the way we cope
me: what are you gonna do when i go see twilight in chicago?
g: i’m gonna go to a bar and get drunk.
He does know you can get drunk in the theater, right? Cause that’s what i’m planning on doing.
BG Speaks to the People . . . Quickly
Can't stand Bentleys, they cost too much
Nov 21
Nov 20
“ It’s really quite strange: games of this kind, by which I mean peripheral games, typically allow ordinary people to engage in a kind of assisted fantasy. This is a game that actually punctures the fantasy, one that reinforces and almost codifies the user’s ineptitude. As a product strategy, it must certainly be called unique.
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— Tycho of Penny Arcade on Tony Hawk Ride. I didn’t really have any desire before to add another useless plastic controller to my living room, but now i certainly don’t.
» 11 Most Ridiculous DMX Moments
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I knew that DMX was crazy, but some of these blew my mind.
Oh man, there are some fucking gems here.
Carousel, by Stink Digital.
Made to show off the CINEMA 21:9 Display by Phillips.
This little film is creeptastic and amazing. Posted it a long time ago, but rediscovered it.
This is intense (via adeandabet)
[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]
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Handsome Boy Modeling School - “Holy Calamity (Bear Witness II)”
hahahaha... is that Passion Pit in the Palm Pixi commercial?
It really takes these “indie” bands about 2 days to sell out these days.
Hipster culture is such a fucking sham.
A man’s gotta make a living.
What difference does it make if a band can make some scratch buy licensing their music to an ad? Does it make the song worse?
God forbid you make some money at this music thing.
Actually yes it does. I mean, not that Of Montreal was good to begin with, but the fact that they licensed their tune makes me unable to disassociate that band from the Outback Steakhouse. Now, I’m not criticizing them for making this business decision, and I’m glad they could make probably a lot of money off of their talents, I’m just sayin’…they’re the Outback Steakhouse band now.
Their music has also been used in ads for NASDAQ, Garmin, T-Mobile, Comcast, and in the shows Ugly Betty and Weeds. And fucking good for them. Critical acclaim doesn’t pay the rent.
What’s funny to me is that this is still even coming up. We’re like 5 years into the post “Modest Mouse in a MGD commercial” era and people are surprised that there’s a Passion Pit song in a cell phone commercial? More than that, Passion Pit isn’t exactly Fugazi. I don’t think licensing their music really betrays the ideals they put forth as a band.
I’m with Matt. We live in a world where you can install a Firefox plug-in to make it easier to torrent Pitchfork’s Best New Music selection. Bands have bills to pay too, and unless the have actively spoken out against corporate music licensing, then i don’t really see the problem.
lolcano
For reals. If you had told me a few months ago that i would be laughing more at an episode of a show (ostensibly) about fantasy football than an episode of 30 Rock, i would’ve thought you were fucking crazy. But that’s what happened last night.
Nov 19
My Ten Favorite Movies of the Decade
It seems that one of the side effects of spending a lot of time on the internet is a propensity towards list making and i am certainly not immune to this. There are two things to keep in mind with this list: first off, it was originally supposed to be a list of 50, but my natural laziness got the best of me. Trying to remember all the movies i liked over the past ten years and ranking them in some way just seemed like a lot of work, a lot of work i didn’t feel like doing. Secondly, to me, a favorite movie is one you’ve not only seen a couple of times already, but one you’re down for watching again pretty much whenever. This should help explain the lack of a lot of the serious or important films of the decade from the list. I love There Will Be Blood, and i think it is really an amazing work of cinema, but if given the choice between watching an intense three hour character study of a fictional American oil tycoon and a comedy about a fake stuntman, the majority of the time i’m going to pick the latter. Anyway, without further ado, here they are in alphabetical order:
Andy Goldsworthy - Rivers and Tides
Brick
Hot Rod
Inglorious Basterds
The Royal Tenenbaums
Shaun of the Dead
Spirited Away
Spring Break Shark Attack
Wall-E
Wet Hot American Summer
Now let’s hear your’s.
(Sorry, had to repost this, Tumblr was being janky.)
» A Brief Note About On-Line Wedding Proposals
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Gabe, killing it as usual. Also, this point is a good one that’s not made often enough:
Actually, there’s also a certain amount of cowardice in every public proposal, small- and large-bore, because you’re basically forcing the other person’s hand by making it (at least to some degree) harder for them to “cause a scene” or say no out of nervousness and embarrassment. I am just saying! Don’t you want to start your new life as a brave man? A hero?!
if you follow the rules you can survive
Reblogged so i can print this out and post by the door later.
Nov 18
» Cats4Gold.com
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Maura once referred to cats as nature’s clip art, and if there was ever a site that proved that, it’s this one.
A David Duchovny question:
Which is more embarrassing, having to publicly admit you’re a sex addict or being in a dog food commercial where you have to read the line “i’m a good pooper”?
This just happened
reading article for school about social networking sites (SNS):“There are even SNSs for dogs (Dogster) and cats (Catster), although their owners must manager their profiles.”
No shit, really?
So that’s why Carl’s Catster status never gets updated. Well fuck if i’m going to do that for him too.
Nov 17
This Is Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis, You Should Watch It of the Day: Zach Galifianakis; Two Ferns; Andy Richter; Conan O. Brien.
I had to listen to it twice to hear that Zach says “has anyone ever told you you seem like you are the black Byron Allen?”
