January 2011
20 posts
now’s not the time for long, rambling speeches.... →
cinemetrics:
–excerpted from banksy’s acceptance speech for exit through the gift shop, which took the top prize at the cinema eye documentary honors.
in a you’ve gotta be joshin’ me move, banksy’s speech was prepared earlier and delivered on his behalf at the ceremony. a transcript of the whole speech can be read via ifc.
oh, Clint Mansell, where have you been all my...
how did I not know about such a good composer?
Someday I'm going to make a movie and score it...
some examples from the soundtrack:
-Double Rainbow Song: male lead discovers his true love
-Bed Intruder Song: romantic and violent drama unfolds, unraveling a legal thriller
-Rickroll: despite the turmoil, male lead is never going to give his love up
-Trololo: epic finale
and more!
“(She use that butter)
Now I ain’t sayin’ she a belt buster (Paula Deen)
But...”
– Belt Buster submitted by GTG (via noonemanshouldhaveallthatflour)
Bleeeeeeeeh
Remarks by the President at a Memorial Service for... →
But at a time when our discourse has become so sharply polarized -– at a time when we are far too eager to lay the blame for all that ails the world at the feet of those who happen to think differently than we do -– it’s important for us to pause for a moment and make sure that we’re talking with each other in a way that heals, not in a way that wounds.
I'm reading an article about tiny frogs on CNN and...
Wow, way to really target my demonstrated interests.
“If the politicians and leaders of parties were as true as the people, there...”
– abe lincoln
answers and violence
In reading about the shooting in Arizona, I feel sick. Sick at heart, sick at hope, sick to my stomach.
The murderer seems obviously insane, if you watch his YouTube videos and read some of his posts in other places- and aside from that, only a madman goes into a peaceful meeting at a grocery store and shoots 18 people indiscriminately, including a 9-year-old girl. I can only feel the smallest...
