December 2008
34 posts
This may well be the best pairing of subject and author yet devised. →
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David Denby’s Snark, to be published in January 2009.
“Wine and beer will be offered to customers in baby bottles.”
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from the “fucking gross” department:
Yay, a new neighborhood restaurant. I hear that you can really relish the herbaceous overtones of a fine Sauvignon Blanc when you drink it from a teat. Hey but the French are doing it so it must be tres chic! (via katiebakes)
Just This Once, Let's Stay Up All Night And Do A Bunch Of Coke →
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“I’m certainly not suggesting we make a habit of this. That could lead to a seriously unhealthy lifestyle.”
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“Any literate person can research and summarize publicly available information. The job of reporters is to do more: to ferret out the overlooked detail, the untold story, the unheard voice that can give perspective — or change everything. This sort of investigative work requires someone who is present at the scene of the story, and has the necessary social connections in that place. It cannot be outsourced.”
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—Though his point was about small papers regurgitating press releases, I think this marks the difference between blogs and journalism. Most blogers just link to one another, but at the root there was actual reporting/photographing done. Art was made, interesting people were found, research was done, brilliant ideas were had. Don’t forget it! From a Letter to the NYT. (via mmryan)
I think that tumblr has taken original ideas (such as I ever had any) out of my blogging.
The ultimate personality test
It’s not strange to disagree about movies that are wildly different, and there are surely a few random movies that are very polarizing. What I find most interesting is which movie people consider the best movie from a particular director, as it is usually very telling and polarizing in a different way, so to this point I will propose a new personality test where you reblog your favorite movie from each of these directors:
- Joel Coen: No Country for Old Men, The Big Lebowski, Fargo, The Hudsucker Proxy, Miller’s Crossing, Raising Arizona, etc
- Wes Anderson: The Darjeeling Limited, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, The Royal Tennenbaums, Rushmore, Bottle Rocket, etc
- Hal Ashby: Being There, Shampoo, Harold and Maude, etc
- Kevin Smith: Zack and Miri Make a Porno, Dogma, Chasing Amy, Mallrats, Clerks, etc
- Quentin Tarantino: Grindhouse, Kill Bill, Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs, etc
My results: Miller’s Crossing, Bottle Rocket, Being There, Mallrats, Reservoir Dogs. Judge accordingly.
My results: Blood Simple, Rushmore, The Last Detail, Clerks, Jackie Brown
“If civilization has made modern man a natural schizophrenic … the average man is a suicide in relation to his schizophrenia.”
—Norman Mailer, ‘Miami and the Siege of Chicago’
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Nathaniel Mackey, Segue Series Reading at The Ear Inn, New York March 24, 1989
Complete Reading (47:37)
