lil’ markie:
At one point, he acts out the part of a baby fetus, telling how happy he is to have fully formed fingernails at 4 1/2 weeks, and a well functioning heart after 6 1/2 weeks, etc., etc.
I think this guy Morgan Spurlock (Super-Size Me, the new show 30 days), no matter if what he’s done is good or bad, is going to be around for a while. His name is too good not to be a personality on television in perpetuity. Morgan Spurlock.
In a story on the newly-discovered Sappho poem: “On hearing one of Sappho’s poems sung, the sixth century BC Greek ruler Solon, a contemporary of hers, asked for someone to teach him the song ‘because I want to learn it and die’.”
Government has an obligation to present information to the public promptly and accurately so that the public’s evaluation of Government activities is not distorted.
–Donald Rumsfeld, 1967
Peter Bowles apparently gave a speech in Blow Up that explained what the whole thing was about, but Antonioni Cut it:
He listened, and listened, until finally I ran out of words. There was silence. So I said, “Erm, sir, are you going to put the speech back in now?” He replied, “No. Because, Peter, you […]
I have overcome the obstacle life laid before me. I bought the music issue of The Believer, only to discover, too late, that someone had already taken the CD. I’ve got my own copy now, and you probably should get one for yourself.
I get a weird excitement listening to artists I don’t know covering other […]
“Anything can happen in this life, especially nothing.”
Remember that time my future self visited me by using his time machine? I found his/my diary, wherein he/I dug up this article. His/my comments: “Wow, our descent from crypto-facism into actual religious fanatacisim seems so obvious now.”
“Chicago appealed to Eugenides and his wife, the photographer Karen Yamauchi, when they decided to return to the States partly because they have a 6-year-old daughter now. “I view it as a Denmark kind of place. Cold, well-run–a clean, beautiful, pristine city where you can have a nice life and bring up kids and not […]
“The unemployed! The sick! Those sent mad by work (and I will use that simple, undifferentiated word mad)! If you could not link hands with the others, if you were as yet unnetworked, depending on the slow, too-slow computers at your local library, and wandering through streets from which everyone you once knew had moved, […]
Digested read - Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer:
“I’m nine years old and I’m an inventor, computer consultant, astronomer, historian, lepidopterist, and I write to Stephen Hawking. I’m no ordinary boy, but the creation of a writer who’s trying too hard. That’s why you’ll find doodles, photographs, pages with just a few […]
” It’s not easy to be an English major these days, or any student of the humanities. It requires a certain kind of determination, and a refusal — an annoying refusal, for some of our friends and families, and for a good many employers — to make decisions, or at least to make the kind […]
David’s New Movie: “INLAND EMPIRE” (in capitals, though Lynch doesn’t explain why), it stars Laura Dern, along with Justin Theroux, Harry Dean Stanton, Jeremy Irons and a host of others Lynch won’t specify.
Hair on the chinny-chin chin: “Derrek Lee is perfect. He is perfect at hitting home runs, perfect at scooping up wide throws to first, and perfect when it comes to grooming his goatee. Not too long, not too stubbly, well-defined edges. Derrek Lee is perfect.”
It’s never too late to jump on the “Holy shit, how crazy is Tom Cruise?” bandwagon. Thus, Tom Cruise’s Medical forum.
In this interview from Plan B Magazine [what is Plan B Magazine? Should I have heard of it? Can I find it in this country? etc.], Matt Friedberger of the Fiery Furnaces reveals which of his songs he considers to be his and Eleanor’s theme songs. That would be ‘Spaniolated’ for Eleanor, and the second […]
Chekhov said: “Fledgling authors frequently should do the following; bend the notebook in half and tear off the first half … you’ll only have to change the beginning of the second half a little bit and the story will be utterly comprehensible. Everything that has no direct relation to the story must be ruthlessly thrown […]
