July 2010
13 posts
WATCHMEN: THE MUSICAL!
Leila brought up something on her Tumblr today that remains one of the most baffling and hilarious things she’s ever told me about: her high school did an unauthorized theatrical adaptation of Maus. I’m sure it was done with the best intentions, but is that some Hamlet 2 shit or what? Art Spiegelman chose to portray Jews as mice and Nazis as cats in his comic book memoir because it was...
56 Translations →
attackofthekillerderk:sarahptor:subwaytovenus:bluths:
Go to this site.
Put in a phrase.
Choose “56 translations.”
Show us the result.
Original text:
“Rome wasn’t built in a day”
…56 translations later we get:
“Spain”
Original text:
“Anthony Is Right”
…56 translations later we get:
“Anthony difficult.”
(caveat: it was zipping through as...
“One of my favorite brain teasers, or things to occupy my mind with when I have...”
– Christopher Nolan in the Village Voice. Don’t get him started on fuckin’ magnets.
5 Movies Michael Cera And Jesse Eisenberg Should...
Let them decide who plays who.
Compulsion
Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid
Dead Ringers
Lost Highway
Face/Off
Strike while the iron is hot, guys!
Just Saw My First Electric Six Show Where They...
Don’t get me wrong, I love the song (we played it at our wedding - an appropriate and populist choice), but there was something kind of cool about them leaving it out for once (dunno if it was the first time ever, but I’ve seen them about a dozen times since the 2004 Siren Festival). They still played “Gay Bar” and “Dance Commander” (show-opener “Electric...
WatchMel Gibson’s Unauthorized Video Diary, a 1989 half-hour promo for Lethal Weapon 2 Mel made for HBO. Shit gets crazy about four minutes in, when Mel freaks the fuck out about a “quitter” non-elastic sock, violently attacking a male exec and his female secretary, only to learn Chevy Chase got a “quitter” too! Countless pratfalls and violent stand-offs with Dan Ackroyd...
