January 2015

Compare the size of your home to Mitt Romney’s! wapo.st/1tsBsBJ Here’s mine (my apartment is in blue):

Got my Faith No More tickets. Expensive. Hope it’s good. If not, at least I already satisfied my reunion criterion: twitter.com/robweychert/st…

Buzzfeed, ladies and gentlemen. waitbutwhy.com/2015/01/most-d…

Makers of mobile apps that hold sensitive personal information: please let me stay signed in. My phone’s native security works just fine.

omg its snowing in northeast usa in january wtf

My insurance company rewards me for exercise by counting my steps via iPhone. I topped off today’s quota by walking to buy mac and cheese.

In honor of its 10th anniversary, Virtual Stan has been updated for a modern audience. virtual-stan.com/10/

1. Underground band is great.
2. Mainstream band is influenced by 1, is also great.
3. Band influenced by 2 and not 1 is not great.

This is the most exciting piece of software I’ve seen in ages. It will make doing design on the go so much easier. duetdisplay.com

Twitter pro tip: for a series of related tweets, reply to yourself and remove your username from the reply. Makes the thread easy to follow.

A caricature of creativity.

The three things I find most interesting about Breakfast at Tiffany’s:

1. Made in 1961 at the tail end of the Production Code era, it is fascinating to see the film tiptoe around the fact that its two main characters are essentially prostitutes.
2. Even if one forgives its gobsmacking racism, I can’t begin to imagine how Mickey Rooney’s way-over-the-top slapstick could have been deemed fit for inclusion in this or any other film made for adults.
3. The… See more →

This superfluous sequel to The Trip is distinguished from its predecessor in two ways: 1) The titular road trip swaps northern England for Italy, and 2) Rob Brydon tries his hand at the mid-life crisis Steve Coogan had in the first film. Otherwise, The Trip to Italy is more of the same, and I do mean more. Remember all those celebrity impressions? They were funny, right? Here they are again, seemingly sans editing, driven far… See more →

My five favorite films of 2014, in alphabetical order.

Boyhood

Richard Linklater

In less skilled hands, Boyhood’s twelve years in production might not have amounted to much more than a (very ambitious) stunt, but instead, Richard Linklater’s landmark coming-of-age opus is accessible without being straightforward, and thoughtful without being ponderous. Its 165 minutes are breezy and unrushed, and yet it is over before you know it. I guess kids really do grow up fast.… See more →

There are many enjoyable moments in Inherent Vice’s drug-addled noir, most of them occurring between Joaquin Phoenix’s hippie P.I. and Josh Brolin’s crooked cop. As a whole, though, the stupor the audience is made to share with the protagonist renders the intricacies of the hardboiled plot largely impenetrable. That bewildering effect is fitting but unsatisfying.