This video is really cute, but it worries me so much. That little cat is a wild thing, and it's learning that humans are a source of food and love. If he ever lets it go, it's going to approach humans, and those humans will not be happier for the offered contact.

Oh, I fret.

"Poor things"!? I hope you mean the people driving the cars. Due to mismanagement of our national forests, deer have become a huge pest - defoliating forests in a few years and leading to a practical ecological disaster. An increase in hunting won't kill enough and control enough of these "poor things"; we need to reintroduce the most effective deer killers that have since been extirpated: top predators such as wolves, cougars, and coyotes.

Link: http://www.conservationmagazine.org/articles/v7n1/where-the-wild-things-were/

Hmmm... so he's saying he can't control his strength. And yet he partakes in sex where wild things can, and do, happen due to the chemicals the body produces.

Is he saying he has 4 wifes... a DAY? I mean, seriously. If he could suddenly have a burst of strength while picking up a truck, could he not have that same burst while plowing his wives? Split them in two? Pelvic thrust them through the wall?

Yes, I did just try to bring logic to the table of an obvious scam artist.

1) autumn
2) poli rock, 5 miles N of honolulu, oahu, hawaii, usa
3) where the wild things are
4) six-million dollar man
5) pensive
6) jacob's ladder, fearless, R&GaD, true romance, american beauty, etc
7) fuck
wolf
9) being 19
10) james burke

11) neither current, have had both, prefer dog
12) sweet
13) cereal
14) tan
15) barefoot
16) desktop
17) walk, or bike/skateboard
18) drama, by a nose
19) sex
20) Simpsons

21) very tough, but probably this
22) ...which makes this easy
23) choggie
24) very tough. but how about zomgunicorns
25) comedy
26) here's a recent one
27) schmawy's gallery. but currently, blahpook's 'more cowbell' obama is lol
28) mostly berticus & kulpims
29) yes
30) dunno', but this upcoming lounge thing sounds pretty good

31) rochester, ny, usa
32) smoker
33) mostly right
34) dark brown
35) single
36) 6' (183cm)
37) none, biologically
38) yes
39) no idea. eyebrows?
40) i'm concerned about you

41) lou gehrig
42) american red cross
43) bin laden, though a bullet's cheaper
44) being 19
45) telepathic
46) wavicality
47) bitching about the toilet seat position
48) enact IRV, confront the Federal Reserve/IRS and the MIC
49) bad idea (because clearly, we still haven't even fully learned from the holocaust)
50) free my 7 billion cousins from bondage, or at least buy 'em all a soft drink

Favourites

1) Season: Late spring and mid fall
2) Place in the world: Where ever I am at that time
3) Children's book: Where the Wild Things Are
4) TV Series: West Wing
5) Word: Bullocks
6) Film: Battle of Britian
7) Curse: Such gooood looks *wink
Creature: titmouse
9) Past time: playing with my hotwheels on my parents couch
10)Person:

Which one?

11) Dog or cat: one reeeeeally lazy cat... I think he was born with a marijuana gene that keeps him constantly chill
12) Sweet or savoury: savoury
13) Cereal or Toast: cereal
14) Tan or pale: pasty scotch irish, german, swedish boy
15) Shoes or barefoot: depends on where im a walkin
16) Desktop or laptop: lappy 2000
17) Drive or walk: prefer to walk
18) Drama or comedy: both
19) Sex or food: yes please
20) Futurama or Simpsons: SIMPSONS!

The Sift

21) Your fave personal submission: http://www.videosift.com/video/Fibber-McGee-and-Molly-1959-tv-pilot because I used to fall asleep to the radio program every night as a kid
22) A great comment on one of your vids: "It doesn't mention anything about needing to be nude in a Greco-Roman building. I guess that's up to personal preference."
23) Most off the wall member: ummm.... ill get back to you on that one
24) Favourite user name:
25) Your most used channel: not sure
26) Personal dumbass moment: this answer would be shorter if it was personal awesome achievement.
27) Best avatar: Crosswords
28) Partner in crime: mums the word
29) Do people offline know of your sift problem: only the ones that attend the sifters anonymous meetings with me
30) Idea for the site:

About you

31) Where do you live: St. Paul Minnesota
32) Smoker/non-smoker: non
33) Left or right handed: left
34) Hair colour: blo..brow...... yes
35) Relationship status: taken
36) How tall: 5'11"
37) Children: 43 that i know of
38) Ever had an operation: nope, but i have broken a couple things
39) Best feature: not good at that one
40) Use four words to describe yourself: well, i like to.... awww

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

41) Bring a famous person back from the dead: Churchill, seemed like a good honest man
42) Give 50 grand to any charity: Design for the other 90%
43) Send someone on a one way ticket to the moon: meee
44) Relive a moment in your life: "hey! HEY!!! get out of my stuff!!!!"
45) Have a superpower: I dont care how over used it is, i wanna fly!
46) Find out one thing you've always wanted to know: will my country make it another 50 years?
47) Have the opposite gender deal with something you have to:
48) Be president for one hour: I would rummage through the oval office for hidden treasure
49) Delete a period in history: bush bush bush bush bush
50) Achieve one thing: confidence.

1) Season - Fall. I love the cool, crisp air, the leaves, the apple cider.
2) Place in the world - New England, USA
3) Children's book - Where the wild things are
4) TV Series - Comedy; Family Guy, Chuck, Scrubs Action/Drama; Heroes
5) Word - kluppsmuffen - I have no clue what it means (it's German) but I found it on a label on one of the machines where I used to work.
6) Film - Too many to pick a favorite.
7) Curse - Fuck - It's just so versatile.
Creature - Chinchilla.
9) Past time - Computer gaming.
10)Person - My lovely lady.

Which one?

11) Dog or cat - Dog.
12) Sweet or savoury - Sweet
13) Cereal or Toast - Ceral
14) Tan or pale - To be or to look at?
15) Shoes or barefoot - Barefoot
16) Desktop or laptop - Desktop
17) Drive or walk - Drive
18) Drama or comedy - Comedy
19) Sex or food - That's a toughie. Can't I eat while sexing?
20) Futurama or Simpsons - Simpsons

The Sift

21) Your fave personal submission The big Lebowski - the fucking short version.
22) A great comment on one of your vids - the definition of "masturbing".
23) Most off the wall member - Choggie.
24) Favourite user name - burdturgler
25) Your most used channel - Comedy
26) Personal dumbass moment - Stabbing myself in the leg with a metal strap.
27) Best avatar - Pft. Mine.
28) Partner in crime - Huh?
29) Do people offline know of your sift problem - What are people offline?
30) Idea for the site - Search by channels.

About you

31) Where do you live - Tempe, Arizona
32) Smoker/non-smoker - Fuck that.
33) Left or right handed - Left
34) Hair colour - my hair colour is brown
35) Relationship status - in one, but there's always an opening for blankfist.
36) How tall - Six feet.
37) Children - Fuck no.
38) Ever had an operation - Yes - septoplasty. That shit SUCKS.
39) Best feature - My ass.
40) Use four words to describe yourself - 1)Blankfist's 2)ass 3)arouses 4)me.

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

41) Bring a famous person back from the dead - George Washington. He'd be fuckin pissed at what we've done to his nation.
42) Give 50 grand to any charity - The MG charity for MG's debt reduction.
43) Send someone on a one way ticket to the moon - Anyone that thinks we've never been there.
44) Relive a moment in your life - There's a few where I'd want to right a few wrongs.
45) Have a superpower - Ability to control/travel though time.
46) Find out one thing you've always wanted to know - Um, I think it would be ? = 42
47) Have the opposite gender deal with something you have to - trying to take a piss with morning wood.
48) Be president for one hour - GTFO of Iraq, balance the budget and bring all of our troops back into the US. Work on us helping us for a change.
49) Delete a period in history - None?
50) Achieve one thing - build a time machine out of a DeLorean

Spoco, You're an idiot. My son plays HL2 ONLINE. not the actual storyline game. Moron. You really think a 6 year old could? Like I said, You have no idea what you're talking about. Why let him play it? Because he thinks it's fun. It *is* fun. He doesn't sit there crying his eyes out because some make believe people got shot. The bodies disappear. They don't lose limbs or anything. Jesus. Did I say I was a christian? No. I have him play where I know people will keep the porn sprays and cursing to a minimum.

The kid plays piano. My other kids play guitar. But go ahead and make pointless grabs at trying to prove your point though. *I* know my kid is well rounded. So do those that know him. Just because he likes to play shooter games, (just like most kids) doesn't make him or me bad. You however are a quick to judge asshole. And you're wrong. These games teach about teamwork, consequences, problem solving, and much, much more. But focus on the simulated "violence" of pointing a gun and going "bang" like kids his age have been doing since the creation of the toy gun. Actually, it doesn't even take a toy to point your finger and go "bang"

And you think that because I said that scary movie music frightens him that I force him to watch them? You are such a colossal dumbass. Ever hear of "overhearing" things? Kids do it all the time. I suppose it's also horrible that I taught him to read Where the Wild Things are. Or that I expose him to art, movies, or outside. That I let him ride his bike with *gasp* no knee pads! The horror!

And if you think its wrong to celebrate winning or beating anyone, at anything, you are what is wrong with this country. People like you celebrate weakness, and mediocrity and sameness. Screw that. My kid is an individual. And I'm damn proud of him.

Jessica, if you're reading this, can I borrow $8500? I heard if you forward this to 10 other people that Jessica will do the wild thing with you, is that true?

Yeah, I posted it after I was reminded about it from your question.

Your comment about amnesia is very insightful. In fact, if you don't remember it, it didn't happen. I always tell my residents that when I'm training them. Good story......We give a brief dose of IV anesthetic for cardioversion of the heart, when they try to get someone back in a regular heart rhythm. Sometimes we do them in our anesthesia recovery room. One day I was doing a great big guy. I had the resident give him the dose, he quit responding to me, so I told the cardiologist, "shock away". They hit him with the paddles and he sits bolt upright and yells, "shit, you goddamn motherfuckers" at the top of his lungs. All the nurses and patients recovering from anesthesia look down our way wide-eyed. The guy lays right back down, goes back to sleep for 2 or 3 minutes. When he wakes up I say, "you alright?" "Fine" he says. "Did we bother you at all?" I ask. "Don't remember a thing," he says.

So, if you don't remember it, temporary discomfort does one no harm.

The benzos, like versed (midazolam) are potent amnestics. The wild thing about them is, once you give it, the majority of patients appear awake, conversant, cooperative, but later they don't remember a thing. When patients hear that, they worry "what did I say that might have been inappropriate?" It worries them. I've had a few with loosened inhibitions, but not many.

Oh, I'm sure it'll look gorgeous and the voicing and such will be great, but it won't be "Where the Wild Things Are" - it'll be a much different story very loosely based on the original. It has to be - if you watch the animated version you'll see how short and simple the story is. They're probably going to accomplish what they're planning to do, but it won't be a movie of the book, much like the recent "Jumper" wasn't a movie of the book.

I'd prefer to see some originality in Hollywood and the abandonment of creating bastardized versions of beloved pre-existing materials, but I know that isn't at all likely to happen any time soon.

This is a great thread. People seem to still be arguing about what are riffs, licks, etc. Maybe some of you play rock guitar, I don't know. But, speaking as a rock guitarist, generally we consider a riff to be a repeating phrase that is played as single notes. Most rock riffs are built on the blue's scale, but they don't have to be. A "lick" is a non-repeated phrase, usually part of a guitar solo. Example, "Man, that was a mean lick you played in the middle of
that solo!"
Song's like "Wild Thing" are just chord progressions, in this case I-IV-V-IV repeated over and over. Rock guitarists don't really consider those riffs, although, if you look it up in a dictionary, a "riff" can be a repeating set of chords too, so, technically, about everybody is right here.
In summary, rock guitarists think of riffs in terms of the following examples;

Led Zeppelin --(definitely one of the lords of riff), "Heartbreaker, Black Dog, The Ocean song, Misty Mountain Hop, Dazed and Confused, etc. etc.
Hendrix-- Manic Depression, The opening of Purple Haze, etc. etc.
Cream-- Sunshine of your love, Crossroads, etc.

Keep 'em coming, it's fun to hear what people like in riffs.
What makes a great riff? It's your interpretation. Either it grabs you, or it doesn't. What amazes me is how many different ways a few notes can be arranged. The more unique, the better as far as I'm concerned.

Very few of this are riffs and most of them certainly ain't cool.
So here's my list of the coolest guitar riffs.

1. Led Zeppelin - Whole lotta Love (Coolest riff ever, end of story forever and ever amen)

2. Jimi Hendrix - Foxy Lady (just plain damn cool)

3. The Troggs - Wild Thing (The Definition of cool guitar)

4. Jimi Hendrix - Purple Haze

5. Metallica - Enter Sandman

6. The Doors - Peace Frog (Rage against the Machine ripped this off for bulls on Parade)

7. The Beatles - Come Together (More a bass guitar riff but still damn cool)

8. Black Sabbath - Paranoid

9. Collective Soul - Where the river flows

10. Cream - Sunshine of your love

11. Creedence Clearwater Revival - I heard it through the grapevine

12. Fleetwood Mac - Oh Well

13. Kasabian - Club Foot

14. Oasis - Wonderwall

15. Queen - Now I'm Here (Who knew Queens could be cool?)

16. Radiohead - Paranoid Android (The best piece of music Radiohead ever made)

17. U2 - One

18. Led Zeppelin - Moby Dick

19. Metallica - Whisky in the Jar (I prefer it to the Thin Lizzy Version)

20. Deep Purple - Smoke on the water

so two lesbians are fighting over their child inbetween making out naked in a pool? I would watch that.

you got a script you could send along ?

what format did you shoot on ?

what are you editing on ?

are you editing or are you at a post facility ?

how much footage did you shoot ?

details ! send details !

glad to see other filmmakers on the sift!

In reply to this comment by blankfist:
Thanks, qruel. Yes, we're in post now. We haven't started editting yet, though. Um, the film is a drama. I'm terrible with pitches, but the best one I could come up with was Kramer v Kramer meets Wild Things, I suppose. Once we're done cutting it, we hope to get it out into festivals and all that. Right now, I'm just focusing on getting the film cut, and all that other marketing and festial stuff can wait for now.

-bf

In reply to this comment by qruel:
wow, very cool. a feature is a helluva lot of work.

are you in post now ? if so where at ?

tell me about the film (story and techinical info) and your hopes for it when done.



In reply to this comment by blankfist:
Haha, you are so right. I just shot a feature out here, and I swore never to shoot another one in LA. It's not friendly to indie filmmakers. I decided early on to go guerilla and shoot without permits, so we were constantly ducking cops. We only got kicked out of one area, which was by a Ranger up on a canyon trail overlooking the cityscape. So, we just packed everything up, made the hike down, and a week later we went back to get the rest of the shots.

Way too expensive out here to shoot. Next feature I do, I'm taking it back to North Carolina, which is where I'm from originally.

In reply to this comment by qruel:
Hey, thanks for the compliment. we shot the film here in the midwest (along with all the other films on that site).

i've got a few friends in La nd they talk about how expensive it is and all the permits they have to get before shooting and it makes me wonder how any indie projects get done there


In reply to this comment by blankfist:
Hey, that's really well done. I wasn't expecting the spiders at the end. And, I loved the nod to Audition with her wardrobe at the end. Where did you shoot that? Out here in LA, or are you somewhere else? Great job.

-bf

In reply to this comment by qruel:
I was posting to Farhad when i saw your comment about AUDTION. It was DEFINATELY creepy as hell. so here is a short movie I thought you might dig called THE EVIL INSIDE (forgive me if I already sent this to you). I edited this film and the director was a HUGE audition fan (you'll tell from the short) This is the 10 minute version (down from 30 minutes)

http://myspacetv.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=4333376

edit: oh yea, thanks for the props on the gold !

QRUEL

In reply to this comment by blankfist:
Farhad2000, I know you're a bit of the cinephile, and I've seen the video you posted of Audition in Bravo's 100 Most Scariest Movies. You may find this video I posted recently interesting: http://www.videosift.com/video/Clip-form-one-of-the-creepiest-horror-movies-ever-AUDITION

Here's a few Sifted clips:
http://www.videosift.com/video/Jimi-Hendrix-Wild-Thing
http://www.videosift.com/video/Buffalo-Springfield-For-What-Its-Worth

If you love the book you might be interested in visiting www.cafgivinggarden.org - the site showcases the garden being designed by Tiggy Salt for this year's Chelsea Flower Show. Based on Maurice Sendak's 'Where the Wild Things Are', the garden will bring together the familiar and the fantastic, combining traditional cottage garden planting with exotic jungle flowers and foliage.