June 2011
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“I wanted to make the greatest rock record that I’d ever heard, I wanted it...”
– Rolling Stone’s best Springsteen songs.
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WatchThe entirety of Tod Browning’s 1932 Freaks is available to watch on Vimeo.
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“Language is not the lowborn, gawky servant of thought and feeling; it is need,...”
– William H. Gass
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“I saw Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band call out Rosalita on August 24,...”
– Joe Posnanski, “The Big Man” (Joe Blogs)
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1998 Style
CJ: it's hard to believe people don't know where to start in MST3k, but that is a larger symptom of the fact that it is hard to believe people aren't between the ages of 25-30
Chris: Ha. "Start with whichever one comes on SciFi on Saturday at 10 PM."
CJ: wake up a bit earlier to catch Vampire Hunter D and have your first feelings of arousal mixed with shame courtesy of Apollo Smile
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“We need the books that affect us like disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the...”
– Franz Kafka
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“Even if you don’t want to become a scientist, the minimum you should ask of...”
– Neil deGrasse Tyson. “Innovation ‘vital’ for future economy,” CNN.com. (via holdenmacphillips)
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“I always tell girls who say they want to start a band but don’t have any...”
– Kathleen Hanna
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A personal assessment
At the beginning of this year, I was unceremoniously dumped by the man I thought I would marry. It sucked. A lot.
A lot of bad things happened. I learned when you’re almost thirty and a busy single mother, heartbreak is quite a bit harder to figure out how to deal with. Stress-related stomach problems caused me to lose a dangerous amount of weight. I spent an unpleasant amount of time in and out...
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Well, sure. You need to complete your training...
clientsfromhell:
During production of a film we were doing, over the phone with the client, we were discussing a scene where the actors begin fighting each other with lightsabers. We explained how we’d create the effects, work it out in post-production. Then the client speaks up and says, “Why don’t we just use real lightsabers?” …And it took us 30 minutes to explain to her why we couldn’t.
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On traps and new lives
Someone told me a story the other day, about a woman a friend of his had known. This friend was a teacher, at an university, and had somehow turned up this woman in an area of rural Appalachia where her opportunities were slim. Recognizing an intelligence that deserved better, the teacher worked to bring the woman to the university in the city. They found her scholarship money, enrolled her, and...
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“Be a troublemaker. All art is troublemaking, because why go through all the...”
– John Waters on 10 things every role model needs 