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hatedxloving: Moonrise kingdom Kanye West by Phil Howell ...

Thu, 31 Jan 2013 17:06:35 -0500

Moonrise kingdom Kanye West by Phil Howell

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"But the country is changing. And this may be the last election in which anyone but a fool tries to..."

Wed, 07 Nov 2012 13:43:34 -0500

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But the country is changing. And this may be the last election in which anyone but a fool tries to play — on a national level, at least — the cards of racial exclusion, of immigrant fear, of the patronization of women and hegemony over their bodies, of self-righteous discrimination against homosexuals. Some in the Republican party and among the teabagged fringe will continue to play such losing hands for some time to come; this shit worked well in its day and distracted many from addressing any of our essential national issues. But again, if they play that weak-ass game past this point, they are fools.

America is different now, moreso with every election cycle. Ronald Reagan won his mandate in an America in which 89 percent of the voters were white. That number is down to 72 percent and falling. Fifty thousand new Latino citizens achieve the voting age every month. America will soon belong to the men and women — white and black and Latino and Asian, Christian and Jew and Muslim and atheist, gay and straight — who can comfortably walk into a room and accept with real comfort the sensation that they are in a world of certain difference, that there are no real majorities, only pluralities and coalitions. The America in which it was otherwise is dying, thank god, and those that relied on entitlement and division to command power will either be obliged to accept the changes, or retreat to whichever gated community from which they wish to wax nostalgic and brood on political irrelevance.

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- — David Simon, creator of “The Wire” (via alexblagg)

AND P.S. OMAR COMIN’.

(via ballingelicash)

Rob Delaney: After Sandy

Tue, 30 Oct 2012 18:41:51 -0400

Rob Delaney: After Sandy:

robdelaney:

If you were following coverage of Sandy last night, you may have seen photos of nurses and firemen transporting babies from the NICU (Neonatal Intensive Care Unit) at NYU’s hospital. If you didn’t, you might consider looking them up. They’re very moving. They show courageous emergency and medical…

criterioncast: A French poster for Rian Johnson’s Looper. Via...

Wed, 10 Oct 2012 12:53:37 -0400

criterioncast:

A French poster for Rian Johnson’s Looper.

Via IMP

bustrkeatn: 94/100 favorite Buster Keaton gifs.

Thu, 04 Oct 2012 19:22:38 -0400

bustrkeatn:

94/100 favorite Buster Keaton gifs.

bustrkeatn: 100/100 favorite Buster Keaton gifs.

Thu, 04 Oct 2012 19:22:02 -0400

bustrkeatn:

100/100 favorite Buster Keaton gifs.

Elvis in Las Vegas, Doubling Down 4 Animals!

Thu, 04 Oct 2012 19:21:39 -0400

Elvis in Las Vegas, Doubling Down 4 Animals!

Wish You Were Here: Vintage Postcards From Hollywood

Wed, 22 Aug 2012 23:55:44 -0400

Wish You Were Here: Vintage Postcards From Hollywood

nevver: On the set

Tue, 21 Aug 2012 12:19:01 -0400

nevver:

On the set

vamosvideo: Save the Date

Tue, 21 Aug 2012 12:18:45 -0400

vamosvideo:

Save the Date

criterioncorner: Ingmar Bergman and a Bunch of Explosives after...

Tue, 21 Aug 2012 12:18:23 -0400

criterioncorner:

Ingmar Bergman and a Bunch of Explosives

after consulting with several of my Swedish colleagues, I feel confident in declaring that “Dynamit” means “Dynamite,” and “Riskabelt” means “Crystal Skull.”

it’s a shame that Bergman ordered all of this TNT, only to delete the scene in which he used it from the final cut of Scenes From a Marriage.

lumber: neil-gaiman: nothingbutthedreams: I just rediscovered...

Tue, 21 Aug 2012 12:16:41 -0400

lumber:

neil-gaiman:

nothingbutthedreams:

I just rediscovered how glorious this image is so excuse me while I laugh uncontrollably every time I look at it again.

It was taken in Kensal Green Cemetery in February.

Terry borrowed the white jacket from our editor, Malcolm Edwards, and grumbled that it did nothing to keep him warm on a very cold day.

“Sometimes you have to be cold to look cool,” I told him.

“It’s all right for you,” he said. “You’re wearing a leather jacket.”

“You could wear a leather jacket too.”

“I’m wearing white,” said Terry, pointedly. “That way, when they come after us for writing a blasphemous book, they’ll know I’m the nice one.”

(After the photo was taken we noticed the bat-winged hourglass, which we hadn’t seen during the photo session, and requested bat-winged hourglasses as a design motif in the book.)

GREAT book

Photo

Sun, 19 Aug 2012 18:29:06 -0400

kylekinane: thedailywhat: WTF of the Day: A mannequin hanging...

Sun, 19 Aug 2012 18:26:56 -0400

kylekinane:

thedailywhat:

WTF of the Day: A mannequin hanging from a Las Vegas billboard emblazoned with “Dying For Work” had motorists lighting up 911 switchboards at the crack of dawn this morning — drivers were convinced they were seeing a real person swinging from the rope.

Another billboard in the Las Vegas area read ”Hope You’re Happy Wall St.,” with a second mannequin hanging from the edge.

No one has claimed responsibility for the creepy hangmen, though the website forOccupy Las Vegas applauds the displays, and accuses Nevada lawmakers of slashing social aid programs in the down economy.

“People saying it’s in bad taste are living sheltered lives,” says Sebring Frehner, an Occupy supporter. They ”don’t pay attention to what affects the working class.”

[death+taxes]

Because the city that’s benefitted overwhelmingly from individuals’ gambling is appalled at Wall St.’s…gambling?

the poor dancing girl she won't dance again: Guy Maddin's Top Ten Films of All Time (plus twenty honorable mentions)

Thu, 16 Aug 2012 13:14:58 -0400

the poor dancing girl she won't dance again: Guy Maddin's Top Ten Films of All Time (plus twenty honorable mentions):

oldfilmsflicker:

1. Zero de conduite (1933) Jean Vigo

Vigo knows exactly how we sort and reconfigure our childhood memories, how we tear them up into shreds of pure sensation and sloppily collage them back together into heightened and giddy mythologies. This is film assembled with the logic of music, a song…

theavc: Obviously very real Arrested Development reunion now...

Thu, 16 Aug 2012 12:44:52 -0400

theavc:

Obviously very real Arrested Development reunion now trying to convince us of existence of “John Slattery”

Oh right. Because John Slattery “exists” and isn’t just an “elaborate construct of wires, fox pelts, and pocket squares.” C’mon Arrested Development. It’s like you’re not even trying to convince us you’re real.

lumber: (via Keanu Reeves spills what Bill & Ted 3 is...

Wed, 15 Aug 2012 13:08:59 -0400

lumber:

(via Keanu Reeves spills what Bill & Ted 3 is actually gonna be about | Blastr)

“One of the plot points is that these two people have been crushed by the responsibility of having to write the greatest song ever written and to change the world. And they haven’t done it. So everybody is kind of like: “Where is the song?” The guys have just drifted off into esoterica and lost their rock. And we go on this expedition, go into the future to find out if we wrote the song, and one future “us” refuses to tell us, and another future “us” blames us for their lives because we didn’t write the song, so they’re living this terrible life. In one version we’re in jail; in another we’re at some kind of highway motel and they hate us.”

"No, there’s no aesthetic changes to the films. I’m not going back and doing to any of my movies that..."

Wed, 15 Aug 2012 13:06:51 -0400

““No, there’s no aesthetic changes to the films. I’m not going back and doing to any of my movies that are now coming out on Blu-ray what I did when “E.T.” was reissued for the third time and I made some digital changes in the picture. I’m not doing that any more. I’ve resigned myself to accepting that what the film was at the time of its creation is what it always should be for future generations. I’m no longer a digital revisionist.””

- Spielberg on the Raiders IMAX re-release and why he’ll never “pull another Lucas.”

Conversation Between Me And My Son Or Daughter, 2030

Tue, 14 Aug 2012 19:25:52 -0400

dcpierson:

“Dad, why are all the people in this old picture holding up their phones?”

“They were taking pictures.”

“But we ended up looking at this picture. All the other people were holding their phones up for nothing when they should’ve just been enjoying the moment.”

“I know. I know. I tried to tell them.”

One of io9’s 100 Wonderful and Terrible Movies that Never...

Tue, 14 Aug 2012 19:15:15 -0400

One of io9’s 100 Wonderful and Terrible Movies that Never Existed