For any of you who read John Krakauer's biography on Christopher McCandless, Into the Wild, or watched Sean Penn's moving film about his life, you know that McCandless was a restless and troubled kid who gave everything away after he graduated from Emory University and went to Alaska to rough it a bit and live out his nature fantasy. Sadly, he ended up dying of starvation in the abandoned bus he called home. Okay, it's a bummer of a story, but the following video imagines how things might have turned out differently if Matthew McConaughey (who doesn't seem to own a shirt anywhere except in this dramatization) had been in the wilderness with him.
When a wild animal is discovered running loose on the streets, peeps go batsh*t. The animal, on the other hand, remains as calm as can be. The following surveillance footage shows what happens when unsuspecting pedestrians have surprise encounters with animals typically found in the wild.
Joe Hutto has raised countless wild turkeys from the time they were eggs. He talks turkey--and that's no figure of speech. Having spent so much time with them, he's learned their language, and can mimic sounds they make to get them to come to him so he can, um, kill them and eat them for dinner.
Does the idea of guys with big guts baring their D-cups and tighty whiteys turn you on? No? How about guys with mullets taking showers or, if older men float your boat, "Grandpas Gone Wild"?
"Man Vs. Wild" may be a difficult show to watch, but at least it's got a hot host. The premise?
The inflatable Wild Swan After Party favor, according to my friends Kosuke and Yuichi who were kind enough to translate the packaging for me, is suitable for ages 12 and up. We all agreed that this was ludicrous, given the uh, suggestive features of this dirty toy. First of all, it becomes engorged when a cylindrical capsule inside the flaccid cartoon swan is squeezed.
Director, skateboarder and all-around Gen X superhero Spike Jonze was told that turning the beloved children's book Where the Wild Things Are into a movie couldn't be done without serious artistic compromises. Well, not only did he prove his naysayers wrong, his movie was number one at the box office over the weekend!
This iconoclast has been doing his own thing for a while, though, starting out as an untrained videographer for skateboarders, moving on to direct cool videos for bands like The Beastie Boys, and following up on Being John Malkovich and Adaptation with a filmic ballad for the latch-key generation.
"I would tell them to go to hell. That's a question I will not tolerate."
— Maurice Sendak, author of the classic children's book-turned-movie Where the Wild Things Are, when asked "What do you say to parents who think the Wild Things film may be too scary?"