February 2009
46 posts
Wil Wheaton reviews Watchmen and fucking loves it. →
(Spoilers but c’mon, you should’ve read the shit out of this book by now)
“I once knew an Episcopalian lady in Newport, Rhode Island, who asked me to...”
– Kurt Vonnegut, speaking as Bokonon (the leader of a phony religion) in his masterpiece Cat’s Cradle.
I know it has a lot to do with how old I was when I read it, but I can think of no other piece of literatue that affected my belief in god (or lack thereof) more than this anecdote.
Gui Boratto - Take My Breath Away
Gui is nothing...
Sasquatch! Music Festival 2009 Lineup
I’m of the opinion this lineup is far superior to Coachella/Bonnaroo (minus My Bloody Valentine and Paul McCartney, but hey.)
Saturday, May 23th Kings of Leon / Yeah Yeah Yeahs / The Decemberists / Animal Collective / Bon Iver / Devotchka / M. Ward / Doves / Sun Kil Moon / The Gaslight Anthem / King Khan & The Shrines / Ra Ra Riot / Shearwater / Passion Pit / Mt. St. Helens Vietnam...
re-blog this!
Not that this will help your Netflix queue much, but the scenario you’ve described demands The Shawshank Redemption. There will be alien tears of joy everywhere.
But for your Netflix queue specifically, I’ll recommend Scorsese’s oft-forgotten After Hours, just because I’ve been thinking about it a lot lately.
pinstripebindi:
if aliens landed on earth, and you were...
Junior Boys - Parallel Lines
I’ve not quite...
MSTRKRFT - 1000 Cigarettes
“These...
“Every body needs to grab a hose and that is what Charlie Crist is doing here...”
– Barack Obama, speaking in Florida yesterday. No, the Charlie Crist gay jokes are never going to get old.
How much more productive do you think you would be...
I’m saying 35-40%
due to heavy call volume, your call will be...
furrowedbrow:
i love oddly specific time frames.
It’s usually not an actual estimate, it’s an engineered number they think you’ll hear and say “okay, I can deal with this” and not hang up. Don’t be surprised if you end up waiting 20+ minutes before you get a human.
thebrewerpatriot:
I was out on a first date this week with a nice girl. We were having lovely conversation at dinner and she mentioned that she wanted a guy who would just “steal her heart.” I was holding my steak knife and I pointed at her and said, “Well, not your heart, but your kidneys, maybe.” Needless to say, I finished dinner by myself. Note to self: Add “organ thievery” to List of...
WatchDog is placed into a trance by TV trainer. Upon entering it, it looks like he suddenly lost contact with his soul and is waiting for it to load again.
(Via The Soup, via missabba)
The Real Bonnaroo Lineup
Superfly Productions and A.C. Entertainment are excited to announce the initial lineup for the 2009 Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival. The eighth annual four-day camping and music festival will be held on June 11 - 14 on the same beautiful 700-acre farm in Manchester, Tennessee, 60 miles south of Nashville. Every year Bonnaroo seeks to make history by offering unique and exclusive performances by...
WatchAir France - No Excuses
The only record on my top 5 of last year that I still listen to obsessively. If advertising companies and soundtrack supervisors got smart, they’d realize this was the “Porcelain” of the late 00’s and that Air France is the Moby.
