June 5, 2012 • 9 notes • hausoftwerk
Hide yo kids, hide yo wife, and hide yo husband cuz they eatin everybody out here!
Thoughts of A Dying Atheist.:  
February 14, 2012 • 2 notes
happy valentine’s day, you guys!

happy valentine’s day, you guys!

January 23, 2012 • 434 notes • telegraph.co.uk
allcreatures: Penguins wear traditional Korean hanbok costumes during a photo call held as part of a Lunar New Year event at an aquarium in Seoul Picture: REUTERS/Kim Hong-Ji (via Animal pictures of the week: 20 January 2012 - Telegraph)

allcreatures:

Penguins wear traditional Korean hanbok costumes during a photo call held as part of a Lunar New Year event at an aquarium in Seoul

Picture: REUTERS/Kim Hong-Ji (via Animal pictures of the week: 20 January 2012 - Telegraph)

January 23, 2012 • 159 notes • pitchfork
SO glad i did not buy coachella tickets.

SO glad i did not buy coachella tickets.

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January 21, 2012 • 211 notes • yoisthisracist
Yo, I just read about some white dude getting offended by Portlandia, calling it a “white subcultural equivalent of a minstrel show”. Can you believe that shit?
Yo, if that guy feels that way about Portlandia, he is going to BUG OUT when he discovers Fox News.
December 31, 2011

Since having watched Young Adult three weeks ago, I’ve put Teenage Fanclub’s “The Concept” on some of my playlists.  I hadn’t really thought about this song in years, and now it has been a prolific part of my December 2011 soundtrack.  Sometimes I listen to it twice in a row… oh my god, I *am* Mavis Gary.

December 30, 2011 • 8 notes
Ladies!  It’s almost 2012, have you found your Lloyd Dobler yet? Because in 2012, when shit goes down as long been predicted, only Lloyd Dobler can whisk you away in a stretch limo, as Los Angeles crumbles beneath squealing tires into the Pacific Ocean.  Then, he’ll take you on a wild scavenger hunt from Yellowstone to Vegas, and eventually to Tibet where you’ll board a rescue vessel with the Queen of England.  You’ll start your lives over in a new and improved Africa!  Surely they’ll take in a bunch of spoiled and pampered refugees, instantly forgetting about several centuries of poverty and oppression, and that negligible fact that we assumed they’d just drown with the rest of the riffraff. Goodbye 2011, Hello 2012!

Ladies!  It’s almost 2012, have you found your Lloyd Dobler yet?

Because in 2012, when shit goes down as long been predicted, only Lloyd Dobler can whisk you away in a stretch limo, as Los Angeles crumbles beneath squealing tires into the Pacific Ocean.  Then, he’ll take you on a wild scavenger hunt from Yellowstone to Vegas, and eventually to Tibet where you’ll board a rescue vessel with the Queen of England.  You’ll start your lives over in a new and improved Africa!  Surely they’ll take in a bunch of spoiled and pampered refugees, instantly forgetting about several centuries of poverty and oppression, and that negligible fact that we assumed they’d just drown with the rest of the riffraff.

Goodbye 2011, Hello 2012!

December 28, 2011 • 1,047 notes • thisjelly

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December 23, 2011 • 13 notes
Yes, I made plans in advance with a willing friend and paid good money to see this movie. And yes, it was that bad.  This movie is what would happen if you put a tween girl with ADD in an isolated room with a year’s worth of Us Weekly and a box of bargain-bin greeting cards for 2 hours. And now, for your convenience, I’ve constructed a handy visual aid which lays out everything that happens to everyone in this movie. (click to enlarge).

Yes, I made plans in advance with a willing friend and paid good money to see this movie. And yes, it was that bad.  This movie is what would happen if you put a tween girl with ADD in an isolated room with a year’s worth of Us Weekly and a box of bargain-bin greeting cards for 2 hours.

And now, for your convenience, I’ve constructed a handy visual aid which lays out everything that happens to everyone in this movie. (click to enlarge).

December 16, 2011
This could have been such a hilarious, relatable movie.  And it is, in the beginning.  There are so many things that I should be able to identify with.  Charlize Theron’s character, Mavis Gary is a single woman in her late 30s who loves to drink whiskey, with a stunted career and suffering creative block, hiding from obligation and expectation, with a slight obsession with matters personal and social.  As the film begins, you can find the humor in her failures.  One of my favorite visuals from the film was watching her painfully stumble in a hungover daze from the bed to the fridge to guzzle from a 2 Liter bottle of Diet Coke. I’ve been there. Then you realize she is certifiably batshit insane and a serious alcoholic, and the film quickly plummets from being hilarious and relatable to really, really depressing and uncomfortable.  And it’s supposed to be depressing and uncomfortable.  At least that is my takeaway. It is very difficult to enjoy a movie centered around such an unsympathetic character. Especially since she does not seem to experience any significant growth or redemption.  Still, I am glad I saw it.  I think Diablo Cody and Jason Reitman know how to make a good movie.  Its been six days since I watched it, and I am still thinking about it.  I found the real reward of the film to be in the details.  The aforementioned Diet Coke, her Hello Kitty t-shirt, her dressing rituals, her slovenly Minneapolis apartment and her childhood bedroom at her parents’ house.  These subtle details help make up the whole of the character.  But, like I said, Mavis Gary is a deplorable character, and no amount of depth or detail could really vindicate her in my eyes.  The prevailing lesson we learn from this movie, as far as I can tell, is “Bitches be Bitches”. It is also worth mentioning that the performances were great. Charlize Theron and Patton Oswalt play off each other well.  The soundtrack is also wonderful, full of early to mid-90s college radio staples.  The Lemonheads, Veruca Salt, and of course Teenage Fanclub. I would recommend watching this, but I would advise to proceed with caution.  If your constitution can handle extreme discomfort, then it is worth watching.  And now, if you don’t mind, I am going back to high school to stalk Keanu Reeves.

This could have been such a hilarious, relatable movie.  And it is, in the beginning.  There are so many things that I should be able to identify with.  Charlize Theron’s character, Mavis Gary is a single woman in her late 30s who loves to drink whiskey, with a stunted career and suffering creative block, hiding from obligation and expectation, with a slight obsession with matters personal and social.  As the film begins, you can find the humor in her failures.  One of my favorite visuals from the film was watching her painfully stumble in a hungover daze from the bed to the fridge to guzzle from a 2 Liter bottle of Diet Coke. I’ve been there.

Then you realize she is certifiably batshit insane and a serious alcoholic, and the film quickly plummets from being hilarious and relatable to really, really depressing and uncomfortable.  And it’s supposed to be depressing and uncomfortable.  At least that is my takeaway.

It is very difficult to enjoy a movie centered around such an unsympathetic character. Especially since she does not seem to experience any significant growth or redemption.  Still, I am glad I saw it.  I think Diablo Cody and Jason Reitman know how to make a good movie.  Its been six days since I watched it, and I am still thinking about it.  I found the real reward of the film to be in the details.  The aforementioned Diet Coke, her Hello Kitty t-shirt, her dressing rituals, her slovenly Minneapolis apartment and her childhood bedroom at her parents’ house.  These subtle details help make up the whole of the character.  But, like I said, Mavis Gary is a deplorable character, and no amount of depth or detail could really vindicate her in my eyes.  The prevailing lesson we learn from this movie, as far as I can tell, is “Bitches be Bitches”.

It is also worth mentioning that the performances were great. Charlize Theron and Patton Oswalt play off each other well.  The soundtrack is also wonderful, full of early to mid-90s college radio staples.  The Lemonheads, Veruca Salt, and of course Teenage Fanclub.

I would recommend watching this, but I would advise to proceed with caution.  If your constitution can handle extreme discomfort, then it is worth watching.  And now, if you don’t mind, I am going back to high school to stalk Keanu Reeves.