August 2010
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"American Apparel is probably fucked." →
backtothewild:
adailyriot:
crapffiti:
earsopenfortheboat:
yeahgrrrl:
missworld:
Schadenfreude.
oh darn
LOL!
CAN’T FUCKING WAIT.
hurm. INTRIGUING. but how will hipster wannbes dress in logo-less clothes now?
(I already know the answer. it’s “hipsters don’t exist.” They’re fictional, like Santa Claus, Charlie Brown, or Sean Connery.)
July 2010
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ahhhhhhhhhhhh I’m bored. someone should come over and bring me booze! we can have a rock band party! or something!
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My Year In Movies #84: There Will Be Blood
OK, I can’t properly cogitate how good this goddamn movie is. Honestly, I cannot find the words to properly express it. Daniel Day Lewis TEARS IT THE FUCK UP in this. And honestly, if it had been released in any other year, it would’ve been a shoo-in for Best Picture. As it stand, it was up against No Country For Old Men, which is still of my favorite movies ever.
Paul Thomas...
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I love EVERYTHING I've seen about this movie. →
EVERYTHING.
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My Year In Movies #83: Batman Returns
I live-tweeted this movie. I decided to just collect them all here, but I’ll add a little bit more analysis at the end as well.
watching BATMAN RETURNS.
Christopher Walken looks like he’s made of wax in this.
Also: the dude playing Chip Schreck is trying (and failing) to do Walken’s speech pattern
Dude, what the fuck: Batman straight up KILLS PEOPLE in this movie. He just...
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My Year In Movies #82: Stray Dog (Kurosawa-fest.7)
Toshiro Mifune is awesome. Straight up gangsta, son.
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New Sundowner song “As The Crow...
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When I say “Fuck the Man”, it’s...
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My Year In Movies #81: Brick
Wow. I’ve been sleeping on this movie for almost 5 years, and now I’m mad at myself for waiting that long to see it. And I am mad at all of YOU for not forcing me to see it. Jesus christ, Rian Johnson is the real deal.
A classic detective noir set in a high school, Johnson’s script and direction walk a very fine line that results in a modern classic of the genre. Joseph Gordon...
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My Year In Movies #80: Death Trance
I have no idea what just happened, but it involved sword fights, forests, guns, motorcycles, ninjas, spider-vampire-men, a Goddess of Destruction, Dir en Gray, and a lot of insanity.
Also: it was AWESOME.
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My Year In Movies #79: Inception (second viewing)
I still love this movie. In fact, I might love it even more. I’ll eventually be writing something longform on it, but probably after I discuss it more with some friends, and am on a podcast about it. I need to order my thoughts more clearly.
I think the only statement I can make right now is: the movie is an act of inception on its audience.
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Fantastic Matt Fraction Interview at GQ about... →
goddamn awesome.
Ask me a question, fuckers. →
I promise I will answer seriously and truthfully. (Probably.)
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My Year In Movies #78: Bronson
After seeing him almost steal the movie in Inception last night, I felt like seeing what many consider Tom Hardy’s big breakthrough role, as the notorious “hardest man in England” Charlie Bronson. And wow, did he not disappoint. Charismatic, gleeful, and positively frightening, Hardy OWNS this movie. He is in almost every frame, and he takes over the screen with his presence....
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“A cannon fires only once, but words detonate across centuries.”
– Grant Morrison, The Invisibles
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My Year In movies #77: Inception
No spoilers. Not much of anything, really, since most of you won’t see this for another 2 hours, at the very least. In any event…
HOLY SHIT
Holy. Fucking. Shit.
I loved everything about this movie. EVERYTHING. Christopher Nolan has taken every other movie of this summer and given them a giant middle finger and said “Top this, fuckers.”
I’ve nothing else to say...
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I Deserve A Gold Star (new mix!) →
New mix for you all! Download and please to be enjoying!
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My Year In Movies #76: Kick-Ass
I’m honestly not sure I can write anything about this film. It was over-the-top, violent, and fucking INSANE.
I’ve read the book, and I quite honestly hated it. There was a vile racist undercurrent to the whole thing, and it seemed like Mark Millar laughing at his audience rather than with them; he seemed to be saying all his fans were closet racist homophobes who do nothing but...
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“We, the American working population, hate the fact that eight hours a day is...”
– Aesop Rock, “9-to-5ers Anthem”
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My Year In Movies #75: Stepbrothers
It’s the fuckin’ Catalina Wine Mixer.
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A cover of Straylight Run’s “A Slow...
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My Year In Movies #74: Repo Men
This movie was stylish, violent, fucked up, and completely ridiculous. Also: AWESOME. It was almost Cronenberg-ian in its way, with its focus on human physiology and the horrors it can contain. And the “reclamation” scene towards the end… if that’s not supposed to be sex through surgery, I don’t know what is. The story is a bit of a muddle, and the very end was...
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My Year In Movies #73: Below
A submarine seems like a tailor-made setting for a horror film, especially one that’s more ghost-related, that it’s surprising that no one else has done it before (at least that I’m aware of). Maybe the release of Below (co-written by Darren Aronofsky and David Twohy, and directed by Twohy) has scared everyone off ever topping it, because this movie does everything SO well.
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Watchnnnidevenknow:
“Space is invisible mind dust and stars are but wishes.”
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My Year In Movies #72: Clash of the Titans (2010)
I still am actively pissed off at this movie.
Just so you know.
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My Year In Movies #71: F For Fake
The most common question asked in movies focused on the nature of reality is “what is real?”, as is most philosophy. The question that seems more pertinent to me, and to the makers of this film is, “What is fake?” Reality can be defined any number of ways; choose your own adventure, as it were. But what “fake” means can vary just as much, and when you are in...
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Electrical Stories
[This is my favorite piece of writing I’ve ever done; it’s from a couple years ago. I rather like it. I hope you do too.]
The streets are wet, and silent, and dark. Everything has gone to bed, gone to sleep, gone to dream away the whys and maybes that confront them. I am awake. As is usual. I am walking the streets, my streets, full of promise and hope and regret and wariness....
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My Year In Movies #70: Batman The Movie
I should’ve written this 4 days ago. But I didn’t. ONOES! Anyway…
Everyone knows the aesthetic of the Batman television show from the ’60s by now. And Adam West is as ubiquitous as ever. (Burt Ward, not so much.) So it should go without saying, this movie was fun as all get out. Goofy, silly, all attempts at being “serious” falling flat, fun. I had to keep...
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“He did this three-song, 1984/George Orwell suite on Diamond Dogs, and...”
– Matt Fraction, talking about Casanova vol 3. SO EXCITED.
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