Monthly Archives: August 2010
Random Hollywood Production Request List for the Universe
1. I would like Owen Wilson to write another movie with Wes Anderson. Those movies make the world a little bit better [..] Continue reading
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Little Boxes #11
(from “The Secret Slumlord of Metropolis” in Superman’s Pal, Jimmy Olsen #127, by Leo Dorfman (script), Curt Swan (pencils) and George Roussos (inks), 1970)
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Tea With Chris: Short, Bald and Ugly
Tea With Chris is a roundup of recommended links, posted every Friday. Here are a few of our favourite things from the Internet this week: Carl: Is it naive to think this thing could kinda help save the world? If … Continue reading
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Friday Pictures – Takashi Murakami
Takashi Murakami at Chateau de Versailles / fall of 2010
Takashi Murakami
Takashi Murakami
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Busby Madoff Dreams: “Fuck You” and the Gold Diggers of 2010
by Carl Wilson
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAV0XrbEwNc&fs=1&hl=en_US]When I was in grade school, my parents were involved in a variety show at some grownup social club, group-singing the 1940s cocktail-party number “Shaving Cream”, which had recently been given a popular revival via the Dr. Demento novelty-song radio show. It must have taken a week’s worth of overhearing rehearsals before it came to me with a scandalized jolt what swear-word the song was hiding. Chuck Berry’s late-career novelty “My Ding-a-ling” soon mounted another tuneful assault on my naivete.
The side-stepping of the content is the whole pleasure of these songs: With a childish lilt, they pretend to talk about “being nice and clean” or a kid’s toy, with a wink as loud as a rimshot to a Sammie Davis joke on stage at that grownup playground, the Sands. The late-arriving Single of the Summer, Cee-Lo’s “Fuck You,” is exactly the opposite: naughty on the surface but all kid-joy at heart.
There’s still a sidestep going on — not because it’s got a hidden meaning to convey, but because to an unusually transparent extent, there’s nothing literal in it, each element just a cog in a pleasure machine. The song is mainly about how much fun this song is. That’s what makes it so reminiscent of “Hey Ya.” It’s why it works so well to make a video that’s just the lyrics of the song dancing around.
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Scott Pilgrim vs. the Tape
by Chris Randle This is not news to anyone who’s seen our sidebar, but I also have my own personal blog, the comics-centric Gutteral. It’s a few years old now, and it hasn’t seen a substantial update in…months. Too many … Continue reading
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Little Boxes #10
(from Ghost World, by Daniel Clowes, 1997)
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Tea With Chris: Confidence Camp
Tea With Chris is a roundup of recommended links, posted every Friday. Here are a few of our favourite things from the Internet this week: Margaux: From Margaret Atwood’s Cat’s Eye to Rhodes scholar’s Confidence Camp. Girls learning how to … Continue reading
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Friday Pictures – Karin Bubas
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Greenberg (2010) – story by Noah Baumbach and Jennifer Jason Leigh, written and directed by Noah Baumbach
By Margaux Williamson (mostly spoilers)
(I was thinking about “Greenberg” a few days ago while sitting on a dock watching a lot of jet skis go by. Most of the jet skis towed large children behind them on inner tubes. It really gave this sense of momentous movement while really, no one was actually moving. It made me feel like everything was a little bit wrong. I was also trying to remember if jet ski accidents involve mostly people on jet skis – or people under them who happen to be swimming in the water. This is when I thought of the movie “Greenberg” because “Greenberg” is about a man who complains a lot. I then jumped into the water. I had watched “Greenberg” a few months ago with my friends Sholem Krishtalka and Jon Davies and my boyfriend Misha Glouberman. I remember that we all took a cab home because it was raining – and how warm it felt in the cab as compared to the cinema.)
The main character in “Greenberg” is named Greenberg [..] Continue reading
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