October 2009
jonze vs. vice →
vicemag:
We interviewed our friend, Spike Jonze, about his new film, Where the Wild Things Are. Is there anyone not super fucking excited about this movie?!
Read the entire interview here!
yes, VICE, you are characterizing my levels of excitement pretty correctly. I am really hoping that it doesn’t disappoint me when I see it NEXT WEEK. (via youngmanhattanite)
“I don’t mean to suggest that Mad Men should commit to the Dogme-style code...”
– quiet laugh line from Patrick Radden Keefe’s entry in this week’s Mad Men TVclub [slate]
Apple Rehires a Developer of Its Newton Tablet... →
iPhone has pretty much squelched any long lingering feelings of *missing* Newton, but this is still kind of neat.
September 2009
tylercoates:
God Help The Girl - “Perfection As...
New Clues to Sex Anomalies in How Y Chromosomes...
“The first words ever spoken, so fable holds, were a palindrome and an introduction: ‘Madam, I’m Adam.’” [nyt] Pretty fascinating science for an article that opens with an old joke.
tylercoates:
Patrick Swayze - “She’s Like The...
“One millionaire was mildly mean to another millionaire. … And the head of...”
– Choire Sicha wants us to leave Kanye alone. [the Daily Beast]
“I don’t care about art or politics – I am just an ordinary girl who liked being...”
– Blur’s ‘Crazy Beat’ Banksy mural destroyed in error by Hackney Council | News | [NME.COM] (via rickwebb) Frankly, I’m shocked that the workers stopped painting over it [bbc] and that the council now seems mildly conciliatory (following their original “no distinction between graffiti...
Kings Of Convenience Played Bowery Ballroom, Feist... →
the appearance of Feist from the balcony only heightens my jealousy toward those who got to see this show.
stuffhipstershate: Fluorescent Lights →
Of all of the things that I identified with in Infinite Jest, a horror of overhead and fluorescent lights is near the very top of the list. They’re a flickering menace, and as far as I’m concerned need to be stopped.
“Does my life ‘make more sense’ now that PitchforkMedia.coms have reviewed the...”
– Carles [hipsterrunoff], reacting to the important announcement that the Beatles now have a place in the Pitchfork universe. (See also “Chuck Klosterman Repeats The Beatles” [avclub], which does have at least one or two rebloggable jokes.)
“Starfucker Looking for a New Name”
– they’re talking the one last tour before retiring the profanity in favor of something more commercial-friendly. [sound on the sound]
