stuff i liked in '09: movies

10. adventureland - this was surprisingly decent. It brings back the smart 80s coming-of-age tale and gives it some integrity. While none of the characters are very likeable and there are some rehashed storylines from actual 80s flicks, I liked it. It also reminds me of my 80s favorites: Fast Times, Last American Virgin.

9. a serious man - it's a bit tougher to explain why I like this one. I'll just say I love the last shot.

8. where the wild things are - everything about this was perfect.

7. the hangover - do i really need to say anything about it.

6. bad lieutenant - always loved Werner Herzog and Nic Cage was amazing. Cage had fun with this and it comes through. This should actually be my number 1, or 3 at least.

5. zombieland - everywhere I looked I heard that Star Trek was the most fun movie-going experience of the year. Not True.

4. Terminator Salvation - I think Sam Worthington is one of my new favorite actors.

3. inglorious basterds - like the Hangover, no explanation.

1/2. Funny People / District 9 - I couldn't decide which I loved more. Judd Apatow reached a new peak with Funny People with his different brand of storytelling. I want to see this guy's films when he's sixty-five. Now on the other hand there's District 9, which blew my mind. It's an extraordinary scyfy action film with equal brain and muscle power. It's great filmmaking and storytelling. If you haven't caught on, I'm big on great storytelling within film.

Bombay Bicycle Club

"Always Like This"

michael caine

i'm going to change this world. man i've got a million ideas.

i think i'm just now really becoming a man. 22 years. this is it. i mean this in a worldly sense. I'm just now becoming one with reality. i feel like ive always had my finger on the pulse of whats going on and i dont mean whats going on in the sense of world affairs, but rather my understanding of what the world is. its coming to the forefront. I understand the bullshit. all that it took to get me here was 22 years, a girl, and a drinking problem.
this all started on my way to work on my first day. i saw someone, a girl on the street. i dont remember the date but it was on a saturday around 10am. skip to nearly a year later and this girl is becoming my destruction. i should be strong enough to not let a girl bring me down but hey, lets face it, its happening. anyway, (before i go any further you as the reader need to understand my current state. i have been drinking since around 2pm on saturday. it is now 315am on sunday. what this means for you is, well, you're reading this--hopefully--you'll get it) i think i've read a little too much bukowski and i feel as though he might be rubbing off on me.
a thought runs through my head. "will this be the rest of my life?"
i may jump around a bit so please try to stick with me...my mom has always feared that i would turn into an alcoholic. after all, my father was an alcoholic and it drove him to the grave. i don't know his story except for the part where he met my mom>had me>left me>drank until he died. my brother, well half-brother, isn't doing much better. from what i know he was a drug dealer before he went to prison. after prison, for which he did 8years, he developed a dependency problem. (i don't think he could handle being out.) he couldn't go a day without marijuana and vicodin and it led to him ending up in prison, again.
so now back to me. back to the girl. i don't know what to call this thing with the girl. was it a fling? were we seeing each other? was i a rebound? no. no. yes. that's what i feel it was to be completely honest. i was a rebound and i got a little too attached. it happened. so what? well...now i'm stuck. after the break/separation i drank to try and forget. i had two horrible days right after but i got over her by the 3rd day. the 3rd day is actually when i started to feel better but in the back of my mind, she was still there. this i feel is how at least 58% of all drinking problems start. the other 42% comes from debt, death, health, and other various issues. anyway, i've been drinking since then. well, i was drinking before the break and she was only a reason not to stop. i haven't stopped.

to be continued...

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Now playing: Dan Black - Cocoon
via FoxyTunes

a mild pervert. written 8/16/09

this was the first of several short essays i've started writing. most have been written while under the influence of alcohol and I believe they are horribly written in every respect. I've decided when I have several written i'll collect them in something I want to title, A collection of horribly written essays by a young pervert. perhaps i will go back and develop them at some point, but for now here is the first. unedited. mostly.


i stare at women everywhere (this morning I woke up around 5am and got ready to make an 835am flight to san diego from SF). I love airports. You see all types of women. Not many but a few. Young, old, teens & 20 somethings. Now I'm not a pedophile but i've caught myself looking at teens- i'm 22 and it wasn't too long ago that I myself was still in my teens so Its seems completely appropriate to throw a glance their way. 16 is the cut off though-- As i sat in the terminal waiting to board my flight a mother and her 2 two teenage daughters paced towards me. The 2 girls, her daughters I assumed, wore cut-off shorts--their Daisy Dukes--and I watched as they made their way towards me. I watched them as they passed and left my sight.
A couple of minutes after the teenage girls and their mother walked my I spotted a gorgeous brunette with thick glasses--not frames, but lenses--and she wore them well. Her hair was wavy, crunched almost. She wore a jean jacket with a blue one-piece skirt. At the end of her skirt stood her thighs. Not extraordinarily thick but the way she walked accentuated each thigh. These were the thighs I wished to see on the teens' Daisy Dukes. She even wore the boots to top off the outfit. Once she walked passed me my eyes drew to her buttocks. She was fit so I imagined what it looked like. This, of course, differed from what i wanted it to look like under there. There were plenty of attractive women at the airport and i imagined the same thing yet prefer to picture them as I want, not how my imagination conjures them up.

summer, man

1. LIMBECK!!!
2. dan black - un
23. jonathan ames reading fest
4.
5, pete yorn & scarlett johansson - break up (rad album)
4\6 rediscovering Johnny Cash (well, the american recordings)
7 - maylene and the sons of disaster III
88 Judd Apatow's Funny people
(9) beer
X:::pat benatar (i know she's old. I heard alot of pat benatar this summer)
11_inglorious basterds!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Old Jews Telling Jokes

Symphonies In CineScope

92% of kids have turned to rap or pop

Forgotten Hotties of the 80s #1

I was watching Less Than Zero the other day and realized two things. One, Andrew McCarthy needs a Mickey Rourke/Robert Downey, Jr. size comeback. Two, Jami Gertz is a fogotten hottie of the 80's. Really, what happened to her? After Less Than Zero and The Lost Boys she did some minor stuff in the 90's but nothing as cool as her two 80's flicks. Her career fizzled out before she got really huge so she was never established as an 80's hottie. When you think 80's hotties you think Molly Ringwald or Phoebe Cates, but never Jami Gertz. This is why Jami Gertz is a forgotten hottie of the 80's.

halo 3 (28 weeks later) the movie

halo 3 (28 weeks later) the movie - watch more gamer videos

link: pwnordie

My Summer Reading list '09...in no particular order

House of Leaves - Mark Danielewski
Jules and Jim - Henri-Pierre Roché
Catcher in The Rye - JD Salinger
Nausea - Jean-Paul Sartre
Invisible Monsters - Chuck Palahniuk
Perfume, The Story of a Murderer - Patrick Suskind
Less Than Zero - Bret Easton Ellis
Women - Charles Bukowski
Getting Even - Woody Allen
The Illustrated Man - Ray Bradbury
The Informers - Bret Easton Ellis
Pygmy - Chuck Palahnuik
Crime and Punishment - Dostoevsky
Young Che - Ernesto Guevara Lynch
The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole

I expect to get through at least half the list. A quarter of the list I'd be happy with. I'll update as I do.

UPDATED: June 21

a short film by Sam Walker

Tea Break


Macabre comedy of the pitch black variety. A man goes about his job matter-of-factly - except it might not be for the faint of heart.

I've come to realize I dislike just about everyone I know.

but that's okay. I'm sure they dislike me too.

The Soul Detective

by Davi de Oliveira Pinheiro

featuring David Lynch


The Soul Detective from Think Tank on Vimeo.

SYNOPSYS: A detective enters a train car where he finds different manifestations of a force that haunts the place. Using his telepathic powers he tries to enter the mind of a recently deceased man before all his memories vanish.

SWPL....

moshing.

Here's the real pic.

Dan Black

It was only a matter of time...

what the SH*t!!

Come the fuck on, really?!? Poor dog.

Klingon Night School

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nobody ever robs restaurants

two kids re-creating Pulp Fiction diner scene

oh Anthony Green

man issued 50 traffic citations in 1 day. all while on crack

BOYNTON BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Elvis has left the vehicle. A man was arrested on more than 50 traffic citations — all in one day. Police said Elvis Alonzo Barrett, 46, fled from police trying to stop him for a traffic violation Thursday morning. Police said he ran through red lights, crashed into another car and a fence. Police said they found crack cocaine and a crack pipe in his car.

Barrett faces several charges, including fleeing and eluding and reckless driving.

He was also issued more than 50 traffic citations on charges including speeding, running red lights, and not wearing a seat belt.

Police said Barrett has a lengthy criminal history and his driver license was suspended.

A phone number listed for him was not in service Thursday night.

This is ridiculous. After a full day of smoking crack I would be too the most alert driver on the road. I'd probably drop the hammer too.

Franklyn

i'm thinking Dark City meets V for Vendetta.

a rant about Beth Cooper

A few months ago I was in Borders (pre-employment) looking for something to sit around with and I came across I Love You, Beth Cooper. I had read some reviews prior to my visit and it sounded pretty cool so I decided to pick it up. So I started it and couldn't put it down for a while but for some reason I kind of stopped reading it. Recently I decided to pick it up again and finish it, which I did over over lazy day. I then asked myself why I had put it down in the first place. Anyway, it reminded me of all these 80's John Hughes flicks if I had read them and not watched them. I mean, that's what inspired it, that and Larry Doyle's teenage years of course. After picking it up again I come across something online about the the movie. Yes, an I Love You, Beth Cooper movie. C'mon. Now I'm sure it's going to be a great since it shares a director with Home Alone, Adventures in Babysitting, and Harry Potter 1 & 2 but there's some stuff in the book that's a little closer to Superbad than anything else and I don't know what the filmmakers are going to do with it. I'd hate for it to get cleaned up since it works so well in the book. My guess is it'll be more like a John Hughes film than, I dunno, Last American Virgin. Let's hope it comes out with a clean R rating.

and here's a still from the movie, if you're interested. Some weird looking kid as Denis Cooverman and Claire Bennett as Beth Cooper.

some of my favorite music related things of '08

So this was a pretty big year for me. I left my comfort zone and took in tons of new, much needed music and artists

-The Dark Knight Score
-Ace Enders and a million different people - The Secret Wars
-Yelle on Halloween. It was pretty sweet, had no idea what she was saying but awesome time
-Anthony Green - Avalon
-Alive In Wild Paint - Ceilings-completely mellow album but amazing nonetheless. Really cool guys too.
-Rancid at The Warfield - it was just about time I got around to seeing Rancid
-Van She - V - 80's synth pop. They're Australian and haven't released an album in the U.S. Have to thank my roommate Taylor for this one. V is one of my most listened albums of the year.
-Person L - Initial
-The Gaslight Anthem - The '59 Sound
-Common - Universal Mind Control- fun album but fell way below expectations
-Dan Black - okay, so he didn't release an album but posted a bunch of new demos on his myspace page. 2009 is going to be a big year for Mr. Black
- Q-Tip - The Renaissance - this was a much needed album for hip-hop
-The Color Fred/Ace Enders and a million different people tour
-Cut/Copy - In Ghost Colours
-Britney Spears - yeah I'm not really into her but my friend played here nonstop and it was hard not getting her stuck in my head. Yeah, shoot me.
-Lady Gaga - same as above. checked out her album, it was pretty good.
-Ryan Adams & the Cardinals - Cardinology
-Tricky - Knowle West Boy
-Death in the park e.p.
-NFG - Tip of the Iceberg /International Superheroes of Hardcore - Takin' It Ova!

This night has opened my eyes

(Except for maybe a few, my entries have been shit. When I decided to start this thing I had a clear idea of what I wanted to present and touch upon. So far it hasn't happened)

In the past I've had ideas which I've written to the point where they've become short stories or notes for something bigger I can go back to later but I think I've got something here, finally. This is the idea I'm going to run with. It's semi-autobiographical only exaggerated to an extent for the sake of comedy.