Special Alert: Cartoon Network is showing REAL Looney Tunes classics during the day! Set your DVRs, people. I've had a blast watching "Rabbit of Seville" with the fam.
Movies: The Elephant in the Living Room
Streaming Netflix is a great way to catch documentaries. Once you've watched a couple of good ones they throw a ton of great recommendations at you. The Elephant in the Living Room is a fascinating look at people who keep exotic animals as pets. The stories and stats presented here are weird, eye-opening, frustrating, and sometimes tragic. WARNING TO ANIMAL LOVERS: there is a particularly grim scene in this one, but I don't feel it was exploitive. Absolutely worth a watch if you like peering into different world that may be just up the street from you:
Movies: The Elephant in the Living Room
Streaming Netflix is a great way to catch documentaries. Once you've watched a couple of good ones they throw a ton of great recommendations at you. The Elephant in the Living Room is a fascinating look at people who keep exotic animals as pets. The stories and stats presented here are weird, eye-opening, frustrating, and sometimes tragic. WARNING TO ANIMAL LOVERS: there is a particularly grim scene in this one, but I don't feel it was exploitive. Absolutely worth a watch if you like peering into different world that may be just up the street from you:
According to livescince.org, it's estimated that between 5,000 and 7,000 tigers are kept as “pets”— more than exist in the wild.
Music: Bitter:Sweet
Over the last couple of years, I've discovered I like some trip-hop/downbeat/electronica type stuff with a strong leaning towards funky beats with sultry female vocals. Bitter:Sweet is a fun example of the "lounge" side of this genre. It's a little like Portishead meets Austin Powers, so they're a perfect fit for me when I'm not in the mood for the wrist-cutting lyrics of Portishead. The Mating Game's title track caught my attention on Pandora a while back, and the lyrics to The Bomb (on the 2008 album Drama) have a political jab that's pleasantly surprising for a "fun" band:
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