March 2010
38 posts
A Five Years Later Tribute to Mitch Hedberg →
“It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes...”
– Molière
“Within your ‘purview’? Where do you think you are, some fucking regency costume...”
– The elegance and eloquence of Malcolm Tucker
“So I was sitting in my cubicle today, and I realized, ever since I started...”
– Peter Gibbons from Office Space
Awesome film
RIP Jim Marshall →
“What I am seeking is not so much fulfilment of idle curiosity or of a hankering...”
– Joseph Knecht in Herman Hesse’s The Glass Bead Game, translated by Richard and Clara Winston
3 points
1. 5000 word report due tomorrow. As of 10:24 this morning, 296 words done. Douglas Adams and deadlines come to mind again.
2. Songs from the new Pendulum album are sounding pretty awesome so far. At times it seems like a mix of the first and second albums, which can only be a good thing. Can’t wait to see them in May.
3. 10:27: Still 296 words
UPDATE: 300 words. Totally due a reward, so...
Water. It's pretty awesome →
As usual a great collection of photos from The Big Picture
Is it a good thing I know this off by heart? →
…probably
Lemmy, the documentary →
Cannae wait to see this
Translation Party →
A genius little site: you pop a phrase in and it takes this phrase and translates it into Japanese, then back into English, back into Japanese, and so on and so forth until it reaches a translation equillibrium. Much funnier than it sounds, and at times reaches genius levels
I miss Steve Buscemi
There was a period in the 90’s/early 2000’s when it seemed I saw him in three quarters of everything that was great. Barton Fink, Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, Fargo, The Big Lebowski, Ghost World…
Shit, the last thing I saw him in was Ghost World. He’s been in films since then, but mainly things with names like Monster House. That’s 9 years without a Steve Buscemi...
Perfect solution →
Charlie Brooker's plan to save mankind →
Has my vote
A panoply of close-up portraits of 'world leaders' →
Looking at most of these people you can’t help but keep echoing in your head the old cliche: those who seek power are invariably those least fit to hold it.
Something very strange about looking into their eyes too
“Look into the eyes of a chicken and you will see real stupidity. It is a kind of...”
– Werner Herzog
Hostage: A Love Story with Zachary Quinto →
“I’ll sleep when I’m dead”
– Warren Zevon
WatchJimmy Fallon does Neil Young does Fresh Prince
Vive le Prince Charles (Cinema)
So one of my favourite things (in the world - obviously), the Prince Charles Cinema, has had a refurbishment of its downstairs screen, and I gotta say I’m somewhat disappointed. The seats aren’t as almost-lying-down as before and it all feels a little bit too…polished.
But that old-man whining aside, they did celebrate the re-opening of the screen by giving members a free...
Come on Infinity Ward! →
“My standard for verisimilitude is simple and I came to it when I started to...”
– David Simon, of course
“Every dope fiend I ever met knew what he was supposed to do when he woke up in...”
– David Simon (via aar0n) (via dropsleepdream)
Hell, almost everything David Simon says is golden.
In fact I’m gonna post another one right now…
February 2010
25 posts
