los Angeles, where much of the movie was shot. [wikipedia]
Long Way Round (LWR) is a documentary television series, DVD set and book documenting the 19,000 mile journey of Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman from London to New York on motorcycles. They travelled eastwards through Europe and Asia, flew to Alaska and continued by road from there to New York. [wikipedia]
Is there anybody who reads my blog who has never posted a comment?
Just curious. I know for a fact that there are at least a few people who read this on a semi-regular basis but never comment. Hi, Toni.
Post a comment if you’ve never done so before!
Even if it’s just to say hi.
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