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"Home is where I want to be, but I guess I'm already there." - Talking Heads / This Must Be The Place (Naive Melody)

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Midnight in Paris was one of the most enjoyable Woody Allen movies I've seen, definitely his best since Match Point. This song opens the movie to great shots of Paris. Enjoy.

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I was recently introduced to this website, and shit it's crazy. It can pretty much guess any person, real or fictional, that you're thinking of in usually 20 questions. If not it can get it in under 40. I've had it guess Snowball from Animal Farm under 20 questions so you've been warned.

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It's funny because it's true.

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Arthur Miller: The Crucible

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Alec Ounsworth is the lead singer and songwriter for the band Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, and the following is an extended version of their song found in the movie 'The Great Buck Howard'. Enjoy.

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In the West, sometimes we forget how fortunate we are. A fresh and honest perspective of the world is not meant to shock or offend; it is meant to wake us up to reality.

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Central Park, Manhattan, New York City. Take me back.

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THE WORD PLUM  The word plum is delicious pout and push, luxury of self-love, and savoring murmur full in the mouth and falling like fruit taut skin pierced, bitten, provoked into juice, and tart flesh question and reply, lip and tongue of pleasure.

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Ambush Journalism: Name a newspaper.

Katie Couric: And when it comes to establishing your world view, I was curious, what newspapers and magazines did you regularly read before you were tapped for this — to stay informed and to understand the world?

Sarah Palin: I’ve read most of them again with a great appreciation for the press, for the media —

Katie Couric: But which ones specifically? I’m curious.

Sarah Palin: Um, all of them, any of them that have been in front of me over all these years.

Katie Couric: Can you name any of them?

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 David Byrne, Talking Heads. Yes that is how you spell amazing.

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Earth Day Birthday

Happy Earth Day to all, and a Happy Birthday to me. I would be beyond happy if for my birthday more efforts were made to reduce carbon emissions, to foster sustainable and eco-driven programs, and to improve public transportation and renewable energy sources. While I'm at it, could all politicians reevaluate their priorities and accept that environmentalism and green politics are not conditional of one ideology. You don't need to be a socialist to love our planet.

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Don't be seduced into thinking that that which does not make a profit is without value.

Arthur Miller

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If you understand this, shame on you. If you don't understand this, learn a bit more.

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Mr. Timn in Candyland

Toby: How did you get in my garden?

Mr. Timn: I live back here Princess Bigfoot.

Toby: You live in my garden?

Mr. Timn: Do you live in Candyland?

Toby: No?

Mr. Timn: Ever wonder why candy castles are made out of ice cream instead of candy?

Toby: Not really...

Mr. Timn: Me neither, but now I really want to know what they're up to in there.

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Enjoy some humour from around the globe. Embrace the world, one laugh at a time.

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Yo cultured people, check this shit out. This is "The Lost Thing", winner of the 2011 Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film. Fifteen minutes long, the film addresses issues in society about short-sightedness, materialism, and inner beauty. For me, I think that it stresses that we can never forget what is most important in life: what something does, not how it looks. The 'lost thing' in the film brings joy and happiness to its finder, and although it looks bizarre and out of place, that does not matter. The narrator remarks that "maybe I have stopped looking for [lost things]" in the end, and I think that as a society we should never lose sight of the things that bring us emotional gain, instead of material or financial gain. That is the small things, the lost things. Never stop looking for the lost things, and never stop embracing things of moral worth over those of material worth. Enjoy the film for its animation, but think about the meaning of the story and how it applies to life. Your life at that. In advance, I apologize for the multiple subtitles-it was the only full version of the video I could find on YouTube. If it makes your viewing any easier, see it as exposure to multiple languages of the world.

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 Whether you love or hate Family Guy (I'm not a big fan myself), Seth MacFarlane is one of the funniest celebrities out there. He's proven that he's politically in touch (and sane) on Real Time with Bill Maher, and his Twitter feed may be one of the only useful ones on the site. Comic skill aside, he speaks the complete truth about Donald Trump's prospective 2012 presidential election run. Should I believe that an inherited billionaire is the best choice to serve the poorest Americans, to determine how much to tax wealthy corporations, and to regulate the financial sector? No, Seth is right. That is "fucking delusional". The world doesn't deserve any egotistical billionaire with a haircut akin to that of the kid who ate paste in kindergarten, never mind the White House. The American people deserve to be represented as citizens, not as apprentices; they deserve a president, not a boss.