Movies 2012
Saturday, January 5, 2013
Some i watched after looking at a couple of best-of lists:
Killer Joe – extremely twisted and uniquely discomforting. i don’t think this specific shit goes on in America, but what does?
John Dies At The End – this (and the source novel, i assume) “deconstructs” the supernatural thriller brilliantly. Ain’t your parents’ Mulder and Scully.
Ruby Sparks – Manic Pixie Dream Girl, thoroughly turned inside out despite the protests of the screenwriter otherwise. Brilliant.
(Ebert rules, i have no other go-to film critic.)
this was part of my childhood…
Friday, November 2, 2012
Welcome to OMNI Magazine Collection
OMNI was a science and science fiction magazine published in the US and the UK. It contained articles on science fact and short works of science fiction. The first issue was published in October 1978, the last in Winter 1995, with an internet version lasting until 1998.
(my childhood wasn’t like yours)
on the bright side
Wednesday, October 31, 2012
Depressive realism is the proposition that people with depression actually have a more accurate perception of reality, specifically that they are less affected by positive illusions of illusory superiority, the locus of control and optimism bias.
Depressive Realism May Not Be Real
In the lyrics to the song “Dumb,” Kurt Cobain sang “I think I’m dumb, or maybe just happy.” Like many people battling serious depression, Cobain seems to have thought that being happy required being oblivious to the many depressing truths in the world. [i disagree with the article, i just like this paragraph.]
How does one convince a depressed person that “everything is all right” when her life really does suck? […] Counterintuitive as it sounds, it’s justified because what defines a mental disorder is not unreasonable or illogical thought, but abnormal behaviour that causes significant distress and impairs normal functioning in society.
A cartoonist talking about his character
Sunday, October 21, 2012
Love And Rockets’ Hernandez brothers on 30 years in comics
[Quote from Xaime:]
I know how she grew up emotionally—what her ups and downs were, basically, even if I don’t know the exact details. Like I said, every once in awhile, I do have to go back, but overall, it’s just this is my friend Maggie and I know she had a hard time at a time of her life and I know how she is going to react to a modern-day situation. Because I’ve known her, and I know she’s experienced in some ways because of what she’s learned in the past and stuff she’s never learned in the past. Some people learn, some people never learn and they’re sometimes the same person. So that’s basically how I do handle it. It’s not as hard as you’d think, but every once in a while, I go, “What did I do? Oh, OK. So I have to fix this.”
[So much love.]
“You are not entitled to your opinion.”
Friday, October 12, 2012
“You are only entitled to what you can argue for.
“A bit harsh? Perhaps, but philosophy teachers owe it to our students to teach them how to construct and defend an argument – and to recognize when a belief has become indefensible.”
An anecdote, probably meaningless
Wednesday, October 10, 2012
This morning was garbage day on my street.
i was waiting for the bus when i noticed a grocery bag a few houses down the road. It was beige and unmarked. The opening was tied up, but from the lack of inertia in its movement, the bag looked empty.
The way it was keeping balance while being blown by a light wind, it looked like the bag was a large-cat-sized mouse, with a knot for a tail, skittering back and forth across the road.
A truck eventually came up the street towards me and narrowly missed the mouse, but the slipstream was enough to blow it upwards and make it roll and twist. The illusion of life was broken and the mouse became a bag again.
i don’t believe them.
Tuesday, October 9, 2012
worst press conference of all time?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlcbAqK-qTY
Mormonism: even stranger than i thought
Sunday, September 23, 2012
Why I Love Mormonism – Simon Critchley
[…] “ ‘As man now is, God once was. As God now is, man may be.’ ”
“So, dear Simon,” my new friend concluded, “we, too, can become Gods, American Gods, no less.” He chuckled. I was astonished.
Welcome to Sex House!
Sunday, September 9, 2012
A masterpiece of modern satire from the Onion, they’ve really outdone themselves this time.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL622682EF88B3C077[/youtube]
