the future’s so bright i gotta wear shades…
Tuesday, March 20th, 2012nothing quite says 21st century american pop culture like dystopian future teenage literature…
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there is a certain psychologically inevitable quality to our blundering overseas, a kind of burning, insane desire to fuck with people we don't like or respect in the slightest, to cure the disease of their cultures, as it were, by drying them out in the sun of our creepy suburban enlightenment. what kind of madmen come to the ancient territory of mountainous kurdistan and search expectantly for rollerbladers out the window of an armored vehicle? this kind of weirdness comes far too naturally to us for this to be an accidental consequence of the invasion; it has to be part of the reason we're here, too.
Archive for the 'celluloid' Category
i drink so i can talk to assholes…
Tuesday, July 13th, 2010some drink and get sad. some drink and cry. some drink and get angry. some drink and say gay people take it up the ass. some drink and call police officers ‘sugar tits’. some drink and assert the jews are responsible for all the wars in the world. some drink and beat their girlfriends because […]
whatever happened to baby jane?
Friday, October 16th, 2009finally it has been said aloud what has been apparent for years by an authority of the body no less, one of chicago’s finest, roger ebert: ” i am happy to say it brings back an element sadly missing in recent movies, gratuitous nudity. sexy women would ‘happen’ to be topless in the 1970s movies […]
no thanks hollywood, i ain’t in to that…
Tuesday, February 27th, 2007is not the term “movie” an antiquated and witless relic of a less kinetic time? what of substance can be said of the annual gladiatorial game of motion picture performance colloquially known as the oscars? nothing, for that which lacks substance cannot be accounted for with substance any more than art can compete. nonetheless why […]
