August 2008
A list
Star Wars: A New Hope
Super Smash Bros.
Dodgeball
Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back
Music video for Dance, Dance by Fall Out Boy
The Dogma 95 style of film-making
Dogma (film)
From Dusk ‘Till Dawn
Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure
Wet Hot American Summer
Lord of the Rings
Tenacious D & The Pick of Destiny
The Simpsons
Ballroom Blitz
Mortal Kombat
Gladiators
“Watch some gay porn instead. Seriously. There’s more plot and surprises,...”
– My favorite IMDB review of Disaster Movie (via)
Australian pastor faked cancer to hide addiction... →
So Australian.
“Ms. Palin appears to have traveled very little outside the United States. In...”
– NYT (via pile)
“Palin holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Idaho, where she also minored in political science. She married Todd Palin, her boyfriend since high school, on August 29, 1988. She then briefly worked as a sports reporter for local Anchorage television stations...
Entertainment Industry
I hate that the entertainment industry is corrupting the meaning of certain words. For example, today I was searching for some cougar porn, but all I got were pictures of naked old ladies!
Lesson in demographics
During Media today, we were discussing a scene from Bowling for Columbine where the COPS Producer was making it out that people that work in corporate environments can’t be black people (in one student’s opinion). Sarcastically, I replied:
“Duh, there’s a reason they call it White Collar”
Guess how many people in the class knew what “white collar” meant?...
Video games suck.
Buying videogames seems like such horseshit to me. Why am I paying $100 for a very limited, very constrained experience? Also, given my consderable proficiency and the general lack of content, I complete the experience in ~4 hours. I’m paying $25 an hour for something I will probably never use again.
This, I think, is why I like MMO’s so much. I can see the value. It feels like...
The Internet's Biggest Security Hole Exposed -... →
Even worse than the DNS vulnerability. That was sooo last month.
“Blogging is like masturbating into a mirror while you videotape yourself so you...”
– Lewis Black (via glass) (via jimray) (via merlin) This is why I started blogging. Less (physical) mess.
Top Reddit user responsible for US mortgage crisis →
No, really.
Stefan Sagmeister, everybody
Complaining is silly. Either act or forget.
Thinking life will be better in the future is stupid. I have to live now.
Being not truthful works against me.
Helping other people helps me.
Organizing a charity group is surprisingly easy.
Everything I do always comes back to me.
Drugs feel great in the beginning and become a drag later on.
Over time I get used to everything and start taking if...
“I can see something else, too,” he said. “I can see that there’s no way I came...”
– No, but you DID come from an invisible man with a zombie Jew for a son, right? You fucking ignorant bastard. A Teacher On The Front Line As Faith and Science Clash
This just in: Kids use the internet - NYT →
via Gawker
“You need a corpse for the newspaper, so you take a bunch of marines to get one....”
– From Dexter Filkins’ new book
10 Things I Would Do To Be BFF's with Molly...
1. Assault a homeless man
2. Rob a Rite-Aid
3. Build a pillow fort
4. Start smoking, and then we could quit together
5. Become gay
6. Have radical plastic surgery to switch faces with James Franco a la Face/Off
7. Fix her CrackBerry
8. Move to LA
9. Build a castle out of bubble wrap
10. Watch every Defamer To-Do over nine thousand times
1 tag
Four dead in Bonham Carter family tragedy →
It was Voldemort.
Kokoda
I saw the Australian film “Kokoda” last night, about a group of soldiers and their skirmish against the invading Japanese during World War 2. So you don’t have to watch it, let me summarise.
“Garr urghh urghh YARYARYAR” Gun shots, fighting “BLOODY JAPS” More gun shots, running. Guy stabbed in face. Another guy decapitated. Running through forest...
muxtape:
No artists or labels have complained. The site is not closed indefinitely. Stay tuned.
Beta users of Muxtape For Bands: you are unaffected by this outage.
Phew!
“It’s no good pretending that any relationship has a future if your record...”
– Rob, High Fidelity. While my Mac is out of commission I’ll be posting less.
Harry Potter VI pushed back to July 17, 2009 →
Stupid move for a stupid movie.
My MacBook's hard drive
died last night. Looks like I’m going to the Genius Bar over the weekend, as if I didn’t have enough to do.
“Christian Bale, I believe whilst in a restaurant, rolled his eyes at the...”
– Russell Brand is a legend
“Former CableACE Award nominee Jenna Maroney stars as southern lawyer Constance...”
– Movies that should ACTUALLY be made. (via extrafirmhold)
The Rural Juror would be a box-office hit.
Nick Douglas no longer writing the digg bait for... →
Oh my.
Going to hell
Male Friend: Unfortunately I'm the only person I know that isn't absolutely repulsed by threesomes
Jake: I'd have a threesome with you
MF: Sweet
Jake: Now we just need a victim
MF: Lol
Jake: I mean... willing female participant
MF: We'll just forge the consent form
Jake: Good idea
MF: They have those at the head office at the primary schools anyway.....
“DUDE lol the awkward rape is epic”
– Franic, hopefully talking about Awkward Rap.
Watchpile:
This might be my favorite yet.
Sounds like something Morris Minor and the Majors would sing. Amir is the king of awkward.
You [reblog] poorly
maura:
rodtownsend:
youngmanhattanite:
Nick Douglas taking sides with Blakeley and against Rex.
I use the “via” tag. It’s an honest statement of where I found the material. It takes about 15 seconds to type.
“Look at [this great thing] that a bunch of people are talking about and which I am now bring to you now.”
“A lot of people have been chattering about [this great thing] and having...
“I give my friends a lot of shit, but whenever I’m going through a really...”
– Putting this in big letters, because it’s especially important.
Twitter Post
Reading Avery Edison’s blog today (side note: Avery Edison is the hottest transgendered person I’ve ever seen, and I’ve seen a lot of them, I vacay’d in Thailand), I saw this quote about how she comes up with Twitter gold.
“The system is pretty simple - I think of a joke, I write it in. Once that joke is used in a tweet, I delete it from the file.”
Most of...
Vista is totally fucked - Neowin →
“There is very little that Microsoft can do to fix the problems. These attacks work differently than other security exploits, as they aren’t based on any new Windows vulnerabilities, but instead take advantage of the way Microsoft chose to guard Vista’s fundamental architecture.”
Funny metaphors used in high school essays →
aidenpyne:
ali-with-an-i:
This is worth a look.
My personal favourite: 7. He was as tall as a six-foot, three-inch tree.
My personal Fav is: 6. Her vocabulary was as bad as, like, whatever.
HALF OF THESE ARE SIMILES. HOW DID THESE “TEACHERS” GRADUATE?
Bernie Mac dies at age 50 →
Complications with pneumonia. What a shame.
Nick Gray: are you watching the Opening Ceremony
Zach: yep. who are you rooting for? Georgia or Russia?
Nick Gray: Georgia!!!! go Dawgs
(via secretenemyhideout.com (Tumblr needs a better way to reblog chats))
Montauk Hoax - Fimoculous →
So it wasn’t real. I’m surprised I’m not violently outraged or something, right now I’m just kind of apathetic to the whole thing. “Splinterheads” sounds dumb, so even though the stunt may have garnered publicity for the film, I doubt it got anybody psyched to see it.
“I almost cried doing research for [the conflict in Tibet]”
– Jaz. I wish more kids (and more of my friends, in particular), were this passionate about world affairs.
How I Imagined the Christian Bale Alleged Assault... →
