impish bloggage

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/may/10/1984-george-orwell

Thu, 07 Feb 2013 22:59:56 -0600

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/may/10/1984-george-orwell

because teh internet

Thu, 17 Jan 2013 23:02:31 -0600

Specifically, I blame Facebook. Shame on you, parents. Letting your kids snort up all that Facebook. In my day, parents knew better and kids drank their tweets at home. Also, smoking tumblr is totally different.

Video

Tue, 15 Jan 2013 19:43:59 -0600

Photo

Wed, 19 Dec 2012 23:38:31 -0600

VICE Interviews Adam Curtis

Thu, 13 Dec 2012 21:36:34 -0600

VICE Interviews Adam Curtis

Photo

Thu, 29 Nov 2012 18:54:17 -0600

It's Called "ZOMBREX" in Dead Rising, or another New Orleans zombie project

Thu, 29 Nov 2012 18:35:00 -0600

It's Called "ZOMBREX" in Dead Rising, or another New Orleans zombie project:

I am gonna be annoyed when my pitch starts getting compared to this flick. Pretty soon, if not already, New Orleans zombie movies will be their own subgenre.

It’s a fantastic: a) conceptual piece about the idea of a...

Wed, 14 Nov 2012 08:17:00 -0600

It’s a fantastic:

a) conceptual piece about the idea of a “house” or “home” and personal space

b) way to break a bone at a concert or parade.

Googleplex #1 presale customer.

Wed, 14 Nov 2012 08:15:36 -0600

Googleplex #1 presale customer.

DotD: Charles Walters

Sun, 09 Sep 2012 18:48:30 -0500

http://www.filmdirectorssite.com/node/210

The Man in the Hat sent this commentary 09/02/2012 10:19AM CST:

Subject: The Barkleys of Broadway (Technicolor 1949)

Fred & Ginger, with amazing piano solos of Oscar Levant.

Does it get any better for the talented Mr. Harry Stradling, Sr, ASC? He lights a beautiful Big Room. (How many days to light those big number scenes?) Then, after all his and the crew’s good work, he trains his machine and lenses for head-to toe of Astaire and Rogers (“backwards in high heels”) as they move so smoothly they have you and I thinking we can dance like them.

Ah, filmmaking!

Tom

PS. George Dibie was bringing sexy back before that Justin kid was ever imagined!

Tom would occasionally call me just to chat and sometimes to...

Sun, 09 Sep 2012 18:22:00 -0500

Tom would occasionally call me just to chat and sometimes to tell me about something I should look into. This was one of the few things he was urgent about me listening to. It aired on KCRW “The Home of the Homeless”, and I do not know if he listened to the rest of the related Radiolab series After Life, as it fit with many of our conversations on this topic.

The Man in The Hat Tom McKenney sent me many emails (292 is the...

Sun, 09 Sep 2012 17:47:00 -0500

The Man in The Hat Tom McKenney sent me many emails (292 is the count on my email program). Actually, looking at his facebook output, it seems that is where he made the most interwebs (he has friends who have never met him in person but who are mourning him on his facebook wall today). Some of our exchanges were work correspondence, some of it personal correspondence, but most of it were his email blast, what I like to think of as one his many underpaid work for hire ventures in an emerging media market. The Man in The Hat was a cinematographer and shooter in show business and news reporting, and he had many additional passions: baseball, radio and podcasting, politics, interesting music, good spirits (all around, distilled and uplifting), and sharing wisdom and laughter through stories/parables or demonstration and discussion (this is why I think he liked motion picture making, baseball, and radio so much).

This podcast was sent by Tom in an email “brain timing” cced to his partner Elli 08/31/2012 04:56AM CST

His comment:

Continues our discussion on neuroscience versus spirituality.

We had several reference based discussions on this topic before Tom translated last night. I will post a few of our email exchanges here that I think are of greater benefit to a larger audience. I think Tom (for the same reasons I do with my correspondence) limited them in scope of re-broadcast because at the time, he had a specific message for a small audience, but I think now that audience is ready to grow through my tiny little channel (unless Elli objects, or in case of the larger e-mail blasts, a majority contingency of his recipients).

http://www.facebook.com/thomas.mckenney

Sun, 09 Sep 2012 15:52:42 -0500

http://www.facebook.com/thomas.mckenney

Kelly King's PAUSE PRETERNATURAL

Sat, 14 Jul 2012 05:01:00 -0500

screencaps by stinger839 at 2012-07-13/2012-07-14

I am going to this as a living installation - a quantum Kelly King on the boundaries of existence in a world where it means next to nothing to be a “Kelly King” and an “artist”.

-RaVinG_IMP_kelly.King

I am watching Derren Brown - Inside Your Mind ...

Fri, 06 Jul 2012 21:34:08 -0500

I am watching Derren Brown - Inside Your Mind

“If anyone (American or New Orleanian) tells me to check this out like I didn’t tell them ‘bout Derren first…..”

Check-in to Derren Brown - Inside Your Mind on GetGlue.com

Keith of Chiba and Jacques of Jacques-Imo's in Epic Pigeon Town Car Chase!!!

Thu, 05 Jul 2012 21:07:00 -0500

http://noladefender.com/content/ch3ef-sq4uad-bani5shes-bike-bandit

Keith Dusko and Tiffany King of Chiba [Photo by Amy Jett]

I am watching Rick Steves’ Europe ...

Tue, 03 Jul 2012 03:43:03 -0500

I am watching Rick Steves’ Europe

“lol Amsterdam is first on Rick Steves’ list; have to stock up b4 you head out!”

Check-in to Rick Steves’ Europe on GetGlue.com

Fwd: Committed to Repealing Obamacare Outright

Thu, 28 Jun 2012 17:47:00 -0500

Never change, David Vitter. I think this and the BEER Act are the only things we agree on.

Dear Friend,

The Supreme Court decision on Obamacare is obviously an extremely disappointing ruling. But I am more committed than ever to repealing Obamacare outright.

Obamacare may have been judged constitutional in this clumsy way, but I think it’s also been proved a bad idea since its passage that’s making things worse. It continues to increase the cost of health care services and puts the federal government between patients and doctors.

Click here to watch a video of Sen. Vitter’s comments.

I’m sure President Obama and his liberal allies that forced this law through Congress will try to spin the Supreme Court ruling as a major victory, but the bottom line is Obamacare is a disaster.

This decision is misguided - it rewrites the Obamacare mandate as a tax in order to uphold it. But that also makes clear that President Romney and a Republican Congress can repeal this all through reconciliation - with a simple majority in the Senate. That’s what I’ll demand, what I’ll fight tirelessly for.

At the beginning of this Congressional session I introduced leading bill in the Senate to fully repeal Obamacare, and I’ll continue to work tirelessly to get that passed.

Sincerely,

David Vitter
United States Senator

P.S. Please visit my website to sign up for regular email updates from me on the issues important to Louisiana families.

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YOU. DON'T. EVEN. KNOW.

Thu, 28 Jun 2012 05:19:00 -0500

YOU. DON'T. EVEN. KNOW.:

OMFG. Peter George, The Most Interesting Man in the World, will be hanging out in celebration of Surf Nazis Must Die 25th Anniversary at Banks St Bar on August 10, 2012. He likes to talk about novels and obscure cinema. The Kindle changed the way he reads. He went to Cannes when there were film projectors and real famous people. He smokes unfiltered Camels. Peter. George.

Director of the Day: Factory...

Fri, 22 Jun 2012 21:13:26 -0500

Director of the Day: Factory People

http://www.warholstars.org/andywarhol/interview/midgette/allen_midgette.html

http://www.warholstars.org/chron/blowjob63n8.html BLOW JOB

http://www.warholstars.org/warhol/warhol1/warhol1b/johngiorno.html SLEEP

http://www.warholstars.org/ronald_tavel.html resident writer tell-all

http://www.stockholmfilmfestival.se/en/film/flesh_for_frankenstein Paul Morrissey: … lawsuits were expensive and I always wondered if anyone bothered to read the actual credits on the films.

http://www.warholstars.org/warhol/warhol1/warhol1n/last.html Andy Warhol: They’re better talked about than seen.

Also I was taking forever on this post; now I am like damnit just publish it already - it’s an all-in-oner Factory post on tumblr! Y’all are just gonna repost the photoset and delete all this shit, right? Getting too Tinkerbelle about this blog.