July 2011
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soundtrack thoughts!!!!!
The Portal 2 soundtrack I’m listening to now is amazing. Maybe it fit so seamlessly into the game that I didn’t take notice, but this electronica stuff is really outstanding. I expected “Songs to Test By” to be some kind of ironic post-post-modern-post collection of more GLaDOS voice samplings, and that would’ve been fine, but sitting back and taking notice of the...
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“Je leverai les yeux a toi
J’ai change cent foi de nom
Je leverai les...”
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CM Punk's Comic Book Affection
CM Punk’s promo at the end of last night’s Raw broke barriers. Vince Russo (a prominent figurehead and wrestling writer) has tried to do this for years: to incorporate reality and behind-the-scenes stories into the product itself. It always rings false. At Bash at the Beach 2000 Jeff Jarrett laid down for Hulk Hogan to win the belt, Hogan won the thing and started yelling at the writer himself...
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“I don’t know anything about who Osama Bin Laden [was.] I don’t understand any of...”
– Aaron Weiss (via camowl)
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FUCK YEAH WRESTLING!: We previously reported that... →
We previously reported that the Kings of Wrestling (Claudio Castagnoli and Chris Hero) recently had a private try out with WWE officials. WWE officials were impressed, and extended the former Ring of Honor tag team champions contract offers. They also have offers on the table from Ring of Honor,…
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“— Former WWE performers Shelly Martinez (a/k/a Ariel) and Batista buried the hatchet today on Twitter regarding a backstage altercation that took place in May 2007, which led to her sudden departure from World Wrestling Entertainment.
Martinez wrote “truce” to the former WWE Champion, to which he replied, “That business brings out the worst in...
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Well, I led a starving horse to water.
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Review Roundup for Assorted Indie Underground...
“Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.” – C.S. Lewis
Nearly a year ago I found a board topic happily giving out suggestions for must-hear rap music, with an...
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It’s really not a good thing when your two primary topics of discussion are depression and alcohol.
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Early thoughts from early thinking on...
A friend’s toddler-aged son saw his sister wearing a bow in her hair. He asked his mother if he could wear a bow in his hair too, to which she replied “No, bows are only for girls.” He cried for some time.
Bows are not qualifications for gender. They don’t send an electric current through the head of a boy who puts one on. It’s a bow. There’s no ancient...
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oh my gosh I almost forgot Futurama starts up again tonight
wooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
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“One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.”
– Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums (via bookmania)
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I automatically equate the people who call Superman boring with the people who call Jesus uninteresting.
That’s not actually the case. The argument is “He’s not edgy enough! Why aren’t there any interesting, humanizing character flaws! Can’t he blow up once in a while?!”
They’re aliens and spiritual entities. They do not need to cooperate with your...
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“I’m not going to name names, but someone I once worked for told me that my job...”
– QUOTED FOR TRUTH - Insert Credit, Frank Cifaldi: Journalism: The Videogame: Redux - Chapter 2: Let’s complain a little [June 20th, 2011] (Edit - article has been taken down, and it looks like Insert Credit is getting another facelift. I’ll update with a new link as soon as one becomes available.)
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Craigslist: The nightmare scenario for a hardcore...
My friends and I’s again newfound passion for Phantasy Star Online led us to fantasizing (get it) about Phantasy Star Portable 2, the latest entry in a series Sega wants to try its reverse-Midas touch on. Phantasy Star Universe was bad, but these portable versions are…good. Very good!
Only trouble is what we wanted was on the PSP: a system none of us had.
Derek and Phil...
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“I have less than a year to live. When I found that out… somehow I was...”
– Kanji Watanabe
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Ikiru -- Review
Ikiru is film perfected. Every shot with purpose, every twitch of an actor’s mouth is a million miles deep. It’s the kind of movie I would have watched as a 15-year-old and hated for being slow and boring. Slow and boring appeals to me now, not necessarily as a life value but as a way to make art. Ikiru lingers and wanders and by the end leaves no eye dry.
Takashi Shimura plays Kanji...
