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Ben Stein: apparently, biggest idiot ever — 18 April 2008; 3:14 am

Ben Stein, who we no doubt all know and love from his appearances on Ferris Bueller’s Day Off and Win Ben Stein’s Money, has made a little movie. It’s called Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed (my thoughts exactly), and it’s a cute little rickroll of an adventure flick with Pro-Nazi Chuck Darwin leading the hoary brigades [...]

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trip tape — 3 October 2006; 6:46 pm

Here is a trip tape from 1991, which circulated among the Dayton hacker community for a while. I never saw it until now. Apparently pretty legendary stuff. Reminds me of the music cassettes i used to make around the same time, exclusively for turning on. ~33 minutes.

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Stapler Dance — 4 August 2006; 10:17 am

Stapler Dance

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links to see and do — 23 March 2006; 5:22 am

Texas arresting people in bars for being drunk
Interesting article about hypocrisy and “pro-life”
V for Vendetta: fucking completely awesome. They did it right, and they did it well indeed. We need V here in the Former United States.
Prince’s new album is so good, it’s scary.

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Currently watching
- Bukowski: Born into This
  Shipped on 11/20/08. Shot over seven years by filmmaker John Dullaghan, this intimate portrait of writer Charles Bukowski reveals a tortured man who survived years of abuse to produce some of the most influential prose of his generation. Packed with interviews with friends and colleagues, the film also showcases rare footage culled from every phase of Bukowski's past, including a few of his more explosive public readings in the 1960s.
Recently watched
- Shipped: Bukowski: Born into This
  Shipped on 11/20/08. Shot over seven years by filmmaker John Dullaghan, this intimate portrait of writer Charles Bukowski reveals a tortured man who survived years of abuse to produce some of the most influential prose of his generation. Packed with interviews with friends and colleagues, the film also showcases rare footage culled from every phase of Bukowski's past, including a few of his more explosive public readings in the 1960s.
- Shipped: Storytelling
  Shipped on 11/17/08. Storytelling -- it's how we turn fact into fiction, lies into truth. Writer-director Todd Solondz (Happiness, Welcome to the Dollhouse) presents two stories -- "Fiction" and "Non-Fiction" -- focusing on the racial and sexual tension bubbling in a college writing class and the hidden fractures in a suburban household. Raw, chilling and wrenching, Storytelling is a modern fable for people who don't need happy endings.
- Shipped: The Short Films of David Lynch
  Shipped on 11/05/08. A must-see for fans of the legendary auteur David Lynch, this collection features six short films from the master of the macabre. Spanning the director's career, from early experiments to more fully realized visions, also contains the shorts "Six Men Getting Sick," "The Alphabet," "The Grandmother," "The Amputee," "The Cowboy and the Frenchman" and "Lumiere." Each film is preceded by an introduction from the director.
Watching next
- 001- Live Flesh
  One of director Pedro Almod�var's best films recounts the story of Victor, born on a bus to prostitute Pen�lope Cruz. As a troubled teen, Victor is in the apartment of drug addict Elena (Francesca Neri). He accidentally shoots a policeman and gets sent to prison. Years later, Victor learns Elena has married the now-paralyzed cop, and he begins to stalk her!
- 002- Stevie
  When director Steve James (Hoop Dreams) attended Southern Illinois University, he became Stevie Fielding's Advocate Big Brother. Stevie was a demanding, hyperactive child living a heartbreaking life. When James relocated to Chicago to begin a film career in 1985, he ended his formal duties to Stevie. Ten years later, James again visits Stevie (now in his mid-twenties) and finds out what happened to him in the interim. Not a pretty story.
- 003- Transamerica
  Bree (Felicity Huffman) gets the shock of her life when a week before her final sex change surgery she discovers a son she didn't know she had. After bailing him out of jail the two set out on a cross-country journey riddled with road bumps. Huffman won numerous awards (and an Oscar nomination) for her role as a man longing to be a woman. Elizabeth Pena, Burt Young, Kevin Zegers and Graham Greene co-star.
- 004- The Quiet Earth
  After surviving the apocalypse, scientist Zac Hobson (Bruno Lawrence) faces a dangerous and uncertain new world in this thriller. The government researcher wakes up to find all human life on the planet completely destroyed. That is, until he encounters a lovely young woman (Alison Routledge) and a trucker (Pete Smith). Tension mounts as the survivors adapt to their new reality and try to learn to trust one another.
- 005- Short Cuts
  Robert Altman's mosaic masterpiece, based on Raymond Carver's short stories, presents several different characters -- including a baker, a chauffeur, a helicopter pilot, a phone-sex provider, a pool cleaner and a jazz singer -- whose stale lives intersect and are forever altered through simple twists of fate. This moving tale's all-star cast includes Tim Robbins, Madeleine Stowe, Bruce Davison, Andie MacDowell, Jack Lemmon and Anne Archer.
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