April 2009
41 posts
stephen fry's letter to himself →
“As it happens you wrote in 1973 a letter to your future self and it is high time that your future self had the decency to write back.”
a really beautiful, touching piece. definitely a worthwhile read.
elizabeth banks' review of 17 again →
elizabeth brings up the tough questions no one seems to be asking, like “why didn’t hunter parrish take his shirt off in the movie?”
but seriously, a worthwhile read.
pilot school →
pilot scripts for all the television you could ask for.
(via john august.)
(the minutemen- history lesson pt. II)
very few...
dear you and etc. double LPs!
(via suburbanhome)
VC:: MORE JAWBREAKER “Etc” and “Dear You” dbl LPs vinylcollective.com/2009/04…
vinyl collective's test pressings on ebay →
these are some great deals. if i had any extra cash, i’d be hitting most of these up.
hüsker dü concert →
hüsker düesday, anyone?
this is a live recording from tuscon’s backstage january 18, 1983.
active component of marijuana has anti-cancer... →
so i guess i’m preventing the onset of brain cancer daily? yes!
from neil gaiman's mailbag.
Hi there Neil, I’m a huge fan. I’m sixteen, and my career aspirations are basically to do what you do. I’m interested in doing a whole bunch of creative writing; but I’d also love to work on screenplays, or perhaps in television. Looking back as a successful writer of all sorts of lovely things, if you could give your younger self any advice - or just advice to anyone in my...
“It is no surprise to me that hardly anyone tells the truth about how they feel....”
– Henry Rollins
“I understand you believe one of the Sun-Times misdemeanors was dropping your...”
– roger ebert, verbally bitch-slapping bill o’reilly in his column.
brooklyn virgin discovers naked dancing. →
“Perhaps my tweed J. Crew jacket and Tory Burch ballet flats weren’t the best wardrobe choice for that day, but I overcame the fact that I was a total Williamsburg misfit and hoped my foreigner status wouldn’t be glaringly obvious to the natives. (It was.) After narrowly escaping death by skateboard on the Bedford subway platform, I made my way to a rickety building in what felt...
fun fact: i love geese.
geese are the badasses of the aviary world. they are everywhere. they crap where they want to, and will honk in your face (loudly) if you try to tell them otherwise.
they exude a “don’t fuck with me” sort of vibe. i really appreciate that sort of quality in a bird.
i mean, if i could eat, fly and poop all day, i wouldn’t want to be messed with, either.
nan goldin is broke.
interview @ the telegraph.
(via lenshift)
don't surround yourself with yourself.
(yes)
“In my office at SNL, I have a statue of a Tauntaun, which is a creature from...”
– Bill Hader’s EW Pop Culture Personality Test, which you should read. (via bigscreenlittlescreen)
he’s an mst3k fan! this interview officially makes me love him.
ps. he was totally great in adventureland.
[mission of burma - 1970]
“some guy came up...
The Substance of Style, Pt 1
goldenfiddle:
Wes Anderson and his pantheon of heroes (Schulz, Welles, Truffaut)
(make sure to watch the accompanying video)
the charles schulz/peanuts comparision is particularly fascinating to me, since when i was little i wanted to become a cartoonist and more or less idolized mr. schulz.
and now, i want to become a screenwriter and i more or less idolize mr. anderson.