When this comes out on DVD, I may need to have a Cool Gel Attacks viewing party.

I'm totally in A Mood (tm).

Please, appease your Internet Monkey King, and give me, in the comments, a song that totally brings you down and then another that brings you back up. I'd love to have a YouTube video if you have it, or at least a link to it somewhere, but no worries if you don't have either.

Let's start with this song:


That's the original Hungarian version, written by Béla Zerkovitz and sung by Pál Kalmár.

Sound familiar? Probably not, because this original version has a different tune. And it's in Hungarian.

But it SOUNDS depressing, doesn't it?

Nearly all later recordings have a hopeful verse added at the end. For today, though, fuck that; here's the first English language version, by Paul Robeson, no upswing at the end.


Fine, here's the most famous version, sung by Billie Holiday (new ending included):


And I just found The Great and Powerful Coztello performing it 27 years ago;


NOW THAT I'VE BROUGHT YOU DOWN...

One of my favorite songs of all time, with one of the most beautiful videos I've ever seen.

As I recently told fulguritis, when I first heard it this song it pulled my brain and squeezed my heart. I had thought that there were no new types of music to be made. I was wrong.

And yeah, I cried at the video, you bastards.


Oh, was that not truly "upbeat" enough for you?

Then good luck ever getting this masterwork out of your head.

Not that you'd want to.


As for The Mood (tm); I'll be fine, thank you.

Now gimme your music.

Smooches,

b

Three things for you today. A mess of medical stuff and other events have kept me from drawing or writing this week, so please enjoy the following:

GREAT COMIC BY chatterbox_dc and Molly Lawless.

Click the page to be taken to the whole comic, then rummage around Chemistry Set for some more amazing stuff. Seriously, it's great.

Whooops, looks like they've exceeded their bandwidth.
If they get it back up then I'll put it up on my own pro account.

Hey there, everybody.

This entry is being locked for posterity.

Regrettably LJ doesn't allow me to freeze all comments and leave them visible, so they're all going to be hidden. They're still here, but none of us can see them.

A lot of things went wrong with this entry, and since I posted it the first bullet should be aimed at me.

Apologies to all who were hurt, offended, insulted, et cetera by anything done by me or by anybody else in the comments section or in any other entry by anybody.

This is not an apology for this entry as a whole, it's an apology for things I did wrong or could have done better. It's also an apology from me on behalf of those who can't or won't do it themselves.

Mistakes were made and I'm locking those mistakes away for right now.

I've taken away what I need to, I hope. If not, I hope I get learn the rest of it soon.

Any comments to this entry in other places, i.e. other posts of mine, will be deleted without comment.
I will also be making no other comments anywhere else about this entry.

I hope I've learned something. I think I have. I hope some other people did too.

I'm the last one out the door, so I'll get the lights.

Love,

benjamin sTone





A banned cartoon.

Want some videos?

via bougieman

Here's something for you while I work on some other stuff.

That wasn't vague at all.

Apparently Jawbone is some sort of noise-cancelling Bluetoothy thing.

Apparently this ad is fucking awesome.

Via blindmole:

Yes, I will bring a pint of rum to this movie.

But I'm not sure I'm going to need it.

Seriously, I want to hump this trailer.