This is not, apparently, a new company, but Action Sports Drives are sweet and I want one.
Actually there are many things I want, and these probably near the bottom of the list. You know what I really want right now? A Chipotle chicken fajita burrito with everything on it. You know what the chances of that happening are? Zero. Fucking nil. Because I live in Korea. Yeah.
But hey, there's always a bright side: I will not eat something that contains more calories than a three layer frosted birthday cake.
Or: "$300 Million Price Tag is No Obstacle When You're a Russian Oil Tycoon."
For those of you who don't want to watch the vid, the particulars are: 340 feet, 3-speedboat garage, master suite which is as secure as a bank vault, and a helipad on the bow. The interior was designed by Frenchman Philippe Starcke, who is famous for being a French designer.
Ah, Russia. You'll notice his offices are in London, not Moscow. This is because if his office was in Moscow, he'd be dead because those vicious bastards eat each other alive. Not that I'm prejudiced against Russians or anything...but I've seen a couple fictional films, and they really opened my eyes to some of the startling realities of Russian business. Or something. I was only joking comrades.
LCD Soundsystem (99% James Murphy, 1% ??) have released the album artwork for their new LP "This is Happening," which is due to be released May 18 on DFA/Virgin Records. You can listen to the first new track (and Pitchfork Best New Track) Drunk Girls right...riiiiiight...here.
The track also has a Newrosis Best New Lyric: "Just cause you're hungry doesn't mean that you're lean."
According to Murphy, the track is about "drunk people and fun things." Suffice it to say, I appreciate his direct approach to songwriting.
SEXY, SEXY UPDATE: Hear the album IN IT'S ENTIRETY on LCD's website, here.
"You wanted a hit, but that's not what we do." I FUCKING LOVE THIS BAND.
Newrosis is having some grammatical issues with the difference between the possessive "it's" and whatever the hell "its" is. This is especially troubling given that our current occupation is to teach English to small Korean children. We are reaching out to you, the community of Newrosis readers, to give us direction in this most troubling of grammatical SNAFUs.
Sincerely, the editorial department. Which is me. Just me.
I tried this page, but it is still not sinking in properly. Maybe its because I'm stupid. Or maybe it's because I'm stupid. I just don't know.
I've been following the Star Wars Uncut project for a while now, and they have released one of the scenes, titled "The Escape," in which Luke, Leia, Han, Chewie, and the droids flee the Death Star after Obi Wan has his mortal coil shuffled courtesy of one Darth Vader.
The scope of the project is the entire first film, in which aspiring filmmakers from around the world claimed 15 second pieces of scenes from the Uncut website and filmed them on their own. The end product will be 473 :15 clips. I was struggling with the proper way to structure that whole "473 15" bit and settled on the colon. FU I'm working over here.
To me, the greatest thing about this project is that George Lucas, the genius behind such amazing films as The Phantom Menace and Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, will not be involved in any way. This leads to the possibility of some truly magical cinematic moments (if not wrought intentionally, at least occurring by accident), which is more than Lucas has managed in the last two decades.
Is it going to be great? Maybe. Will it be better than Clone Wars? Yes.
Gizmodo has an awesome piece by a SR-71 pilot on their page today that I will not copy/paste out of respect for their source and general laziness. Go check it out though, it is worth the read.
The SR-71, a product of the infamous Lockheed Martin Skunk Works, is the fastest, most badass atmospheric aircraft of all time. It still holds several major airpseed records, and looks like it should have laser cannons, energy shields, and an Astromech droid co-pilot.
Mark Linkous, the brains behind the electro-alt band Sparklehorse, has committed suicide according to (now numerous) sources throughout the land. Sparklehorse's third album, Dreamt for Light Years in the Belly of a Mountain, was on my Best of 2006 list, and the recently self-released collaboration with Danger Mouse (of Grey Album and Gnarls Barkley fame) was on my list of music to acquire.
Depression is a tough thing to face down, and it is truly a sad state of affairs when someone so brilliant and with so much to offer did not see another way out. I can't really say anything else about the man since I have not walked in his shoes, but I for one am disappointed and saddened by his death.
Purple football boots would, in any other context, be a truly disappointing offering, but the Mercurial Vapor Superfly II happens to be the most technologically advanced football boot in the history of the world. Or so I'm told by Nike:
Nike’s design and engineering teams talked with some of the fastest players in the world, who emphasized that acceleration around a defender is just as important as beating him in a straight line. The Nike Sports Research Lab researched the world championship finals in 2006 and found that there were 845 slipping events over 63 games, or roughly 14 per game. Building on these insights, the Nike team collaborated closely with elite athletes including Cristiano Ronaldo, Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Alexandre Pato to create a boot that enables toe-off acceleration and minimizes slippage in game-changing situations.
Variable field conditions are no match for the hyper-engineered adjustable traction studs on the Superfly II.
A very pretty, very rich, very smug, and very good Cristiano Ronaldo showing off his new booties.
Maybe you will find it here. Admittedly it's a long shot, and if we're going to get all existential, we might as well give up now because you won't find meaning on this page. You may, however, inadvertently discover something new that makes you think, or wonder, or dream of a new place, person, or thing. I like to call that a stimulus.
Life can be a taxing, trying, tedious exercise, but it doesn't have to be. Introduce some stimulation into your life. Do something you shouldn't. Say something you wouldn't. Make today remarkable for even one thing, and you will have a far more interesting tomorrow, and it only gets better the longer you can keep it up.
This is not the Grail, but it will always offer content that will make you laugh, or create, or disagree, or find a better way. Stimulation and innovation are what we eat and drink, and we will search the length and breadth of this digital universe to bring them right here, just for you.
This is not, apparently, a new company, but Action Sports Drives are sweet and I want one.
