Day: March 12, 2006

• Aussie comedy group Tripod performing their song “Make You Happy Tonight” at a Comedy Festival^* [via]
• Firework Factory Explosion [via]
• “3 Feet Deep” by DJ Format featuring Abdominal & D-Sisive [via]
• Batman in Lego — starring Adam West [via]
• The Pity Card — half of Bob Odenkirk’s (not-picked-up) TV pilot [via]
• Brokeback to the Future [via]
• British troops on LSD [via]
• Sleepless in Seattle recut trailer [via]
• Star Wars: Deleted Magic [via]
• Juggling: Chris Bliss Juggling Video (click “The Big Finale”) and Insane Juggling Video Clips [via]
• The Marimba Ponies do Sabre Dance [via]
• Toyota Prius — the car that parallel parks for you [via]
• Fatboy Slim’s cover of Steve Miller’s “The Joker” [via]
• Toy Story 2: Requiem [via]
• Blendie — a voice-operated blender prototype [via]
• Polish-language advert for Neil Gaiman’s Anansi Boys
• Unearthed Monty Python Footage From 1975
• Sylvester the Jester, “a real life cartoon” [via]
• Real-life Simpsons opening [via]
• Live-action Zelda [via]
• Talking cats [via]
• Video of a bat “walking” [via]
• Will Wright talks about his upcoming game “Spore” — I hardly even play video games, and I think this looks phenomenal [via]
• The Picard Song [via]
• American Civics Volume II — “Asshole” [via
• The Muppet Matrix — I have to agree with Glen; it gets an A for effort, but it the animation itself isn’t too great [via]
• Music videos: Radiohead’s “Just” and Nizlopi’s “JCB” [via]
• Tom Lehrer performs
• Nine minutes with Alan Moore

Fox Searchlight Pictures is lending plenty of muscle to this movie, targeting viewers whose pursuit of pleasure has not, until now, included Russian cinema. Some of that enthusiasm has paid off; the subtitles, for instance, are the best I have encountered. Far from palely loitering at the foot of the screen, they lurk in odd corners of the frame and, at one point, glow scarlet and then spool away, like blood in water. I trust that this will start a technical trend and that, from here on, no respectable French actress will dream of removing her clothes unless at least three lines of dialogue can be made to unwind across her midriff.