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06/06/2011
01/19/2011
11/14/2010
The Avalanches - “Frontier Psychiatrist” (2001)
Possibly the greatest video of all time.
The turtle man has haunted me for years.
08/15/2010
Odessa Steps Scene (Battleship Potemkin; Sergei Eisenstein; 1925)
Reserve
readingwatching for the long-suffering readers of my dumbass toots. (Start around 5:36.1)Especially prepared for the fortunate residents of the center-to-right four-fifths of the social curve—comprised of persons who chose to spend the weekends of their early teen years “having dates” and “going to parties,” and “couple-skating to ‘Open Arms.’”
Rather than—say, just hypothetically—“chugging 2-liter bottles of Mountain Dew and watching reruns of Masters of the Silent Screen before caving in to 35 frenzied seconds of masturbating to the girdle section of a decade-old Penneys catalog, and eventually falling asleep to the late night album-sides on 98 Rock.”
Yep. Film scholarship is complicated.
My Christ, eighty-five years later, this is still a jaw-dropping piece of filmmaking. ↩
07/03/2010
“ Saturday is the Sabbath. Sunday is the mark of the beast. „
Sign North of Chico, Hwy 5
06/22/2010
“ He further declares that he relies
upon the rectitude of our intentions;
the favor of Heaven and the bravery
of those who are bound to and
associated with him, by the principle
of self preservation; by the love of truth; and by the hatred of tyranny for
his hopes of success. He further declares that he believes
that a Government to be prosperous
and happyfying in its tendency must
originate with its people who are
friendly to its existence. That its
Citizens are its Guardians, its officers are its Servants, and its Glory their
reward. „
– William B. Ide, Head Quarters Sonoma, June 15, 1846 (From his declaration of the independence of the Bear Flag Republic)
06/08/2010
06/07/2010
I’ve been kind of going through a Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem thing lately.
Seriously though, how could I not? The guy’s a felted Bodhisattva.
06/06/2010
06/05/2010
“ Dude! I got so close to monkey wheelchair basketball!!! „
