December 2009
46 posts
The most popular band ever, “Real...
Top 10 Films of the year
In no order:
Funny People
Up
Up in the Air
Drag Me to Hell:
Observe and Report
The Hurt Locker
Star Trek
An Education
The House of the Devil
The Fantastic Mr. Fox
Honorable mention: District 9 (really fun, and sort of a game changer for action films), Avatar (hated it first time, second time enjoyed it as a fun action movie). Overall I’d say it was a good year for action films.
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Top 10 Albums of the Decade
1. Funeral, Arcade Fire
2. Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, Wilco
3. Sound of Silver, LCD Soundsystem
4. Black Sheep Boy, Okkervil River
5. A Grand Don’t Come For Free, the Streets
6. Night Falls Over Kortedala, Jens Lekman
7. Blood Visions, Jay Reatard
8. Microcastle, Deerhunter
9. Mass Romantic, the New Pornographers
10. Feels, Animal Collective
Decade
Today I was driving home from Berkeley and thinking about this New Year’s party I’m going to tomorrow. It then occured to me that this was also a New Decade party. I briefly thought about things I could to kick in this decade that I did to kick off this last decade. Which is when I freaked out. I realized that I celebrated the dawn of the aughts jumping up and down on my parents...
OH YEAH
I need to stop writing things from midnight to 1 AM. The joy of getting something done is destroyed by being tired.
There was a better way to phrase that. But I’m tired.
And that. Those last 2 sentences could’ve been phrased better too.
JZT's Dream Theatre #1
A dark room in an undisclosed foreign country. GIRL and JZT sit very close together.
GIRL (called girl to protect identities): Wait JZT, do you want to go downtown?
JZT: yeah.
GIRL: Oh good! Because I made that facebook status about going downtown and you didn’t like it.
JZT: nah-I want to go downtown.
They start making out.
Scene.
I lost quite a few followers after admitting I...
I haven’t seen Adventureland yet (it’s number 1 on my queue), but I have to agree with Frank on the 500 days of summer dissing.
Zooey Deschanel’s character has NO personality. She’s just an emotionless shell with no desire or feelings. It wants to be On Human Bondage, but it fails.
frankhejl:
Fuck that. Adventureland was MUCH better.
thedarkspark:
Is this where I...
I’ve been listening to Blood Visions non...
Movies
Wouldn’t it be weird if every movie ended with a character saying “wow, that was an interesting experience. I think I might write a screenplay about it”?
Vision
I have this vision of the future. But it’s also kind of an idea for a website.
It’s kind of like Omegle meets Skype, only the goal is different. You log on and someone randomly is paired up with you. And the goal is for you each to quickly analyze what’s wrong with the other person. “You’re too cowardly, you’re too honest, you don’t look people in the...
Promise
I will make a best albums of the decade list by the end of the year.
Promise
I will make a best albums of the decade list by the end of the year.
All Falls Down (On Manny)
You were in the right. You saved a life, the groping was accidental. Even if it was intentional touching her, you still saved her life. She would’ve wanted it that way.
mannydrivesa:
First, sorry for using a Kanye West song as a title for a post, but it’s a good song. In fact, I would go as far as calling it great (I’m listening to it as I write).
This da the real one baby.
Now, lets...
“I found Paul Tompkowitz, Street Railway Switchman to be a very sad, lonely...”
– from a documentary traditions essay that very clearly depicts how little time I have left and how liberal I can take the prompt “write a personal response to the film.”
I’d also like the record to show while I might have seen this in class, I have absolutely no memory of film. In...
WatchThis is the best SNL sketch of the decade.
thedailywhat:
SNL: The Not Ready For Prime-Time Ninjas’ spoofing of the infamous Gathering Of The Juggalos infomercial with the promotion of the stilt-walking mime and mayhem parade known as “Kickspit Underground Rock Festival” probably confused the Faygo out of nana and pop-pop, but managed to buy the show a fistful of Internet cred.
The best part?...
Rolling Stone the restaurant coming to L.A. in... →
I used to respect Rolling Stone so much in 6th grade.
Sad what’s happened. But also super funny.
yourkitchensink:
I can’t wait to taste 2 star dishes that the restaurant insists are 4 star dishes.
Madness!
Almost finished editing my fourth film!!!
Plan for the rest of the night:
Dinner, think to write other essays
