i do not recommend cloverfield. i do not recommend quarantine. take them out of your netflix queue. they both prove that first person filmmaking is nearly impossible to pull off. dear film school students: it didn’t work for blair witch; it won’t work for you.

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i’m in the middle of a five-day trip to the carolinas, updating-with an account of home that is never interesting to anyone but the author-from my parents’ delightfully clicky keyboard. (perhaps i should invest in one of these things when i get my imac next month. the flat keyboard from apple is pretty, but these clicks are oh-so-satisfying.)

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Me, Steve Ballmer, Steve Wozniak, Sarah Palin, and Hillary Clinton:


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keith olbermann can be really overbearing, but this is a great special comment on proposition 8:

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we sat there in the moonlight, bellies full of brisket and faces full of smiles. i smiled as i haven’t in ages, since those early days of new manhattan, sitting with coffee in the biting cold and people watching in union square. my neck bristled as it hasn’t in even longer, since that fateful encounter that led me to the city in the first place. ( Read more... )

sometimes bands come and go out of your consciousness, and when you rediscover them, you wonder how you ever stopped listening to them.

one of those bands for me is animal collective. check ‘em out:

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youtube: animal collective, ‘leaf house’

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