December 2009
180 posts
Sherlock Holmes was an awful film.
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He may have spoken indecipherably, but this was one of the few recent big-$ action hero movies (viz. Dark Knight) whose actions scenes were more than coloured blurbs of fury — I could actually tell who was hitting whom and even understood why. That’s valuable and rare. 60 million-valuable-&-rare? Maybe.
timwilkinson:
How the fuck did it make $60M+ this weekend?
Hear,...
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This argument’s success, I think, depends on whether everything becomes digital in the next five years. Chances are: yes.
This author’s movie (“Sita Sings the Blues”) is fantastic and free. Her website offers it to ye. Of all the movies I download onto my lappy (and there are many), this is the rare one I’m gonna hold onto. & it’ll probably end up on my...
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“My name is Ned and I haven’t had a drink in 4382 days.”
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“Ann Landers is an old biddy.” … “NED!”
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Now that the internet does my choosing for me, let’s go get loaded and read Beatnik Poetry.
Family oversharing
wolfsham:
I’ve been staying with relatives for a few days in NM. I only see them once every few years. I pretty much can’t relate to them at all. They love Deal Or No Deal. They think George Lopez is a genius. They get a $40 dollar steak well done. They put A1 sauce on it. They’re overweight. They drink 18 cokes a day and drink Dr. Pepper at 8 a.m. They give my diabetic grandmother chocolate...
“Please don’t think me presumptuous if I give you the analogy of, say, a painter...”
– Telescope: A Talk with Hitchcock (1964) (via parasitologist)
Me to lifeguard co-workers: “Lolita is a great book. I just finished it last week. What a marvelous writer.” Lifeguard co-worker girl: “What’s it about?” Me: “Well, pedophilia, I guess - like...
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I guess this explains how I learned to cuss - and why it made me the straight-A stand-up guy I am today.
“I can imagine Robert Zemeckis - whose botched motion-capture animated features...”
– Some guy on the Auteurs. Awesome, eh?
“Now, you can either have the washer and dryer … or you can trade it all in for...”
– This tumblr thing is dangerous. I have already posted more often in this than I have in the last half year on my blog (and not just reblogs either - I have written way more words).
I am enthralled. My tumblarity is 24. This means nothing to me. And yet, all I can think about is: How do I get more...
Oh hai
This is scenicworld. isawitonthetelevision is passed out on the bed. and I’m bored so I figured I’d hijack his tumblr for a bit.
Fact: isawitonthetelevision’s room smells weird.