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The Thrilling and Then Sad Trumpet
01.07.11 | Permalink | 3 commentsSentiment, being nothing but a fleeting bubble in an effervescent heart, is often best articulated by art. That’s all art is good for anyway, I’m sure. And one of the best feelings in the world is to see the people you love in your life succeed and be recognized for exactly what is inside of [...]
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You’re So Smaht
10.21.10 | Permalink | 3 commentsI have a lot to say about this article subtitled, “Roger Ebert and the Decline of Film Criticism,” but it all boils down to this: What is genius? What makes a person truly valuable and luminous in this world? For me, genius is at heart a generosity. It is the mind that can process a [...]
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Danny Boys
LEGITIMATELY THE FUNNIEST THING IN THE WORLD Also, while you watch please cast your mind to that scene in Miller’s Crossing.
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I Am In Comedy Hell and You Have Put Me There
I wonder what I will do with myself now. I’d like to avoid mediocrity if I can. Misty felt that life was a battle. You had to fight and think. You had to hack your way through life with your intelligence as a machete cutting down what obstacles you could. You were born knowing nothing: [...]
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Monkees vs. Beatles
I’m amused that nobody seems at all to hear the voiceover commenting on manufactured vs. organic intrigue. I think that says it all about what passes for style these days, doesn’t it. (via Beach Black)
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You’re So Cool. You’re So Cool. You’re So Cool.
People always give me tons of shit for being a snob. Not snob like they love me at the country club, but snob like I’ll call you an animal when you’ve got more than 2 tbs. of ketchup on the sidelines of your dinner plate. Meanwhile, I’ve got like “The Idiot’s Guide to the Middle [...]
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Sad Clowns
I have this thing for Peter Sellers. I mean who, with any taste at all, does not share this thing? Sellers was the king of self-erasure. He would become entirely who he was directed to be for his audience. When the audience was not sufficiently large enough–say, family, women, his children, friends–he would feel he [...]
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Aren’t People Amazing?
06.18.09 | Permalink | 2 commentsAn Iranian woman in support of Mousavi (more here). It reminds me of the painting which has become stock imagery in my brain when facing struggle. Also, it’s on the cover of a Melvin’s record.
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Put It All Together and What Do Ya Got?
From over the last few days, a few passages to make us think: But I think we also can consider alternative paradigms of activism that are not based on self-interest. Myself, I realise, am involved in social activism not primarily because I’m fighting for my rights and I want this and I want that, but [...]
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Sweet Tat, Brah
Barbie just got Ken’s name tattooed on her ass. What’s amazing is that Barbie has been cultivated as a “woman” who is so fucking fabulous, with a CV so epic it might rival the bible in length, that her joi de vivre was never understood to be that tagalong eunuch she had on the side. [...]
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Great Comedy Is Aching Tragedy
Modern American malaise is sort of all about the world being your oyster, and deeply believing you’re entitled to that oyster, and then not having a knife to shuck that shit open and getting totally fucking furious and smashing it against the nearest rock a few thousand times until you’ve pulverized the precious pearl inside [...]
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Situ, Is That You?
Clearly we’ve just witnessed the apex of Youtube. Nick felt moved to remind me that this is “what [my] ancestors had to deal with. It’s like beirut in that car.” However Nick, I believe that my family is actually from Damour. Get it right or pay the price. (via boing boing)
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Recreational Terror
It’s almost hack, but you know what I just can’t get off my mind? The psychological terror of unleashing a small swarm of mosquitoes in a room full of superrich goons at a tech conference. How mother fucking punk is Bill Gates? If authenticity holds even a sparkle of possibility in this world, undercover punks [...]
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