2017: 284 posts.
- 03-Jan-2017Don’t Do.
They Don’t Waste Time Feeling Sorry for Themselves They Don’t Give Away Their Power They Don’t Shy Away from Change They Don’t Waste Energy on Things They Can’t Control They Don’t Worry About Pleasing Everyone They Don’t Fear Taking Calculated Risks They Don’t Dwell on the Past They Don’t Make the Same Mistakes Over and…
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No lies, I’ve seen these bands.
Beastie Boys The Blasters David Byrne Elvis Costello Cracker Dave Matthews Band De La Soul Dead Can Dance Debbie Harry Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy Elton John General Public Keb’ Mo Los Lobos Love and Rockets Barry Manilow Maroon 5 Men at Work Morrissey New Order Oingo Boingo PJ Harvey Public Image Ltd The Ramones Santana…
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tl;dr: it was slavery.
Alexander Stephens, Vice President of the Confederate States of America: March 21, 1861: But not to be tedious in enumerating the numerous changes for the better, allow me to allude to one other — though last, not least. The new constitution has put at rest, forever, all the agitating questions relating to our peculiar institution…
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Roger Moore was awesome. Moonraker underrated.
Short shameful confession: Roger Moore was my favorite Bond. — Nick Mamatas (@NMamatas) May 23, 2017 Moonraker had EVERYTHING I NEEDED in a movie when I was 10. Moore was the first Bond I ever saw and he was cool. Speaking of Moonraker. #RelationshipGoals And Roger Moore provided some levity himself. There’s no shame in…
- 04-Oct-2017Blade Runner
Blade Runner is brutal and ambiguous. This essay on seeing it for the first time: it’s right on. This take is more critical than I was for the first 10 years of loving Blade Runner. At some point I could see that a cop tasked with killing a bunch of people is a really strange…
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Tower is Tower. For… a minute or two.
Tower Records on Sunset looking like Tower Records but not actually selling—you know—singles and records and tapes and CDs and music magazines is something very very bittersweet to me. But I do like seeing Tower. Update: Hi Joe! We repainted it in October 2015 for our premiere and it's stayed that way ever since. —…