From the bowels of stumbleupon, neatorama, yesbutnobutyes, and probably a few other blogs that I check with regularity:- The 10 most disturbing books of all time - none of which I've read, two of which I've seen movies based upon
- 10 incredible recordings - for some reason, I find the number stations particularly creepy
- Bar bets - I remember Harry Anderson doing the "drink under a hat" one on Cheers at some point. Loved the scene.
- 25 logos with hidden messages - The toblerone and amazon logos stunned me. From the very cool GraphicDesignBlog.
- Wolfgang's Vault - free to download concert recordings
- 8tracks - another site that I might be trying to replace muxtape
- Animation for "Creep" - nice animation to go with the song "Creep"
- 95 old school video games you can play on the web - I really hate my laptop's mousepad sometimes.
- 20 best bad movies of the past 20 years - I can safely say I only saw two of these in the theater and have only seen four of them overall.
- "The Mysterious Stranger" by Twain - I need to read some version of this, maybe from his new collection.
- How to be an evil overlord - 100 things to make sure you do as an evil overlord.
- Periodic Table of Typefaces - This crap has got to stop. The periodic table is awesome, and every lame attempt to rip it off cheapens that.
- Propaganda video gallery - Nice videos from days gone by.
- Rainbow cupcakes - outstandingly pretty and tasty food
3 comments:
I read Blindness and rather enjoyed it. I hope the movie is as good. I tried to read it to my husband so we could enjoy it together, but time constraints has led to my abandoning that. It was really hard to read aloud because there are no quotation marks for the dialogue and none of the characters have any names (they are referred to by distinguishing character descriptions) making it even harder for me to give them voices while reading.
As for the bad films of the last decade, I'm ashamed to have seen more than one of them. But I really appreciated the visual beauty of Sky Captain, even though it wasn't the best film.
I've read both American Psycho and The Road, seen the movie of 120 Days of Sodom. Psycho was the most disturbing book I've ever read, and Sodom was the most disturbing film.
As for those bad movies, I'm just disappointed "Deep Blue Sea" isn't on the list. Now that's a good bad movie.
As for book #1 on the list, which was based on a true story...I'd never heard that tale, and certainly not that it had been in Indianapolis, until just a couple of weeks ago. It was in the news because the house in which these events took place was finally razed. It had evidently been empty since the psycho had gone to jail and had been an eyesore there only for the morbidly curious. Read quite a bit about the story after that...pretty sick stuff.
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