(↝via ffwd links)
Why did you just tell me that?
Gotta give the MUNI folks props for telling it like it is.
(↝via torrez)
Crazy Moon Language
“With That Moon Language”
by Hāfez
Admit something:
Everyone you see, you say to them, “Love me.”
Of course you do not do this out loud, otherwise
someone would call the cops.
Still, though, think about this, this great pull in us to connect.
Why not become the one who lives with a
full moon in each eye that is
always saying,
with that sweet moon language,
what every other eye in
this world is
dying to
hear?
(↝via jessamyn)
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More than other Thompson narrators, Marty is not out to deceive. His reflections are stunningly coherent: “You may be wrong, and exist comfortably in a world of righteousness. But you may not live right in a world of error…. The growing weight of injustice becomes impossible to bear.” He expresses what most Thompson protagonists cannot: their insight into the dark heart of society—themselves included—is their cross. Their delusions only postpone, or advance, their own demise.
I just saw Coup de Torchon the other week, and there are some mentioned in the article I haven’t been able to track down.
Also it appears like Black Lizard/Vintage now has a woefully incomplete adaptation list. (No redesign of the website either.)
Donald Westlake, who adapted The Grifters for film in 1990, satirized Thompson later that year in his own novel Drowned Hopes. This book features a character named “Tom Jimson” who is hard-boiled to the point of absurdity.
the movie versions of the getaway and the grifters are both pretty great and do a good job of translating thompson to a contemporary setting (although neither is completely faithful to the source material). I also thought no country for old men was very thompson-esque—more in the broad plot outlines and chase narrative than in the characters—but I don’t think I’ve seen that comparison made elsewhere.
where’s the little boat you can drive around?
each visitor is issued a cardboard carton with a flashlight taped to it.
New Lunchtime Hobby: Look up bizarro Herzog clips on the ‘tube. Example above. Almost ever line brings the lulz.
More socially acceptable than browsing old illustrations of insects.
but not much more.
Who can worry about what is acceptable to society in the face of the brutal obsenity of the Jungle?
Axl Herzog
Herzog should make a film about trying to finish Chinese Democracy.
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“We Got It All”
from The Room Isn't Big Enough by Ego Summit (1997)
from The Room Isn't Big Enough by Ego Summit (1997)
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One of my all time favorite albums of any genre, this LP was just sitting in bins across the country for years. Over the last couple, it’s gotten the recognition it deserved and is now fairly scarce. Luckily it was recently reissued in CDR format by Old 3C.
Billed (by some) as a midwest supergroup of sorts– the name itself can be read as a piss take on the idea of underground celebrity– featuring Tommy Jay, Ron House, the late Jim Shepard, Don Howland, and Mike Rep.
Each member took turns writing and singing, but the lo-fi sprawl of dark humor, bitterness, inside jokes, and paranoia ends up surprisingly cohesive.
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At least Downey is signed for at least two more films, the aforementioned “Iron Man 2” and the starring role in British director Guy Ritchie’s take on Sherlock Holmes. “It’s definitely going to be Guy Ritchie’s take and it’s going to be done in classical 1891 surroundings but not going to be particularly stylised.” With a contemporary tone, he adds. “I think what’s contemporary about it is that you go back to the real truth of Sherlock Holmes - is that he’s a lot more broad and less stoic than I remember seeing him depicted. He’s a bare knuckle boxer, a martial artist and a complete weirdo which is why I said I’d love to do this.”
—RDJr Interview at Moviehole
This trailer would have been ten times cooler if a) it was in black and white and b) “Good Vibrations” was used as the soundtrack.
and here I was expecting the beach boys.
maybe there will be an easter egg in this film that allows you unlock a special Good Vibrations version of the trailer. (Backup vox from Jonathan Coulton)
btw, this track came on during “cosmic” bowling the other week and people went wild. spares were dropping left and right.
is “spares were dropping left and right” some euphemism I don’t understand?
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Cyberpunk author William Gibson has a cameo appearance as himself. When the author of Neuromancer is introduced as the man who invented the term “Cyberspace”, he remarks, “and they’ve never let me forget it.”
—Wild Palms Wikipedia page.
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They can print statistics and count the populations in hundreds of thousands, but to each man a city consists of no more than a few streets, a few houses, a few people. Remove those few and a city exists no longer except as a pain in the memory, like the pain of an amputated leg no longer there.
—Graham Greene, Our Man In Havana
