Life In Lo-Def

Gotta Eat – Lupe Fiasco

When I’m going about my daily business, there’s really no good reason for me to not be wearing my glasses. I get around fine, but everything is so much crisper and clearer that it’s a mystery as to why I ever take them off. Sometimes it’s better to blur things, I say. If I’m walking down the street, it isn’t important for me to be able to make out every stranger’s facial features. When I’m at work, I don’t need to be able to see what’s going on outside my window any better. It might sound strange, but there are moments where I prefer my life in low definition.

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Work goes on and on and my relationship with my trainer really hasn’t improved. One second he’ll seem nice and then I’ll ask him a question and *poof* I’m an idiot again. At one point he asked me, and I quote, “What is going through your fucking brain?” While that may seem humorous to you, I found the comment discouraging. There are good days and bad, which is apparently how work is for everyone. I remain unsatisfied.

I have a lot on my mind, but nothing I feel like writing about for now. Let’s move on to the links, shall we?

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By the numbers, Emmitt Smith is the greatest NFL running back ever. By the sound bites, he’s also the dumbest human being ever.

I was watching that Natalie Portman on Sesame Street clip that William put up a while ago and was inspired to hunt down this clip of the equally hot Robert DeNiro on Sesame Street. The ending chilled me to my core.

A solid, solid review of music video games (not rhythm games, video games with music licenses). I can’t believe this only has a few hundred views. It’s long, but show some love (at least for the Moonwalker section).

And while I’m still on my video games review riff, I found a guy who does parodies of angry video game reviewers (specifically some rip-off artist named “Irategamer”). This review of Mike Tyson’s Punch-Out!! contains two instances of a joke (around the middle and the end) which I will apparently never get tired of.

We’re only a month away from March Madness, so here’s a collection of Gus Johnson calls courtesy of CBS. I know it’s been said a million times, but if you watch sports and this guy doesn’t get you excited you must be dead. Loose ball…Smith…picks it up! Finds Clark! Here comes the pain!

For absolutely no reason, the video for Bruce Springsteen’s Dancing In The Dark. The simplistic drums. The dancing. Courteney Cox. The complete musical slap in the face to all of his fans. The dancing…the dancing…

Hey, look at me I’m a cabbage! Good source of riboflavin.