if it weren't for my brother, i wouldn't really know the magic that is the coen brothers. i love that they have set a style for themselves using vast wastelands to depict the mundaine. and their ecclectic taste allows their plots to take place really at any point on a timeline. i also love that they (like many others) use the same actors for different roles and create sincerely awkward situations. LOVE. THEM.

@andrewdoane: just like all the other coen brothers movies, 'no country' takes a couple times of viewing to really understand and appreciate. they don't make hit-or-miss movies where you only watch it once, they make hit-and-keep-hitting-to-make-sure-you-didn't-miss-anything movies where you are almost obligated to watch half a dozen times because it's not possible to get the entire picture after seeing it once or twice. or even three times. i didn't like fargo at first because it was too slow and boring, and their accents were killing me. but then i found myself saying "oh ya!" all the time. i have to say their movies aren't exactly attention grabbers. i just PINE for them!

i love crazy clocks

@joanne: that's almost exactly what i was going to say about myself! hilarious, right?

my best friend growing up always told me i looked blind and lost without my glasses. i figured out why, too.. when my glasses are off, i end up looking at something other than the person's face. i can't make eye contact because i can't tell if they're looking back! i also look like a deer in headlights, like i'm almost waiting for my eyes to magically focus and be normal... it's funny. i feel naked without my glasses! i don't even know if i'll ever get lasik either, because i just like wearing plastic on my face.

After shoving only one marshmallow into her mouth, Mindy realized this game of "fuzzy Bunny" was going to be short-lived.

and on the i-pod too! gross.. poor pup. but i have a better story, only, this situation involved human feces as means of vandalism. it was easter sunday last year when my friend was going to visit the solid rock church (he's an athiest religion major) and see what kind of sermon they had to offer (btw- that's the church with "touchdown jesus" in front of it. some of you may better know it as "big butter jesus"). so you can only imagine his surprise when he opened his car door that lovely sunday morning... there was apparently a string of car vandalism down the street where about 6-7 cars were left with piles of human feces all over the seats. he said it looked like someone had been holding it in for a while and literally entered the back of the car shitting, managed to crawl around the seats enough to get it up and around the head-rests, up to the front seat where they left a modest pile, and continued shitting on the way out. he said it was the worst thing he had ever seen and smelled. needless to say, he did not make it church that day. now whenever my friends and i are having a bad day, all we have to say is "at least someone didn't shit in your car." that usually brightens us up for the moment we remember what happened to my friend marc. have a good day everyone!

part of my near future revolves around becoming as self-sustaining as possible. i don't have the financial stability that would allow me to do so at the moment because i'm in school, but as soon as i get a full-time job and start making a steady pay-check, you better believe that i'm gonna start taking myself off the grid. 50% of this decision has to do with our current state of affairs.. the other 50% has to do with my distrust of corporate america and my lust to be independent. i don't want my life to rely on anyone else but me. i want to build my own house out of recycled materials, install solar panels or build a windmill or maybe even a water-mill, have a greenhouse and grow my own food, hunt for my own meat, have a compost heap, make my own clothing and convert my car engine to run on water (which i'll collect from the rain). and the funny thing is, i probably want to stay in the suburbs! i hate people, but i can't live without the social interaction and i'm probably going to work in the city anyway. but enough about me...

assuming deadwood is a somewhat accurate depiction, wild bill was murdered in cold blood! unfair, i tell ya. oh well, he would be dead today anyway.. he had to go sometime.

mossel kots: i appreciate your concern with feeding cats tuna... and i understand that cats don't digest it the same way we do due to the salt content.. but is is still as harmful if fed only on occasion? i have a cat and i feed him tuna, but only when i run out of normal food and i won't be going to the grocery for a day or two. i never give him any more than maybe one can a month, but could that really do that much harm? i'm seriously concerned, though, because i love my cat and i don't want to hurt him. he never seems to have any adverse effects from the tuna, so i've never had to be suspicious of giving it to him, but if it seriously harms him, i won't do it anymore.

and on the other side, i could easily say that cat owners who smoke are slowly killing their felines, too. and owners who let their cats outside because they have that much more of a chance to get hit by a car or run away. and the food that they eat has antibiotic residues and such as allowed by the FDA. so really, we're all slowly killing our pets anyway.

there's nothing that i love more than seeing runway models wearing ridiculous outfits beef it in front of thousands of people.

so why is it assumed that all the girls will love this? i thought it was stupid. i lasted only a couple seconds because it was STUPID, not gay. it's too universal to say "this one's for all you female neatorama readers. guys: (straight ones) don't push play.. etc." and i don't know, some straight men might like this because they like skating and have an obsession with cowboys. i mean, you gotta open yourself up to those possibilities. and what makes this gay? let me re-phrase: what is it about men dressed as cowboys (remember that cowboys used to have a very 'manly' essense as displayed by clint eastwood) skating on sharp blades attached to their feet (also seen as 'manly' because skating is a sport, and men are commonly associated with sports) makes you think that they like it up the butt? there is nothing about what they are doing that would suggest a particular sexual preferences.

not to shit on you, alex, because it is funny. and not to make the rest of you scoff at my constant devil's advocacy... but stereotypical phrases that use ignorant language are a huge problem and they drive me nuts. we accept certain terms as "normal" because everyone else uses them, but we're hurting our own case by perpetuating this language. there are certain barriers that we cannot cross because we will offend someone if we do. a step in crossing this barrier is understanding WHY these terms are offensive and the connotations they carry. the term "gay" on dictionary.com doesn't even mention any sexual orientation until the FIFTH entry, yet, it's the only way we seem to know how to use it, and i have seen no hesitation to describe even inanimate objects! how is that?! sorry to waste so much space writing all this, but i just think it's too important to pass up this opportunity to share with you guys. you all seem to be of intelligent because you have a computer and go to neatorama, so i know you understand what i'm trying to say. all i ask of you is that you listen to your own language and the people around you and ask questions. ask yourself why you say certain things and where you got it from. also ask yourself if it is universal, meaning, does EVERYONE think this way? you'll be surprised at how socially influenced your own language is, and i challenge you to change it.

the Swiss-Family Rednecks

oh dear.. i began playing this game at 6:30 am at work.. i had to leave to go to school and i thought about it all day. i got only a couple times to play it until i got home around 7:30pm, and then i played it until i had to go to bed at 11. terribly, terribly addicting game. holy crap it's fun. i got through to level 12, but when the ball turned into a cube, it got much more complicated.

i'm curious to know what her religious following is, because some hindu religions value all objects as if they had a soul. it's actually very complicated to live with this belief because your main goal would be not to cause harm to anything with a soul, which includes food and the ground they stand on. but i'm also not ruling out mental illness in this case, because to find a wall sexually attractive and worthy of marrying is a bit odd.

i noticed all the contestants were women. although this guy (http://youtube.com/watch?v=T0xoKiH8JJM&feature) would argue men are better than women and have nothing more to offer society than a vagina, this clip can be looked further into to prove that women DO have more to offer society. women think in ways that men can't and offer another side of the story. the women in this particular clip may seem slightly moronic at first glance, but their answers give a look into a different perspective. on the last answer with the duck, the question was 'what you take into the bathroom besides a towel and soap?' those are bare necessities that most people think about, as bathing is probably a part of peoples' daily hygeine regimen. if a man were to answer the question, he would have said something like a razor or mirror because men think in terms of necessity. women think in terms of possibility, which allows more creativity. all i'm saying is that men may have discovered and named the colors, but women probably organized them and called it a rainbow.

i'm never getting married. it's just a document. real marriages last 'til death do us part, document or not. and most of the time people get married after knowing the other for only a short period of time as compared to the "lifetime" you agree to commit to them in marriage. i'm sure divorce rates would go waaay down if people lived together for a couple years before they got married. i'm in a loving relationship of 2 years and we live together. we always say we'll never get married and have kids, and we want to stay together for a long, long time. we complete each other. and i think that's what SHOULD be important if you get married at all. damn drive-through chapels.. thanks las vegas.