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I don't wanna make this a whole Thing, but c'mon, man, telling someone who is just typing regular lil words on the lil web to "relaaaax" is annoying.
I don't understand why people talk about Ron Paul being somehow the lesser of the GOP evils. He is an insane, racist, nonsense scumbag who is pushing for isolationism in a time when we are quickly nearing the point of absolute international community, and who is pushing for economic deregulation FOUR YEARS AFTER a catastrophic economic disaster that was itself the result of some 20-odd years of economic deregulation. Basically, if you think Ron Paul looks better than the other GOP candidates, put your head on the pillow.
That makes sense. After a president sings publicly, he enters a 90-day refractory period where he can't so much as talk, let alone read, advance political positions, meet with foreign dignitaries, etc., so it's almost horrifically understandable how you would think his singing for fifteen seconds somehow interferes with his ability to make sound decisions.
I mean okay obviously Take Shelter blah blah my butt good movie put it on the list!! that movie, the list movie but Bridesmaids? That movie was like a Herzogian examination of the inside of a trashcan
My mind did some funny acrobatics when John C. Reilly showed up because I LIKE JOHN C. REILLY (the actor (in movies (where he is being someone fake (who did not exist (but is funny))))). Because I like this stranger person for a nonsense reason, when he came on-screen I went, "What is John C. Reilly doing in this!" Then I said, "Maybe he only saw the script for his scene and it is really funny and he thought the movie would be that funny all the way through and he wanted to be a part of it?" Then he said that Empire State Building joke and I immediately went to, "Oh, he probably has to do this, because his Los Angeles agent the politics putting his time in the money work owed a favor to promised had to contracts." Stop it, me! I do not need to cavort and contort to somehow keep my causeless affection for a fake 2-d comedy man. John C. Reilly, woops on ya.
I could watch Patrice Wilson talk forever for reasons he would probably not be too happy about.
That GQ article is confusing in a bunch of ways. I don't know. It doesn't seem real? It seems like we would have heard more about that? And also it seems like there's a lot of incompatible information at different sources? But also it would be weird for GQ to engage in some viral-marketing critical-theory maneuver for some unheard-of Ukrainian director? Gentleman's Quarterly? Uptalking?
Ok I don't want to be a total Party Jerk here, but god, most late-night standup interviews are pretty bad! And this is no exception! I mean, I like Zach Gaspifinasky and Conan, and I like their television jokes, but it's super super obvious that Conan is just feeding Zach prompts for jokes that he wrote before. Obviously this is all scripted and they're doing their job and it isn't more artificial than so-and-so telling an anecdote about her dog drinking a Tom Collins or whatever, but I like my thin veneers of realism a little THICKER.
That Conan story was so good! Holy Christ! I have been spending the last few years in workshops and reading through slush piles at internships and copyediting humor pieces and I am not sure I have seen anything as good as that, at all.
What a cruel sport these Videogams have made of our hearts.
Yeah--this isn't totally off. The right to personhood in respect to certain laws and rights is the whole sine qua non of corporations existence. He puts it poorly/terribly/awfully, but corporations are, in fact, sort of, through some lenses, people.
Greg, you linked to the fourth page of that Ryan Gosling interview! That was a mean trick to play.
I do not like Michael Ian Black! I like some of his things when they're tempered by other people, but he himself, when he's talking, or his stand-up, Yark. I remember back in '09 (start every story this way) a friend and I were driving across the country (America) and we got into the habit of stopping off at Best Buys to buy a new stand-up album every day. At one, we bought his because Wet Hot American Summer and, I guess, Remember the 80's or something. Anyway, back in the car, drove, driving, we listen to about fifty minutes of the album without saying anything, and my friend turns to me and says, "You paid for this." He was right. This has been A Stranger's Mind, thanks for joining.
That is the Garden State of analogies.
I want a dog so bad! Buy me a dog, everyone. Just kidding, I'll buy it MYSELF. Takes a village. Right now I'm catsitting and it's terrible! I have to feed this cat and I don't know why--so that it can keep on staring at me disdainfully and hiding under the bed? I already have one mom, thanks. This morning it started throwing up so I put it in the bathroom and I have not let it out yet. I do not have a gameplan. There is cat vomit in the bathroom and I will barely clean up after friends, much less a little jerk that someone else bought. I am going to pretend like I was at work today so that I do not have to deal with it until 5:00, which seems reasonable/adult to me.
This is pretty unequivocally my fault, so please don't beat yourself up too much.
AAA and the comment above mine, why am I so stupid
ughhh I just finished the first season like a month ago, and haven't started the second season yet, and I saw this link and went, "Oh, boy, definitely shouldn't click on that," and I did, and already I spoiled one big thing for myself anyway should I watch the rest of this show or just...take it breezy
anyway more to the point I am going to see Dave Eggers tomorrow so I'll tell him to keep an eye on the site
I like that you are sassing on one Dave Eggers movie with another as your av. I am not being sarcastic!! I really do like that! (it's hard to be sincere on the internet without coming off as a snarky jerk)
I kinda thought that I liked this movie right after I saw it, and then later on decided that I didn't, really, which I seem to do a lot. It's sort of "good" in the way a lot of mumblecore films are--it bears the mark of an auteur, it exhibits a mode of dialogue counter to the standard Hollywood style, and Baumbach is clearly a talented writer, especially in terms of revealing outlook/character through naturalistic conversation. That's sort of the problem, though--it's pretty good on a moment-to-moment basis but entirely absurd as a whole for a lot of the reasons Gabe talked about. It basically felt like an exercise in making an unlikable but believable character, and, while successful, just sort of spun there for a while. I read an interview with Charlie Kaufman a little while back where he said that he either likes to write or likes to read (I forgot, I am not a robot) stories where there's no solution, no didactic little conclusion or moral imperative, and while I agree with that, Greenberg felt like that proclivity taken to an unfortunate extreme; not only was there no answer, but it's never entirely clear what we were supposed to think the question was. also, I'm gay
All this roofy talk made that fade-to-black at the end super ominous! "A stranger gives me a knowing look, hands me alcohol, and, SCENE. We'll fix it in post." This lady is crying for help forwards and backwards, and we gotta step up as youtube commenters to help her out. "2 people didn't see where their drink came from." No, this was a very good video. It was very AWESOME, huurrRRHMOSAHHHRHRRrhhh.
Crazy, Stupid Love, please! Cowboys & Aliens looks a little heady for me.
NaNoWriMo is absolutely godawful practice.
Holy God, Videogabe, thank you. Thank you for feeling the same way about NaNoWriMouth as I do.
I am super surprised that Inception is getting so many votes for Best Original Screenplay! Have you guys seen that movie? The dialogue is TERRIBLE. I mean, I liked the movie, but it is not well-written, at all. Dialogue! Bad Dialogue!
Hey, Party Nerds! SWM here looking for a good time with Natalie Portman's Crazy Aunt glasses. No sarcasm allowed! Where can I buy glasses like that so that I can legally put them on my face? My current glasses aren't party wear, but the glasses I see in this trailer are the Party Shits! Does anyone know where I buy the glasses like that, please.
I did it and I just got DBatck Manhitman? I hate to break it to you, internet, but there is no big Batman, there is no Gotham, the universe is indifferent.
woops! goodbye, Comment of the Millennia hello, Dreamweaver
The revolution will not be televised! Bing: Your Cure for Fart Overload Syndrome. [IMG]http://i411.photobucket.com/albums/pp194/slangballad/Picture18.png[/IMG]
I can't watch a video like this without becoming incredibly aware of the no-doubt Gwen Stefani thousands around the country watching it at the same time. "Pet squeaks twice -- gas comes out" is truly the "Where were you when you heard the 9/11 was dead?" of our generation.
Woops, read this in Kenny's voice, now I'm dead. Viking pyre me, bros.
"Should I put in the path of this nation one thing, one single thing, deposited from That Most Divine Hand for the sole sake of the enlightenment of our people, and the betterment of our children, and the esteem of our nation, and the pride of our kind, I should hope most fervently and with the dogma of utter self-assurance that one day some buck of a film director might realize that most aetataureate potential which is, at this very moment, curled within the notion of a fantasy movie, but with swearing, and weed. Give unto me that which I deserve for my actions; give unto James Franco that which his stories about white boys smoking weed warrant." - me, right now
Oh, right, Magnolia came out that year. I can't believe that Magnolia didn't even get nominated and this won?? And Sixth Sense and the Green Mile got nominated?? Okay, Movie Academy.
Yes this movie is terrible, but I think that when he is like "one of many!" and Mena Suvari is like "one of ONE" and he says "whoa, one of NONE," it's not some sentimental move. It's that he saw her as a functionally sexual object (that is, the archetype of a sexually-available & nubile teen, a function of his desire rather than a fully-articulated person), and when she said she was a virgin it made him realize that she was actually not just a sexual flubber depository, and without that he realized that his attraction to her was as much an artificial construct as his original conception of her. Even that is stilted and totally one-dimensional, but the movie did have more of a point there than Kevin Spacey just saying, "You need a special boy with feelings to be the penis in you, like in Glee."
Ok, in all seriousness. This movie is way overhyped and I don't know why my generation has it on their Favorite Movies Facebook Blurbsite (but they also have Fight Club, so who knows). Kevin Spacey has Bad Uncle Eyes and now whenever I wake up to my Apple iPhone playing Marimba I wake up with K-Pax and an overlong and excruciatingly White problem (it's my penis). So I mean yes, it is a bad movie and it is basically about what a Total Bummer it is to be a teenager (literally or just developmentally!) thinking about how hard it is to be an adult and white and boring like the parents and having a job and providing for people. Bad movie. All that said, I don't think Kevin Spacey's transformation into Keyser So-bored is exactly meant to be a totally sympathetic move. I mean, ok, I haven't seen it in a bit, but I seem to remember the main characters being painted as both noble and strong (which, nope) but also pathetic and stupid and totally like our dumb parents, right, you guys? So giving the movie grief for having Kevin Spacey be stupid is totally fair, but it's not exactly news to the movie. The movie knows.
Winner of Best Academy Award for Straight-Up Rocking The Marimbas