The Spaceball Ricochet

eight page interview with David Simon. street value: free

Tue, 15 Dec 2009 20:22:57 -0500

eight page interview with David Simon. street value: free

My interview with Alfred Spellman, of Miami’s rakontur...

Tue, 15 Dec 2009 19:22:00 -0500

My interview with Alfred Spellman, of Miami’s rakontur films and producer of The U, aka the black Bart Simpson of sports doc

Cocaine Cowboys from rakontur, Bay, and Bruckheimer, coming to HBO in 2010

weedweedweed: weetzie-bat: rubies-n-diamonds///stonerparty it’...

Tue, 15 Dec 2009 18:07:23 -0500

weedweedweed:

weetzie-bat:

rubies-n-diamonds///stonerparty

it’s official, now i’ve seen everything - a dinosaur blunt

*___________*

Nic Cage and Hit Girl in KICK-ASS

Mon, 14 Dec 2009 15:35:20 -0500

Nic Cage and Hit Girl in KICK-ASS

(via rodawfoe)

Mon, 14 Dec 2009 11:00:31 -0500

(via rodawfoe)

stellavista: the springfield shopper (4)

Sat, 12 Dec 2009 12:20:54 -0500

stellavista:

the springfield shopper (4)

natashavc: FLAPS ARMS (via synecdoche)

Sat, 12 Dec 2009 12:03:21 -0500

natashavc:

*FLAPS ARMS*

(via synecdoche)

MSN Calls Slashfilm One of the Decade's Best Movie Websites

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 18:54:58 -0500

MSN Calls Slashfilm One of the Decade's Best Movie Websites:

Also: The Guardian UK calls Slashfilm an Essential Website of 2009

synecdoche: somehowsomeway: (via jsullydesign) i love all...

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 16:07:00 -0500

synecdoche:

somehowsomeway:

(via jsullydesign)

i love all things related to clue including soap dispensers, murder, and tim curry.

only works in the men’s room tho.

apartment shopping (browsing) with clipse

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 13:26:05 -0500

apartment shopping (browsing) with clipse

seanorr: personalhomepage: (via andafern)

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 12:34:32 -0500

seanorr:

personalhomepage:

(via andafern)

The Chuck Klosterman Interview Part 2: 30 Rock, Mad Men, The Office, Arrested Development, and Why Movies and TV Have Made Us Less Human

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 11:59:00 -0500

Hunter Stephenson: Would you agree that over the years movies and television have made the act of “contemplating living” scarier or seem unnatural?

Chuck Klosterman: Well, I don’t think it’s made daily living seem scarier or unnatural; well, maybe unnatural. It certainly has given people or galvanized the belief that a normal life is not enough. And that a good life needs to be completely spontaneous and a romantic experience. And, you know, that’s not just Hollywood, that’s all media. And, you know, I love the media, I live in the media, I consume this stuff constantly, as soon as I get off the phone with you I’ll probably start watching TV. But I know that it’s a negative thing and that it’s having a negative effect on mankind, because it’s changing peoples’ view of what “being alive” means.

The real conclusion of the book is that we’ve never been less human than we are now; but that statement could have been said in 1920 and that would have been true, and it probably could have been said in 1680 and it would have been true. I mean, evolution is always happening, right, and the evolution of humankind is a way for us to be less human. And it’s weird to think about that; but I’m thankful for that in a lot of ways because it makes my life more comfortable and more interesting. It’s weird though to think that the trajectory of people is to not be people. [laughs]

Link to Part 2 (posted today)

Link to Part 1

Party Down’s Adam Scott in a Five Easy Pieces-ish Dramedy Entitled The Vicious Kind (Up for 2...

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 21:36:51 -0500

Party Down’s Adam Scott in a Five Easy Pieces-ish Dramedy Entitled The Vicious Kind (Up for 2 Independent Spirit Awards)

mollysoda:

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 20:37:50 -0500

mollysoda:

risingtensions: (via commonchant)

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 15:21:42 -0500

risingtensions:

(via commonchant)

The Harlem Children’s Zone on 60 Minutes

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 10:42:50 -0500

The Harlem Children’s Zone on 60 Minutes

thedailywhat: Lights Out: “Cartoon porn that used to send...

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 01:52:00 -0500

thedailywhat:

Lights Out: “Cartoon porn that used to send people screaming from the theater,” says Malice in Wonderland creator Vince Collins. Think Fantastic Planet meets Sesame Street’s infamous Pinball Number Count meets brown acid.

(NSFW, (s)natch)

[via.]

watch this.

what people wish they were talking about when they talk about eric wareheim rap videos.

digitalbath: spacecataz: kidskiddingkittens:

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 23:37:47 -0500

digitalbath:

spacecataz:

kidskiddingkittens:

Chuck Klosterman on How the Current Media Climate Killed the Strokes

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 12:00:31 -0500

Hunter Stephenson: You speak to [British culture journalist and biographer] Chris Heath in the book and he believes that celebrities who are required to do a lot of press begin to look at better interviews as an anecdote to express themselves. But do you feel the rise of so many press junkets, “round table” interviews, hundreds of “10-minute” phoners, and online media, does this somehow, even subconsciously, play into the unraveling of celebrity?

Chuck Klosterman: I don’t think it plays into the unraveling of celebrity, but I think it certainly increases the potential for minor celebrities to seem famous. You know, with the junket situation, I would say junkets are nothing but negative. And it is crazy. The thing is, to be totally honest, most of what I consider “real journalists” would not go to a junket. Sometimes you have no other choice, but junkets are mainly a way for people—I don’t want to say that they just want to meet John Travolta—but they’re not getting anything important out of it. These situations are more or less signifying that a person has enough access to meet someone who is famous. They are trying to create a degree of credibility. “What makes me different from someone off the street? Well, I can sit in the same room with Harrison Ford, and he answers my question directly, even if that question is completely meaningless.”

It was weird to me to sort of realize…I was doing a story on the second Strokes album for SPIN, I was doing a profile of the band for its release. And it became really obvious to me that The Strokes, every member of The Strokes, like, Albert Hammond Jr., [laughs] had conducted more interviews in their career than George Harrison did in the entire time he was in The Beatles. Because there is so much media now and so much of an understanding that part of what making music is—or making movies or television is—is that you conduct all of these little interviews as part of the marketing platform. And the content of the interviews doesn’t even matter, it’s just the act of doing them.

I could actually see how much and how negatively that had impacted that band. I think it really shortened the potential that The Strokes had. I think that they became so hyper-aware of how media was changing the meaning of their music and constantly constructing this specific perception of them, that they ended up having a very strange and—in some way—a mildly unsuccessful career. Even though they made one great record and a bunch of other really good songs, it already seems like they’re over. And I don’t think it’s their fault in any way. I think it was the way they were positioned by people who weren’t them.

+…discussion of tumblr and the unraveling of celebrity

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Sun, 06 Dec 2009 11:56:11 -0500

The Spaceball Ricochet

eight page interview with David Simon. street value: free

My interview with Alfred Spellman, of Miami’s rakontur...

weedweedweed: weetzie-bat: rubies-n-diamonds///stonerparty it’...

Nic Cage and Hit Girl in KICK-ASS

(via rodawfoe)

stellavista: the springfield shopper (4)

natashavc: *FLAPS ARMS* (via synecdoche)

MSN Calls Slashfilm One of the Decade's Best Movie Websites

synecdoche: somehowsomeway: (via jsullydesign) i love all...

apartment shopping (browsing) with clipse

seanorr: personalhomepage: (via andafern)

The Chuck Klosterman Interview Part 2: 30 Rock, Mad Men, The Office, Arrested Development, and Why Movies and TV Have Made Us Less Human

Party Down’s Adam Scott in a Five Easy Pieces-ish Dramedy Entitled The Vicious Kind (Up for 2...

mollysoda:

risingtensions: (via commonchant)

The Harlem Children’s Zone on 60 Minutes

thedailywhat: Lights Out: “Cartoon porn that used to send...

digitalbath: spacecataz: kidskiddingkittens:

Chuck Klosterman on How the Current Media Climate Killed the Strokes

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natashavc: FLAPS ARMS (via synecdoche)