Let's say you come into a large sum of money--a couple of million dollars, maybe. You've won the lottery, received an inheritance, whatever, only there's a catch. You must use that money for evil. You can't use it to directly make your life better or give it to charity or anything like that. You have to use it to make other peoples' lives miserable ( Read more... )

Jeanne has rented a booth in this really big street fair/flea market next month to sell some of her photos. The thing is, neither of us are objective enough to differentiate between the photos we just happen to personally like and the ones that people might actually buy and display on their walls ( Read more... )

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Haha, oh man, this is so tl;dr. ANYWAY:

I have come upon a realization. It is possible to hate someone so much that you eventually hate the fact that you hate them. It's not as if your hatred for them has come to some kind of full circle and you find yourself tolerating them suddenly... none of this time-is-like-a-river bullshit. No, you hate them ( Read more... )

"Torture porn?" Is that really what's going to stick? I saw the term used in a magazine a few weeks back, and now I'm seeing it on message boards and hearing it on the news and my roommates are even using it. (My roommates, with whom I watched Three Extremes tonight; really disturbing shorts by Takashi Miike, Chan-wook Park, and some other dude. ( Read more... )

Some good books I read recently ( Read more... )

I's gettin' married.

I fell asleep on the train at like, 28th St and and woke up, magically and without assistance, at my stop. It was pretty zen.

Man, where have I been?

Two tickets to the fifth-to-last Sleater-Kinney show ever, since they're breaking up and probably never touring again, I guess: ...$45 ( Read more... )