Have You Heard of Justin Kan?

If you have not, check out this link to justin.tv. Basically the guy wears a camera around all the time. It's called "Lifecasting". He's being evicted from his apartment, as apparently documented by this website.

This SF Chronicle article covers a lot of the legal issues involved in the case. First of all it brings up landlord tenant issues, as well as possible zoning violations. The landlord's "acrimonious" tenant relations have caused a stir because prospective tenants have been apparently denied housing in Justin's building because of their affiliations with him.

I watched a little of the live feed. At that time he was walking around with his family in North Beach trying to go to House of Nanking, which I think ended being too crowded, which it always is, because they are meandering around now. It's not terribly exciting, but the guy really seems to be ignoring the fact that he's wearing a camera on his head and his family and friends seem to be at ease too. Nothing about this screams "hoodlum causing a ruckus in his apartment"...

PS- Since the story appeared on Digg it might be hard to access the sites, but worthwhile to check it out, whether just curious in this guy's life or the legal ramifications.

Edward Norton Going Green

My favorite actor in the world is playing...The Incredible Hulk? I'm not sure I see Edward Norton playing this part, as Eric Bana seemed to do a decent job in the past, but I guess we'll see. I hope Ed gets all muscular like he was in American History X, then I'd probably go check it out.

Alternate Career Path

I have recently decided that if I weren't going to be a lawyer, my dream career would be that of "Food Photographer". I've tried to do some basic stuff, but I'm not any good yet. It's hard to get the lighting and angles right, when you're really just drooling over your freshly baked cupcakes...

Moment of Silence

Don Ho passed away. Honolulu Advertiser timeline of life. No more Tiny Bubbles.

Einstein Excitement

Giovanni Ribisi has been cast as Albert in an upcoming Einstein biopic. Finally some casting news I like (unlike Dunst as Debbie Harry or Braff as Elliott Smith).

I still have fond memories of Mr. Ribisi as Daniel in The Other Sister starring opposite equally awesome Juliette Lewis. Who could forget the line "I love you every minute. I love you more than marching bands and cookie-making."?

Interrobang?!

Did you know there was a combined symbol for question mark and exclamation point? An interrobang is what you're looking for. I love it.

Grindhouse

Grindhouse. This morning was perfect weather for movie watching, or so I thought. Unfortunately, there were only about 20 other people who braved the cool misty fog to see Planet Terror and Death Proof. I had expected for it to be sold out because there's been so much hype surrounding the films.

I won't give anything away, but I fancied Planet Terror, the Rodriguez film over Tarantino's Death Proof. Tarantino appears in both movies, though I'm not exactly sure that was necessary. Kurt Russel is the best thing about Death Proof by far; his dramatization made the whole theater snicker. I am not a Rosario Dawson fan. Rose McGowan, who is featured in both films, is really amazing. All in all, it was gritty, yet light, violent, but not disgustingly so, and a real tribute to grindhouse exploitation films of yesteryear. The mock trailers were really well done too. I enjoyed them all.

Recommended for sure.

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PS- Planet Terror includes a cover of Dead Kennedy's "Too Drunk to Fuck", and Death Proof features T.Rex's "Jeepster". The soundtrack in Death Proof was admittedly very fitting and catchy.

Can "the quitter" Ever Win?

My friend and semi-frequent blog commenter "the quitter" has decided to post a Craigslist Ad. If you're a woman in the New York area and are interested in hanging out with a self described "boring boy", you should respond. He does take pretty good photographs and I actually believe that he means it when he says it's strictly platonic.

Male Brain v. Female Brain

10 debatable differences between men and women's brains.

6. Men tend to score an average of 4 to 5 points higher on intelligence tests, as reported by the journal Intelligence in Sept. 2006. Don't believe us? Click here.

6. The average man will think about sex as often as once a minute, while the average woman will think of sex much less often, as infrequently as once every one or two days.

As a woman, my biggest accomplishment is that I noticed that there were two number six entries and no number five entry. Any thoughts?

I don't think anything on the list is so scandalous, but I don't necessarily buy into men being smarter just because a study says that they score higher on intelligence tests and the link provided didn't really wow me.

The link explaining the differences in processing through gray or white matter was really interesting though.

In human brains, gray matter represents information processing centers, whereas white matter works to network these processing centers.

The results from this study may help explain why men and women excel at different types of tasks, said co-author and neuropsychologist Rex Jung of the University of New Mexico. For example, men tend to do better with tasks requiring more localized processing, such as mathematics, Jung said, while women are better at integrating and assimilating information from distributed gray-matter regions of the brain, which aids language skills.

Scientists find it very interesting that while men and women use two very different activity centers and neurological pathways, men and women perform equally well on broad measures of cognitive ability, such as intelligence tests.

"The Origin of Love" as seen in Hedwig and the Angry Inch

Via: VideoSift

I love the Aristophanic references. Stay tuned for further references to John Cameron Mitchell and possibly a hugely retarded project on my part.