November 2007
“Ondaatje, Morrison, Bulgakov, Steinbeck, Franzen, Zadie Smith, Dickens,...”
– Leslie Feist
Exit Music (For A Tim Burton Film)
In case you missed this eerie, beautiful, strange, and frightening performance from miss polly jean on leno last week.
October 2007
Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat, 1896
“True or not, the story indicates the power the medium would wield over its audience.” and that the french are total scardie cats.
No Surprises, Please
“Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced and the inconvenience is often considerable.” - Jane Austen,
“There is no greater evidence of superior intelligence than to be surprised at nothing.” - Josh Billings,
“A man surprised is half beaten.” - Thomas Fuller,
“Stupefaction, when it persists, becomes stupidity.” - Jose...
Happy Halloween?
THIRTY ILLNESSES, SORTED ACCORDING TO WHETHER OR NOT YOU CAN EAT THE VICTIMS.
Compressed Data
Coolfer combs through 10 years of old NYT articles portending the failure of the major label music biz to cope with the digitization of music. fairly amusing.
“If I’m at someone’s house for dinner and there’s way too much...”
– Larry David
Or Not To Bee
we hate this movie. more specifically, this movie’s marketing department with the intensity of a thousand suns in a microwave. and we haven’t even seen it, yet! is that fair? balls if we care. oh yeah, and the animation sucks cartman’s balls.
“I try to remain friends with my exes. Absolutely. If it’s possible. I...”
– Josh Hartnett, lover, leaver, and most of the time terrible actor
Review With A View
… had to watch it twice, kinda missed the whole Meet the Robinsons DVD movie review part the first time through.
Abduction, Confinement, Torture, Termination
if you loved the killing fields and the mission, then you’ll be utterly, completely, fully and totally disappointed by captivity !!!
Malkmus' Farm
The More You Try To Erase Me
adult contemporary white noise machine john mayer throws a few bars from thom yorke’s solo LP into the mix.
“Never go with a hippie to a second location.”
– Jack Donaghy
Chef Boy Arthur
x-men chef boy-ar-dee pasta can #2 preliminary design, $300. this preliminary illustration was penciled arthur adams. the artwork is in excellent condition drawn on strathmore measuring 11”x17” (art area is approximately 7.5”x9”). there is some residual blue-line underlying. label designs appear to be in a blue water marker. (via)