congrats, very ambitious sifting. if these were Mad Men, you'd be Pete Campbell

Favourites

1) Season - Autumn
2) Place in the world - Livingstone, Zambia.
3) Children's book - Guards! Guards! Guards! by Terry Prachett
4) TV Series - The wire, BSG, mad men and the x files.
5) Word - Clover Gs (don't ask)
6) Film - Bladerunner and there is alot more...
7) Curse - fuck
Creature - chameleon
9) Past time - gaming and ill informed political banter
10)Person - my buddy.

Which one?

11) Dog or cat - cats
12) Sweet or savoury - savory
13) Cereal or Toast - toast?
14) Tan or pale - both in equal measure
15) Shoes or barefoot - shoes?
16) Desktop or laptop - desktop
17) Drive or walk - walk
18) Drama or comedy - sci fi
19) Sex or food - yes
20) Futurama or Simpsons - both jumped the shark.

The Sift

21) Your fave personal submission - all my videos are favourite submissions, but my Luna playlist has my fav muscial picks.
22) A great comment on one of your vids - The whole Andres Segovia comment thread! DOWN WITH JAKE SIKAKAKBURORMO!
23) Most off the wall member - choggie
24) Favourite user name - plastiquemonkey
25) Your most used channel - music and obscure
26) Personal dumbass moment - sifting and commenting drunk, then waking up reading what I wrote.
27) Best avatar - Rickegee and Ravenika.
28) Partner in crime - Mink and Kulpims. The Eastern European Mafia.
29) Do people offline know of your sift problem - Not really. I kinda dropped the habit.
30) Idea for the site - The LONG FUCKING CHANNEL ironically we waited a LONG time for it too.

About you

31) Where do you live - Kuwait
32) Smoker/non-smoker - occasionally
33) Left or right handed - right
34) Hair colour - black?
35) Relationship status - single
36) How tall - 5 '4
37) Children - no
38) Ever had an operation - Yes, I enjoyed the drugs alot.
39) Best feature - I guess it's interesting to talk to me?
40) Use four words to describe yourself - nomad, aware, misanthrope

If you could...what, who, when etc

41) Bring a famous person back from the dead - Martin Luther King
42) Give 50 grand to any charity - Amensty International
43) Send someone on a one way ticket to the moon - Everyone...
44) Relive a moment in your life - My trip to Turkey.
45) Have a superpower - cloaking
46) Find out one thing you've always wanted to know -
47) Have the opposite gender deal with something you have to - crazy irrational emotionally unstable women.
48) Be president for one hour - Dissolve the Fed. open all state secret archives from 2000 down.
49) Delete a period in history - Bush's presidency.
50) Achieve one thing - Learn to fly a helicopter.

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1) Season - Autumn
2) Place in the world - Shinsaibashi/Namba Osaka
3) Children's book - A Wrinkle in Time
4) TV Series Mad Men / 6 Feet under
5) Word - Defenestration
6) Film - BladeRunner
7) Curse - Holy smokes
Creature - Big cat


Which one?

11) Dog or cat - Cat
12) Sweet or savoury - Sweet
13) Cereal or Toast - Cereal
14) Tan or pale - pale
15) Shoes or barefoot - barefoot
16) Desktop or laptop - laptop
17) Drive or walk - walk
18) Drama or comedy - comedy
19) Sex or food - food
20) Futurama or Simpsons - Simpsons

The Sift


24) Favourite user name - BurdTurgler
25) Your most used channel - Politics
26) Personal dumbass moment - here.
29) Do people offline know of your sift problem - Yes - ask Persephone

About you

31) Where do you live - Brisbane, Australia
32) Smoker/non-smoker - non
33) Left or right handed - right
34) Hair colour - brown
35) Relationship status - married
36) How tall 180 CM
37) Children 2
38) Ever had an operation - no
39) Best feature - washboard abs. (ha)
40) Use four words to describe yourself mellow, idealistic, nerdy, optimist

If you could...what, who, when etc

50) Achieve one thing - I think VideoSift deserves a Webby.

I'm surprised this got sifted as I was more than happy to let it rest peacefully in my PQ.

Actually, the "overacting or in-character" is one of those trick questions: the overacting is in character. I'm stepping on my movie reviewer soapbox for just a moment (hey, some guys know sports inside & out. I know movies.)

In the film, Glover's character, Layne, is your basic teenage slacker who goes to great lengths to help his "friend" John after he learns that John kills a fellow student. Layne's concern, while well-intended, is disingenuous and ultimately wasted. Keanu Reeves' character, Matt, points this out to Layne with "I know you don't really care this much." and that "you don't think things through."

And when Ione Skye's character mentions "Mission Impossible" Matt immediately starts humming the familiar theme. These kids have been raised to believe that if they act concerned and helpful the way they do on TV, then they may actually be concerned and helpful.

Credit goes less to Glover and more to the director, Tim Hunter, for crafting the performance of a kid whose motivation is to, basically, overact. Hunter's directing talents were last used on the AMC's Mad Men, another gem!

There's a good parallel story involving Matt's younger brother, Tim (played by Joshua Miller...now there's bad acting). Tim keeps picking on their younger sister by "killing" her favorite doll. In fact, the opening scene of the film shows him tossing the doll into the river (foreshadow alert) and in the background during this opening scene, we hear John shouting in jubilation at the river's edge, celebrating his own evil deed. Later, Tim destroys the doll's grave marker erected by the toddler, who protests to Keanu Reeves, teary-eyed, "He's killing her again!"

In a brash abandonment of symbolism, Dennis Hopper's pot-dealing character is named "Feck" for goodness sake, playing the only character who really cared about the girl he killed years ago. So basically, he's the only one not feckless. I always thought that was neat.

As you can imagine, I recommend this film as an excellent exception to the cinematic crap that the 80's produced.

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Wow, it's very cinematic.

Why is that? Is it the greater depth of field over a regular camera or do you have a special filter on?

The lighting looks almost like it's been professionally set up by the crew of Mad Men.

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As Peggy in Mad Men would say - when you think an ad isn't working on you - that's when it is.

MS is establishing a narrative to connect with you personally. A continuing story to get you interested in Bill Gates and Jerry's quest. It's a parable with Gates symbolically representing Windows. And believe you me, by the end of it all, the message of "you actually like Vista" will be transmitted personally to your brain, loud and clear.

MS are not stupid - nor are their ad people. (OK except for that Office dinosaur schlock. That was stupid)

Only mad men would listen to what a person pretending to be an insect would have to say. Heard any prophecies from the birds and the bees Benjee?

Ah the delusions of mad men