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thechive.com
Can you find the Hamilton student?!?!?
April 2009
24 posts
It's science →
hij.sagepub.com
I read something that kinda looked like science today…take that, Dr. Oakes!!!
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Tweeting Life
At approximately 11pm on a Sunday, Soulja Boy Tell ‘Em paused to share, via his blackberry, his innermost thoughts:
“I just wonder sometimes how did I get so famous like what was so special about me.. & I wonder what I would be doing now If i never made it”
I wonder too Mr. Tell ‘Em…I wonder too.
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Teabagging my sensabilities →
huffingtonpost.com
Can we please retire the term “McCarthyism?” Yes, it can be broadly and frequently appplied. No, it is not applicable. We roll out the same tired cliche almost monthly with whatever seems to politically or socially irk us. Retire it. Retire “Manchurian Candidate.” Put “The Crucible” in the same grave as “1984” and calm down.
“In many ways, the work of a critic is easy. We risk very little yet enjoy a position over those who offer up their work and their selves to our judgment. We thrive on negative criticism, which is fun to write and to read. But the bitter truth we critics must face, is that in the grand scheme of things, the average piece of junk is probably more meaningful than our criticism designating it so. But there are times when a critic truly risks something, and that is in the discovery and defense of the new.”
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-Ratatouille
I suppose that is how the Pitchfork set defends its snark, although I truly doubt they think that hard. Oh well, I guess I’ll go back to making fun of unflattering pictures, foreign music videos, shady political/economic policy, and people who say things I don’t think are intelligent.
Ok, Klosterman is kinda creeping up my list. I really like the way he articulates himself
- Chuck Klosterman: You mean you think you literally had the same experience as Doc Holliday [in Tombstone]?
- Val Kilmer: Oh, sure. It's not like I believed that I shot somebody, but I absolutely know what it feels like to pull the trigger and take someone's life.
- Chuck: You understand how it feels to shoot someone as much as a person who has actually committed a murder?
- Val: I understand it more. It's an actor's job. A guy who's lived through the horror of Vietnam has not spent his life preparing his mind for it. He's some punk. Most guys were borderline criminal or poor, and that's why they got sent to Vietnam. It was all the poor, wretched kids who got beat up by their dads, guys who didn't get on the football team, couldn't finagle a scholarship. They didn't have the emotional equipment to handle that experience. But this is what an actor trains to do. I can more effectively represent that kid in Vietnam than a guy who was there.
- Chuck: I don't question that you can more effectively represent it, but that's not the same thing. If you were talking to someone who's in prison for murder and the guy said, "Man, it really fucks you up to kill another person," do you think you could reasonably say, "I completely know what you're talking about"?
- Val: Oh yeah. I'd know what he's talking about.
- Chuck: Let's say someone made a movie about you--Val Kilmer--and they cast Jude Law in the lead role. By your logic, wouldn't this mean that Jude Law--if he succeeded in the role--would therefore understand what it means to be Val Kilmer more than you do?
- Val: No, because I'm an actor. The people in those other circumstances don't have the self-knowledge.
- Chuck: Well, what if it were a movie about your young life, before you became an actor?
- Val: I guess I'd have to say yes.
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Limbeck, This Place Is Deserted
Is it just me, or does this sound a lot like Deathcab and Third Eye Blind had a baby somewhere in Kansas? I do really like this album, but I suspect Limbeck might be involved in some trendhopping, though I’m sure there is a less cynical view. Also, I don’t want to stop enjoying this album, so I’ll stop worrying about the influences.
“You are precise yet romantic, efficient yet dreamy, friendly yet somewhat suspicious of others. You rarely smile, but when you do it’s very meaningful. You like it best when there is a group consensus, and yet you are easily annoyed by the slowness and/or stupidity of others. Sometimes you think that if only you could live on an island or move to some wonderful place far away where things are different, everything would be better, and if you can’t realize this dream you often lose yourself in books/vacations/recipes/sports — anything for an escape! All in all, however, you make your peace with life, and have many old friends.”
—Facebook app, on Germans…yep, they kinda nailed it.
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Awesome, Really Awesome →
lab.andre-michelle.com
(via blues101)
This is incredibly addictive
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“Alas, the time of the most despicable man is comeing, he that is no longer able to despise himself. Behold, I show you the last man.”
—Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
