Cute and strange at the same time. A cat “cut-in-half” / shortened by Google Street View’s camera.
Previously on Dangerous MInds
Redditor PGERMS was crushin’ on a girl so hard that he made this utterly brilliant video for her. Apparently she mentioned the music in her favorite TV soap was so bad, her cat could have scored it. Well, PGERMS decided to test that theory “with great success.”
Here are a few choice responses in the reddit thread after folks watched it:
andehpandeh: “As a film composer, this makes me feel absolutely worthless to the world.”
Cyhawk: “I’m the guy who writes the music for soap operas. How do you think this makes ME feel? I should get this cat…”
Tell Your Cat You’re Pregnant: Baby and Toy Sounds for Preparing Your Cat for a Baby by Dr Lewis Kirkham is, well, I’ll let the blurb do the explaining:
Pregnant and worried about your cat coping? Here are 13 tracks of baby & toy sounds to prepare a cat for the arrival of a human baby. Designed by a behavior veterinarian, it is the most comprehensive range sounds available to best prepare your cat.
You can listen to Dr Lewis Kirkham’s soundtrack with titles like “Delightful Squeals” and “Grunts & Yawns” here.
A hilarious and clever recreation of Prodigy’s “Smack My Bitch Up”... cat style.
Update: This is actually a video for Superchunk’s “Crossed Wires” which someone re-edited and set to Prodigy’s “Smack My Bitch Up.”
With thanks to Nerdcore
As much as I try not to post kitteh-related stuff on DM, THIS video could not be avoided.
Thank you, Internet!
Via BuzzFeed
People just love them some Glenn Danzig, don’t they?
Previously on Dangerous Minds:
‘What’s That In Danzigs?’: A Glenn Danzig calculator
Via WMFU
The very NSFW site Indifferent Cats in Amateur Porn, as one might deduce from the name, is dedicated to indifferent cats showing up in amateur porn videos.
Via Nerdcore
And now you know why your cat’s tongue feels like sandpaper when it licks you.
Via reddit
Chris Marker‘s Bestiaire, three short video haiku:
Bestiaire 1. Chat écoutant la musique
Bestiaire 2. An owl is An owl is an owl
Bestiaire 3. Zoo Piece
Simple meditations that reveal a more intimate side to the enigmatic director, best known for La jetée (1962) (which later inspired Terry Gilliam’s Twelve Monkeys) and Sans Soleil (1983). Marker has said of his work:
‘The process of making films in communion with oneself, the way a painter works or a writer, need not now be solely experimental. Contrary to what people say, using the first-person in films tends to be a sign of humility: All I have to offer is myself.’
Now in his nineties, Marker the “mercurial international man of semiotic mystery” continues to work, details of which can be found here.
More animal haiku, plus bonus documentary, after the jump…
An accidental Google search (don’t ask) led me to a rather odd subculture/phenomena in Google images: cats and mushrooms. There’re cats pictured with Cremini mushrooms, Porcini, wild mushrooms and even the psychedelic kind. (I’m in no way endorsing ‘shrooming your cat, btw.)
According to an article on NPR’s website titled Mystery Solved: Why Cats Crave Mushrooms, cats are attracted to the glutamate chemical in mushrooms. Vets warn though, cats probably shouldn’t be eating the fungi. Some could poison them.
More photos of cats and mushrooms after the jump…
I’ve never seen a cat loathe somebody, as much as this cat, Sashimi, hates YouTuber “Soezimax.” Sashimi hates him so much, he/she actually attacks him like a rabid Rottweiler!
Here are Soesimax’s thoughts on incurring the wrath of Sashimi:
I am disliked by a cat.The name of the cat is “sashimi”. She attacks me at the risk of life.The fear! The seriousness of the animal! Why would it be it in such a thing?
More Sashimi after the jump…
Before there was Keyboard Cat, there was this little guy playing “Jesus Loves Me” on the 1950s children’s TV show Andy’s Gang. As Robert Popper puts it, “Well, I’ve seen many things in my life, but…”
(via The Daily What via Robert Popper )
Charley says… was a series of Public Information Films, shown in the UK during the 1970s and 1980s, in which a talkative cat, Charley, advised a young boy, Tony, about everyday safety issues. Along with my fellow generation of young things, I learnt not to go off with strangers, never play with matches, and beware the dangers of tables. Sadly, these days charlie usually advises me to do all of the above.
The voice of the incomprehensible ginger tomcat was supplied by Kenny Everett, while the boy was voiced by the child of one of producer Richard Taylor’s neighbors. The Charley says… animations were so popular that they were voted the UK’s favorite Public Information Film, and came in at number 95 in Channel 4’s 100 Greatest Cartoons in 2005.
More miaows of wisdom from Charley, after the jump…
(via The Daily What and reddit)
In The Cat Inside William Burroughs paid a great compliment to his favorite animals:
“My relationships with my cats has saved me from a deadly, pervasive ignorance.”
Now, isn’t that a true thing? That our relationship with animals can have such a benevolent influence. I’m spending the week looking after a friend’s dog (a cute, wee strawberry-blonde, Lakeland Terrier), who has, over the years, taught me much about myself, for which I will always be grateful.
In thanks for that, here is a small selection of some interesting people and their lovely animal companions.
James Dean and his cat, Marcus, a gift from Elizabeth Taylor, who took custody of Marcus after Dean’s death.
Frank Sinatra and Ringo.
More animal pics, after the jump…
