April 2011
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March 2011
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I’m such a real R&B fan that I still call them “race records.”
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“Aaron Sorkin gave bad advice on Angry Birds 11-4. The key is NOT not to use the green bird as a boomerang - it’s to not use the green guy full-stop. you just need to aim the first bird (the big red one) at the helmet of the nearest pig. You get it exactly right, the bird goes through, takes out the tower, killing all the rest of the pigs. You do that, you don’t need the green...
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Catching up with some talky-talky listening: This WTF Podcast with Stephen Tobolowsky is so good it’s almost spiritual.
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Okay! I give up! I will love this new Pains of Being Pure at Heart album, too.
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Art.
I hope the Good Morning America reporter who tackled the Rebecca Black story gives will.i.am at least as much shit about “Big Fat Bass.” Also, about being will.i.am.
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Getting tired of a world where thirteen-year-olds and crackhead celebrities are the driving force behind cultural discussion.
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“What’s the use of being a writer if you can’t irritate a great many people?” - Norman Mailer
“They say that I have no hits and I’m difficult to work with,” Mr. Waits said as he accepted the award, “and they say that like it’s a bad thing.” He added, “Songs are really just interesting things to be doing with the air.”
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“I think we’re all surprised we’re all still alive.” - Craig Ferguson on himself and his musical guest, ’70s prog farts Stackridge.
By my standards Super is way, way better than Kick-Ass because the latter was...
– Wells!!! (via goldenfiddle)
Slither is one of the great, unheralded horror comedies of the last decade.
Also, I’ll see most anything with Nathan Fillion in it.
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Can’t fathom a circumstance where I’d rather hear Julian Casablancas than Rick Froberg.
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And now, a scene from the 2007 made-for-Syfy Channel movie Ice Spiders:
Dr. April Sommers (as played by former Melrose Place actress Vanessa Williams): “A few years ago, the Department of Defense confiscated the fossilized remains of a prehistoric arachnae they found in Afghanistan. They sent the remains to us for further study.”
Dan “Dash” Dashiell (as played by...
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The Ghost Writer
Fantastic film, finally something from last year I can say I liked without reservation. There’s so much Polanski in this, not just the recognizable echoes of The Tenant and Frantic or his standard fears of paranoia and awkward powerlessness. The espionage part could only matter to non-Americans (Brits - we consider you one of our colonies, now, anyway); “thrills” are downplayed...
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“ppl wil buy the cd for sure.. im buying it five times just to beat gagas.. shit.. actually we should nto buy the cd until gagas album comes out.. that would show the bitch whos boss”
Rooting interests will save the recording industry! Go Packers!
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