May 2010
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this is where i was on friday night.
happy mother’s day. i’m off in CT celebrating my last non-crazed day of the next 2 weeks.
this blog is about to get a lot more “Proposals”-centric. brace yourself.
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Film Review: Iron Man 2
Iron Man 2 (dir. Jon Favreau).
7.4
jon favreau (my birthday buddy) knows as well as i do that iron man 2’s success (or lack thereof) has not a mite to do with the fact that it could challenge the record for biggest opening weekend ever, but instead is solely dependent upon my opinion. so let’s do this.
things i liked:
- scarlett johansson’s hair. i wanted to dream in it.
-...
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good morning. here’s neko case + karate.
and to answer the obvious question, yes, this new pornographers’ video (for some bullshit off their new album) is insanely great.
i’m gonna try to sneak out of my life for a few hours and go see the Super 8 trailer and then maybe whatever stupid movie plays after it. upon my return… perhaps a new feature for year 2 of this blog. a...
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Once More, With Feeling! →
okay, so another update to the whole Panahi arrest thingy.
here’s the actual petition, along with the list of initial co-signers (which includes names from the Coen brothers to Frederick Wiseman).
Here’s the full petition: PETITION: Free Jafar Panahi Jafar Panahi, the internationally acclaimed Iranian director of such award-winning films as The White Balloon, The Circle, Crimson...
Happy Birthday To My Blog!
you think today is Cinco de Mayo, but no, it’s actually my blog’s first birthday! (okay, it’s also cinco de mayo).
a year ago you were children, but now you are men, women, or people who don’t fit neatly into a binary gender construct! once you were slaves to a cleaner, less erratic, more capitalized world of tyrannical blogging, and now you are free!
it’s been a...
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-5-2) →
Caribou (43)
Radiohead (15)
The Tallest Man on Earth (14)
Cat Power (11)
The Antlers (11)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
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Painterly Japanese Movie Posters
the most incredible thing about this poster is that the film it sells is perhaps even more interesting than the one-sheet. this is for Nagisa Oshima’s Band of Ninja (1967). now, i’m a bit of an Oshima nut, but i’d never even heard of this film, which isn’t a film in the traditional sense so much as a slowly unfurling collage of close-up photographs of pre-existing...
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