"Woah."

Good news - I passed both my independent study classes! By a lot actually: one solid A and a B+. Two of my regular classes are "finished" minus a paper in each. I still have classes and finals for the rest of them, but I'm pretty well on my way to being completely graduated.

Bad news - I lost my cell phone! Booo. Feel free to call me and leave a silly message that I may never get. If someone answers please feel free to give them my contact info or something.

And now, onto more new discoveries and another attempt to entertain you for the next 15 minutes.

Movies on the Internet

There's not much in the new theatre right now that really interests me, and, let's face it, there probably won't be till Speed Racer comes out next month. Until then, I've discovered a few ways to re-discover old favorites online. I'm not talking about hulu's free tv and film collections, although it's certainly fun to browse if you're willing to sit through an entire streamed movie. But if you don't have the bandwidth or attention span, here are some options.

Five Second Movies
Five Second Movies is one of those bizzare youtube channel that is ultimately not doing anything particularly unique, but is pretty entertaining. The context is simple: take a film and boil it down to its barest essence. At best these could be called experiments in editing: the effect of the juxtaposition of clips and removal of context on humor. At the least, they're fun and don't require much time or effort. These are just a few of my favorites, and will probably take you less time to watch than they took me to link.

Star Wars: A New Hope, The Empire Strikes Back, Return of the Jedi
More Star Wars: The Phantom Menace, Attack of the Clones, Revenge of the Sith
Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, Return of the King
All the Harry Potter Movies
All the Rocky Movies
All the Spiderman Movies
Ghostbusters
Home Alone
Jurassic Park
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
Lost in Translation
The Matrix
2001: A Space Odyssey

How it Should Have Ended
A bit more on the creative side of things, the concept of How It Should Have Ended is pretty self explanatory. If the film would have been cooler with more robots, better dialogue, or less nonsense, HISHE explores the possibilities. The more they release, the more complicated they get, but they keep getting funnier so I'll allow it. Here are a few of my favorites.

Lord of the Rings
Star Wars
Superman
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
Spiderman 3

Also check out the HISHE Special: Surviving and Alien Attack, and the Oceans 40 trailer.