just saw this product in the supermarket for the first time.

nobody's sober...the song is the same...

rip dj am

"My TV remote sticks frequently and it's so fucking frustrating. When it won't fast forward, I hit every button imaginable fifteen times. When the DVR finally unfreezes, it then carries out the function of every single button I pressed, in order, like an instant replay of my insanity."

-Aaron Karo

"I've always kind of been the person who was like, oh kids. Those are for poor people and rich people. I'd rather spend my money on vacations to Tahiti and Japanese lessons. But I forgot how utterly adorable they could be. If only it were as easy as dialing J. Crew's 800 number and putting one on your MasterCard."

-jezebel.com

some good things happened. some bad things happened. some good things will happen. some bad things will happen. and on it goes.

my mother is on twitter. not completely sure how i feel about that.

"I'd rather work for a tyrant than a committee."

-Hal Riney

watched groundhog day, only several years late. i'm officially on the bill murray bandwagon.

on my way to work, i saw an advertisement on the side of a phone booth for a new program on the history channel, nostradamus (i believe it is fully entitled lost book of nostradamus). the advertisement said, to some effect, "how will the end begin?"

i'm certainly no eternal optimist, but to read that every day, while still trying to participate meaningfully in the human experience, seems nearly impossible...

"It seemed like the right day - drop acid and get on the red carpet in a dress."

-Trey Stone

great packaging design.

when i win the lottery, i will become an art collector.

anonymous anonymous anonymous anonymous.

i should probably stop watching horribly depressing movies. just finished alive, which wasn't even good. bad acting, bad script. incredibly unbelievable true story. but even with an uplifting ending, still depressing as shit.

nantucket this weekend. i gotta go see more sand and ocean/less cars and concrete.

yahoo in 1997

this is interesting.

Among many, many other things, "Synecdoche, New York" is about authenticity, including the search for an authentic self in an inauthentic world.

i could try to review this movie myself, but i couldn't do it justice.

also just discovered that we live in public is going to be playing at the IFC Center from august 28 - september 10.

new york, i love you for your constant indie movie selection.

so everyone freaks the fuck out when miley cyrus poses in a backless shirt/sheet type thing on the cover of vanity fair. but when she performs at the teen choice awards doing some pole dancing without pants, it's totally legit.

not quite sure why i care about a white trash 15 year old with more money than i'll ever have.

halfway through watching synecdoche, new york. i can't sleep, and this movie is making me need a handful of lexapro.

wow i'm getting cynical in my old age.

drugs sex alcohol rock-n-roll - blueprint

big girls need love too - blueprint

alright, who, is, lucy?

she's the extra that gets to play the devil in my movie.

she's around uptown sippin a beer smoothie.

-murs & slug, 20 answers

man, i'm all about good music, people and progression.

-murs, 20 answers

Publishers Weekly review of "Free: The Future of a Radical Price" by Chris Anderson

In the digital marketplace, the most effective price is no price at all, argues Anderson. He illustrates how savvy businesses are raking it in with indirect routes from product to revenue with such models as cross-subsidies (giving away a DVR to sell cable service) and freemiums (offering Flickr for free while selling the superior FlickrPro to serious users). New media models have allowed successes like Obama's campaign billboards on Xbox Live, Webkinz dolls and Radiohead's name-your-own-price experiment with its latest album. A generational and global shift is at play - those below 30 won't pay for information, knowing it will be available somewhere for free, and in China, piracy accounts for about 95% of music consumption - to the delight of artists and labels, who profit off free publicity through concerts and merchandising. Anderson provides a thorough overview of the history of pricing and commerce, the mental transaction costs that differentiate zero and any other price into two entirely different markets, the psychology of digital piracy and the open-source war between Microsoft and Linus. As in Anderson's previous book, the thought-provoking material is matched by a delivery that is nothing short of scintillating.

want to read this.

i've got 20 pounds of chronic in my living room.

inflatable moose head in my living room.

"Hima and I are two weird, socially awkward brown dudes, and we deal with that awkwardness by taking drugs and telling jokes."

-Victor Vazquez of Das Racist

a little late with these reviews. but i figure better late than never.

bruno - okay, this is a hard one. yes, i laughed consistently throughout the entire thing. i'd be surprised if there's many people out there who didn't (well, maybe everyone in a land-locked state, but that's another matter). however, was this character particularly original? no. was the movie even comparable to borat? no. was the social commentary as ironic and eye-opening as borat? no. did many of the stunts seem entirely scripted? yes. i've seen borat probably 15 times and it never gets old. i don't think i could sustain 15 showings of bruno.

being john malkovich - this is what movies should be. absurd, philosophical plot. absurd, slightly delusional characters. i could conceptually grasp the movie until the dénouement, which i found unsatisfying. 

it might get loud premiered 2 days ago and releases in theaters a week from friday. can't wait.

 

finally started using pandora. amazing. i also enjoy reading its reasoning:

"Based on what you've told us so far, we're playing this track because it features electronica roots, trip hop roots, danceable beats, unsyncopated ensemble rhythms and the use of chordal patterning."

i think netflix and pandora are smarter than me.

"It's amazing to me how so many NBA teams are purposely suffering multiple seasons of mediocrity just for the potential opportunity to sign LeBron James in 2010. In no other industry is this acceptable. No CEO ever says, 'Our plan is to suck for the next three years just in case something awesome comes along.' Well, unless you're General Motors."

-Aaron Karo