February 2010
33 posts
January 2010
34 posts
sportin sillies
pamela: LTJ communicates with E.T.s. Tito: how? Tito: weiner antennas? pamela: OH MY GOD pamela: I WAS JUST GOING TO WRITE THAT. Tito: really? pamela: why did we both think of that????? Tito: fo reals? Tito: you’re not kidding? pamela: no i’m not kidding. pamela: i thought of antennae, then was like, obvs wiener antennaes. pamela: jesus. Tito: maybe we communicate with weiner...
Guess I'm just excited that it's not awful.
Watched Spring Breakdown on Netflix (watch instantly, dudes!) and it was totally fun for a dumb comedy, with actors who are of course much funnier than the script. You know Dratch, Poehler, and Parker Posey are in it, but there are lots of other ladies too, like Jane Lynch, and Millie from Freaks and Geeks, and Ann from Arrested Devel (who?), and you guys even a super brief Mary Cherry appearance....
kiss me on the bus!
OKay, stumbled upon some wonderfulness on my internet this morn. My own intimate internet. First, the blog This Is Fag City by James Franco’s future bf. And I’m reading that post about how he and Franco will be togeth, and I’m totally convinced btw, and then he mentions Brontez from the Younger Lovers, who I don’t know, but I DO know his other band Gravy Train!!! Okay,...
Shane MacGowan, Johnny Depp, Nick Cave, and Primal Scream’s Bobbie Gillespie are allegedly teaming up to record a cover of Screamin’ Jay Hawkins seminal “I Put a Spell on You,” all proceeds from which will go to earthquake relief on the troubled island nation.
cherchez la femme
Oh. My. God. Okay. You know how fucking much I love La Femme Nikita? McG is gonna redo it. Totally excited. If it sucks, I still have my orig. But it might be awes! I dunno. Is there a chance it’ll be awes?
Largest book in the wooorld →
trolls →
Marina & Angela
In this Marina Warner interview she discusses her friendship with Angela Carter, and how Carter’s work scared her at first.
“She had a huge effect on me. She first came into my consciousness when I was working for Vogue. She was writing for Vogue too. She was working for New Society at the same time. She was a very keen observer of trends. She liked style and fashion. She loved...
I Think I Want To Start A Blog (i)
h: stop
m: why
h: don't think you want to start a blog
h: you have to KNOW you want to start a blog
m: how do you know something like that
h: you are compelled
h: you want it so bad nothing could stop you
m: ok
m: well
m: lets say i'm compelled and now i definitely want to start a blog
m: what do I do
h: i don't believe you
h: you'r not even sincere
h: the internet is kiind of a big deal
h: come correct
m: i know i'm just saying what if
h: do you even understand how magic works
Two things from Shelf Awareness today:
1. Bestselling author and Rock Bottom Remainders guitarist Stephen King has agreed “to play a doom-mongering radio host on musician Shooter Jennings’s new album,” the Guardian reported, noting that the “concept album, Black Ribbons, will see King provide the voice of late-night talk show host Will O’The Wisp as he gives his ...
"People who write books are destroyers."
Noice Guardian interview with AS Byatt.
“”I can’t say how important it was to me when Angela Carter said ‘I grew up on fairy stories—they’re much more important to me than realist narratives’. I hadn’t had the nerve to think that until she said it, and I owe her a great deal.”
and
“[Iris Murdoch] simply used you as material. She loved you...
I heard this NPR story today that I can’t find (I know, I just can’t) about Sonja Sohn and how she stopped acting in 2009 to lead this education/activism group, Rewired for Change, that uses watching and then discussing The Wire to reach at-risk teens who have fucked up! Oh my god, it was amazing. She told a nearly unbearable story about a girl sharing with the group her experience...
god, this CAT!!!
The Adventures of Elsa the Little Lion
stuff my hairdresser told me
She has a new personal trainer. He is an ultimate fighter. He makes top hats. He sometimes wears a top hat to the gym. He wears bedazzled crocs.
From Wikipedia:
Battle of the Bods is a Fox Reality Channel show … based on the short lived British show Hot Tub Ranking (which was presented by former Torchwood star Naoko Mori).
In Battle of the Bods, 5 contestants try to figure out what order the opposite sex likes them in. Usually the orders consists of a body part, and the whole body in full or, the whole package. Based on how many...
