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Just in case you wanted to see it (and so that I can remember to watch it myself), here’s Academy Award winner West Bank Story, plucked from Youtube:

Cool video:

Die, Die My Darling.

So expect a flood of “when I was young” content.

To that end, here’s a live performance from The Specials…

Cribbed from Metafilter:

If I had the time I would surf the net learning all about HALCALI.

FOX Sports - England - Wenger: Beckham alone can’t lift U.S. soccer

“David Beckham alone won’t transform soccer in the United States. It will take an influx of other European stars to make a real impact.

“That’s the view of Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger, one of the most successful coaches in the English Premier League.”

I saw somewhere today that Beckham is the highest salaried athlete in the world. For that kind of money he better be able to do something. Personally, I’m thinking Wenger is right, there needs to be a proper influx to raise the level of the game overall in order to make a real difference. Individually, someone more obviously creative like Ronaldinho would have more of an impact. I bet you could put one of those Ronaldinho highlights reels on for even the most anti-soccer American and you’d get positive reaction.

Here’s one now:

Remember?

Linked from all over the place. But still, if you haven’t seen it, it’s new to you

From Wikipedia:
“Brian Atene, born August 16, 1963 is a former student in the Juilliard School of performing arts, who became a minor internet phenomenon in 2006 when an audition tape he had made in 1984 for the film Full Metal Jacket was posted on YouTube. The video attracted considerable attention because of the apparent hubris (”You will find in me the finest actor of the lot, the most beautifully trained, the most capable”), and comical over-acting displayed by the 20 year old aspiring actor while attempting to attract the attention of director Stanley Kubrick. The video was mentioned on prominent web sites such as Boing Boing and Gawker and spread in classic viral fashion, inspiring numerous remixes. After the breakout of the YouTube video, a prankster crafted a response to the original tape, pretending to be a 43 year old Atene, which was posted to YouTube. The real Atene appears to have created a userid on YouTube called “juilliardropout”. He claims that he will post a video sometime in the near future and that the original video although real was done partly tongue-in-cheek.”

A two week old link from Metafilter, by the way.

A clip from Andy Kaufman’s glorious wrestling career. He was truly one of the great heels of all time.