January 2009
in keeping with this year's pattern
i will have a retrospective tomorrow for 2008. i didn’t watch my traditional xmas movies until after the holiday, and i started feeling xmassy on like the 27th. PATTERNS: KEEP EM UP.
i will have no additional commentary on most pop culture, as most of what i consume culturally is ephemeral improv comedy that maybe 150 people can relate to, my most listened to artist was david gray, and...
December 2008
nicolemarietherese:
I just overheard part of a conversation as I was leaving a crowded establishment.
Some girl: This would not be a good time to be claustrophobic.
Okay.
Challenge: What would be a good time?
um, when placed in the iron maiden for blasphemic exclamations!
“Baby, come over, I need entertaining
I had a stilted, pretending day
Lay me...”
– baby we’ll be fine, the national
One-two step
magicmolly:
In recent years communication has been quantitatively pared down (the length of a letter compared to an email) but also atomized: split into lots of short, functional exchanges of information, as in texting. Language, too, is abbreviated to the limits of intelligibility. The need to infer has never been stronger— we must parse tone and motive from the bare minimum of material. Which...
happy holidays
i saw the wrestler, then had beef stew and hot chocolate, and baklava and now i am home, waiting for some apple-grape sparkling juice to cool before having dinner.
SOUNDS LIKE XMAS TO ME!
p.s. max brenner chocolate by the bald man is AWESOME. seriously… i am there every weekend from now on. book it.
oh man i'm in trouble now
in the interest of full disclosure, nicole drespel lent me a bunch of episodes of QI to watch in november. i did, in fact, know about the show before she told me i just had to watch it, BUT she’s the one who pushed me to actually watch it.
so watch that video i posted. if you like to be right, to be funny, or to laugh (/british people) you’ll love it, NICOLE THINKS.
“tuesday! my heart is brimming!
i’m a child in the wild wind!”
– forever is tomorrow is today
get it!
serendipity is on tv and i haven’t changed...
it is now... sandwich time
it’s 1:45 in the morning, and i haven’t eaten anything today that didn’t make it’s way to my mouth on a some kind of chip, or was made of a whiskey, coca cola, champagne, or one truly disgusting creation i invented made of equal parts jack daniels, tonic, butterscotch schnapps and coke.
IT’S MOTHER FUCKING CHEESE SANDWICH TIME MOTHER FUCKERS.
great day.
today
can suck it! my bra decided it didn’t want to fit today. i have several bras that are the exact same cut and size, and the one i decided to put on today decided to not fit at all. i wore it recently, so apparently my upper body has changed in shape entirely in a few days. and it’s not too big or too small… it just doesn’t fit. someone dropped off (unorganized…)...
'okay, fuck this, you're dead.' →
possibly my favorite flash animation ever.
Edith Wharton
i loathe edith wharton. sorry everyone! you might think i am just being ironically hateful of a major pop cultural movement, but i am not, i really just hate her writing.
magicmolly:
Her sentences are like those carriage horses in Central Park: pretty and imposing, but ultimately beasts of labor. Ditto Jane Austen.
It’s the most impressive way to write a novel, the best way to tell a story,...
If the Sun is to believed, fuck Christopher Nolan. →
erockappel:
patbaer:
EDDIE MURPHY!?!?! SHIA LABEOUF!?!?!
Hopefully this is horrible joke.
I don’t understand why this would be a bad thing. We know what Nolan can do. We’ve seen how dark his movies are. Even if this “rumor” is true, it’s not like Nolan is going to let Eddie Murphy run around farting in a fat suit.
it’s not true, both nolan and bale have said that they will never...
Trailer for 'I Love You Man' →
mir777:
katespencer:
robhuebel:
This is the trailer for a movie I’m in with Paul Rudd, Jason Segel, Rashida Jones, Andy Samberg, Tom Lennon and a million other people you know.
I saw a cut of it and it’s fucking hilarious. Comes out March 20.
A million other people I know, indeed. I see Sarah Burns and Greg Tuculescu in that million!!!! Swoon-balls.
i finally watched this… it...
IT'S SNOWING IN NYC
lookmom:
CERTAIN SECTIONS OF MTV NETWORKS ARE HAVING MENTAL HAPPINESS BREAKDOWNS
it’s stopped by grand central… it’s about to turn to rain… LAME.
Zombie Breakout: One Weapon, One Song, One...
A Phaser (TNG)
Abel, by The National
Roland Deschain of Gilead, Son of Steven; GUNSLINGER
my friend bucket invented this.
what are your answers?
This should go without saying
katespencer:
itsbedtime:
But all you Boston area peeps should feel free to to contact me between the 16th of December and the 8th of January. I’m going to be home (well, at my parent’s house in Needham), and not only do I want to meet you, but I’d also love it if you came by my mom’s store (where I hang out/shop/”help” 90% of the waking hours that I am home) Second Time Around. Here’s I video I...
recently
i saw topanga from boy meets world at starbucks. it bothered me that she was wearing just a brown velour jumpsuit, and not a jacket or hat or scarf, because it’s cold out.
early saturday morning i walked to the back of grassroots to find two guys GOING THROUGH MY PURSE. one had my IPOD in HIS HAND. i… flipped some serious shit. i like grabbed my ipod away and started berating the...
Watchpurns:
rubysneakers:
purns:
This is funny with or without the makeup. Now, to listen to a 19 minute version of Two Step.
i don’t have time to watch this today, i am busy comparing two versions of the cow palace show 11.09.1996 i just downloaded. the full version sounds pretty muffled, i wonder who the taper was. i am not shitting you when i say this may be the best version of ‘recently’ of...
Watchpurns:
streeter:
Here’s something weird!
I was in this goth outfit for another project and happened to be singing and talking about Dave Matthews. That seemed like a funny idea and we shot it in about 15 minutes. Pardon the horribly off-key high note in #41. You’ll hear it.
This is funny with or without the makeup. Now, to listen to a 19 minute version of Two Step.
i don’t have...
“I should like to help everyone if possible; Jew, Gentile, black man, white. We...”
– Charlie Chaplin, The Great Dictator
