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Now Hear This!
A fucking excellent Looney Tunes cartoon from 1962/1963... My friend pamlivesinabox was telling me about this, and apparently it was the first "Looney Tune," obviously way before Bugs Bunny and co. arrived. From the "modern" intro to its use of sound poetry/musique concrète in lieu of dialogue, not to mention the way Philip DeGuard utilizes that entire white ( Read more... ) -
On "Important Things with Demetri Martin"
So last night was the premiere of Important Things with Demetri Martin, which I've been highly anticipating. Martin is my favorite young comedian; he's like the anti-thesis of Dane Cook with his quiet, geeky jokes and dorky observations, as opposed to Cook cranking it to eleven like a hard rock concert.
Important Things on paper sounds pretty ( Read more... ) -
oh hai the sun's out yay!
Books I Read in January 2009:
Assassination Vacation by Sarah Vowell - A
More Information Than You Require by John Hodgman - B+
Duchamp: A Biography by Calvin Tomkins - A
The World of Marcel Duchamp by Calvin Tomkins - A+
Duchamp & Co. by Pierre Cabanne - A
Marcel Duchamp by Dawn Ades, Neil Cox, David Hopkins - C+
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman - A
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Think back, way back for me
Between 2002 and 2004, before I stopped caring about "dance" music and what was also passing as "electronic music," I watched that show AMP on MTV2. They used to have these little commercials that acted as station IDs to remind you that you were watching MTV2 - but they were really bizarre. They all featured this guy with a bicycle, various colored ( Read more... ) -
lol centaur
I'm not sure how I haven't posted about this ad before. It's an ad for Old Spice's Double Impact Shampoo and Bodywash. I find it hilarious in an incredibly surreal fashion. You have a centaur never acknowledging the fact that he is a centaur; instead he cleverly dodges the issue and pitches the product. Then, the ad comes to its conclusion with an ( Read more... )
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