September 2010
Thanks, Chrome
Since I’m travelling in Italy, I definitely want all of my address bar searches in Italian. I mean, sure, I’m logged into my Google account and all my accounts are in English, and my profile shows what city I live in, and I haven’t used an Italian IP address in two thousand days or so, but of course for the three weeks I’m here I would like nothing else than to force myself...
Three Hundred Seventy Euro
The eyeglass frames I want.
Dark stained die-cut bent ply.
Amazing.
But something tells me “more than a car payment” is too much.
Criminy.
rend it: Waste their time with me →
Loving the Screaming Females new long player. I guess it’s a bit premature, but this band is starting to fill the giant hole blown in my heart when Sleater-Kinney bit the dust.
I was gonna post an audio but came across this lovely description of their live set in DC a week ago. Wish I woulda coulda been there. And I totally agree with rendit about the Corin Tucker comparisons - not apt at...
The Ass Basin
Imagine that there was a pile of shit, a giant pointy one, like inhumanly large, like the Jolly Green Giant pinched it off. Imagine, now, that you dropped your pants and squatted over it, butt cheeks spread open like the wings of a bird that will never fly, and dipped your ass in that pile of shit, the point just barely tickling your sphincter, brown poo smeared all over your inner ass.
And when...
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30 Day Movie Challenge: Day 24
Day 24 - That one awesome movie idea that still hasn’t been done yet
Two words: Pixar’s Maus
But seriously: a realistic drama about the meaningfulness of independent rock, with a focus on live music in the 90s and 00s.
I know it’s completely narcissistic to think that what’s important to you is important to other people, but I really think there’s something special about...
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30 Day Movie Challenge: Day 23
Day 23 - Favorite animation
Iron Giant: I loved it from the first shot. I reviewed it for In Pittsburgh, I think. Or was it Pittsburgh City Paper? I can’t even remember. It’s on Netflix Instant, so I put it on for my toddler son. He was into it for a little while, then wandered away to play with a ball. I, of course, couldn’t turn it off.
Brad Bird followed it up with The...
“He knocked the seahorse off my mailbox, too”
– Catching up on Dexter, season four. Lithgow, Culture Club, Bananarama, Lundy’s hat, Masuka’s lightning-emblazoned monster truck… This show just gets better and better.
30 Day Movie Challenge: Day 22
Day 22 - Favorite documentary
Jem Cohen’s Instrument, about one of the best bands ever, Fugazi. A beautiful and patient film that focuses quite a bit on live performance. It’s not revolutionary in terms of style or content, and the band seems so grounded and at ease that there really isn’t a tremendous sense of drama, but the fact that it covers ten years really brings home...
“I think a lot of the problems we’ve been experiencing come from the fact that no...”
– Patton Oswalt, in GQ. (via deantrippe)
This is a bit like Louis C.K.’s “Everything’s amazing and nobody’s happy” bit in that it should be plastered on my wall to remind me, everyday, to appreciate what we’ve got, flaws and all.
Or maybe I’m just saying...
Clinton's warning: Tea Party is a corporate front →
themattsmith:
“I respect people with a conservative philosophy,” he continued. “This country has been well-served by having two broad traditions within which people can operate. If you have a philosophy, it means you’re generally inclined one way or the other but you’re open to evidence. If you have an ideology, it means everything is determined by dogma and you’re impervious to evidence....
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30 Day Movie Challenge: Day 19-21
After the exhausting Pynchonian three-post Day 18 wordathon, I’m taking this shit under the knife. What’s bacon if you cut the fat off? I don’t fucking know. Sounds disgusting, probably like a bunch of scabs, like if you peeled a bunch of dried skin off your torn up knee and ate it with some eggs, over easy. Maybe make an SLT sandwhich? Horrible, right? Probably true, but...
STILL SINGLE: Double Negative – Daydreamnation LP... →
Doug Mosurock with another stellar suggestion.
still-single:
-/- is a Carolina hardcore supergroup, staffed by Raleigh scene vets from Erectus Monotone, Snakenation, Shiny Beast, Patty Duke Syndrome, Polvo, and a handful of others. While their earlier LP clung too hard to convention, and the follow-up single swung away at abstract aggression almost… (more)
Listen/buy here. This is...
WatchSuperchunk “Digging For Something”
Majesty Shredding drops today, and this is like the 6th best song on it, so go out and get it you fucking fat fuck!
Merge, Insound, Emusic, Amazon ($3 off today)
What a ridiculous day for records. Nonetheless, this is more important than The Walkmen: Lisbon, Grinderman: Grinderman 2, Justin Townes Earle: Harlem River Blues, Black Mountain: Wilderness Heart, J....
WatchGhosty - Team Up Again
The song is alright, but the video is great, seeing as its built out of clips from the INSANE seventies sci-fi Cold War thriller Who? (aka Robo Man), which I mentioned in my rambling ode to Elliott Gould.
30DMC: Day 18: Part 3 - A Movie That You Wish More...
Little Murders (1971)
I love the Elliott Gould of the early seventies, but it’s not a pretty kind of love.
For a few years there, Gould played a number of variations on a theme, but it was always intense, and most of the movies were sheer lunacy, even for their time. I even went through a bit of a phase where I tried to hunt them all down.
Gould broke big with Bob & Carol & Ted...
Just Asking →
In 2007, David Foster Wallace wrote four paragraphs for the Atlantic Monthly on the subject of 9/11 that do about as good a job as any four paragraphs can do at conveying my feelings on the matter.
Here is the first:
Are some things still worth dying for? Is the American idea one such thing? Are you up for a thought experiment? What if we chose to regard the 2,973 innocents killed in the...
Nine years ago today, I watched smoke rise from the Pentagon from the office roof and saw the towers fall live on TV with my coworkers.
News came of explosions and attacks at the White House, the Capitol, all around town, news of car bombs on the Mall, where my girlfriend was interning at a museum.
I couldn’t get her on the phone so I just started walking. Incredibly, I ran into her on a...
Yeah, yeah, yeah
kittykittybangbang:
rosasparks:
He’s an excellent drummer, writes pop songs that are, sometimes, pretty great, but he’s a fucking turd.
He’s annoying. He’s not funny.
And most of the time, he just makes me want to kick him in the shin.
Irrational rage? Maybe, but fuck him and the horse he rode in on.
Love you, Rosa. I don’t have to justify it - I just hate him.
I get it, I really do....
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30DMC: Day 18: Part 2
A Movie That You Wish More People Would’ve Seen
Part 2. early Hal Hartley, particularlyTrust (1990)
[maximumbob]
Hal Hartley’s early movies really aren’t for everybody, but I love them and also happen to think that they’re really important. In films like The Unbelievable Truth, Trust, and Surviving Desire, done in 1989-1991, Hartley found a certain magical combination of...
“I’m a grown woman, and my mind is telling me that you are a great guy. But...”
– Sandra, Louie episode 10, “Bully”
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30DMC: Day 18: Part 1
A Movie That You Wish More People Would’ve Seen
I guess this is about wishing movies you loved were more popular, but let’s face reality here, the asswipes who made The Expendables the number one movie in America aren’t going to enjoy La jetée. So instead, I’m going to interpret this as movies that I love that I often recommend to like-minded friends.
In some ways, this...
Streaming Now: Superchunk: 'Majesty Shredding' →
I’m telling you, the fact that this album is only available between now and the 14th online via NPR means that I AM NOT TURNING OFF THE INTERNET.
I resisted the urge to post this link until I had a chance to listen to the whole thing. And man. Man! So good. I’ve given it the go ‘round a few times and I keep picking up new awesome things.
They’ve gotten so much more...
I wish the “Tumblr crushes” mosaic math considered the rate at which you heart a particular Tumblr, and not just which Tumblrs got the most hearts over the last day or whatever time period they use.
There are some Tumblrs that post infrequently but who I heart the fucking shit out of, while aggregator and photo Tumblrs get only like 10% heartage but because they post seemingly...
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30DMC: Day 17: The Movie That Disappointed You The...
I’ve been disappointed with many a movie, particularly sequels, and it would be difficult to convey in words the extent of my disappointment in the three Star Wars prequels. But I don’t think anything has ever let me down like Eyes Wide Shut, a movie of such precisely boring boredom that I had to watch it twice to make sure I wasn’t actually a mentally challenged nutcase stuck in...
