January 2009
40 posts
Seven facts.
I was tagged. Normally these things don’t appeal to me, but I trust the source and am a shameless self-promoter. Here are seven facts about myself:
1. I feel an affinity for the Möbius strip, and have decided that – if I ever get a tattoo – it will be some variation on that. It’s the only thing that makes sense in that way.
2. The Truman Show spoke to me. I thought it was, um, about me. In...
December 2008
62 posts
This made me laugh outloud. →
The Curious Case of Moderate Disappointment.
Talking about David Fincher’s The Curious Case of Benjamin Button on Sunday – almost four full days after its release – is a dangerous game. It means that I run a serious risk of being absolutely superfluous. Though to be honest, superfluity’s never stopped me before.
The Curious Case… is one of the years most talked-about movies, due in no small part to its bizarre premise and...
Valkyrie: Or, even mediocre World War II movies...
There’s lots of dramatic irony for the audience of Bryan Singer’s Valkyrie. The plot - centered around the efforts of the men involved in the last of fifteen German-wrought plots to assassinate Hitler - is resolved in your mind long before the first frames. You know that Hitler wasn’t assassinated in 1944, and that the war raged for much longer than the boundaries of the film...
"It's a little... weird."
It seems that I’m the only person in the country who hasn’t seen The Curious Case of Benjamin Button yet (don’t worry - going tonight), but it strikes me that a solid 80% of my associates who have seen it think it’s helpful to describe it as “a little… weird.”
Well, I think that’s weird.
Did they not know what it’s about? (Rhetorical...
emscreams has some beautiful writing. I'm pretty... →
Harold Pinter 1930 - 2008
Harold Pinter died yesterday.
Complaint #336
whitewhine:
“‘Mary is can’t wait for the party this weekend!’ Seriously? Newsflash: You can delete the ‘is’ when updating your facebook profile.”
-Whine by Ethan
OH MY GOD. Scariously.
'It's a Wonderful Life'? It's a miserable life! -... →
I think you're going to like this: it's the... →
Adolph Hitler Birthday Cake Just Ruined My Day.
It’s snowy and beautiful in Reno.
I had a fantastic night last night catching up with friends from high school, I got to wake up refreshed and excited to share my friend’s birthday with him and his family, looking forward to good food, drinks and conversation.
And then I found this.
An article relaying the story of a family in New Jersey (of course), that’s had a hard time...
“I was going to be a snarky BITCH and post a picture of a homeless guy throwing...”
– (via thatsnice)
A great biography of the film version of... →
Sympathy for the Devil.
It’s a fairly typical view: facing southeast from The Rio Hotel and – um – Resort (?), I see the strip pretty clearly. The Bellagio. The Mirage. Whatever they’re calling Treasure Island these days. I’m drinking a couple fingers of whiskey and a splash of Pepsi (they were out of Coke, but what can you do?), and all I can think about is Trent Reznor. I’m here for Trent; well, I was here for...
Geosense.net is the most fun you've never had. →
amandalynferri:
don’t worry baby (beach boys...
“There’s an urban legend that’s gone around until no one is sure who it happened...”
– emmy sent me this, and says its already on tumblr and reblogged a million times but fuck if i could find it. and it’s just too awesome to not post.
This is Fashion.
This is more of my friend Jeremy Stilb’s work. It’s the pilot episode of his web series This is Fashion, and its fucking genius. He’s an American hero.
My new favorite Onion article. →
My buddy Jeremy is working on a blog entitled... →