October 2009
30 posts
September 2009
28 posts
tumblrebuttal etiquette question
I feel like a dink for writing about Mike’s piece as if he wasn’t in the room, but writing “hey, Mike, I disagree on blah blah blah” seems equally facetious. The choice of tone would be obvious if I either knew Mike outside the net or if he was some unreachable celeb who I wouldn’t expect to see my response (no offense, Mike), but I have no idea how to express...
to elucidate
It’s hard to react in depth to Mike’s piece as it conflates two ideas I have beef with. One, that liberals should be comfortable with magical thinking. Two, that Inglorious Basterds was all that impressive. I sympathize with the former (I would like to figure out how liberals could be less self-defeating, too) and I respect the latter (Basterds is a rare openly historically inaccurate...
Our inglorious Constitution
barthel:
And that’s why Inglorious Basterds was so wonderful: it was a full-throated celebration of what seems to me a fundamentally liberal value. Conservatives engage in this kind of thing, too—see Glenn Beck—but they don’t admit it as such, which appeals to the kind of people who are more interested in being right than in being happy. Inglorious Basterds modeled a kind of creative...
I Hope They Serve Beer In Hell →
Review at Tiny Mix Tapes.
Well played, Pitchfork.
Seeing as how there are a considerable amount of half-to-more-than-half-decent albums in Pitchfork’s #150-101 of the decade (and more I’d rep for in their entirety: Nine Times That Same Song, A Grand Don’t Come For Free, Things We Lost In The Fire, Give Up, The Sunset Tree, Franz Ferdinand - the increase in quality seems logical, seeing as how they’re going up the list), I...
Songs That I Will Rep For Unreservedly From Albums...
One per half-decent album.
Art Brut, “Formed A Band”
Scarface, “On My Block”
Vitalic, “Poney Pt 1”
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, “There She Goes My Beautiful World”
Camera Obscura, “Lloyd, I’m Ready To Be Heartbroken”
Mountain Goats, “Have To Explode” (please don’t watch the video, I beg you)
The Go! Team,...
Albums On Pitchfork's Top 500 Of The Decade...
#186) The Thermals, The Body, The Blood, The Machine
#154) Ghostface Killah, The Pretty Toney Album
Thank you, that is all.
Big Fan →
Rather than detail why I loved a Taxi Driver for fanboys starring Patton Oswalt and climaxing on Passyunk Avenue (the appeal seems pretty obvious to me, cartoonish supporting cast aside), I’d…
Guess The Minor Celebrity!
pterodactyls:
perpetua:
All of these factoids are taken from a minor celebrity’s Wikipedia entry. Can you guess who it is?
He has a tattoo across his chest reading “I WANT TO BE BRAVE”, written backwards.
He once dated the daughter of former NFL running back Mark Van Eeghen.
At the time he underwent an emergency angioplasty, he had 95% arterial blockage. He later underwent gastric bypass...
NO SIGNAL!!! →
(via laurenkaye)
My favorite horror movie cliche of the 21st century - you can’t trap someone without it! So glad Rich made this.
John Phillips, "She's Just 14" →
Recorded with Mick Jagger and Keith Richards for an unreleased solo album meant for Rolling Stones Records (the tracks finally came out in 2001), when Mackenzie Phillips was indeed 14. Knowing what we know now, this may be the skeeviest song in the history of rock.
Page Six: Chloe Sevigny & Jason Segel A Couple →
leilacohan:
I really, really, really hope this is true!!!!!!!!!!!
Ditto, though I did love the idea of her dating that guy from ARE Weapons.
There weren’t a lot of people in Philly’s Jefferson Square Park last Saturday at 9pm (and rarely is there a legal reason to visit that late), but the number that will claim to have been there will grow over time, as everyone who saw Dick Valentine segue “Lightning Crashes” into “Brilliant Disguise” at the close of a sloppy, contract-obliging acoustic solo set...
Humpday →
In the mumblecore hit of 2009, Mark Duplass, the evasive boyfriend who resents his girlfriend and free-spirit brother in the 2005 mumblecore hit The Puffy Chair, plays an evasive husband who…
Stupid Horror Movie Round-Up →
The crazy pills come fast and easy in Sorority Row - wouldn’t it be a better prank to let the freaked-out “murderer” of Audrina Partridge call the cops than leave him alone with the body after…
Ahh, the feeling of a new Electric Six album slowly working its way into my system, fusing with my DNA until I cannot imagine life without it. This decade remains yours, gentlemen.
(Thanks, you-know-who-you-are.)
Funny People →
I thought it would be like taxes, but watching this was more like having an unusually awkward visit from an old friend. You’re glad to see them and wouldn’t have missed it for the world, but you…
“This CGI bullshit is the death knell of cinema. If I’d wanted all that computer...”
– Quentin Tarantino (via singlebychoice) (via flamelikeme) (via marielk)
i’m going to extrapolate from this that qt has fucked a vcr at least once in his life.
The Headless Woman →
I assumed at first that the upper-class Argentinian dentist in Lucrecia Martel’s The Headless Woman was suffering from severe brain damage following a small car accident, only no one cared about…
