from the comments
I got a 3m30s voicemail along the same lines this afternoon. Have posted it here.
Oddly enough it came from Burma / Myanmar.
Jake Hurwitz, My Team Crushes it at Team-Building Exercises
We will return to Bertrand and Gormley Windows and Glass stronger, more agile, more capable. They have taught us that there is no I in TEAM. But we have discovered for ourselves that there is an I in WIN. Unfortunately there’s no I in WON, which we did. By a lot.
How did God get born?
spam name
Roy Ham.
from the moderated comments
For you BO retarts. Is that your age or I Q.
Inception
rocked.
In my humble opinion.
X818 Productions is
this isn’t happiness, nevver, die big
For Andrea
This is Sondre Lerche and I, at Sundance 2008.
In that interview, I remember accidentally insulting him while trying to explain how much I loved his work. Nothing ever changes. Also during this interview, the band Train was playing on the other side of the partition, at full volume… “WIF DRAHPS UF JOOPITER IN HER HAAAYER AHHYYY AHHYYY AHHHHHYYYY.” So I was a little distracted.
35mm from Felix Meyer on Vimeo.
Roger Ebert’s Rules for Critics
Roger Ebert has some very respectable rules for being a professional critic/writer.
Be prepared to give a negative review. If you give one to the work of a friend, and they’re not your friend any more, they weren’t ever your friend. As Robert Altman once told me, “If you never gave me a bad review, what would a good review mean?” He was a great man. He thought over what he had said, and added: “But all your bad reviews of my films have been wrong.”
and
No posing for photos! Never ask a movie star to pose with you for a picture. No movie star ever wants to do this. They may smile, but they’re gritting their teeth. “It is the Chinese Water Torture,” Clint Eastwood told me. “And 99 times out of a hundred, the stranger they hand their camera to looks through the lens, pushes the button, and says ‘It isn’t working!’ and then the fan has to walk over to the guy and demonstrate the camera and say, ‘now try it’. And then it isn’t working again. Looking at someone looking puzzled at a camera, that’s the story of my life.”
The inside joke is that this is directed point blank at Ben Lyons, one of the film critics that Disney brought in to “spice up” Ebert’s show At The Movies. With Lyons at the helm, the show spiraled and failed miserably.
dear clusterflock
Two hours ago, Eva Mendes told me her favourite book is The Fountainhead, by Ayn Rand.
I thought of you.
Dear Clusterflock: What tune or tunes move you in a way you find hard to articulate?
You know, tunes that have no attachment to any particular person and yet they still leave you wasted. I have many, in fact I associate few tunes with individuals, most of them exist and get to me in their own individual way. This is my first. I never tire of it and it always has the same effect on me.
Tainted Fish on a Plane!
I saw this for the first time today, and I am still grinning.
Bonuses: Elroy “Crazy Legs” Hirsch is in it! And there is a Canadian angle!
Everything about this is wonderful. It is one of the things that has made my day.
dear clusterflock
When I choose to work with a new client, part of my evaluation process is to determine whether the potential client is emotionally healthy. What I am trying to do is weed out screamers, sociopaths, passive-aggressives, control freaks, and other typics of toxic behaviors. This isn’t intended as arrogance but rather a way to increase the likelihood of a mutually beneficial partnership (by the way, I think it’s quite legitimate and even necessary for a client to require the same of me). It’s a standard that’s increasingly useful in social life as well.
Here’s the problem: I am making this decision on little more than intuition. If you were to apply this same standard in any facet of your life, what one question would you ask to discern whether another person is emotionally healthy?
Tweet
I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by brevity, over-connectedness, emotionally starving for attention, dragging themselves through virtual communities at 3 am, surrounded by stale pizza and neglected dreams, looking for angry meaning, any meaning, same hat wearing hipsters burning for shared and skeptical approval from the holographic projected dynamo in the technology of the era, who weak connections and recession wounded and directionless, sat up, micro-conversing in the supernatural darkness of Wi-Fi-enabled cafes, floating across the tops of cities, contemplating techno, who bared their brains to the black void of new media and the thought leaders and so called experts…
Oyl Miller at McSweeneys, via On the Cusp
Rabbit problem, could use fishing net
Regarding my rabbit problem, I could use a fishing net as a throw net if the holds were small enough.
Freecycle rarely disappoints.
dear clusterflock
Ideal temperatures.
from the contact form
eb wrote:
Your article about Joyce McKinney is libelous and defamatory. Did you get this libelous material from Erroll Morris? Miss McKinney was never even charged with rape in England! The Mormon PR men made that story up to cover up a love affair one of the missionaries had with her to save their Multi million dollar missionary Image. The lie destroyed the poor girl’s life. Erroll Morris is just another exploiter who is going to be sued for interviewing her under false pretenses: He told her he wanted to interview her in a “short” interview for Showtime Cable Network, but obviously had this in mind after he became transfixed by her story. His producer lied to her to trick her into footage about her. His assistant lied and told her the interview was for Showtime and “to clear her name”–a trick to get her on camera. He and his cronies are no better than the tabloid liars who exploited this decent woman from a Christian family who only wanted the truth to be known. His producer and an assistant also burglarized her suitcases while she was being filmed. They stole all the pictures of her in her luggage and even a film treatment she had titled “A Very Special Love Story”, and her personal diary. If he tries to use any of the material he and his producer will be subject to criminal charges and a civlil lawsuits. They are RATS. The producer was even involved in the murder of her beloved service dog, who had been illegally taken to the pound, but which she needed as a handicapped person. He pretended to pay for a lawyer to help get it out but instead hired a trainer to testify that the service dog be killed and it was tortured and killed. She is heartbroken by their part in its murder as well as the fact that they pretended to want to help her and then stole her story. This producer used everything from psychological threats to physical violence and lies to get her to sign a phony contract making her think they were trying to clear her good name in exchange for hiring the lawyer to get her service dog out of death row. Her poor little dog was murdered, and it didn’t even phase them. THEY ARE GOING TO BE SUED FOR MILLIONS OF DOLLARS. Morris was also sued by Randall Adams after they stole his story as well in Thin Blue Line.
from the spam
Writing will be your companion through the darkest and brightest days of your life?
Last night
Last night I opened a bunch of youtube videos playing alpha wave music, Tibetan throat singing, Philip Glass, and Steve Reich simultaneously.
I think it worked.
Amy said
I need more muppet in my life.
something, 52
Mary Alice came out. Of course, I hadn’t seen her in years. When we hugged, I asked her how she was. “Much better,” she said, “now that I don’t have to spend my weekends brewing micro beer.”
one of the most serious crimes against Church law
The Vatican on Friday denied accusations that it viewed the ordination of women as priests and the sexual abuse of minors by clerics as equally criminal.
Shake | Otis Redding
Otis Redding performing Shake on Ready Steady Go! (1966).
“I want to shake.” (Deron)
Channeling Randy Taylor
“I don’t want no beanie goddamn weenie.”
