November 2011
45 posts
October 2011
58 posts
“It seems to me that if you place music (and books, probably, and films, and plays, and anything that makes you feel) at the center of your being, then you can’t afford to sort out your love life, start to think of it as the finished product. You’ve got to pick at it, keep it alive and in turmoil, you’ve got to pick at it and unravel it until it all comes apart and you’re compelled to start all over again. Maybe we all live life at too high a pitch, those of us who absorb emotional things all day, and as a consequence we can never feel merely content: we have to be unhappy, or ecstatically, head-over-heels happy, and those states are difficult to achieve within a stable, solid relationship. Maybe Al Green is directly responsible for more than I ever realized.”
—Nick Hornby, High Fidelity
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Why do you hate movies compared to TV?
I guess I don’t really hate movies. I used to watch them all the time only at some point I just stopped. It might have something to do with things ending and it might have something to do with character development. Now I can watch six hour-long episodes of a show back to back no problem but am bored 23 minutes into a film. And for a while I got really bitter that no one took TV seriously. But that was mostly cause I was going to school for film and film students are awful. Anyway, as a result I’ve missed tons of movies I’m sure I’d have loved. I just need to get a taste for them again. But they just put the first two seasons of “Vampire Diaries” on Netflix, so…
I need to watch more movies. What movies should I watch? Keep in mind: I hate movies.
“One thing about great art: it made you love people more, forgive them their petty transgressions. It worked in the way that religion was supposed to, if you thought about it.”
— Nick Hornby, Juliet, Naked
Did you watch the first episode of Boss yet? It looks like it could turn into an amazing series.
Not yet! It’s weird cause I was just looking for it on the internet because of your post. So far internet is failing me. I’ve heard nothing but good things (second season before the first aired!?) and I’m looking forward to it.
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“This whole formality about structure in storytelling has really evolved from the movies, and sometimes, I suspect, it just doesn’t fit television. Television can ramble, and pause, and deviate, and accelerate. It really is a different art form. With the soap opera, we’ve a brand new form, which is still evolving.”
— Russell T Davies
“I was in Paris recently with a new group of people… So she suggests that, at about three in the morning, that we all run up the Champs-Elysees to the Arc de Triomphe. And I guess telling you about that now sounds a little bit exciting and fun, but at the time, I just thought, “but w-why would we do that? And then what’s the point? And then when we get there, then what will we do with our lives?” And I’m sort of analyzing what the point of it is, and we live that way and it seems a long way to go. And everyone else is just not analyzing, they’re just running and I’m running as well because of the peer pressure because I’m fun! And we’re all running and running and everyone else, I think, is just at one with the moment, at one with joy, at one with the universe, and I’m there, as I’m running, thinking, “well, this will probably make a good memory!” Which is living in the future discussing the past with someone who, if they asked you, “oh, what did it feel like?” “I don’t know! I was thinking about what to say to you!”
— Simon Amstell, Do Nothing
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Fine, we're geniuses but not EVIL geniuses. →
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That center, or “prime” timeline, is the one in which Abed catches the die, exposes Jeff as a selfish hooligan and the group sends him down for the pizza. That is the “real” timeline. And when we were not in it, I did everything I could to make it clear. As much fun as we want to have, we never want to confuse you or lie to you. We just don’t consider that a right that we have. I hated that stupid “The Killing” show on AMC after the first five minutes; don’t show me someone discovering a body but then reveal that the camera was somewhere else and it was a pig. That’s dumb.
Well that settles that.
I haven't left my house in 100 years: Abed's timeline was real, not Jeff's! →
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Last night’s Community featured seven different timelines based on the roll of a die. They led you to believe that the final timeline was the real one, but I don’t believe this to be true. Here’s why.
- The episode begins with a brief argument about…
“We pitched [The Walking Dead] last year where maybe the characters could find a library with a generator and do a Bing search,”
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Sean Carver, marketing director for Microsoft Bing
Bing Really Wanted an Atrocious Product Placement on The Walking Dead | NY Times via Vulture
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