Link of the Day [1.15.11]
Oysters! Get your oysters here. Mmmm. This looks like a blog to read and savor, then go out and mimic these guys by ordering up a dozen at your local raw bar.
Now, I am making myself hungry.
Klaatu barada nikto!
Once in a while, you just have to want to blow up the earth, because earthlings are foolish in their ways. We hate and hate and annoy and hate and despise one another that it’s a miracle that we are still here. We have to stop and remember that we all inhabit this world and there is no place else to go.
Be excellent to each other….
Quote of the Day [1.14.11]
“So I was sitting in my cubicle today and I realized that ever since I started working, every day of my life has been worse than the day before it. So that means that every single day that you see me, that’s on the worst day of my life.”
Peter Gibbons (Ron Livingston) Office Space
(I may have posted this once before)
*Clang-Clang* *clap-clap*
Dear Kami-sama,
Please make sure that John Lackey and Josh Beckett continue to have subpar pitching performances in the upcoming season. Please make sure that Andy Petitte has truly retired, and if he hasn't ensure that he will not be the Andy Petitte that we all know and loathe. Please allow the Devil Rays to field a AAA level caliber team. Please allow Toronto to fall back behind the Orioles in the wild, wild AL East.
Please allow the Orioles to win some games in this tough division and to turn around their farm system so that 2012 is not El Apocalypto.
Thanks,
Orioles season ticket holder
Link of the Day [1.14.11]
A voyage back to yesteryear, Stephen Hyden goes back to his record collection in search of his youth, and as wee young lass growing up in America, liking music, and grasping for sounds that explain himself, he finds it in the alternative music of the 90s. Alt.90s if you will. From Nirvana through Alice In Chains he looks over the bands that made that era.
The funny thing is even if I had 10 years on him this was also the music I listened to as well. It was my pop music and reinforced who and what I was during that time. I spent the last hour reading all the way through to 1996, the latest article. It reminds me of good times.
http://www.avclub.com/features/whatever-happened-to-alternative-nation/
Hawaii Vacation 2010: Good Eats
It was all about the food. Visiting Bob was a side effect. Wonderful that it happened during Thanksgiving. More like a coincidence.
There was the usual plate lunches of kalbi short ribs, fresh tropical fruit, roasted pig, and fish, lots of fish. Fresh fish. Raw fish. It’s always so good.
Link of the Day [1.12.11]
Ran across this insightful critique of Inception and Christopher Nolan late one night as I visited movie critics on the web. Although I did give Inception a good rating, I completely regret it the more and more I think about it. This revision comes from my dislike of Nolan as a director. I remember sitting through Inception wondering why does it have to be so talkative, which for much of the film it was. I think the action in the final third plus the dream concept overrode my initial dislike. I have seen my ways, but today's link puts up ideas that help codify my revision of Inception.
http://bigother.com/2010/08/08/seventeen-ways-of-criticizing-inception/
0x1f == 11111
Happy 1F-day, motherfumpders!
Can’t wait for another 10 months for 3F-day!
Ha ha ha ha…
This should’ve been a tweet….
My Best Films of the Year: 2010
I was searching through my archives looking for that post on Inception that so many people seem to reach via google and then I remembered that I never put up 2010’s list of best movies. Now these are just the ones I believe that I had liked at the time I wrote the review. As I look at them, I wonder if these rankings even stand up now. I definitely know it doesn’t stand up for Inception, but that is because I don’t really like Christopher Nolan’s films.
Kick Ass (4)
Inception (4)
Scott Pilgrim vs. The World (4)
The Social Network (4)
No 5 star films? That’s usual, but looking at these only Scott Pilgrim and The Social Network I feel still deserve the ranking. I wonder about Kick Ass. Does it really? I’ll have to see.