I’m swearing off Aronofsky films, because I enjoy happiness. However, great film!
Nicholas Cage is great, because he is the honey badger. Also, I liked Weather Man. Deal with it.
I also made this kinetictypography animation last year, it’s Neil Gaiman reading a portion of his poem Instructions, on of my favorites
I love, love Neil Gaiman. This is something I need in a job hunt. In a “i-will-find-something-that-i-like-and-does-not-make-me-prefer-eating-dirt-and-will-reasonably-pay-off-student-loans-for-the-college-degree-I-am-questioning” job hunt.
(I know receiving a degree does not equate to getting a job.)
(via neil-gaiman)
"But ideology is just a pejorative word for principles in which you happen not to believe."
— The Economist
"The human species was given dominion over the earth and took the opportunity to exterminate other species and warm the atmosphere and generally ruin things in its own image, but it paid this price for its privileges: that the finite and specific animal body of this species contained a brain capable of conceiving the infinite and wishing to be infinite itself."
— The Corrections, Jonathan Franzen
Daniel Radcliffe ‘shocked by David Yates Doctor Who movie speculation’
“I don’t know if I could play him,” Radcliffe told Digital Spy. “Matt Smith plays Doctor Who and does a wonderful job. They don’t need me!”
He continued: “I would never presume to jump into somebody else’s franchise, not at all.”
Oh my God. This movie reeks of French existentialism and anti-science (progress? futurism? I don’t know the right …”movement”). We’ll lose our morals in the name of ‘progress’.
The image links to a pretty straight forward synopsis (thus, *warning spoilers) of what happens in the film. The story was intriguing, and the cinematography seemed swell, but there was scene cuts that make it understandable why French, artistic films get made fun of in shows like Family Guy. The parody of the Noir genre is fun, and there are some killer scenes.
Sure, watch it, but Metropolis seemed shorter and it was silent and longer.
A review in defense of the film: http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/filmblog/2011/dec/28/my-favourite-film-alphaville-godard
Re: Slate talking about Lana Del Ray
“Authenticity is totally empty as aesthetic category”
“A streak of misogyny” blahblahblah
Lana Del Ray’s music is terrible. Her performance on SNL confirmed it. I hated Video Games when I heard it. I dislike how critics are trying to defend this girl, maybe poor girl, because people are arguing against her authenticity. Of course, that may be a part of the argument, understandably, that they should argue against her lack of talent instead of her image. If she could have proved her talent on SNL, instead of sounding like she had multiple personality disorder, she could have proved herself as the ‘performer’, maybe. I also hate Slate’s actress-Meryl Streep not being an actual prime minister. RARGHH.
I love the construction. I love Lady Gaga. It’s fun. Also, they’re wrong. There was plenty of Youtube videos of Lady Gaga as Stephanie whatever-her-last-name-is at NYU, just playing piano and singing, uh, original songs. Plenty of people commenting, ‘Why doesn’t she still do this?’. The difference—it showed she was talented.
http://www.slate.com/articles/podcasts/culturegabfest/2012/02/luck_a_separation_and_lana_del_rey_on_this_week_s_culture_gabfest_podcast_.html
