Gonzo goes Hollywood

Well...it's here. No, not The Dark Knight (though I admit I am quite interested in checking it out as well), Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson.

Check out Jay Stone's review here.

While I enjoyed both Where The Buffalo Roam and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas for different reasons, I am really looking forward to Gibney's take on the good Doctor...

For those of you in the 604, Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson is currently playing @ Tinsletown in Vancouver.

My review to follow...

Aloha Mahalo

I have just become familiar with this new search engine called Mahalo. Advertised as the first human powered search engine, Mahalo "creates organized, comprehensive, and spam free search results for the most popular search terms. Our search results only include great links." It's only been around for a year or so but there's some pretty great stuff on it if you start poking around. The layout is great and there's tonnes of media on it. Checkout Mahalo's entries for:

Hunter S Thompson

and

Bill Hicks

Always nice to find a new wave while surfing.

Aloha!

George Carlin - RIP

Friedrich Nietzsche once said, "in heaven, all the interesting people are missing."

I submit to you that most of our interesting people are missing down here. And now another. If there is a heaven (for that sake of argument let's say there is), it just got a lot funnier. Bill Hicks, Dr. Hunter S. Thompson and Lenny Bruce just got a fourth for golf...

Thanks to James for posting this video on his site www.apolitcal.info. Check out his site, there some great stuff there.

Standing for Nothing

I discovered this artwork one day while playing around on the net. I'm no artist, but I know what I like and I like this. I have always admired Native art but have never seen it done in this way before. The way the traditional native theme is incorporated into a bold, contemporary zine-like comic style is quite impressive. The artist, Zig Zag, was kind enough to allow me to use the artwork on my blog. You can check out more of Zig Zag's work here and here.

Demotivators

Now that they have been around for several years I think some of the true satirical genius behind Demotivators has been forgotten.

The comedic, quasi-subversive perspective which has given us Demotivators, Bill Lunbergh and Michael Scott brings a smile to my face. Admittedly, this perspective is overly mainstream but it does a pretty good job of taking the piss out of the corporate lackie subculture.

Check them all out. There's even a do it yourself section...

"A poor man shames us all..."

This quote is from one of my favourite books of all time:
The Millennium Project: Tribal Wisdom in the Modern World by the late David Maybury-Lewis.

The book is a fantastic read and challenges the reader to consider and apply wisdoms of contemporary tribal populations to our Western experience.

Reading this book always make me think about what sorts of tribal wisdom our First Nations possess and what could be done with it.