benjoseph: My sophomore year at NYU, I was pretty in love with a girl who lived on my floor. She was competition-level gorgeous, blonde, and Southern - all weaknesses of mine when it comes to the fairer sex. I don’t want to embarass her, so we’ll call her Brittany. (Her real name - tricky, huh?) She claimed a long distance relationship with a wide receiver at a large, southern school with, disgustingly enough, both a Division I football team and a solid academic reputation. This could have been a fabrication to ward off the inevitable advances of every boy in the dorm (I didn’t say my weaknesses were unique), but it worked. My interactions with Brittany were polite, friendly, and infrequent. There were plenty of opportunities to make a fool of myself (drunkenly, soberly, or otherwise), but I managed to avoid them. What I’m trying to say here, Facebook, is please take one baby step back from my life. If you could at least change the algorithm so this “suggestion” feature doesn’t display the same damn person every time I log in, I would really, really appreciate. For personal reasons. Facebook uses a high school crush of mine to remind me, “You should be friends with her!” I thinks not, Facebook. I thinks not.

benjoseph:

My sophomore year at NYU, I was pretty in love with a girl who lived on my floor. She was competition-level gorgeous, blonde, and Southern - all weaknesses of mine when it comes to the fairer sex. I don’t want to embarass her, so we’ll call her Brittany. (Her real name - tricky, huh?)

She claimed a long distance relationship with a wide receiver at a large, southern school with, disgustingly enough, both a Division I football team and a solid academic reputation. This could have been a fabrication to ward off the inevitable advances of every boy in the dorm (I didn’t say my weaknesses were unique), but it worked. My interactions with Brittany were polite, friendly, and infrequent. There were plenty of opportunities to make a fool of myself (drunkenly, soberly, or otherwise), but I managed to avoid them.

What I’m trying to say here, Facebook, is please take one baby step back from my life. If you could at least change the algorithm so this “suggestion” feature doesn’t display the same damn person every time I log in, I would really, really appreciate. For personal reasons.

Facebook uses a high school crush of mine to remind me, “You should be friends with her!”

I thinks not, Facebook. I thinks not.

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I saw Wake in Fright at Cinefamily last night in a double feature with The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz. It was a night of honoring director Ted Kotcheff, perhaps best known for Rambo: First Blood and Weekend at Bernies.

To completely switch my train of thought: I’ve been at an impass with horror films for the last two or three years. In a weird way, I’ve been desperate to achieve—as weird as this sounds—a constant climax in horror. Something that is disturbing and brutal throughout the entire film without a break. Perhaps its’ desensitization to genre, but I was literally desperate for Antichrist and Vampire Girl vs. Frankenstein Girl to provide me with some sick sense of satisfaction. And yet, Antichrist was really a parody of horror films; Vampire Girl suffered from a script by a romance novelist that happened to be partnered with an over-the-top visual effects crew.

I even went out of my way to find Grotesque, which was banned in the UK. Disturbing? A bit, but nothing compared to the Korean film The Butcher, which is extremely hard to sit through. I’ve only managed to get through it twice.

I guess what I’m trying to say is Wake In Fright is a film that’s extremely disturbing and captures mania and paranoia in a way that may be perfect. So, that’s my main thought of the day.

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moviesinframes: The Limits Of Control, 2009 (dir. Jim Jarmusch) By Tob Waylan

moviesinframes:

The Limits Of Control, 2009 (dir. Jim Jarmusch)

By Tob Waylan

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He recently shot Special Unit, a pilot he created for Comedy Central. Titus described the show as The Shield, with midgets and handicapped actors.

On a related note, Fat City, starring Stacy Keatch, is at the New Beverly on 12/16-17.

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interweber: urlesque: Guess what, the 2009 URLIES have officially dropped!!!!!! This year they are totally votable and we’re counting on you, Tumblr friends, to head on over to our gorgeous poll and vote for your favorite viral vids, memes, etc etc. GO VOTE! (Image created by the amazing Ben Miller) This is super fun and super exciting so please go vooooooote.

interweber:

urlesque:

Guess what, the 2009 URLIES have officially dropped!!!!!! This year they are totally votable and we’re counting on you, Tumblr friends, to head on over to our gorgeous poll and vote for your favorite viral vids, memes, etc etc.

GO VOTE!

(Image created by the amazing Ben Miller)

This is super fun and super exciting so please go vooooooote.

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Things I Now Know About Orwellian Societies

  • You will eat wraps.
  • The Way/Out door is now in your therapist’s office.
  • Rover is always hiding behind hills.
  • Magneto has a metric fuck-ton of pills to give his wife.

Charlie Frost is on YouTube. So is the entire flash animation sequence from his blog.

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askfahdhsdskkd. but really, i need to work on my best jeff wells quotes of 2009. [spout] suggestions?

askfahdhsdskkd.

but really, i need to work on my best jeff wells quotes of 2009.

[spout]

suggestions?

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jonahray:

The Cold Open I made with Chris Hardwick & Felicia Day for Attack of the Show. Finished it 15 minutes before it went live on the air…whew.

this reminds me of the time i was at a trader joe’s in hollywood and i had a six-pack of sapporo in one hand and a bag of potatoes in the other. and i turned around and saw kate micucci and said, “oh my god, kate mi-chu-chi.” and then i noticed she was horrified by what probably sounded like “ogndgmkschushi!!”

i almost ran out of a trader joe’s with a six-pack and a bag of potatoes.

the moral of the story is you should just carry a guitar around to kill awkwardness.

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