October 2010
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champagne supernova
Ben folds five
ben folds five - champagne supernova
been on a real 1997 kick lately.
a list of blockbuster (or well known) movies i've never seen
- jurassic park (any)
- independence day
- pirates of the caribbean (any)
- the matrix (any)
- armageddon
- avatar
- twister
- tremors
- rush hour (any)
- the wizard of oz
- beauty and the beast
- ghost
- transformers (any)
- inception
- blade runner
- willy wonka (any variety)
- young frankenstein
- x-men (any)
- mission(s):impossible
- the green mile
- the bourne anything
- nightmare before christmas
- beetlejuice (not all the way. made it maybe 15 minutes)
- heat
- brazil
- being there
- kill bill (either)
- shrek (any)
- evil dead (any)
not comprehensive, merely the ones i get asked about the most often. i could see myself watching maybe 3 of these. the others are there for a reason.
my brief time at the loring dunn bros. (part 2)
- after completing the mammoth 2.5 hour sit-down w/the onion, the dunn's employees began closing shop. an astronomy group (really?) grabbed their belongings and started to head out. one remained. he had a 1 quart jug of orange juice*, and was promising to "be just a second." after my new friend rod excused himself to the men's room, i stood waiting by the door. the interview had ended rather abruptly with the closing ceremonies, and i thought i'd shake a hand and say thanks for the time.
- orange juice: (standing at the door) hey, do you have a ride?
- me: um, no, i ... i took the bus, thank you though.
- orange juice: why are you thanking me, i'm the one looking for a ride.
- somewhat dumbfounded, i realized in his awkwardly phrased query "ride" meant "car", and by asking if i had one, he was asking ME for a ride ... not if I needed one; which in retrospect, makes much more sense.
- orange juice: hey, you got a ride?
- rod: (returning from the men's room) no, i live on the other side of the park.
- orange juice: oh, i'm looking for a ride home.
- rod: no, i live on the other side of the park.
- orange juice: where are you going? i need a ride home.
- me: to the bus, man, damn.
- orange juice: oh, cuz i'm...
- me: looking for a ride home, yes, we've established that. i took the bus.
- orange juice: cuz i can't (unintelligible gibberish for a sentence and a half), motherfuckin' ride HOME.
- scene.
- *and vodka. lots.
my brief time at the loring dunn bros. (part 1)
- i arrived a few minutes early for a scheduled interview with a fellow from the onion av club. we'd never met, so every person in the place was potentially "rod". a man walked in, looked right at me, fetched a very small coffee, then sat opposite me in a leather chair.
- me: are you rod?
- not rod: yeah, hey. i know you from somewhere. where do i know you from?
- me: um, matthew, we're doing an interview tonight.
- not rod: oh. huh?
- me: you're not rod, are you?
- not rod: no, ryan. sorry, i thought you said ryan.
- me: nope, rod.
- not rod: i'm sorry, i ... i'm sorry (leaves).
- i totally could have gotten laid.
“Joy Division” Book from Rizzoli | Selectism.com →
selectism.com
added to the list.
“Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple years you make stuff, it’s just not that good. It’s trying to be good, it has potential, but it’s not. But your taste, the thing that got you into the game, is still killer. And your taste is why your work disappoints you. A lot of people never get past this phase, they quit. Most people I know who do interesting, creative work went through years of this. We know our work doesn’t have this special thing that we want it to have. We all go through this. And if you are just starting out or you are still in this phase, you gotta know its normal and the most important thing you can do is do a lot of work. Put yourself on a deadline so that every week you will finish one story. It is only by going through a volume of work that you will close that gap, and your work will be as good as your ambitions. And I took longer to figure out how to do this than anyone I’ve ever met. It’s gonna take awhile. It’s normal to take awhile. You’ve just gotta fight your way through.”
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Ira Glass (via Rabbit Write’s interview on Gala Darling)
this was totally needed today.
With or Without You
U2
for @pinswithfury | whenever i need a little uplift, i hit this. standing there after a very long day, enduring the worst kind of asshole concert-goers i’ve ever encountered, hours and hours on our feet … my best friend next to me … “come on now soldier field, sing your heart out”. happy chills every time.
possible txt chat transcript
- bf: hey, here's my wang. (wang photo)
- js: um, i'm not your wife.
- bf: hilarious, here's another one. (wang photo #2)
- js: seriously, i am not your wife.
- bf: man these crocs are supes comfy. thanks again for putting them in my stocking last christmas, baby. best stocking stuffer, EVAR!
- js: ...
- bf: hey, here's my wang. (wang photo #3)
- aaaaaand scene.
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lost (in translation)
- me: hey dad, when you come out on tuesday, could you bring mom's large stock pot?
- dad: um ... ok, sure. oblong, right?
- me: no, it's like her other stainless pots, just larger.
- dad: i don't know what you mean.
- me: it looks just like her other pots and pans, but it's larger. she uses it for large volume mashed potatoes...
- dad: large crock pot.
- me: no.
- dad: large crock pot.
- me: no, large STOCK pot.
- dad: crock pot?
- me: stock, S-T-O-C-K pot. stock pot.
- dad: what's a stock pot?
- me: to make stock.
- dad: i don't know what that is.
- me: mom does.
- dad: (hands phone to mother, mutters) large sock pot
- mom: hi.
- me: large stock pot.
- mom: yes, i'll send it along.
“The American myth that the United States promotes democracy and acts for the interests of others is false. It has acted to overthrow democratically elected governments in Iran, Indonesia, Chile and Guatemala. In just this century it has supported coups or attempted coups in Venezuela, Haiti and Honduras. In Honduras it officially opposed the coup but did not enact the financial restrictions that would have brought the coup to an end. It has acted in still other countries to either stop elections or to make sure that they are fraudulent. Included is the slaughter of millions and millions of people either by the military itself or its proxies. This also God does not forget. In the United States itself, on the national level, the campaign finance system is one of great corruption. Corporations and other powerful interests can literally buy people in congress and a president through massive campaign donations. What is best for the majority of people is thwarted so the interests of the powerful can be served. This has led to the reality of massive poverty in this country and the degradation of millions. It is a system of legal bribery.”
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The Myth of God and the Myth of America (via azspot)
I disagree with a fair bit of the original article, but this quote (save for the bit about God having a memory) contains some Big Time Truth, imho.
(via danielholter)
this makes me sad in a way that only true, matter-of-fact statements can.
Christine O'Donnell said China plotting to take over US →
news.yahoo.com
Via AP:
“Republican Senate nominee Christine O’Donnell of Delaware said in a 2006 debate that China was plotting to take over America and claimed to have classified information about the country that she couldn’t divulge.
She said China had a ‘carefully thought out and strategic plan to take over America’ and accused one opponent of appeasement for suggesting that the two countries were economically dependent and should find a way to be allies.
‘That doesn’t work,’ she said. ‘There’s much I want to say. I wish I wasn’t privy to some of the classified information that I am privy to.’
‘A country that forces women to have abortions and mandates that you can only have one child and will not allow you the freedom to read the Bible, you think they can be our friend?’ she asked. ‘We have to look at our history and realize that if they pretend to be our friend it’s because they’ve got something up their sleeve.’”
I’ll stop posting about Christine O’Donnell when she stops being crazy.
but it’s totally cool to let them fund our wars and own us financially. i cannot think of one reason why the GOP ever wins an election aside from our wanton stupidity.
