September 2010
WatchI don’t think I’ve ever worked out if I actually agree with Camille Paglia, or if I just like her because she’s such a force for chaos. Either way, this is her talking about her 1990 column in which she anointed Madonna as the future of feminism.
Enjoy.
I'm so sorry for my twitter feed today.
I’m spending a day trying to tweet like Alain De Botton. I find him to be the dreariest thing since the sky in BBC TV shows from the ’70s, and I wanted to get a feel for what it’s like to be him.
So far it’s searingly dull.
The Lords of Luxury podcast just dropped. →
I’m fans of and friends with two of the four Lords of Luxury. You probably know Paul Verhoeven from his Lessons for Children and his Triple J radio work and you’d know Luke Ryan from his writing in The Vine and his stand-up show Luke’s Got Cancer.
Jump onto their new podcast now so you can say you were fans before they sold out.
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It’s no longer unusual to see couples who met while they each lived in countries far apart from one another. International travel, the internet, combined with a growing wanderlust in culture have all made such romances all but inevitable.
What’s often overlooked in these stories is the courage required by one half of the couple – the half that drops their entire life and moves abroad....
Good lord. My girlfriend’s Australian accent...
This is what I think of when I see a man wearing a... →
“Parents, predictably, are outraged. Grace Ventura, the mother of a third grader,...”
– Teacher Unjustly Punished For Revealing Her Sex-Work Past (via willowphoto)
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-9-26) →
The New Pornographers (79)
Adam Franklin & Bolts of Melody (55)
Teenage Fanclub (37)
Adam Green (37)
Matthew Sweet (32)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Upside-down and back-to front.
Many many years ago I had a Hasselblad 503CM. I used it for product photography, some portraiture, and a bunch of polacolor transfer work I was doing for editorial illustration.
I never bought a pentaprism for it, instead using the collapsible focusing hood that it came with. Without a pentaprism, everything in the finder was of course flipped and flopped. Upside-down and back-to-front. And this...
“Like the Victorians, most contemporary Western societies inflate the inherent...”
– Christopher Ryan & Cacilda Jethá, “Sex at Dawn”.
“GEM is designed to complement Nine’s premium channel, and the network’s number...”
– Nine’s reveals new digital channel GEM - mUmBRELLA
Women over 35, and grocery buyers. Man, that’s an overlooked demographic.
Seth Gilliam, who plays Carver in The Wire, plays Sugar Watkins in Starship Troopers. I love noticing crap like this. How does a career like that happen? Casper van Dien is nobody these days and Seth Gilliam is playing Othello for the Commonwealth Shakespeare Company.
The world is odd.
What an amazing night of TV. Logan’s Run, Robocop, Starship Troopers and Naked Gun 2 1/2. I love you, TV.
“A spokesman from Gillard’s office said: “The Prime Minister is not...”
– PM Julia Gillard has no problems with people who play Angry Birds | News.com.au
“FORMER Guantanamo Bay detainee David Hicks has written an account of his life...”
– Hicks tells his side of story
I’ll buy this book if only as a very small contribution back to a man who was shamefully betrayed by his country. I don’t care what Hicks did –– he was an Australian citizen whose country left him to rot and be tortured in Guantanamo bay. He deserved due...
“I have gone in three situations:
1- a solo diner
2- after too many drinks at...”
– That Jess Ho › China Red
Jess Ho’s review of touch-screen dumpling joint China Red.
Guess which one of these times Jess was accompanied by Erin and me?
Hint: Neither 1 nor 3.
“[i]f you’ve been half tuned-in to the state of the world, you’d know...”
– Michael Pascoe | Chindia - you aint seen nuthin yet | China | India
“Peruvians consume an estimated 65 million guinea pigs each year, and the animal...”
– Guinea pig - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
“The impression I had when Marty walked us through the Copacabana shot was that...”
– Larry McConkey, The Steadicam Operator for that damned shot in “Goodfellas”.
Getting Made The Scorsese Way: Movies + TV: GQ
Read it. It’s wonderful.
Found via the always great Give Me Something To Read.
My copy of Nanoka arrived.
Nice work, Katie.
