January 2010
36 posts
THE PEOPLE'S MARIO →
The parasite capitalist oligarchs have hidden the true story for too long.
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“The fanboy phenomenon is like looking at the opera audience through a funhouse...”
– philip kennicott - “the education of an audience” (commenting on the flood of mail he received after writing a less than glowing review of “The Watchmen”) (via chaoticoncentration)
Dead on. At some point I need to write a brief article about how fan culture is now actively ruining cinema as a...
Black Box Recorder - “Child...
COLLATERAL. FUCKING. DAMAGE. - An interview with...
At seventy-seven years old Tony Stark is no longer the armored superhero known as Iron Man. After emerging in the late 60s (at the height of the conflict in Vietnam) and continuing all the way up until the first Gulf War, Tony Stark was one of the most famous (and flamboyant) superheroes the United States has ever known.
And after the recent death of the Incredible Hulk (who last fall...
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The films from Infinite Jest made real →
dinosaurparty:
This is really interesting to me, because I have a theory that James Incandenza is actually a fictionalized version of Stan VanDerBeek, who lived in New York (and Boston) for some time.
I wonder if they’ll have the ones with the people turning into giant eyeballs…
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“…I will say that making the choice to leave your comfort zone and pursuing...”
– Sound, comforting advice from a friend, re: impeding grad school life decisions.
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Entertain me. Entertain yourself. Ask me... →
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“A growing number of science students on British campuses and in sixth form...”
– The Guardian - “Academics fight rise of creationism at universities”
Good on you England, way to show the rest of the world you can be just as dumb as us.
Another point: It’s shit like this that makes me love being Jewish, especially a militantly agnostic Reform Jew (it’s...
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WatchYES. I emailed Ciprian Muresan to see if I could find a copy of his short and, like the awesome guy that he is, he sent over a Quicktime of it.
I kinda’ love this in every way possible. But then again, I have a real obsession with cute and cuddly things that engage in horribly violent acts of mischief.
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“People don’t realize that Disneyland in the early ’90s was the...”
– ALL YOUR CHILDHOOD IS BELONG TO US!
Honestly, is this a revelation to anyone?
From:
11 Most Scandalous Saved by the Bell Revelations in Screech’s Autobiography
(via: 11points)
old Disney movies had the best posters
cam3ron:
these are so funny
Don’t forget AIRBORNE - the world’s first rock n’ roll rollerblading movie.
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A Complete History of the Soviet Union through the... →
A song about the glory and eventual collapse of the world’s first workers state, as performed by Pig With the Face of a Boy.
I love this song so much.
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“Graduate school is not education. It is socialization. It is about learning to...”
– Timothy Burke (via: Idiotprogrammer)
I start hearing from grad schools (hopefully) next month. When I first began to apply I was dead set on going - on leaving Los Angeles and trying something new. But as the impeding reality of grad school begins to rub up against the fantasy I’ve...
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The International Jurassic Park Erotic Fan-Fiction... →
It’s as if 1999 travelled to the future, gained knowledge of how the internet has morphed our sexuality, took some time watching Wonder Showzen then traveled back to 1999 and made a website only to sit on it for 10 years and finally upload it in the year 2009.
And oh yeah, there’s MIDI files