computer ate my brains.

attempt to recapture.

mind vs. the machine.

surrender vs. acceptance.

fight vs. flight

alien vs. predator.

know why i’ve lost the physical capacity to frown? oh, because i just discovered the soultrain channel on youtube.

bonus points it’s sunny outside.

You should criticize movies like the Tooth Fairy, i agree. Also you should see Fantastic Mr. Fox because it’s unrelentingly lovely. dangurewitch: Fantastic Mr. Fox was wonderful. So creative and charming and fun, as well as beautiful to watch. I argued briefly with Amir after watching it, since he claimed that “kids would not like it” and “You shouldn’t criticize movies like ‘Tooth Fairy’ because they’re made for kids, and kids have more fun watching stupid movies.” I could not possibly disagree more. Just because people - kids included - have been proven to enjoy the lowest common denominator does not make it okay to condescend to them with stupidity. Films like Up, Aladdin, Ratatouille and Fantastic Mr. Fox are brilliant because they don’t assume that kids (and, as a result, adults) are retards. You should no more say “Kids’ movies have a right to be stupid, they’re kids’ movies” than you should say the same about action movies or big-budget family comedies. No! It shouldn’t ever be okay to be treated like an idiot. Unrelated: this movie reminds me to go back and read every Roald Dahl book again.

You should criticize movies like the Tooth Fairy, i agree. Also you should see Fantastic Mr. Fox because it’s unrelentingly lovely.

dangurewitch:

Fantastic Mr. Fox was wonderful. So creative and charming and fun, as well as beautiful to watch.

I argued briefly with Amir after watching it, since he claimed that “kids would not like it” and “You shouldn’t criticize movies like ‘Tooth Fairy’ because they’re made for kids, and kids have more fun watching stupid movies.” I could not possibly disagree more. Just because people - kids included - have been proven to enjoy the lowest common denominator does not make it okay to condescend to them with stupidity.

Films like Up, Aladdin, Ratatouille and Fantastic Mr. Fox are brilliant because they don’t assume that kids (and, as a result, adults) are retards. You should no more say “Kids’ movies have a right to be stupid, they’re kids’ movies” than you should say the same about action movies or big-budget family comedies. No! It shouldn’t ever be okay to be treated like an idiot.

Unrelated: this movie reminds me to go back and read every Roald Dahl book again.

closing in on 1 year anniversary without a drivers license

when i realize i’ve been using my US Passport to gain entry into bars for almost a year now, it truly makes me wonder where the time goes. having lost my drivers license (along with the entire contents of a purse) in ye olde turkey’s nest last december, i have lost the right to legally sit behind the wheel of a car.

FML? 

nah. nope. if a drivers license is the only major thing missing from my life right now i’d say things are on the up and up.

wit of the coda i love how film critics for traditional publications like the new york times can use the ratings description as a punchline. Manohla Dargis’ New Moon review is a current example, but perhaps one of the more hilarious instances is this: (HINT: It’s Seven Pounds) http://movies.nytimes.com/2008/12/19/movies/19seve.html?scp=2&sq=seven%20pounds&st=cse

wit of the coda

i love how film critics for traditional publications like the new york times can use the ratings description as a punchline. Manohla Dargis’ New Moon review is a current example, but perhaps one of the more hilarious instances is this:

(HINT: It’s Seven Pounds)

http://movies.nytimes.com/2008/12/19/movies/19seve.html?scp=2&sq=seven%20pounds&st=cse

For me, Kanye’s autotune experiment 808’s and Heartbreaks was a passing fancy. However, when “Love Lockdown” popped up on my itunes shuffle i had one of those “oh wait this song kind of owns” moments. 

still feeling some inner-conflict about the video though

good idea/bad idea

2 things:

1. clearly it’s a slow day at work when i have this much free time to spend on tumblr

2. i was reminded of this bit from animaniacs because a variation on the question (case in point: good decision/bad decision) popped into my head regarding drinking more caffeine out of sheer boredom

take my shoes off and throw them in the lake

The popcorn at AMC, the nation’s second-largest theater chain, has 1,030 calories and 57 grams of saturated fat, which CSPI says is “like eating a pound of baby back ribs topped with a scoop of Häagen-Dazs ice cream—except that the popcorn has an additional day’s worth of saturated fat.

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via Gothamist

oh. so THIS is why i’m fat.

he rode a blazing saddle

i’m not sure if the film Blazing Saddles stands the test of time, and A.O. Scott bestowing it with a “Critic’s Pick” today does nothing to confirm or deny my question. however, in terms of originality in the department of the absurd, i will happily take harumphs, campfire fart scenes, and hollywood set-busting brawls (not to mention gene wilder + madeline khan) over the manchild bromances now popping up every few months. 

i’m biased though as this is one of those movies that made me fall in love with comedy.

cinematic slydexia for some reason whenever i see any reference to the movie 2012, I think people are talking about Wong Kar-Wai’s film 2046, and think ‘hmm, that’s odd people are still talking about that movie, i prefer In the Mood for Love.

cinematic slydexia

for some reason whenever i see any reference to the movie 2012, I think people are talking about Wong Kar-Wai’s film 2046, and think ‘hmm, that’s odd people are still talking about that movie, i prefer In the Mood for Love.