August 2009
July 2009
“In fact, the festival has only one rule: “Penetration equals disqualification.”
– In his favorable review for Humpday, Roger Ebert confuses Humpfest for HUMP. [rogerebert.com] The latter, which actually provides the premise for the film, most certainly does not have or observe this rule.
Summer makes people do crazy things like eating their babies [usa] or shooting cyclists [wyff], which makes eatching True Blood, ordering an air conditioner from Amazon, and buying shorts at American Apparel seem entirely reasonable.
“This is going to be a very annoying interview.”
– Chris Anderson is absolutely correct about at least one thing. From an interview about “the Economics of ‘Free’” [spiegel]
“the truly puzzling thing is — who ARE these people, who are so enamored of...”
– Tom Tomorrow, This Modern World [Salon]
“The Kindle DX doesn’t save newspapers; it diminishes and undercuts them—it kills...”
– Nicholson Baker gets a Kindle. [newyorker] I don’t necessarily want a Kindle, but the joy of physical newspapers is highly overrated and unnecessarily fetishized.
Oh Snap! Our Step-By-Step Guide To Getting Shot By... →
samantham:
Funny because it’s true…
It’s almost as if he read this flowchart for today’s post, “My New Obsession: Cuffed Jeans” [sartorialist]
“Most amazing is his musicality, his ability to respond to the score faithfully...”
– Joan Acocella, who traces the trajectory of Michael Jackson through his dancing. It’s one of the more clear eyed and quietly poignant retrospectives I’ve read since his death. (“Michael Jackson the dancer”, the New Yorker
“I thought this would be a real intellectual and critical movement. It seems to...”
– John Seroff, (The Tofuhut), in today’s Music Bloggers Roundtable Redux by Mike Smith - [the Morning News]. None of the best music bloggers read mp3blogs.
WatchSufjan Stevens takes his trademark preciousness to a whole new filmic level by making a hula movie to accompany the release of his BQE symphony record that I will inevitably watch. (via MBV)
WatchFlorence And The Machine - “the Dog Days are Over” as a super-literal translation to a couple cloudy days in the middle of a heatwave.
NYC Prep: Dreams Are Wishes The Heart Makes... →
In which Richard continues to make something brilliant from a mediocre “reality” series.
the Microphones — “the Moon”
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“Further investigation and experimentation have confirmed the findings of Issac...”
– NYT, changing their position on rocket travel in 1969 [pdf]. (via “Best correction ever?” at [kottke])
“It withholds and stretches like a taffy, all objectives and horrors flying past...”
– Choire Sicha reviews Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince [the Awl]. I suspect that the majority of the audience will have read the book and will spend much of the film marveling at the odd adaptational choices while the rest just wonder what’s happening and why it’s so important. But...
WatchFinally started getting into the the *Skins* Series 3 DVDs I bought at Heathrow this spring. Though I started out wondering what Sid and Cassie and Tony and the rest of the series 1/2 gang were up to, this series is starting to take off. It’s worth nothing that the show’s music supervisors almost make the OC’s look like JV (probably something about international licensing) and...
Is Atlas Sound (ft Panda Bear) the MP3 we have... →
hipsterrunoff:
[MP3] Atlas Sound Walkabout (w/ Panda Bear)
I heard that this song is possibly one of the most ‘relevant’ and ‘organically created + released’ mp3s of the year.
a rebloggable mp3 for your summer playlisting.
How to Behave: New Rules for Highly Evolved Humans... →
Note that the Guide to Modern Living predated this by years.
Roger Ebert on 500 Days of Summer: Four Stars →
tylercoates:
jeffcagle:
Is there any greater affirmation of a quality film than that?
Slow down there, hoss. He gave Crash the same amount of stars.
that, and always remember to adjust Ebert’s ratings when the heroine is exceptionally pretty, yet in an every-so-slightly accessibly quirky way. This is not to say that (500) Days of Summer isn’t at least three times better and more...
