June 2010
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Recipe For A Disastrous Tuesday
First of all, you should probably live in Manhattan, because there are several aspects of this story that are non-transferrable from one city to the other. Also, New York has been dealing with the most disgusting, humid weather on the entire planet which creates the most disgusting, putrid smells, and this really creates a unique ambiance in which to live your day. This is also great because you...
The Postcard Project →
My friend Gabe is doing a postcard art project. I nominate YOU to participate.
Here’s what you do:
Click on the link above.
Send him a postcard.
Receive a 100% unique postcard back with a story detailing the day he received your postcard.
???
Profit!
You have nothing to lose and everything to gain! Go go go! (And tell your friends!)
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scenes from my work elevator
SETTING: The very cramped, very slow elevator of an office building in Chelsea. An assortment of young professionals are squished inside, including a short asian girl with black, long hair liberally sprinkled with silver strands, which makes one wonder if she should be receiving the label of ‘girl’ when it all comes down to it, and a tall black man, wearing a perfectly disheveled...
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Flo Rida feat. Timbaland - Elevator
Does it ruin...
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The Girl Who Fixed the Umlaut →
thebronzemedal:
Nora Ephron’s delightful skewering of Steig Larsson, from the New Yorker:
Salander opened the door a crack and spent several paragraphs trying to decide whether to let Blomkvist in. Many italic thoughts flew through her mind. Go away. Perhaps. So what. Etc. “Please,” he said. “I must see you. The umlaut on my computer isn’t working.” He was cradling an iBook in his arms. She...
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Del Amitri - Roll to Me
I am finally in the...
sometimes a great notion: the post that started it... →
A year ago this week, I made a brief post about starting up a film site on tumblr. The only idea was that it had to not suck.
That idea/post - which eventually became Filmosophy for several months (before we were forced to change the name), and has now morphed into A Bright Wall in a Dark…
Aw, I’m getting all weepy over here…
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LIFE UPDATE :: JUNE 24, 2010
DEAR EVERYONE,
This is what I have been up to lately:
went to California
saw brother’s graduation
went to LA
saw So You Think You Can Dance taping (henceforth known as SYTYCD)
fell in love with like five dogs
went wine tasting in Napa
ate a lot of my mom’s food
flew back to NYC, which was really Newark, which is the worst airport and is in New Jersey
did not kill a toddler
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So Bad They're Good: Con Air (1997) →
monsterbeard:
I wrote this essay for A Bright Wall in a Dark Room, but I think this picture pretty much sums up everything you need to know.
Alternate titles for the essay included:
America, FUCK YEAH!
Southern Nic Cage is the Best Nic Cage
Con Air? More Like Con AWESOME!
Just piping in to let it be known that I chose the lead picture for this excellent dissertation on the merits of...
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jimmyrabbitte replied to your video: I googled this MC Hammer video of the “Addams…
Still confused by that “kick if they slap a friend” bit. What the heck does that even mean?
Um, I’m sorry, it seems like you’re questioning MC Hammer’s rhyming skills and that is strictly blasphemy around these parts, y’hear?
You know The Hammer is real.
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“Lorelei Yasky did it in her parents’ bed and a week later they had crabs...”
– Dylan Landis - Rana Fegrina
I have absolutely no memory of highlighting this line in the 2003 Best American Non-Required Reading collection, but there it is, covered in lime green marker. Why did I highlight this? Did I find it especially clever? Did I wonder if that sort of thing was possible? Was...
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so you think you can make michelle go apeshit?
Oh man. I don’t know how to quite convey my excitement, but I am going to a taping of So You Think You Can Dance this afternoon and I basically could just burst. That’s how excited I am. You guys don’t understand. You don’t even understand!
“Roland thinks L.A. is a place for the brain-dead. He says, if you turned off the...”
– L.A. Story
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joni mitchell - california
oh, but california...
“In trying to explain my affinity for this movie, it’s become abundantly clear to...”
– a bright wall in a dark room.: Dead Man (1995)
We’ve got new writer blood over at BWDR. This is awesome. Go read.
hills like white elephants, hemingway
‘Would you do something for me now?’
‘I’d do anything for you.’
‘Would you please please please please please please please stop talking?’
…
“One of the most difficult things to say to another person is I hope you will...”
– Russell Banks - My Mother’s Memories, My Father’s Lie, and Other True Stories
the dick is a lonely hunter
I sat in a room while Salman Rushdie and Christopher Hitchens made jokes tonight. These included:
limericks and haikus that mislead you into thinking they are dirty when they are, in fact, not
book titles that are off by one word (ex: The Big Gatsby, Good Expectations)
book/movie titles containing the word ‘heart,’ which is replaced by the word ‘dick’
what Shakespeare...
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Talking Heads - Psycho Killer
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attack of the killer sun dried tomatoes
While I’m on the subject of my mundane Sunday (woke up, spent way too much time catching up on Google Reader, made breakfast, dragged myself to the gym, went to Whole Foods, examined the Holograms and Splice’s head), let me tell you about my attack.
So, I’m sitting here minding my own business and the clock turns 7 (in the afternoon, silly!) and I’m like, “Yes! Time...
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Fink - Sort Of Revolution
jimmyrabbitte-deactivated201108 asked: Continuing on from your excellent breakdown last week of why exactly "Summer Girls" is the worst: what are your favorite summer songs? What would be on your all-time mixtape for beach weather?
marieromanova asked: Favorite place you've lived?
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Ask away. →
I have a lot of work and no motivation to do any of it. Plus, y’all never ask anything. What’s up with that? I’m a walking enigma. I’ll enigma your face.*
*THAT DOESN’T EVEN MAKE ANY SENSE. (SHE DOESN’T EVEN GO HERE! [STILL NOT MAKING SENSE.])
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venus
it’s hard to talk about it when it sits inside of you, sits inside your chest, on your bones, just resting. you take a breath and you feel it weighing on top of you. right there. you can’t see it, and you can’t touch it. (don’t be stupid.) but there it is, you can feel it. inside of you, on top of you. it comes packaged with a wind-up toy—also inside of you, inside...
chadilaksono said: wow, where is this in Savannah exactly? I really must visit there. All pictures I’ve seen of it are so gorgeous.
(Referring to this picture.)
I wish I could tell you, exactly, where this was taken. Unfortunately, my iPhone and I were a little lackadaisical in...
