June 25, 2008
My new favorite chaotician
is Remi Gaillard, kindof a french Spike Jonez but more of a dick. (whole channel here; note that vids auto-play). Here are things you can't do in a city; first four by Gaillard, last three not:
* play soccer,
* reenact Rocky,
* throw a party,
* buy groceries,
* play tennis,
* make music,
* go for a drive
[via kottke]
June 11, 2008
How Many Sequels Were There? - the quiz.
May 09, 2008
Movie Pooper and Ruined Endings, so Nate need never watch another movie again.
May 03, 2008
The 50 Greatest Comedy Sketches of All Time - just completely solid bottom to top. I'd vote in more Monty Python, but when you can find 48 sketches compellingly funny enough to push "Ass Pennies" and "More Cowbell" down to #49 and #50 you have a good list.
Do NOT open this link unless you are prepared to spend the next couple hours revisiting old favorites. [more inside]
March 30, 2008
John Hughes' teens: Where are they now? - they've pretty much spanned the fame trajectory phase space. While performing due diligence, I found this 2005 gem in the vaults. It hasn't been updated in a year, but the last couple are stellar.
March 28, 2008
Jean Lafitte [WP] So while on a wikiwander in Capt. Jack Sparrow's neighborhood, I landed on the page for Cpt. Jean Lafitte. I was passingly familiar with the story, but had never realized how bigger-than-fiction his bio reads. No attempt at a based-on-a-true-story-mostly biopic actioner for this generation? You're telling me Harvey Weinstein and Vinnie Chase couldn't make an artier Pirates of the Carribean out of this kind of source material? [more inside]
March 20, 2008
George Clooney Egogoogles for Esquire - hilarious interview; A.J. Jacobs shows George Clooney what the internet says about him, recording his impressions on everything from his Wikipedia page to a list of his ex-girlfriends to 2G1C. The best part isn't in the article... it's item #3, "Clooney's Private Parts" in the online-only sidebar. [thx kottke]
February 27, 2008
- Jimmy Kimmel responds to revelations about Sarah Silverman's infidelity
- An adorable three year old explains Star Wars - See? This is why if I have a daughter I'm naming her Leia.
- Diebold Accidentally Leaks Results Of 2008 Election Early (spoiler alert).
February 24, 2008
How we'd fuck up Casablanca - A fun exercise: "take a classic flick that pretty much reaches the heights of iconic perfection and decide what we'd do for the remake if it were today". [more inside]
February 09, 2008
TV Strike Ovar? Sounds like the breakthrough was to agree on a percentage of revenue receipts rather than on rerun-based residuals (if I understood this correctly). I know the music labels, like most baseball teams, have made an art form out of losing money on only the subject-to-royalty parts of their revenue streams, but it sounds like they were careful to specify 'receipts' (i.e. gross, not net). Summary of the agreement (pdf) here.
January 23, 2008
The Vader Sessions - kindof a "Wizard People, Dear Jedi". Brilliantly redubs Vader's star wars scenes with clips from James Earl Jones' other movies. Leia becomes the victim of his unwelcome attentions, and Grand Moff Tarkin becomes a middle manager forced to endure his boss' uncomfortable ramblings. [thx BSG]
Also, since Nate's link was buried in a necro'd thread, a repost: If you click on one YouTube link this year, it should be Lasagnacat.com.
January 22, 2008
January 20, 2008
Sudahir Ventakesh, the guy who (as described in Freakonomics) did his dissertation on the economics of a crack gang, has been watching the Wire with a group of ex-thugs and blogging about their reactions.
January 14, 2008
First 5 minutes of "Teeth." Alamo is showing it this week to fantastic fest badge holders. Enjoy.
December 05, 2007
The Key to Reserva - Martin Scorsese directs three pages of an "unmade Alfred Hitchcock film" in the Hitchcock style in this seven minute mockumentary/wine commercial that includes the Scorsese short film.
October 10, 2007
Hotel Chevalier, the short film by Wes Anderson, is available for free on iTunes. It is considered Part I of his new film, The Darjeeling Limited. All Natalie Portman fans should be quite happy with this latest release.
September 13, 2007
I'm strangely (for me) looking forward to the TV shows' annual return from Capistrano. I hear some people have cancelled their cable and are using subscription programs to seamlessly pull in exactly what they want, when they want it (and in high resolution). I wouldn't know anything about that except to say the media companies should quit their antediluvian grousing, curb their greed, and invent these things before somebody else does (and at a fair price for what is otherwise free). Enough rant...
Inside are premiere dates for some shows I know the AE community have been enjoying. Please ring in with your recommendations for this Boob Tube edition of "It's the Tits". [more inside]
August 02, 2007
Siskel, Ebert, and Roeper now have an online video archive of (almost) every review they've done since 1985. Naturally, I immediately headed for the worst movies I could think of. It's always a delight to see a logical and coherent discourse on the awfulness of films like Freddy Got Fingered and No Holds Barred.
July 02, 2007
The tie-ins for the upcoming Simpsons movie are many and varied but none is probably so interesting as the few 7-11 locations that were made over to look like Apu's Kwik-E-Mart. The nearest to Austin is Dallas but there are some in other places. This photo tour made me hunger for some Buzz Cola and unnaturally pink donuts with sprinkles.
June 27, 2007
I know you out-of-Austiners are probably super tired of hearing about it by now, but I felt like I had to mention that the best theater in America closes its doors tonight. (Don't get too sad; the new location is set to open in August, or at least "this year" according to Tim League at Sunday's HalfAssAThon). If you've been inside, you can hardly believe that it used to be a parking garage and that Tim and Karrie built the theater by hand 10 years ago (and here are some incredible pictures to prove it). A blogathon is documenting the old place's last days. [more inside]
June 14, 2007
Premiere Magazine has a great list of 20 Films Not Coming Soon to a Theater Near You. Some of these films have been in development hell even with such excellent source material as books by Chabon, Eggers, and Toole. On the other hand, some of these movies were made (as in completed!) by the staff of The Onion and star Steven Seagal as a character named "Cock Puncher."
May 23, 2007
Come Sail Away with Natedogg aka "Hey there is booze inside i am drunk". Let Styx and Natedogg carry you off on an ocean of song. [more inside]
May 17, 2007
Movie Quiz #3!!! - the answers are easy to find but please don't spoil in the text below. (Quiz #2 [*], Quiz #1 [*]). [more inside]