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Nine minutes of Mike Tyson quotes

Posted by Pete Berg on Thursday, July 23rd, 2009 at 8:53 am

Freaking amazing!


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Eating Molten Lead

Posted by Pete Berg on Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009 at 8:50 am

And other stupid-ass martial arts things. Thanks, South Korea.


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Pizza Hut Commercial (from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles VHS)

Posted by Pete Berg on Monday, July 20th, 2009 at 8:52 pm

Anyone else remember this????


Category: Commercials, Sports, Vintage	1 Comment »

Bob Dylan vs. Donovan

Posted by Pete Berg on Monday, July 13th, 2009 at 2:23 pm

This is a memorable scene from the phenomenal 1967 documentary Dont Look Back about Bob Dylan’s 1965 UK Tour…up-and-coming singer-songwriter Donovan meets Bob Dylan for the first time, and they have a play-off. The general consensus is that Dylan schools Donovan with “It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue,” but I actually like Donovan’s song “To Sing For You” better. What do you guys think?


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You look like a little black boy!

Posted by Pete Berg on Monday, July 13th, 2009 at 8:09 am

Vintage racism like whoa.


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Mall Mania!

Posted by Pete Berg on Saturday, July 11th, 2009 at 3:32 pm

Time-lapse of an LA mall in 1990. Oh, how things haven’t changed in twenty years. (Except for the awesome synth music choice.)

MALL MANIA 1990 time-lapse from Joel Fletcher on Vimeo.


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Florence Rasmussen

Posted by Pete Berg on Friday, July 10th, 2009 at 10:39 am

In 1979, documentary filmmaker Errol Morris produced his first film, Gates of Heaven, about a pet cemetery in California, and the strange characters that surounded it. It’s one of the most surreal and bizarre docs ever made, but also one of the most poignant and philosophical, exploring life and death, loneliness, and the like.

Halfway through the film, there is a five minute segment where an old lady in a doorway is interviewed. This is Florence Rasmussen, a crazy old coot, who goes on one of the craziest (and saddest) rambling monologues in film history. Errol Morris just lets the camera roll. Watch:

Here is the complete transcript:

“I’m raised on a farm, we had chickens and pigs and cows and sheep and everything. But down here I’ve been lost. Now they’ve taken them all away from here up to that – What’s the name of that place? Up above here a little ways? That town? Commences with a ‘B.’ Blue. It’s – Blue Hill Cemetery, I think the name of it is. Not too far, I guess, about maybe twenty miles from here. A little town there, a little place. You know where it’s at. But I was really surprised when I heard they were getting rid of the cemetery over here. Gonna put in buildings or something over there. Ah well, I know people been very good to me, you know. Well, they see my condition, I guess, must of felt sorry for me. But it’s real, my condition is. It’s not put on. That’s for sure! Boy, if I could only walk. If I could only get out. Drive my car. I’d get another car. Ya… and my son, if he was only better to me. After I bought him that car. He’s got a nice car. I bought it myself just a short time ago. I don’t know. These kids – the more you do for them… He’ s my grandson, but I raised him from two years old… I don’t see him very often. And he just got the car. I didn’t pay for all of it. I gave him four hundred dollars. Pretty good! His boss knows it. Well, he’s not working for that outfit now. He’s changed. He’s gone back on his old job – hauling sand. No, not hauling sand; he’s working in the office. That’s right. He took over the office job. His boss told me that on the phone. But, you know, he should help me more. He’s all I got. He’s the one who brought me up here. And then put me here by myself among strangers. It’s terrible, you stop and think of it. I’ve been without so much, when I first come up here. Ya. It’s what half of my trouble is from – him not being home with me. Didn’t cost him nothing to stay here. Every time he need money, he’d always come, ‘Mom, can I have this? Can I have that?’ But he never pays back. Too good, too easy – that’s what everybody tells me. I quit now. I quit. Now he’s got the office job, I’m going after him. I’m going after him good, too – if I have to go in… in a different way. He’s going to pay that money. He’s got the office job now. And he makes good money anyway. And he has no kids. He has not married. Never get married, he says. He was married once – they’re divorced. Well, she tried to take him for the kid, but she didn’t. They went to court. It was somebody else’s kid. She was nothing but a tramp in the first place. I told him that. He wouldn’t listen to me. I says, ‘I know what she is.’ I said, ‘Richard, please, listen to me.’ He wouldn’t listen. He knew all, he knew everything. Big shot! But he soon found out. Now that’s all over with. I’ve been through so much I don’t know how I’m staying alive. Really, for my age… if you’re young, it’s different. But I’ve always said I’m never going to grow old. I’ve always had that, and the people that I tell how old I am, they don’t believe me, because people my age as a rule don’t get around like I do.” — Florence Rasmussen