February 2010
59 posts
Rip Torn Arrested for Robbing a Bank →
January 2010
45 posts
Tom Waits - Swordfishtrombone
Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons - Let’s...
WatchPeter Serafinowicz’s iPad
WatchI was very much enticed by the ad for “The Day My Kid Went Punk” that I just posted, so I did some quick googling and found the full 45-minute afterschool special on vimeo. I just watched it, and it is beyond marvelous. This is worth sitting through. Some observations:
-The kid’s parents are horrible, selfish people.
-His older brother belongs to “The Young Men’s...
When my daughter was born, she was already a full-blown personality, from two weeks old. And I could watch as month by month the media and the culture infiltrated her sense of who and what she is and what she might be interested in. And it’s changed over time and become specific to her generation. That continues for all of us throughout our whole lives. I think artists try to remove that, and...
Dolly Mixture - How Come You’re Such a...
2 bills would legalize medical marijuana -... →
WatchThis particularly funny episode of the Larry Sanders Show I just watched features the actress Talia Balsam, 15 years before she plays Roger Sterling’s first wife on Mad Men (she is in reality married to John Slattery) or the mother in The Wackness.
R. Crumb in Vanity Fair, on Plot Holes
When they originally told those stories [in the Book of Genesis], that wasn’t how their minds worked. They weren’t as nitpicky as we are. The American Indians have these great creation stories about the origins of the earth, and they don’t hold up to a lot of questions. They had this one great story about the rabbit and the fox who were living in the void and they decided they wanted...
The Manson Family - What Would You Have Me Do?
Final Schedule, Spring 2010
It took a while, but I finally got my schedule together for this semester.
TUES 9:30-12:20 Lithography I
TUES 2:00-3:50 Fiction Studio VI
WED 2:00-3:50 The Practice & Poetics of Translation
WED 5:00-7:50 Needle, Thread, & Cloth
THURS 9:30-12:20 Maps & History
THURS 2:00-3:50 Fiction Studio VI
Please read this! →
It’s the first few pages of Nicole Richie’s novel, The Truth About Diamonds.
Watchchipsinchina:
caryhooper:
I really love these fanta commercials.
“Third grade teacher Mr. Street Gang.” “That’s just crazy.”
WatchBenjamin Korman’s Real World: Emteevee Audition Tape #35786
Greetings from Costa Rica! We shot this as part of the awesome movie we’re making down here!
RIP Jay Reatard
WatchTake a look at what Aladdin, Max, and I are working on in Costa Rica!
