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Thanks to Brian and Wes, I finally listened to OFWGKTA. These guys are young, crazy, amazingly talented high school dropouts.

This song and music video is engaging, disturbing, smart, fascinating and troubling. It’s great art.

As a bonus, here is their electric performance on Fallon. It’s evidence of the reality that ‘Tyler, the Creator’ and is cohorts grew up skateboarding, smoking pot, and consuming culture without following carefully designed race lines concerning what they were ‘supposed to be interested in’ according to what some asshole in a suit decided kids listen to and watch based on demographic.

Odd Future represents the subterranean rage and discontent amongst American youth, and not youth as in teens… hell, perhaps I mean youth as in people under 40. For so many reasons, and at the high cost of an unavoidable pun, OFWGKTA just may be the future of music.

I shared this fantastic short film over at my tumblr, you should watch it: The Last Temptation of Chris.

I sure am behind on sharing trailers I like. Lame.

1. Everything Must Go

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2. The Hangover: Part II

The first full trailer for the film. After watching this I feel the same way I felt about the first film: There are all these reasons I normally wouldn’t like this movie on paper, and yet I can’t stop laughing at the trailer. As far as details go, it looks like your stereotypical sequel, the bad kind. Yet, I can’t help being excited. I’ll be there opening weekend.

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3. The Big Bang

So, I’m a little embarrassed about wanting to see this, but in the hopes it’s a decent take on the pulpy noir detective story, I’m intrigued.

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4. Larry Crowne

Sure, why not.

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5. The Green Lantern (Abridged Wonder-Con Footage)

So, with all this footage, it looks to me like it might have a bit of that Fantastic Four silliness, but with more awesome and a lot less suck.

It could be epic.

As part of my continuing obsession with loving all sorts of random shit, finding said random shit on the internet when I’m not sleeping, and then sharing all of that random shit with the internets, I started a tumblr page.

Here: Agent Insomniac.

So, a ways back I mentioned a super secret writing project that was coming in April.

Well, April is almost here, so it is time to, in the words of an adorable cartoon mouse: “Wewease da secwet weapon!!”

The project involves me making a fool out of myself by trying to write fiction… every day… and then putting it on the internet. Yeah, not my best idea, but I’m rolling with it. The details (along with the project itself) can be found here. The details are already up, but the project itself doesn’t begin until April 8th.

Check it out, peoples. You know, if you want to that is.

Watching one good sketch of a really bad interview made me think of another. It’s been way too long since I’ve revisited this show.

My heart is currently losing a battle to a paper that should be really easy. My prescription was that I needed something funny to watch. I decided to share some of that goodness with you.

I can’t embed, but damnit, you should watch this anyway.

Then go to Netflix Instant and watch every episode of this show, ever. Well, at least the three series available on Netflix Instant.

I’ve already made quite clear how much I loved Zusak’s The Book Thief. I’ve just finished his previous release, I Am the Messenger (published originally as The Messenger in Australia). The Book Thief was no fluke, I Am the Messenger was another brilliant book.

It’s the story of a 19 year old underage taxi driver in Australia named Ed Kennedy. Ed helps apprehend a bank robber, and soon after receives a mysterious piece of mail: an Ace of Diamonds with three times and addresses written on it. From there, the story unfolds to engaging and satisfying effect. I won’t say anything else about the plot, spoilers are sad.

Zusak writes such literate and subtly poetic prose. His pacing aids the reader in entering the mind of the narrator, whether that narrator is Death or a directionless 19 year old cab driver. All of his characters in I Am the Messenger are wonderfully ordinary, I feel like I went to high school with these people, aside from the accents that is.

The thing about Zusak I find the most remarkable is his ability to write books about hope and redemption that feel believable in the real world. For all the beauty in his books, they never come across as precious or overly sentimental.

His books are certainly entertaining, fun reads. They’re so much more than that though. They quite honestly make me want to be a better person, and somehow also convince me I truly can be. Hell, they might even help me on my way toward actually becoming a better person. For me, this is proof positive of how formational fiction can be.

I think Zusak’s work affects me so much because he seems to truly want to believe that hope can mean something, while never ignoring the absolutely terrible shit that happens all over the world every day.

I think everyone should read this book.

My friend Josué emailed me a screen grab. Apparently, Roused to Mediocrity looks amazing on iPads.

Thanks to whoever made this theme. Keep up the good work!

I know, I know. It’s like three days old by now and everyone has seen it already, even my mom. Still, on the off chance someone hasn’t, I’m sharing it anyway, because that’s what we do here. I told you, I’m posting everything late this month.