March 2015
Month archive / 33 posts
Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief
Total Recall
Left Behind: World at War
Left Behind II: Tribulation Force
Left Behind: The Movie
Left Behind III is in HD on Netflix, so we can finally see everyone’s pores.
Left Behind III: World at War. Our only hope for redemption is the inclusion of Joanna Kerns, Alan Thicke, Tracy Gold, and Jeremy Miiller.
“Anything with more action than people talking about God I would be totally into right now.” – @iamrumz #LeftBehindTrilogy
The drinking game @iamrumz and I have devised for the Left Behind trilogy is a little too perfect. hiccup
Holy shit, Jason Jones cameo in Left Behind II: Tribulation Force!
Left Behind has me excited about the rapture. Israel and Palestine hug it out, sanctimonious Christians are gone, overpopulation is solved.
Forty-seven minutes into the first movie, @iamrumz and I have begun work on our Left Behind erotic fan fiction.
The Left Behind trilogy has begun. Tell my wife I love her.
A friend’s story of finding $10K on the street: “I found the guy who belonged to the car and it turns out it fell out of his SWEAT PANTS.”
I’m still not clear on what is to be gained by shocking the monkey.
Today is not a competition, but with amazing new releases from Lightning Bolt and Liturgy, Thrill Jockey Records is winning.
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
Infernal Affairs
They should change the name from Adobe Illustrator to Adobe Gaslight.
It Follows
What a difference a shift in perspective makes. David Robert Mitchell’s directorial debut, The Myth of the American Sleepover, was a pensive coming-of-age drama that showed promise but was ultimately defeated by its own one-note sotto voce. With It Follows, Mitchell takes on the same themes much more successfully by funneling them through a simple but ingenious horror premise: the carrier of a sexually-transmitted curse is slowly but relentlessly pursued by a malevolent, shape-shifting being… See more →
“…because this is San Francisco, and we have an idea!” youtu.be/WoK4_dQbfuU
Ten years ago today, I arrived in Austin for my first SXSW, and my career turned a corner. Many friendships that began then continue today.
“The Snow Is Melting! But What a Mess It Left Behind” or “The Paper of Record Saves a Recluse a Trip to the Sidewalk” nytimes.com/2015/03/11/nyr…
Gold is tacky.
Citizenfour
The Nib has put together a great collection of feminist comics for International Women’s Day. medium.com/the-nib/whatev…
Irreversible
Everything about this animated profile of Mark Mothersbaugh is fantastic (except that it is all too brief). youtu.be/19Vdsi4hvRk
Working from home. Neighbor blasting 4 Non Blondes’ “What’s Up?” on repeat. Poll: murder or suicide?
Housebound
Nerds. Can we stop with the numeronyms, please? Use your words.
The shoelace makers and the earbud makers should swap some personnel. Boom, I just solved knots.
