January 2010
136 posts
December 2009
178 posts
Every time I see “New Year’s Eve” shortened to “NYE” I always read it prounounced like the surname of “Bill Nye the Science Guy”.
I also secretly hope it’s something about him. See below:
“What are you doing for NYE?”
“I don’t know, but I feel like I really owe him one! I mean, he taught me everything I know about...
happysound:
shimshim:
Bale Out Remix -...
Those of you in LA right now need to check out the exhibition of R. Crumb’s illustrated version of the entire text of Genesis, now at the Hammer Museum. Students get in free.
Those of you not in LA should buy the damn book on Amazon. His annotations are also really good. Who knew the guy could write? Not I.
I think sometimes I need to be reminded of just how weird the bible is, and Crumb...
Things I Won’t Do And You Can’t Make Me: drink milk, eat cilantro, see Avatar again, learn how to ride a bike (I just choose to see it as a character flaw at this point)
Things I Don’t Want To Do, But Can Probably Be Talked Into: go hiking, play board games, see a movie that Richard Dreyfuss is in, watch a new TV show, wear colors, wake up before 10 AM, mail something
Things I...
My grandpa sometimes interviews prospective medical students for University of Colorado, and one question he likes to ask is who their heroes are, since he thinks it’s a good way to get a sense of their values.
The first three names I thought of:
-David Lynch
-Amy Sedaris
-Dorothy Parker
Good thing I’m not applying for medical school.
My sister and I discuss the Christmas tree in...
Anna: Chuck Close did the lighting.
Me: What?! That's crazy! I didn't know he did lighting.
Anna: Why is that weird?
Me: Well, I mean, I thought he was a just a painter or whatever.
Anna: He's a painter?
Me: Chuck Close?
Anna: What? Why are you talking about Chuck Close?
Me: You said he did the lighting!
Anna: No! I said "Chuck hosted the lighting."
Me: What the hell Chuck are you talking about then?
Anna: You know, on TV, Chuck from "Chuck."
Me: You mean Zach Levi?
Anna: Whatever. I prefer to think of him as Chuck.
Me: You know he's an actor, right? He's not his character?
Anna: Shhhh.
Me: So when you said, "Chuck Close did the lighting," what you meant was, "Zach Levi, of TV's 'Chuck', hosted the ceremonial lighting of the tree."
Anna: That's what I said.
Me: Well I guess that explains why the lights weren't arranged in the shape of Chuck Close's face.
I just realized that “grotty” is a diminutive of “grotesque”.
I don’t know if I feel dread or impatience for the day when I stop having these stupidly obvious epiphanies.
gifparty:
This one’s for the kid sister, though maybe she’ll be mad that I’m making the source for all her sick dance moves public.
“You don’t get it, do you? This isn’t ‘good cop, bad cop.’ This is fag and New...”
– Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (via novazembla)
This is one of my favorite movies ever of all time ever of all time ever of all time. Ya dig?
Raymond Chandler+Robert Downey Jr.+grammar jokes+some of the most insanely silly dialogue heard onscreen since the ’30s=my instant approval, and forgiveness of...
As Secretary of State William Seward said about...
(via mykicks)
A statue of Secretary of State William Seward at the corner of Madison Square Park stopped me dead in my tracks when I was moseying around New York. It was what made me think “Yes, I think this is the place I’ll hang out for a while.”
Nerdiness as decision-making tool!
People keep saying that in 10 years EVERY movie...
mykicks:
That’s nice and all, but I really don’t need to see The Hours in 3D.
Uh, see, didn’t people say that in the ’50s, when 3D was last popular? And then, you know, everyone woke up and realized it was a gimmick? And then no one gave a shit for another 50 years?
Oh no wait, I’m sorry, it’ll be different this time because of all the people saying “This time...
Continuing on the subject of my future as a rich...
I’ll need somewhere to buy all my fancy things. And wouldn’t it be nice if there were a place where I could do one-stop shopping on all things fancy?
Urbane Outfitters: Outfitting the Grotesquely Wealthy Since Some Undetermined Future Date
It will sell only fancy things like monocles and top hats and elbow-length satin gloves and opera glasses and ostrich feather fans and gold...
Swallowed chewing gum will not stay in your body...
ohyeahfacts:
That said, swallowing LOTS of gum could cause a blockage in your intestines, which means serious cramps and possible surgery. But even in that case, that gum isn’t sticking around for 7 years.
(source)
Asked by: MoreThanJustExistence
It’s as though the powers that be want me to reflect on last year’s resolution not to swallow gum anymore.
Oh I think I love this show.
Agent Dale Cooper: Who's that lady with the log?
Sheriff Harry S Truman: We call her the Log Lady.
The Future Rich Eccentric
happysound:
I have compiled a short list of the things I plan to have/do when I become a rich eccentric, not only because it is something that I’ve been doing internally for quite some time now, but also, to prove that my good friend Tessa and I are two peas in a pod.
1. Monocle. Monocle. Monocle. Diamond encrusted monocle with a peacock feather hanging from a white gold chain. Watching...
“Poor people have comfort. Rich people have LUXURY.”
– Geoff, in response Christina questioning the comfort of wearing the diamond sweatpants I plan to wear on lazy days in the future, when I am a rich eccentric.
I think it’s fair to warn you that if you don’t ever enjoy fantasizing about the things you intend to do when (not...
madmenfootnotes:
Mad Men Playlist:
“In the Hall...
Here's a word I should be saying more:
Improbable.
I have a self-created dilemma. I received an Amazon gift card for Christmas, and there are a few things I was considering spending it on, and then I got a wonderful brain wave: why not buy the complete Twin Peaks?
Okay, so here’s the dilemma part: I’ve never seen Twin Peaks. Now I love David Lynch a whole lot, I’ve been meaning to watch the show forever, and more than a few...
molls:
Ladyflash - The Go! Team
The Go! Team...
I just correctly guessed "Fargo" from this series...
“Oh what’s that movie, you know, the one at the Oscars that one year? It has that small guy from Pleasantville? And like, everyone’s doing the theatrical accent like, *speaks in nasal voice*.”
I just remembered Green Porno, and now I am a very happy camper. So so so funny and delightful.
Important Announcement About What You're Doing...
geoffreyisworking:
Hey, Internet! Sheriff Hunter has its first show on the iO West Mainstage in Hollywood tomorrow night at 8pm! Please come check it out because this is kinda huge for us, and we’d love to see you there. Plus, if we get a big audience in, it raises our chances of being asked back. Tickets are $10 and you have to be over 21 to get in. Bring everyone you know! Then after the...
Every year on December 27th I observe a holiday called “The Stupidest Day of All Time”, and this year is no different.
“Oh, I’m up against that bitch, Meryl Streep.”
– Meryl on her double Golden Globe nomination (via fuckyeahmerylstreep) (via eatstarchmom) (via apsies) (via amberlrhea)
god, i LOVE her.
(via isabelthespy)
“Through the years, I have learned there is no harm in charging oneself up with...”
– Steve Martin, Born Standing Up (via geoffreyisworking)
Lately Geoff seems to be into quoting Steve Martin saying things I need to hear. My thanks to both of these gentlemen.
Someone in one of my writing classes once told me...
mykicks:
Welp. Another person in a class said that she never reads because she doesn’t think you need to read a lot to be a good writer. I’m like the exact opposite - I read constantly, and try to understand the styles of as many authors as I can, so I can better formulate my own.
I find this attitude about not needing or wanting to read absolutely rampant among Creative Writing majors, and...
Tonight someone asked me if I was a flight attendant because I was wearing an airplane necklace.
I’d like to know the logical jump she would have taken had I been wearing my T. Rex necklace.
Going to bed with the sound of gunshots not too far off.
Merry Christmas from the Valley.
“George, why must you torture the children?!”
– From high-tension It’s a Wonderful Life dialogue to family catchphrase.
I wish I had named this dress →
Call it professional jealousy.
Christmas Week: It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
filmosophy:
Very few among us can relate to someone who is actually living out their dreams, conquering the world in exactly the ways in which they had hoped to as an idealistic young person. But who among us can’t relate to its opposite, to thwarted dreams and lives of quiet desperation? To making small concessions that eventually turned into a life you’d never meant to have, an adventurous...
WatchSNL’s revised ending to It’s a Wonderful Life.
“Remember monsters, when you’re feeling lonely, I’m feeling lonely...”
– Merry Christmas from Lady Gaga
Imagine if Rudyard Kipling were given the task of combining the scripts to Fern Gully and Disney’s Pocahontas and then someone filmed it in an advanced level of the game Spore.
So yeah, that’d be Avatar, which against my better judgment, I went to see today.
This review covers some of my grievances, at least in terms of it being a grotesquely paternalistic white guilt wet dream, but...