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Friday Videos Holiday Spectacular - Dec 7th, 2007

The top two videos are full episodes and 110% worth watching. I realize not everyone has a spare 45 minutes lying around but please take time to watch them both at some point during the weekend. The GUBA video player controls are insane non-intuitive but it's the only place I could find the full episode.. turns out if you right-click the video you can play / pause at your leisure.

The Tyson clip is very NSFW but you have to see all the clips together.

The Vader Redux is a hilarious concept but waay too long. Do yourself a favor and stop watching it after about 30 - 40 seconds, you'll have the taste you need.

Enjoy your weekend.

Purevolume sampler

If you're looking for some good, free, new music you might want to head over to the PureVolume sampler We Were Here First and snag the compilation. I've not heard of everyone on it but it's got The Damnwells, The Stills, Page France, Favourite Sons, and many others that I am familiar with.. so that's a great start. Let's hope this is a regular new thing that PureVolume will be offering (or maybe it has been and I'm just totally ignorant).

Let Them Eat Cake

Combine Kirsten Dunst, Jason Schwartzman, Sofia Coppolla, a New Order soundtrack, and a period piece about the Queen of France and what do you get? Marie Antoinette - that's what. The soundtrack is such a bizarre distraction from the look and feel of the film but it would be pretty ballsy to have a modern soundtrack to a movie set in the 1700's. Well, maybe not ballsy but at least different (and possibly extremely distracting).

jon stewart vs o'reilly

Thanks to Wonkette there is a full transcript of Jon Stewart's appearance on the O'Reilly Factor. I'm sorry but I am just beyond apalled at how ridiculous O'Reilly is - boycotting France? stoned slackers? I don't think every point he makes is completely off base but it's just more evidence that being an extremist (i.e. Islamic extremists, FoxNews anchors, Michael Moore afficianados) is just a bad idea.

You know, the blackouts in NYC today were pretty creepy but you gotta feel some sympathy for the insane heat wave in France. 3,000 people dying in 2 weeks time? That's horrible.

richard avedon

The site may not reflect it but Richard Avedon has done some of the most wonderful portrait photography to date. So if you aren't familiar with him.. at least check out the few samples they have on the site, and then buy me the Richard Avedon: Made In France book. Seriously.

sweetness!

Check out Photo-genetic.com. Issue 1 is really nice. The first photo by Simon Brown in France is.. almost unbelievable. I'd say that he airbrushed himself out but I think I'm just taken aback by architecture that's actually... cool (unlike a majority of America). Very nice stuff. It's been added to the bookmarks.