May 2008
and yet i still insist on doing so, and continue...
kfan: The internet is way better if you never read the comments.
Uh oh, Stereogum commenters have been loosed on my... →
(via barthel) well, it could be worse, mike. it could be brooklyn vegan commenters.
Of Course, The Biggest Question In My Mind...
perpetua: What happened to Daniel? word. (no. 2 for me is “god, how hot is sawyer,” but that’s something of a constant.)
oh my god why am i still reading this
“Poor little insecure attention whores CANNOT FUCKING STAND the idea of sexually empowered, smart, funny, hot women taking over the world, one goddamn stiletto at a time. It’s fucking transparent and awful.” seriously? seriously?? isn’t the whole cheery culmination of the sex and the city movie centered around carrie getting a man and pinning him down? JESUS CHRIST SO MUCH...
shut up, commenters
from some jezebel commenter (i know, i know, surely i have 8000 better things to do): “I’ve certainly never noticed such an explosive reaction to a movie featuring an all-male cast that sucked. You gotta wonder why a movie with 4 women makes people so angry.” i mean … it’s just … there are no words. so much stupid in so little space! it couldn’t be the...
Underrated movies (sorry, I try not to use the...
Re-blog this and list three movies you think are underrated (via whiskeyandgoatsmilk): Jackie Brown!! PCU Dogma (nb not saying it isn’t flawed)
i will say this, though.
i’ve definitely felt this: I didn’t leave my apartment unless I absolutely had to, and because I had the option of working from home, I rarely had to. But while my actual participation in life shrank down to a bare minimum, I still responded to hundreds of e-mail messages and kept up a stream of instant-messenger conversations while I wrote. Depending on how you looked at it, I either had no...
from the file of comments i (perhaps wisely)...
re the self-referentiality of new york media — the placement of this article on the nyt mag’s cover (much moreso than the gawker article being on nym’s cover last autumn, since the nytm has much larger pretensions about being a national publication) is very similar to the outsized praise that ‘bonfire of the vanities’ got back in the day — the rationale behind...
exercises in missing the point.
those commenters who are asking the nyt editors “why did you publish this story??” while adding to the 43-comments-in-17-minutes (and counting!) three-alarm fire: you do realize that you answered your own question the second you hit “submit,” right?
“In the 2.0 world, if a person sees a difference between Page Six Mag and the NYT...”
– Ian Spiegelman OTM, FTW, etc., etc.
kfan: “Oh Canada” performed by Andrew Diaryland....
you guys.
if this back-page ad on the l magazine is to be believed, american apparel is trying to bring the acid wash back. i know it was probably kind of inevitable, but arrgh.
"get well soon, asshole!"
i just got embarrassed *for* jon miller, thanks to joe morgan saying that rick sutcliffe’s return to broadcasting from cancer would be good because it meant that sutcliffe could get back to work and not have to have his shifts covered. jesus, i wasn’t even that callous when i was working the 6 p.m.-4 a.m. shift.
too little, too late, too much of a profit motive....
1) “A Brighter Side Of High Prices,” today’s business section. “But some entrepreneurs and analysts — recognizing that relative price increases in specific goods always encourage innovators to find ways around the problem — say they see an opportunity for creative solutions. “’When something becomes dear, you invent around it as much as you can,’ says David...
pop!
“Four years ago, she bought her first condo in a glassy new Miami tower when the building was filling up. Now nearly one in six residents in the 43-story building is battling foreclosure and their contributions to the building association are shrinking. Each of the remaining owners has had to chip in an extra $1,000 assessment and $50 more a month for cable and Internet. That is on top of...
the missing link: the huge parcel of land in the...
1) “Mr. Arroyo bowls at the alley five days a week, a cut back from what was once a daily regimen. ‘It bothers me a lot that it’s closing,’ he said. ‘Where am I going to go?’ … No one involved with the closing would discuss the matter in detail. But John LaSpina, who operates bowling alleys elsewhere in the metropolitan area and who unsuccessfully negotiated...
things i do not care about: a running list.
2. kissing your particular ass.
“We need your help to rename the performance space formerly known as Galapagos.
...”
– Name Our Space Contest! (via therichgirlsareweeping) Obviously, they should name it Chickpea.
Trends in Music Distribution - Portfolio.com →
therichgirlsareweeping: In an essay that seems to go nowhere — fast, Kevin Maney’s short-sightedness is ridiculous. How, exactly, are labels going to grow artists who can then get “sponsorships” or sell hundred-dollar concert tickets. Supposedly, Myspace and blogs and music-focused social networking sites will do that for us, right? But in a day and age when bands are chewed up and swallowed...
“The struggling network unveiled its new fall mantra: “The CW is OMG TV!”
– Upfronts: The CW says OMG! (via thisisareallybadidea) Oh, FFS.
Oh, Fox.
“[Fox] is set to announce ‘Secret Millionaire,’ a new series in which wealthy benefactors go undercover in impoverished neighborhoods. For about 10 days, a multimillionaire meets financially destitute locals and experiences what it’s like to live on a meager budget. At the show’s conclusion, the millionaire reveals his true identity to the community and gives a...
internet, you are letting me down.
How has no one made a Spaceballs tribute video set to “No Air” yet?
cranky half-formed thoughts.
the ‘1000 true fans’ model only works if said 1000 ‘true’ fans are also well-off enough to spend $100/year on an artist’s creative output; thus it rewards that same sort of creative output that appeals to the well-off on a larger scale, because the $100 x $100 x $100 ad infinitum becomes too much for the majority of people to handle on their own. (what’s the...
Program alert →
The Law & Order episode “Matrimony” is on right now. It’s one of my top five episodes of the show ever easily, thanks to the character of Velma Darcy, who introduced me to the phrase “dumb as a box of hair.”
Um, dude? I think you mean the "best reality show... →
Q: What’s the worst reality show idea you’ve ever heard? Darnell: I was pitched “‘Big Brother’ with puppets” — so that half the “Big Brother” people are human and they’re competing against puppets. Week after week, the audience either votes a human out or a puppet.Mind you, this is the guy who brought you “Temptation Island”...
the 125 places to have a beer before you die. →
i’ve been to 9, 12, 24, 34, 43, 70, 76, 84, 91, 102, 104, and 110. (although i think i drank martinis at city tavern. it was a phase.)
Yesterday’s Movie Trailer Reactions
OMG. JOSH. I SPENT ALL WEEKEND TRYING TO REMEMBER WHAT TRAILER WAS THE FIRST IN THE PRE-IRON MAN REEL. You have seriously made my day. And yeah, fuck this guy, although I wish I lived near a drive-in so I could go see whatever movie this is there. (His movies are really good at drive-ins.) fireland: The Happening J: [upon seeing “M. Night Shyamalan*”] Fuck this guy. J: [notices with smug...
the three fortunes i found today while going...
1. Consider gain and loss, but never be greedy and everything will be all right. 2. Patience is the best remedy for every trouble. 3. Among the lucky, you are the chosen one. the number 10 shows up on two of them; the other one has the number 20 on it, which i’m going to take as a match what with the adding and all. never let it be said that i don’t strain for themes!
well, I might as well keep going with this then →
fewerwords: In the April issue of Spin, which arrived at the apartment unbidden and which I was reading on the train yesterday because I didn’t want anything that would tax my brain too heavily, there is an interview with Kim Deal. It is a good interview, with plenty of Kim-isms and a nice photo retrospective collage on the facing page. This is the lede, in 24-point font: After 20 years, Kim...
a night at the movies.
iron man: completely absorbing. rbt downey jr possibly my favorite human hero in a while (nb have not seen bale take on batman yet). didn’t realize the stan lee cameo was stan lee until the credits rolled. also, the new ghostface song sounds pretty decent. mike myers movie in which he basically plays austin powers with an indian accent (trailer): mostly i’m impressed that he managed...
I'm Bringing Meat Packing Pack
brianvan: caro: Brass Monkey is semi-tolerable sometimes… Their location is awful, but I do like that place. Unfortunately no one ever suggests it because it’s so far out-of-the-way. Wish it were closer to 8th Ave somehow… but if it were closer, wouldn’t the “undesirable” quotient be higher? (that said, i do go there relatively often, which is not really *that* often...
upbeat, so sweet
lately i have really been into using the “:D” smiley face. it’s so goofy!
