December 2008
45 posts
>>R.I.P. KIM'S VIDEO →
I remember Kim’s fondly from my years in NYC. This is just really sad. Unless you’re Sicilian, and then it’s really fucking cool.
sarazucker:
smokey robinson & the miracles -...
Terence Malik's Days of Heaven →
atencio:
In its entirety, in high quality, on youtube (just hit “play all”). Enjoy.
Seeing DAYS OF HEAVEN on You Tube is like looking at the Sistine Chapel on a postcard, but it’s cool someone cared enough to upload it. Still….
HAPPY BIRTHDAY RICKY HENDERSON
(and you, too, jesus)
2 PARTS SILICONE, 3 PARTS ADDERALL AND A SMALL...
MTV PLANS 16 NEW REALITY SHOWS
“Our new shows will feature themes of affirmation and accomplishment,” says Brian Graden, prez of entertainment at MTV Networks. “Our shows are going to focus less on loud and silly hooks and more on young people proving themselves. These are themes that are consistent with the Obama generation.”
[via VARIETY]
NARCISSISM 101
In case y’all missed it, my last 6 months of my Tumblr time-wasting have finally paid off:
skeetonmischa:
And so it is, the last Silly Questions For Smart People of 2008 and I just would like to say thanks to everyone who has participated over the last couple of months. It’s been a lot of fun. In this week’s edition, we catch up with one of the bright spots on my Tumblr Dashboard, Diet...
>>WHAT TO GET FOR THAT SPECIAL VEGAN SOMEONE ON... →
>>David Foster Wallace, The Philosopher →
mollylambert:
I don’t know what’s cooler: the article or Molly Lambert’s DFW Wii avatar.
[via mollylambert; NYT]
808s AND HEARTACHE : KANYE :: TRANS : NEIL YOUNG
beauty queen. 1973. roxy music. best ever.
>>NYT: METS ADD A SETUP MAN, THE MARINERS' PUTZ →
My brother is old school. He doesn’t blog, he just mass e-mails goofy stories to his contact list (or at least to me and my middle brother). Like today, for instance….
FOR THE LADIES
Q: What did the stripper do with her asshole before going to work?
A: Dropped him off at band practice.
MY 2¢ ON THE WHOLE TARA MICHELLE THINGEE
onlymichelle:
I lied and pretended to be someone who I wasn’t. I hurt the two people I cared about the most and I changed my life in a matter of a couple minutes.
Nothing about me was a lie, but the girl you knew wasn’t I.
(This is the real Tara Michelle, except her name is only Michelle and I bet you guys now know more about me than a regular person does. I bet you guys have judged me up and...
>>IN WHICH I INADVERTENTLY START A TUMBLR FLAME... →
And apparently he’s got a posse.
Spiegelman: Gawker Tried To Break NY Labor Laws
itsbedtime:
soupsoup:
via Ian Spiegelman, former weekend editor at Gawker.
“Ug. This is fucking disgusting, Sheils. Your page views were consistently as good as anyone’s. That’s a fact. Nick Denton hates women. Um, did he fire even ONE male writer from Gawker? Of course not. I fucking quit, and everyone at Gawker should have when he let us know he was reducing our salaries retroactively and...
Grab the book closest to you. Go to page 56. Find...
“If I rent the shoemaker’s shop next door to shoot a scene in front of it, I’m supposed to take out the two guys in there who know how to run all the machines and replace them with two extras who try to act like they know what they’re doing”
Robert Altman: Interviews
(Tumblr game via cajunboy)
The ultimate personality test
until:
onemoretimewithfeeling:
natface:
bullshit:
It’s not strange to disagree about movies that are wildly different, and there are surely a few random movies that are very polarizing. What I find most interesting is which movie people consider the best movie from a particular director, as it is usually very telling and polarizing in a different way, so to this point I will propose a new...
Attention KCRW Listeners
skeetonmischa:
Jason Bentley takes over as music director of KCRW and host of Morning Becomes Electic tomorrow morning. So, KCRW is going to be a dance station full time?
From SigAlert.com: Expect major traffic in the 310 this week as an unexplained rash of fatal accidents involving Prius drivers nodding off while listening to their radios brings the Westside to its knees.