October 2010
33 posts
“Blah blah blah Nancy Meyers.”
– Every dude at this midnight show of The Social Network. Not.
September 2010
32 posts
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You can tell how serious I am about reading something by the orientation lock setting on my iPad.
High fidelity
There’s something about watching streaming video resolve—crude blocks of color, then more and more pixels, till it’s motion and verity—that feels a little bit like answered prayers.
The narcissism of small differences →
The narcissism of small differences is a term coined by Sigmund Freud in 1917, based on the earlier work of British anthropologist Ernest Crawley. The term describes the manner in which our negative feelings are sometimes directed at people who resemble us, while we take pride in the “small differences” that distinguish us from them.
[thanks, g]
Five Songs That Changed You For Good
tesslynch:
I’m curious.
Mine are, in no particular order:
Willie Nelson, “September Song,” off of Stardust
Nelly, “#1,” from Nellyville, for this I will not apologize
Patsy Cline, “I Fall to Pieces,” from Showcase
Modest Mouse, “Gravity Rides Everything,” from The Moon & Antarctica
Electric Light Orchestra, “Telephone Line,” off of A New World Record
So?
The Velvet Underground,...
“I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.”
– Duke Ellington
There isn’t a perfectly ambient sun-choked afternoon that can’t be improved by overhearing someone practice Dvořák’s Seventh Humoresque.
I never realized how badly I wanted to see Miss Piggy smooshed to death by a horse until I thought about it.
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Zac Efron Grows a Beard →
(Previously.)
M: Is there anything filthier than the public restrooms at Coney Island?
R: I don't know. The birthing pools at Lilith Fair?
The only thing more embarrassing than using a toy camera app on your iPhone—which I unabashedly do—is using the wrong toy camera app on your iPhone.
tinytruths:
Before imparting criticism, ask yourself:
Is it true?
Is it beneficial?
Is this the right time and place?
Am I the right person to be giving this feedback?
I find myself thinking about this a lot lately.
C: Oh look! The Ricky Gervais podcast changed its picture on iTunes!
R: That's the most boring thing you've ever said to me.
C____ just got back from Burning Man. He’s trying to explain Burning Man to me. He asks me if I’ve ever played Little Big Planet. I haven’t. The discussion shifts to how long the Man’s been Burning. He says since the eighties. We laugh uncontrollably trying to picture what that must’ve looked like during the Spy/Reagan/Dynasty era.
Ridley Scott Talks ʻAlienʼ Prequel →
“The film will be really tough, really nasty,” he notes. “It’s the dark side of the moon. We are talking about gods and engineers. Engineers of space. And were the aliens designed as a form of biological warfare? Or biology that would go in and clean up a planet?”
Boner.
“Jim’s raised the bar and I’ve got to jump to it,” he says, in a friendly...
“Inspiration may be a form of superconsciousness, or perhaps of...”
– Aaron Copland
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