December 2008
Hey, kids! As the sun sets on what’s been...
Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall
The real tragedy of the Herman Rosenblat affair isn’t the way it trivialized one of history’s darkest hours in an attempt to manipulate the credulous sentiment of an Oprahfied culture; no, the real tragedy is the negative effect it’s going to have on those with genuinely heartwarming tales of love and redemption in the face of unspeakable evil. I’m referring, of course, to my now-cancelled memoir...
Mr. Frederick Dewayne Hubbard, “Open...
Ready for a new Spoon pls.
Yeah, fuck off, I like it.
“Sometime after Thanksgiving but before December 25, the date to which we shall...”
– Elizabeth Spiers hates the baby Jesus and all who celebrate His birth
Compared to what indeed.
Kyle Smith of the Post plays the paper’s idea of cretinous rightwing jackass as intellectual every weekend, but in today’s column he really outdoes himself. Oh, no. Really? Again? Ten minutes into “Revolutionary Road,” director Sam Mendes delivers his nightmare vision of starched gray men suited up for corporate life sentences as they parade in suffering slo-mo through a...
“Pinter was, even more than most of us, a man of contradictions: his fierce...”
– Michael Billington’s obituary of Harold Pinter. Nick Cohen’s less enthusiastic assessment is also worth reading.
I dream things that never were and say why not.
• There should be a country music song set in a diner based around the theme of “an achin’, beg and please sandwich.”
• People obsessed with NonSociety should form a fanclub, like Deadheads or Claymates, and call themselves Nonces. Can’t you see the t-shirts now? “I’m a nonce and I’m proud.” “Nonces live differently.” They could even...
Merry Christmas, everybody. Have a great couple...
WatchWay late to this one, but, man, is it ever stuck in my head.
Question for the day.
Would The Replacements’ Hootenanny still be as critically revered had it been released under Westerberg’s original title, Jewgasm?
You’ve got to be a certain kinda confident...
Who's making these appointments, his white half?
“Black lawmakers irked by Obama’s diverse Cabinet”
Okay, fine, yes, this is one of the best albums of...
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The second half of this record is not good, but...
Coming soon.
With Darren Aronofsky’s The Wrestler being hailed as a triumphant comeback for actor Mickey Rourke, studios are gambling that moviegoers are hungry for more inspiring stories of redemption. Here’s a look at five films that are currently in production for release early next year:
The Seat Filler
Back in the ‘80s, Jimmy “Cushions” Carney (William Baldwin) was Hollywood’s most in-demand televised...
David Byrne compares the newspaper business of... →
Remember Sufjan Stevens?
Indie kid, glockenspiel fan, had that album about Illinois out like a decade ago? What’s he up to these days?
I'd like to go to sleep and wake up in June, but...
God knows if I’ll even still be able to afford to live here six months from now, but those of you who are confident in your survival and still have cash to throw around—particularly those of you who like a) musical theater, b) Stephin Merritt, c) Neil Gaiman, or d) any combination thereof—will want to get tickets for Merritt’s adaptation of Gaiman’s Coraline.
Plenty to go around.
ANDREW Kirtzman, a former CBS News correspondent and Rudy Giuliani biographer, is the first man out of the gate with a book deal on the dizzying Bernard Madoff scandal.
Industry sources said he is believed to have snagged an advance of more than $250,000 from the Harper imprint of HarperCollins to turn around a book on the scandal that has wiped out as much as $50 billion of investors’...
“My head is full of storied albums, but...
I command you to read this. →
The three-word plot pivot toward the end of this...
"On Wall Street, Bonuses, Not Profits, Were Real"
Even Wall Streeters concede they were dazzled by the money. To earn bigger bonuses, many traders ignored or played down the risks they took until their bonuses were paid. Their bosses often turned a blind eye because it was in their interest as well.If, as seems to be the case, they get to keep those bonuses, then THERE WAS NO RISK. Except for everyone else. Memo to those of you who are about to...
Compare and contrast.
Watching romantic comedies can spoil your love life, a study by a university in Edinburgh has claimed.
Rom-coms have been blamed by relationship experts at Heriot Watt University for promoting unrealistic expectations when it comes to love.
They found fans of films such as Runaway Bride and Notting Hill often fail to communicate with their partner. Many held the view if someone is meant to be...
The most depressing sentence ever written
miltnr:
“A Texas man has been arrested after a 9-year-old girl wrote to Santa Claus asking that a relative stop touching her and her sister.”
(via Yahoo)
Yeah, okay, that wins.
David Cho's newest project will blow you away.
Innovative, astounding, electric: How does he do it?
CORRECTION: This is not Cho’s project. He’s simply doing promotion for it.
WatchAD/BC: A Rock Opera
“The New York Times: A film review on Sept. 5 about “Save Me” confused some...”
– Regret the Error selects its corrections of the year.
I've got it covered.
Chest hair, shmest hair. Call me when back hair is in.
“Aged 20 I went to a crowded party at the Chelsea Arts Club. The other day, two...”
– Tania Glyde is making a career out of recounting anecdotes from her pre-sobriety days. But if the above quote is any indication, it seems more like she had a problem with being totally awesome than she did with alcohol.
“UK Cosmopolitan printed an interview with...