25. A Simple Plan 24. Jack Frost 23. Gary Busey as the Gingerbread Man 22. Mean Girls 21. Edward Scissorhands 20. Bad Santa 19. Eyes Wide Shut 18. The Family Man (absurd, but Nic Cage) 17. (more…)
Intellectual Property, Safe Bets, & Addiction to Nostalgia Porn
I know studios need to make their tentpoles that sustain them, and they take incredibly safe bets making relatively benign or saccarin films that get the ticket sales, but don’t move film or cinema forward (more…)
REPRINTED WITHOUT PERMISSION: Henry Rollins: America’s Real Safety Net Is Drugs, Alcohol, Cheap Food and Free Porn
(this was in the LA Weekly. not many people read the LA Weekly. just about as many people as my blog.) — Henry Rollins: America’s Real Safety Net Is Drugs, Alcohol, Cheap Food and Free Porn THURSDAY, (more…)
Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs is out of date, completely wrong, & wildly ignorant of the privilege it espouses. Time to update it?
I’ve been looking for academic discourse regarding Maslow, and it doesn’t seem that there is a wide array of conversation in regards to the idea of Maslow’s Hierarchy born of white privilege? I am a tall (more…)
A New World of rationalism, religion, and extremism; Never the ‘tween shall meet.
Future of human race will depend on how we're able to deal w/extremism, cultism, irrationalism, mental illness,& the like.All tied together. — Uncle Fishbits (@UncleFishbits) April 17, 2015 Understand (more…)
Bladerunner and Alien tie in… they’re in the same universe.
ttp://www.reddit.com/r/movies/comments/10yegw/holy_shit_prometheus_and_blade_runner_tie_in/ pic below. more info at this link, with best dissection of this: http://www.tor.com/blogs/2012/04/will-prometheus-create-a-shared-universe-between-alien–and-blade–runner Also, (more…)
I heard you love ambient and relaxing electronic music?
Artist – Song Have fun. The Orb: Little Fluffy Clouds https://vimeo.com/68906475 Skylab’s 1994 track “Next” from their album “Skylab #1”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ds2-uFaWprU Electric (more…)
The Frontier is Everywhere…. Carl Sagan on Wanderers, and we as Voyagers.
Wanderers – a short film by Erik Wernquist from Erik Wernquist on Vimeo. Voyagers from Santiago Menghini on Vimeo.
Heatherwick Studio is growing plants for Bombay Sapphire’s gin, and it’s beautiful.
Fascinating, and functional. Heatherwick Studio’s master plan proposed the creation of two new glasshouses to grow specimens of the 10 exotic plant species used in the Bombay Sapphire distillation process. (more…)
A little music history from a little known DJ.
So before muzak, Seeburg was the old piped in “radio” channel of big band and classic jazz, bossa, and lounge music that was in hotel lobbies, restaurants, bars, etc. IT IS SO GREAT: http://seeburg1000.com/ Someone (more…)