Star Harry Wars Potter

It's all the same movie you're watching... over and over. Found here.

Where I am.

I am currently writing a few film reviews. Feel free to join me...

That's Not Egypt...

Can you name ten films shot in Tunisia?

Now you can.

How NOT To Honor Martin Luther King Jr.

Wal-Mart, you should be ashamed of yourself. Tsk.

Do You "Jump Dress?"

Napolean Dynamite's 12 Days Of Christmas

Having no idea when the 12 days of Christmas actually are, I thought I'd share this cheering video.

I Have to Admit...

This SNL video is pretty good.

The Chronic (what?) cles of Narnia.

(stole it off of Other Sarah's page.)

Four Eyed Monsters

Coolest as-of-yet unreleased independent film. Watch the trailer, watch the podcasts. I'd like to see the film.

This Bear is Dynamite!

Well, he's pretty good anyways.

Step Into The Closet

R. Kelly - that freak on wheels - has launched the R&B opera to end all R&B operas (we hope) and has called it "Trapped In The Closet." Now if you haven't seen it, you need to see at least one of these bad boys (he threatens the world with 10 parts, but as of this moment we are only at 6). Now, I'm not bringing up Mr. Kelly's parapalegic attempts at filmmaking just to diss him, I am actually bringing up his parapalegic attempts at filmmaking in order for you to appreciate how Jimmy Kimmel dissed him.

Required viewing:

First this one (and then these if you're dedicated)
And then these ones (Scroll down the "Late Night" tab to "The Opera")

Query Letters We Love

Here's where the query letter for your first big film project ended up... and got roasted to a burnt little crisp! Enjoy.

(thanks to normzone.)

Do you do this?

I know I'm guilty. Found at Toothpaste for Dinner, of course.

K_sra Fone

Make your selection at any time!

(Here's the original)

Movie Briefs

Short and sweet!

(check out this noncentz)

Twelve Sequels to Dances With Wolves

Found at McSweeney's.

Two Siblings

Ah, behold the power of persuasion and a total lack of common sense! Here I sit in a basement on the other side of town from my dwelling at nine in the morning blogging what will seem to me after a good morning's sleep, a total and complete waste of time.

Scratch that. Not a complete waste. Not at all. Very poor quality, but still worth the bother.

My brother Joel and I have made a short film!

That may be the only type of project that can keep me up all night. We started at 3:00 yesterday afternoon and have not ceased to work on it until say twenty minutes ago.

I am so tired I can't even poke fun at myself or at my readers. I am too tired to make any nonsensical, paradoxical or otherwise interesting anecdotes about the project. Tired... sleepy tired

So, enjoy, and take care and... (fails at wit) ok, bye.

TWO SOLDIERS

Bring Me A Shubbery

Or just tell me the average velocity of a swallow. The Estimated Airspeed Velocity of an Unladen Swallow, that is. African or European, I hear you say? That's all included in this troublingly in-depth study. Go ahead and plunge into the physics that follow. I am too soft in the head to look past the introductory paragraph, but I just KNOW my nerdier friends will come trumpeting back with the report that the math is skewed or the kinematic ratios are off.

A Nerd's Nerd

On my way downtown to watch an international film I happened to see a group of four men wearing red helmets and riding segways. They were reaching top speeds of 5 mph and would stop frequently to be admired or to praise their two-wheeled rides to strangers and passers-by. I smirked. How silly of them, I thought, to be wearing helmets and traveling in a pack of four. How much nerdier can you get?

Just then I realized that I was wearing a "Vote for Pedro" t-shirt on my way to watch House of Flying Daggers and Ang Bok. At the library. Alone.

I have this theory that everyone is a nerd in some area. We all have that thing that makes us a little too excited, talk a little too animatedly. Some subject about which we know a little too much. Even posers are nerds. The desire to always look hot and poserly is what makes them nerds.

Well. I have to get back downstairs to watch the second feature.

"Just tell them that if they vote for you all their wildest dreams will come true."

Because they will. Live long and prosper.

Jaws in Thirty Seconds

...and re-enacted by bunnies. Because they can.
(creds to pete at A Perfectly Cromulent Blog)

My 100th Post!

Folks, I'm celebrating my 100th post on You Learn Something New and in honor of this momentous occasion, I will be offering you 100 pieces of useless information...

...if I have time, that is.

LET'S GET BLOGGING!

1. I currently have $6.74 cash on my person.
2. I am listening to a Loreena McKennitt song titled "Skellig."
3. Today is Jean Reno's Birthday. He was born 1948.
4. This was originally the post with random alligator pictures. Which I deleted when I hijacked this post so I could call it my 100th post.
5. Today is Hilary Swank's 30th Birthday!
6. 2 + 3 = 5
7. I just wrote out a purchase requisition for $188.04. For t-shirts. Blue ones.
8. The number eight on it's side is an infinity symbol. Falling eights are infinitely heavy!
9. Lisa Kudrow is 41.
10. Measurements of a pole bean.
11. The Only Band You'll Ever Need
12. Desperado; learn it and sing it!
13. 40 years for Vivica Fox.
14. Jimmy Hoffa disappeared this day in 1975. Learn more.
15. The 38th governor of California was born on this day in 1947. Way to go, old timer!
16. Shop at Smart Bargains!
17. It's international BOG day! (no, not "blog")
18. Apollo 15 lands on the moon
19. Delta Burke was born on this day in 1956.
20. Fotoblog
21. Where to hire look-alikes.
22. PopNots
23. 91st result from a Google search on "crude oil."
24. negative facial expression.
25. What my brother drank. He even has those cups now...
26. For a good time call the Neistat bros.
27. Cart Companion
28. For Hot Heads
29. Bottle Rockets: make your own!
30. Wendy's dollar menu reviewed.
31. Rabies Prevention for kids! It's fun!
32. Lyrics for R. Kelly's Hump Bounce
33. (thanks El Fid) Johnny Lang's new album has just dropped! (actually it was released last year. oops.)
34. Cleveland stinks during the summer.
35. Guess what? Chicken butt.
36. Guess why? Chicken thigh.
37. Open toe tights!
38. Fishies!
39. Morocco
40. Portuguese Train Station
41. I'm not sure where they are, but I'm pretty sure They're Not Having Fun.
42. Trucks of Kelly Park.
43. Unappetizing
44. World's Cutest Greeters
45. Graffiti. Love it.
47. Free Standing Tombs
48. More Graffiti
49. In France they're called Tagues
50. Currently the first Google hit for Purple Leaves
51. The President's 2004 Veteran's Day Proclamation
52. I have this dream all the time ---> &$
53. And I threw these guys in for good measure
54. Upsy-daisy
55. Nice catch there, Lisa
56. Not just a nice word, it's also a great place to eat!
57. I'm a little more than half way there...
58. A funny movie. You should watch it some time.
59. Thought you'd like to know where the Amazon is
60. The perfect age. I can't wait to be sixty. Well, I can wait, but I think it'll be awesome. At least, I hope so. I'll be very disappointed if it's not.
61. So mellow
62. Lyrics to Open Your Eyes
63. Learn a little more about Diamonds
64. How to Turn Down A Valentine
65. Sometimes there's a downside to being man's best friend...
66. It's from the Hit TV Show so it can't be that bad
67. Where critics gather to throw ripe fruit
68. It's Thursday. Syke. It's Tuesday. Man, you're gullible.
69. I'm obsessed with graffiti for some reason. Love the shading
70. Steve Biko was murdered in 1977
71. Hungry? Try Rally's.
72. Make love not war
73. giglet (GIG-lit) [noun, also giglot] A giddy, frolicsome girl.
74. I love bread
75. 3/4 of the way there. I can almost smell the finish line!
76. What are giblets?
77. How many people spell it "deartment?"
78. Brush up on your Engrish?
79. Llama sing-a-long
80. Reverse Scam
81. Dirty Vegas
82. Mexico City has more taxicabs than any other city in the world.
83. Colombia celebrates Tomatina, a holiday in which they throw tomatoes at each other.
84. I have six keys and three bonus cards on my key ring.
85. Rainy Day Resource Page (you know, for kids!)
86. Wheee!
87. Rumpelstiltskin
88. Embarrass has two 'r's.
89. I can finish the word search from the local paper in twelve minutes or less.
90. Somewhere a breeze is blowing.
91. Definition of Economics
92. Do you know the Muffin Man?
93. This technically isn't my 100th post. That and it's been almost a year since I started this list.
94. I wonder what ever happened to Lieberman?
95. Jaboticaba
96. Don't just stand there, Bust A Move!
97. In Devon, Connecticut it is illegal to walk backwards after sunset.
98. Men get hiccups more often than women.
99. Did you know Mexico has 31 states?
100. Can you believe I finished this post? I bet half the links are broken by now.