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benjoseph: My sophomore year at NYU, I was pretty in love with...

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 16:58:18 -0800

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.

I saw Wake in Fright at Cinefamily last night in a double...

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 14:41:00 -0800

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.

moviesinframes: The Limits Of Control, 2009 (dir. Jim...

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 11:48:29 -0800

moviesinframes:

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

By Tob Waylan

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Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:27:06 -0800

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

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 21:43:27 -0800

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.

interweber: urlesque: Guess what, the 2009 URLIES have...

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 15:38:01 -0800

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.

Things I Now Know About Orwellian Societies

Sun, 15 Nov 2009 21:11:32 -0800

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.

Sun, 15 Nov 2009 17:26:06 -0800

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

askfahdhsdskkd. but really, i need to work on my best jeff wells...

Sat, 14 Nov 2009 11:50:12 -0800

askfahdhsdskkd.

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

[spout]

suggestions?

jonahray: The Cold Open I made with Chris Hardwick &...

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 19:50:32 -0800

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.

No wonder Zombies are always popping up. Everyone’s...

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 16:12:00 -0800

No wonder Zombies are always popping up.

Everyone’s already in Hell!

Q: So… I’m to believe that outlasting the apocalypse cures bedwetting? A: Well, for that girl, it did!

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 16:35:00 -0800

Q: So… I’m to believe that outlasting the apocalypse cures bedwetting? A: Well, for that girl, it did!

“I’m a man on a mission.”

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 12:26:27 -0800

“I’m a man on a mission.”

Did someone say GALLOWS HUMOR WEDNESDAY? I think someone did!

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 13:24:46 -0800

Did someone say GALLOWS HUMOR WEDNESDAY?

I think someone did!

“Any obits?” “Yeah, that Comic Con founder...

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 15:08:00 -0800

“Any obits?”

“Yeah, that Comic Con founder died last week.”

“Oh. Run the AP one, but change a graph so it looks new.”

-how i believe the editorial meeting went for this.

"Well, the underwater stuff is pretty real because, you know, there’s no air."

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 10:28:55 -0800

“Well, the underwater stuff is pretty real because, you know, there’s no air.”

- John Cuscak on 2012 [nymag]

the basic things are the best.

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 09:51:38 -0800

the basic things are the best.

We’ll never tell.

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 14:30:02 -0800

We’ll never tell.

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Fri, 06 Nov 2009 14:28:03 -0800

Someone got hacked.

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 14:27:41 -0800

Someone got hacked.