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December 2007
46 posts
“Holding a dove, and letting it fly away, in the last scene was never in the script, but rather Rutger Hauer’s idea when filming the scene.”
—Blade Runner, revisited.
Oh Rutger, bad call.
Oh Rutger, bad call.
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Note to self:
Strathcona CountyWhat are the school zone speeds and times? The school zone speed limit is 30 km/h, and is in effect between the following times on school days:
8 a.m. and 9:30 a.m.
11:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m.
3 p.m. and 4:30 p.m.
McSweeney's Internet Tendency: What I Would Be Thinking About If I Were Billy Joel Driving Toward a Holiday Party Where I Knew There Was Going to Be a Piano. →
mcsweeneys.net
Because it’s Michael Ian Black and it’s that time of year again.
stereogum: You Asked For It, You Got It: Pitchfork's Top 100 of 2007 In Three .zip Files →
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instant “best of” gratification.
Knocked Up director Judd Apatow is on a mission to put penises in every movie he makes—and end America’s fear of male members.
The filmmaker placed a penis behind actor John C. Reilly’s head in an orgy scene in Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story and watched as audience members stormed out of a test screening in disgust.
“I’m gonna get a penis in every movie I do from now on. When this writers strike ends, that is my dream. It really makes me laugh in this day and age, with how psychotic our world is, that anyone is troubled by seeing any part of the human body; that is amusing to me.”
why?
When I post or reblog someone’s audio it shows up on my dashboard but not on my page.
UPDATE: problem solved. (Thanks, Told or Known)
“I started tumbling at the same time as a few of my friends and I have met lots of good people through Tumblr. If someone only reblogs or links to things, it does not give you a full picture of their personality, but many of the best tumblrs throw in enough original content that I do feel as though they are “sharing themselves” with me.”
—dalas verdugo, zetahydrae: The problem with tumblelogging
Other people’s moblog type posts and little notes are some of my favorites, they are a big part of what gives tumblr the personal feeling that dalas talks about.
Other people’s moblog type posts and little notes are some of my favorites, they are a big part of what gives tumblr the personal feeling that dalas talks about.
“I guess I, when I was in my twenties, like deep down underneath all the bullshit what I really believed was that the point of fiction was to show that the writer was really smart. And that sounds terrible to say, but I think, looking back, that’s what was going on. And I don’t think I really understood what loneliness was when I was a young man. And now I’ve got a much less clear idea of what the point of art is, but I think it’s got something to do with loneliness and something to do with setting up a conversation between human beings.”
—David Foster Wallace, from a 1996 Bookworm interview (via Kottke)
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Ike and Tina Turner - Proud Mary (Rolling on the River)
Great CCR cover.
“Earlier this year, a secularist group offered $1,000 to the highest-ranking politician in the land who would publicly proclaim no belief in God. This turned out to be Peter Stark, a Democratic congressman from the San Francisco area. He is the only congressman, of 535, who professes no belief in the Almighty.”
—The Economist, America’s atheists: Believe it or not
“The idea came to me when walking through Manhattan while listening to my iPod. When you’re walking while listening to music, something weird happens: your reality shifts drastically from everyone else’s. If the song is uplifting, you notice the majestic skyscrapers. If the song is depressing, the overflowing trashcans seem perfectly poetic. If the beat is close enough to your pace, it seduces your gait. Your contact with the sidewalk, timed to the drums, synchronizes the physical world to your private soundtrack. Your vision, bouncing at the same pace, puts you on center stage: the song, chosen by you, is affecting all the spacial senses.”
—Jakob Lodwick on the orgin of lip dubbing.
I love doing what Jakob describes so perfectly. It works especially well with sound isolating headphones. You are the star of your own private movie.
I love doing what Jakob describes so perfectly. It works especially well with sound isolating headphones. You are the star of your own private movie.
