February 2012
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January 2012
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December 2011
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November 2011
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Organ Trail →
Oregon Trail with zombies!
October 2011
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Orson Welles's War of the Worlds: First-hand... →
Via nevver
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The Kills, “Pots and Pans”
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“The most sophisticated people I know - inside they are all children.”
– Jim Henson
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September 2011
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“I don’t think about it. I’m not religious. I do know that I...”
– Sidney Lumet, when asked “When you die, how do you want to go out?”
August 2011
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The 30 Harshest Filmmaker-on-Filmmaker Insults In... →
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July 2011
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“It is better not to touch our idols: the gilt comes off on our hands.”
– Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary
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The Godfather vs. Arrested Development
Via thebluthcompany:
Is Arrested Development a sitcom version of The Godfather? We’ll see…
MICHAEL CORLEONE and MICHAEL BLUTH:
In The Godfather, Michael Corleone wants to leave his family business behind and find a normal life on his own terms. However, he is forced into the family business when an attempt has been made on his father’s life, as he is the only one qualified amongst his...
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What Would Don Draper Do? →
The Oatmeal’s take.
June 2011
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May 2011
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A Peek Inside Famous Writers' Homes →
How cool is Norman Mailer’s place? The New York Times: “In the author’s raucous younger years there was a hammock strung up between the rafters, a trapeze swing dangling from the ceiling and a rope ladder, providing a more adventurous way to scale the apartment.” More images of it here.
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Bill Callahan, “Eid Ma Clack Shaw”
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“I am not young enough to know everything.”
– Oscar Wilde
Via libraryland
April 2011
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March 2011
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Collection of Psychiatric Hospital/"Insane Asylum"... →
Text from oobject:
…[T]he Kirkbride Plan … created a very unusual form of architecture for asylums throughout the Anglosphere that was used until the 20th Century. As a result of their demise, most are abandoned ruins today, giant, rotting testimonies to a bygone era of clinical Victorian discipline combined with neo-Gothic extravagance.
The Kirkbride Plan consists of an...
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“Like with ‘Say Yes,’ I wrote that song in five minutes. And I wrote ‘Between the...”
– Elliott Smith talks songwriting with Mary Lou Lord in a 1998 issue of Spin