December 2009
91 posts
“Watching Stanley Kubrick’s Barry Lyndon is a pleasure, like eating a very good...”
– Lars von Trier on Kubrick’s Barry Lyndon. More filmmakers on their inspirations here. Still need to see Lyndon. Oops.
Nic Cage as Everyone →
Bizarro (/pointless?) photoshop blogspot mania
Fetishizing The Other →
“Where post-grad meets post-race.”
New group Tumblr with Slaughterhouse 90210, Split Infinitives and Bling Cosby.
“He was talking in a Scouse accent for three days. He told me I should refer to...”
– Noel Gallagher on Liam imitating John Lennon. More vintage Noel here.
A Crazy Story I'd Never Heard
I’d heard of neither Peter Ivers nor his TV show New Wave Theatre until this Vice post and, well… it’s a pretty interesting and definitely fucked story:
New Wave Theatre was a segment on USA’s Night Flight that had the likes of Fear and the Circle Jerks and X and 45 Grave playing live intercut with awkward interviews and insanely edited junk-montages that look like the...
The Weird Book Room →
From VSL. Favorites so far include:
A Cow is Too Much Trouble in Los Angeles
My Visit to Venus
The Who’s Who of British Beheadings
And, of course, What’s Wrong with My Snake?
Ozzy Discovers Pizza
Vice recently shared this hilarious/amazing tidbit about Ozzy discovering pizza. It’s from a new memoir-y tellall kind of thing called I Am Ozzy.
I thought America was fabulous. Take pizza for example. For years I’d been thinking, I wish someone would invent a new kind of food. In England it was always egg and chips, sausage and chips, pie and chips… anything and chips. After a while it...
“OK “Leader of the Pack” Chipmunks style from 1982 is basically what...”
– Twitter / HunxandhisPunx
Me-core
The Movie Title Stills Collection →
Surprisingly, consistently fun and intriguing
Real Life "Be Kind Rewind"
From Wired:
B-movie producers have been cribbing from Hollywood for decades, but none have done so as brazenly or efficiently as the Asylum, which for the past six years has churned out titles like Snakes on a Train, Transmorphers, The Terminators, The Day the Earth Stopped, and, of course, last summer’s Transmorphers: Fall of Man. These are uniformly dreadful films, notable mainly for their...
Kids Love Hot Cheetos But Schools Hate Them →
NICE HEADLINE, NPR!
Herzog on Cage
From a Slate interview with Werner Herzog:
Let me ask you about Nicolas Cage in Bad Lieutenant. I’ve never been clear on whether Nicolas Cage is a good actor or a bad actor—
Herzog: How can you ask that? There were parts, there were pieces, where he was like the hunchback of Notre Dame doing a Richard Nixon impression. It’s so over the top, that he seems to have an ironic...
“Adrian Grenier, clad in a lumberjack hat and Velvet Underground T-shirt, played...”
– NY Mag
This sentence just gets more and more embarrassing as it rolls on.
calvinhobbes.tumblr.com →
DUH!
Shut up, Nerd
From NYT Bits:
The Times ran an article Monday (insert link) that suggested what America will need in the future are more “cool nerds.”
But David Anderegg, a professor of psychology at Bennington College, says that merely mentioning terms like “nerd” or “geek” serves to perpetuate the stereotype. The words are damaging, much like racial epithets, he says, and should be avoided altogether.
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“I make the best soup in electronic music. I’ll clash anyone or their mum,...”
– Twitter / kode nine
Dubstep soup battle u guyz!!!
“We’ve approached the movie like a John Hughes movie with dogs.”
– Director Tom Dey on the live action Marmaduke movie he’s making. Seriously.