elliott smith again

Digging through an old youtube playlist tonight, from an obsolete account of mine. This is Elliott Smith, live* in Olympia, WA in 1999. Wish I could have gone to see him once! Will have to settle for the Figure 8 wall memorial.


 *(lolsob)

hetalia on america's relationship with food

As soon as I watched this bit a couple nights ago, I knew I'd have to transcribe it. This is from the English dub of Hetalia: Axis Powers, currently available for streaming on Netflix. I was unable to find any high quality clips of this scene on Youtube. Too bad!

UPDATE: I found one!

Hetalia Episode 17:

America's Cleaning of the Storage, Part I

BRITAIN: Hey, fatass. You've been gorging yourself so much lately, I'm worried that you're going to kill yourself.

AMERICA: *chomping on a cheeseburger* Dude, don't be silly! I'm way too into myself to ever do something stupid like that.

BRITAIN: *sighs* No, that's not really what I'm saying. You know--with heart disease or by choking.

AMERICA: What?! I'm fine. Don't worry, 'kay?

Text: THAT NIGHT...

AMERICA: *stepping onto the scale with trepidation* I work out like a frickin' champion... so I shouldn't gain that much, right?

Text: But he's dressed lightly.

AMERICA: *sees the number on the scale* OWOUUUU!!! *in a panic* Sure, I ate a lot of genetically-modified hormone-rich beef, but I totally drank diet soda to balance it out!

Text: French Method of Weight Loss

AMERICA: *fretting, pacing around* I guess I should get an Ab Roller or a Gazelle machine or pick up a nice drug habit or get a doctor to prescribe me one. Maybe France can help me out. Hey, France!

FRANCE: Hmm?

AMERICA: How do you stay so sexy thin while eating whatever you want like a PIG?!

FRANCE: *smiling sweetly while standing in a field with birds and flowers* Well, that's because I don't sit around on my butt like you.

Text: After that, France told America something bad from an educational point of view, so we're cutting that scene out.

CHIBI FRANCE: (says something unintelligible; maybe "That's not going to work out"?)

Text: Chinese Method of Weight Loss

AMERICA: China! Is it your crushing poverty that keeps you nice and thin?

CHINA: *grinning* That's right! Hard to get fat in a famine! *winks* You can also try our traditional tea. Makes your colon slippery!

AMERICA: *takes a sip, screws up face* Mmmm... this stuff tastes like ink.

Text: Japanese Method of Weight Loss?

AMERICA: Wait! I should ask my good friend Japan! He kind of looks like a girl from behind. Yo! Tell me your ancient Japanese secret diet!

JAPAN: *softly* Well... I eat like human being instead of use food to cover feeling of emptiness...

CHIBI AMERICA: *shocked* Hey! That was cruel!

AMERICA: *chowing down on a bowl of rice* Ahhh. Using these cute little sticks makes it harder to pig out. Hahaha.

Text: After that, America diligently worked out using a strange machine he created and followed the Japanese method of weight loss.

JAPAN: *thinking to himself, watching America pig out on Japanese food* Maybe if I feed him some bad sushi, he'll go away...

john green on religion and nihilism

"How are we going to balance our urge to be more than nihilists with our need to blunt the sharp edges of consciousness?"

Well asked, sir. :-)

I've been working very hard on my answer for the past several years.

...it's not going so hot.


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PS, July 1:

Or maybe it's going fine

and it just hurts a lot...