Nothing is Self-Evident
Things I find interesting. Film. Media, pop culture. The occasional funny. I can be reached via ethridge (at) gmail.com.
“I tend to take this latest development as a kind of eager confirmation that they are still apparently dependent on ideas that I had 25 years ago.”
This song. THIS song. I could not stop listening to this when it came out. I’m pretty sure I have it somewhere on cassette single. I’m pretty sure at least half of my followers have no idea what that is.
Primitive Radio Gods “Standing Outside a Broken Phone Booth with Money in My Hand” video featured on 120 Minutes, 1996
(via celesteboldlygoes)
The entire Honda CR-V commercial featuring Matthew Broderick as a Ferris Bueller-like version of himself. A mildly amusing curiosity.
The Caging of America; Why do we lock up so many people?
The scale and the brutality of our prisons are the moral scandal of American life. Every day, at least fifty thousand men—a full house at Yankee Stadium—wake in solitary confinement, often in “supermax” prisons or prison wings, in which men are locked in small cells, where they see no one, cannot freely read and write, and are allowed out just once a day for an hour’s solo “exercise.” (Lock yourself in your bathroom and then imagine you have to stay there for the next ten years, and you will have some sense of the experience.) Prison rape is so endemic—more than seventy thousand prisoners are raped each year—that it is routinely held out as a threat, part of the punishment to be expected. The subject is standard fodder for comedy, and an uncoöperative suspect being threatened with rape in prison is now represented, every night on television, as an ordinary and rather lovable bit of policing. The normalization of prison rape—like eighteenth-century japery about watching men struggle as they die on the gallows—will surely strike our descendants as chillingly sadistic, incomprehensible on the part of people who thought themselves civilized. Though we avoid looking directly at prisons, they seep obliquely into our fashions and manners. Wealthy white teen-agers in baggy jeans and laceless shoes and multiple tattoos show, unconsciously, the reality of incarceration that acts as a hidden foundation for the country.
- In this week’s issue, Adam Gopnik writes about mass incarceration and criminal justice in America: http://nyr.kr/A75iOm
Photograph by Steve Liss.
(via theatlantic)
The Atrium at Hartsfield-Jackson. Waiting on Mrs. Meth’s plane to arrive.
Related: Wow, Delta’s mobile flight status app sucks the root hardcore.
That embarrassing moment when you are caught breaking the law that you are proposing.
“And if I die before I learn to speak
Can money pay for all the days I lived awake
But half asleep”
Can money pay for all the days I lived awake
But half asleep”
“We would like to get notifications for unplanned outages 3-4 days in advance.”
— A client who doesn’t understand the definition of “unplanned.” (via clientsfromhell)
i’m about 25 minutes into this and loving it. it reminds me of the grendel or other stories told from the bad guy’s point of view. great twist.
Easily one of the funniest movies I saw last year. Some really nice touches if you are a fan of the slasher genre as well, but funny for everyone regardless.
Patrick Stewart on screenplay writing.
Captain Picard is a dirty old man. I love it.
He’s seen everything.
(Source: silasisdead, via juliasegal)
Baby names are important, don’t blow it
But also don’t blue it.
Ivy what you did there.
Wacked out baby names are all carter the celebrity experience.
Surely i can’t be the only one who thinks Tucker & Dale Vs. Evil is hilarious. The first 5 minutes seems awful but the movie gets completely great after that. I wouldn’t recommend watching the trailer because the one they pushed out pretty much sums up the entire film within 2 minutes. It’s a comedy horror, and I for one am a huge fan of Tyler Tudyk. Just read the synopsis and watch it with the lowest of expectations and knowing absolutely nothing. Because i’m telling you, it’s fucking hilarious.
The above poster comes from comic book artist Tony Moore, who’s worked on everything from Punisher, Ghost Rider, and Venom, as well as The Walking Dead, which has nabbed him two Eisner Award nominations.
Agreed. This was easily one of the funniest movies I saw last year.
jokes.
All recorder solos should be doubletracked. That’s on page three of the sound engineering 101 textbook.
SPREAD THIS LIKE WILDFIRE.
ATLANTA- MORELAND AREA
EVEN IF YOU DO NOT LIVE THERE, SOMEONE WHO FOLLOWS YOU MAY
PLEASE HELP LOST DOG
It is the most horrifying, gut-wrenching feeling to know your beloved is somewhere out there, wandering the streets and dodging traffic and that you may never seem him/her again. When my dog escaped and was subsequently hit ON MORELAND it was nothing short of a miracle that he came out of it with only a bum leg.
I’ll keep an eye out for your sweet Lily!
HELP FIND LILY!
(via shorterexcerpts)
