January 2010
December 2009
andrewlaumann:
SOMETIMES THINGS THAT ARE
COMPLETELY USELESS WERE NEVER MEANT TO BE USEFUL TO BEGIN WITH
Generation Bubble: Me TV - Let a Thousand... →
towerofsleep:
Blogging and so on are forms of immaterial labor that complement the mass media rather than competing or subverting them. More important, the distinction between amateur and professional in the field of media is becoming irrelevant. An amateur production that could disrupt the flow of mass-media spectacles, stand apart from it and call it into question,appear as something...
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Kutte
thingsiwikipedia:
Death from laughter →
readmorewikipedia:
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On 24 March 1975, Alex Mitchell, a 50-year-old bricklayer from King’s Lynn, England, died laughing while watching the Kung Fu Kapers episode of The Goodies, featuring a Scotsman in a kilt battling a vicious black pudding with his bagpipes. After twenty-five minutes of continuous laughter Mr. Mitchell finally slumped on the sofa and expired from heart...
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Death from laughter - Wikipedia, the free... →
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BRB GF, YVR.
Violence erupts in Montreal subways →
“Minutes after the evacuated station was reopened, a group of about 15 police officers was seen at another station, two stops away. They surrounded two black youths and pushed them onto a train. As the doors were closing, one of the officers wound up and took several swings at the youths with his night stick.
Lemieux said this was likely a preventive measure to make sure the youths didn’t...
Best of the Decade | Pacific Cinémathèque →
Hmmm.
My Winnipeg and In the Mood For Love made the cut. Nice.
Have to check out I Don’t Want to Sleep Alone; Tsai-Ming Liang is one of my favourite directors- Goodbye Dragon Inn, What Time is it There?, and Wayward Cloud are all upper-tier in my books.
I’d add Taste of Tea, Megane and Gururi no Koto (Tae Kimura…*sigh*) to the list, as well.
Children of Men? Really? Oh yeah,...
"Only two things have made flying safer [since... →
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Just got off skype with M. at Itami Airport in Osaka. 14 hours and counting. SAFE TRAVELS ONEGAISHIMASU! I hope JAL isn’t going to be too uptight.
FTA:
” Incidentally, I took an early morning flight on Delta from Latin America to the US, among the first international flights subject to a TSA security directive issued this morning.
As we boarded, the flight...
Please, people, stop lacing your tracks with spoken word recitations of the...
– -Philip Sherburne.
Pitchfork: The Year in Techno 2009
And enough with the pitched-down voiceovers and dubbing everything out to the point of becoming sheets of beige digitally-reverbed molasses.
Pitchfork: Techno: The Year in Techno 2009 →
“Part of it is that so much of the music seemed formulaic, dutiful, programmatic, or simply dull. The rhetoric around it was even less inspiring, with every other one-sheet touting the virtues of “deep” and insisting that the artist in question was about to go where no bathysphere had ever ventured before.
There’s a longer piece to be written about the changing face of...
Fund for Vic Chesnutt's family →
badspelling:
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criticalculture:
Space Ghost Coast to Coast Christmas Special
The only Christmas tradition that my family has.
“Click, click, click”
AW YEAH
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I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in...
– -Shirley Temple
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