Weeaboo Wednesday: the Haruhi Dance!!!

I know it’s been literally an entire semester since I’ve posted a Weeaboo Wednesday, but look, I actually don’t know that much about Japan. I guess I could have kept reviewing weird hentai that I “accidentally” came upon, but I am pretty tired of getting hits from search terms like “world of warcraft tentacle” and “kkids fucking”.

In any case, I HAVE SOMETHING TO SHARE WITH YOU, SOMETHING ABOUT ANIMES!!

Weekend Video Jamboree – 10/24/09 – REEEEEmix

hay guys so david hasn been doing this feature much lately actually i havn been blogging much either but you know i kind of just got busy with things like

anyways  WHO WENT TO TREASURE ISLAND LAST WEEK EEEEEEEEH?? it was pretty bombass wasn’t it?! i think i liked mstrkrft the best. i was kind of disappointed in girl talk, but they are more gimmicky than anything! so let’s look/listen to gimmicky music videos!

incidentally, all of these are best seen through the site yooouuutuuube.com (three o’s, three u’s, and three u’s again).

Girl Talk – Feed the Animals

I’ve linked this before, but it’s so much better with a huge fucking embedded video, ISN’T IT?! For some reason it is hard to find the full set of Feed the Animals videos, but THE INTERWEB CANNOT FOOL THE ELITE SQLOG CORPS. Here is the full set, taken from several different sets of uploads– hopefully the intranet po-po won’t get up on this shit. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14

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Alice

Fagottron has a number of awesome videos, but this is my favorite. Especially when viewed through yooouuutuuube.com.

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A Haaaaaandbaaag?! (Remix)

I love “The Importance of Being Ernest“, I love The Importance of Being Ernest, and I love A Handbag ?! Ergo, I love A Handbag feat. Edit Evans:

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Grey Video

If you don’t know The Grey Album, I just feel sorry for you. The Grey Video is fun despite (because?) it being so lo-fi and downright silly.

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We Will Rock and Roll Beverly Hills

Ehhhh fuck Weezer.

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People who go to Weezer concerts clearly want to have MGMT & Lady Gaga played at them

Yeah, seriously, fuck Weezer.

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WANT MORE MASH-UP GOODNESS?! Well, fortunately for you, TONIGHT is Bootie, a bimonthly mash-up themed party in SF. 21+, fortunately/unfortunately (18+ parties tend to be pretty annoying, IMO). Have a great weekend!

Metaphors

The Internet in Brief: 8/03/09, Oh God She’s Blogging About Iran Again

• In case any of you thought even for a moment that I’d lost my huge boner for Iran, here’s more Iran news! Apparently Shane Bauer, a UC Berkeley alum, has been detained in Iran, along with his SF journalist girlfriend and some other dude. Bauer graduated only two years ago (class of ’07), having apparently double majored in Arabic and PACS. He graduated with honors, but the NYT doesn’t say in which. I’m going to guess PACS. I don’t mean to malign that particular department, but seriously. Frankly, I’m more impressed to see an Arabic-speaking white American who isn’t gay. That is quite an achievement.

Bauer is, according to his website, a “documentary photographer and journalist whose work focuses on the effects of social, economic, and political realities on the lives people around the world.” His site is actually incredibly cool, I really recommend you spend some time looking through it.

One might question the wisdom of Americans deciding to go hang out in Iran at the present moment (ESPECIALLY WITH PERSIANKIWI DOWN!), but apparently they didn’t just decide to go hang out in Iran, they lost their way while hiking in Iraq.

Well. Hiking in Iraq, huh? I’m sorry, I’m going to continue to question their judgment.

In any case, best wishes to Bauer and Shourd– I hope they can soon return to their respective homes in Emeryville and Oakland.

• While I’m fairly optimistic for Bauer and Shourd, jailed Iranian dissenters are getting their “fair” trial, and shit is sad.

Kids are getting tortured in jail; it’s not particularly hip for college bloggers to blog on torture unless they’re mentioning John Yoo, but here’s a quote from Mousavi anyways:

“The teeth of the torturers and confession-extorters have reached to the bones of the people,” he said.

“Witnessing such trumped-up trials, the only judgment that the conscience of humanity can make is the moral collapse and discredit of its directors.”

Apparently Mousavi, Khatami, and Rezai (all presidential candidates) are p. much united in their disgust for the trials.

Last Thursday marked the 40 day anniversary of Neda’s death (important, because Iranians mourn for exactly that period of time). It’s said that the prior Revolution proceeded in 40 day steps– it’s too early to tell, but I don’t know if there will even be a second 40 day step. There’s not much news from Iran, thanks to the internet clampdown, so I’m guess I’m just going to STFU at this point. :(

• Not even libertarians like Bill O’Reilly. But then again, libertarians don’t like anyone.

• The O’Reilly / Olbermann war is over?

• And while we’re on the topic of unlikable pundits:

fucken… ???

I guess there is no difference between spending billions on killing brown people and spending billions on warding off the second Great Depression

yeah, I think I should make a lackluster and depressingly bad youtube about it

fucken hipsters: The Kermit Poncho

found via WWTD

Internet in Brief / IRL News: 7/07/09

As David might have mentioned, I’ve been somewhat busy doing non-blog things… like writing a final exam, and then fleeing Berkeley to get really high and watch Shaft (2000), starring Samuel L. Jackson.

While everyone else up here in Tahoe is having a great time doling out their hard-earned money to Blizzard Entertainment, this hard-working blogger is going to throw a cursory glance around the internet and copy/paste some links your way! Because we at the Sqlog are dedicated journalists. Also, really good at instance groups.

• Berkeley feeling scarier of late? You’re not going crazy– it’s apparently ranked 43rd most dangerous city in the nation. Though I have a feeling that moving to Northside would pretty much solve everything.

• Berkeley Rep director headed for Broadway! I do not particularly care for musicals!

• More Amtrak casualties in the Bay!

• Thousands of Germans play at being Native American; Germans are fucking weird. (from MarginalRevolution)

• Dan Froomkin, who got dropped from the increasingly shitty WaPo, has been hired by HuffPo. My own feelings for HuffPo can be summed up with a sneer and a fart in the general direction of the internet, but yay for HuffPo and yay for Froomkin. Just don’t make him write any stories about Michelle Obama’s wardrobe. Please. Also, Palin is a weirdo. (both from the Daily Dish)

• Highest grossing movies, adjusted for inflation. (from Matt Yglesias)

• In case you weren’t already sick of hearing me squee over Iran, here’s the full collection of clips of Jason Jones in Iran. Although that link isn’t working for me at the moment (srsly wtf), this one still is, and is the funniest anyways.

• Instead of linking the last items, I’m going to embed them. Please. Watch them.

You are so Jeong you suck we got yet so many wrist bands so drunk you? Sent: Jun 28, 12:14 am Stored: Jun 28, 4:34 am

At the risk of further pissing off both groups of Squelchers that I broke promises to last night:

Max, Lena, Kyle: I’m genuinely sorry I blew you guys off (no not that way), but I will never regret.

I’m just sayin, I highly doubt you guys could have provided a gospel choir in metallic purple gowns.

Happy pride!

those fucken hipsters: 6/22/09

The Internet in Brief / IRL News: 6/22/09

I have a ridic stomachache from combating various species of hangover all weekend, so I only have one real update, and you’ve probably seen this already. Possibly on the teevee, too!

• Iranian girl dies in a pool of her own blood; entire scene broadcast on YouTube. (Confirmed by Al Jazeera ? here.) Apparently this video was shown on CNN? Making up for #cnnfail with a graphic video of a 16 year old girl dying… fuck you, CNN, I’ve never despised you more. Not even when you ran that feature about Hispanic voters during the 2008 election, which you entitled BLACK VS. BROWN

• Twitter now rendered useless with white noise on #iranelection; mostly about “Neda,” the dead girl.

• First signs of nauseating Cafepress fetishization here.

• Good assessment of the situation by Laissez’s Fair here.

(The above two lines are why America shouldn’t intervene; Americans have an uncanny knack of fucking everything up.*)

(*Okay, my views are a little more complex than that but plz don’t expect me to expound them here; at least get me drunk first.)

I read somewhere that the IRGC (Revolutionary Guard Corps) has offered to recount 10% of the votes, but I am not bothering to link because that isn’t even news; that is just a fucking shitty thing to offer people.