4/25/11

mm45


Chopin - Prelude No. 4 in E-minor, Op. 28

4/24/11

strangers



"come on come on, i've been yammering on about my idiot for days. whats going on with urs"
-LT

4/21/11

gonna carry on with my vociferous lack of shitgiving


Stupid, stinky cheese rut.

"Technically, to an observer in my frame of reference, I am not going anywhere. Rather, you are all leaving me at the exact same time." -AB

4/20/11

non piangere per me, io sono già morto

"don't cry for me, I'm already dead"


If anyone can find me an English version of this clip, I'd greatly appreciate it.








"I have no friends. Just Friends DVDs"

-MS

4/19/11

a strange time in my life

time

"I DON'T LIKE PEOPLE. THATS WHY I LIKE MOVIES"
-KV

4/18/11

mm44

Gipsy Kings - A Mi Manera

4/11/11

mm43

Lawrence University Jazz Ensemble - Bodysnatchers (Radiohead Cover)

4/8/11

Indiana Jones and the Hotel of Doom pt. 3

Back in 2008, I wrote a post on the Ryugyong Hotel in North Korea. This particular structure was nicknamed the "Hotel of Doom," namely because of its then decrepit state and status.

Construction on the building began in 1987 as a response to the Olympics being held on the more prosperous corner of the Korean peninsula in Seoul. 5 years, a Soviet collapse, and $750 million later, construction halted due to "difficulties." What was left was a crumbling shell of concrete, a testament to North Korean economic policy:

It would've been more expensive tear it down than to actually demolish it, so they sorta just left it there as it was. And there it stood. For 16 years.

In 2008, Kim Jong Il finally decided to do somethin about his personal Burj Dubai. I wrote an updated post a year later to track the status of this damning project. Here's what it looked like in 2009:

Well, it's been a few years, and the North Koreans have stayed true to their word. Construction has been keeping up with a decent pace, and it looks like its actually slated to open in 2012. Hard to believe? Take a look at what it looks like today:

Wow. Maybe the economy is actually getting better.

"You know how you can tell he speaks Spanish? He had an accent."
-TR

4/5/11

I have...

...admittedly fallen off the blog bandwagon. There's weeks upon weeks of people's blog updates I need to catch up on, and I've yet to find something substantial to post in here.

Stay posted (ha ha). There will be something worth reading here in due time (due time can mean anything from the next day to the next month, so let's see where this takes me).

4/4/11

mm42


Deep Purple - April
Got this song as a suggestion from a friend of mine. Perhaps I'll just let him describe it:
"an absolute masterpiece and one of my all-time favorite pieces of music. it's a song about deep purple's gloomy month of april. listen to the whole song build up to the 8'40" mark. you'll thank me, later."