May 2009
The Making of Zach Galifianakis →
When I asked whether setting up the audience that way was satisfying for a comic — revenge, of a kind, for being misunderstood — Galifianakis surprised me by shaking his head soberly. “That’s one of the great things about comedy: we can — and should — say the things that other people aren’t supposed to say. If we didn’t do that, if we didn’t push against those limits, we’d just be standing...
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The Fine Arts Showcase - Friday On My Knees »...
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Strange week, I even talked on the phone. The phone! It was a while ago since I did that. Even though the original purpose of the call was some help about the computer wiring. That was on Monday. And yesterday Tommy dropped by a short while.
This shut-in state isn’t really working, I need to go out and do stuff. I also know that I’m terrible in breaking my own rut, that makes it...
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“Through the small tall bathroom window the December yard is gray and scratchy,...”
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Opening line of Dave Eggars’ A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius.
For a few days now, I haven’t been able to get the thought of calligraphic trees out of my head. Can someone draw them for me?
(via 52books)
I tried.
Filed under things I don’t understand: why people swoon over Helvetica.
Now, I love design and typography as much as the next guy or gal who sleeps with The Elements of Typographic Design under the pillow as a sacred text, but this just baffles me. It ignores readability — the shapes work against any form of recognition of word-formation — and it’s boring and without a soul. Is it the...
WatchEllinor vs the Ducks.
Idle question: it’s in the middle of the night — really smack in the middle — and suddenly I see a dandelion seed floating in the air. Where did it come from? My own theroy is that someone from Outside™ is trying to make me sneeze through the night and has planted devious traps in the room. Or, space monkeys. I feel a bit like I’m the Doctor and the Master is lurking about. Perhaps...
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Rhett Miller — I Need To Know Where I Stand
The...
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Moments that people are in →
Simen of dailymeh theorizes about being too aware of the self. This is really just a very small excerpt, you should read the whole thing. It is very fascinating, a bit depressing and — I think — he’s often too right about this.
Meta is a symptom of excessive reflection. Meta is sometimes fun, sometimes genuinely insightful, but mostly, it’s just a sign that you can’t enjoy a...
“do you also have a holiday for when Gargamel got banished from the smurf...”
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Scott; när jag berättar om Kristi Himmelsfärd (via erikwelen)
! (via soundandsilence)
My god! We should get one of those…
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fredrik:
Har jag egentligen rätt att skriva någonting mer än en rak rapportering? Det är vad jag tänker. En annan tanke, den som kom först och som jag egentligen försöker formulera korrekt, är jag uppskattat Lennart Persson men aldrig läst väldigt mycket av honom, att jag aldrig haft en personlig relation till hans texter men uppskattat vad jag tagit mig an, och jag misstänker att det är den...
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If it were up to me, I’d make Bucatini (Barilla no. 9 for those who shop around these parts) the popular pasta sort. Not only because you can use it as a straw and try to breathe through it (and then suffocate because the hole is too small), but because it is the superior.
It’s thicker, and more tasty and not as boring. Not boring is an important part. Food shouldn’t be boring,...
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WatchHoneyhoney - Sugarcane
I was this somewhere but I forgot to write down where, only saved the Vimeo-link. Sorry. If you think it’s you, I’ll buy you a cup of coffee or something should we ever meet.
Honeyhoney, the little I’ve heard I’ve liked a lot. I need to find more and listen listen listen.
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Things that keep my spirit up in this darkest* hour of need:
Old Dr Who episodes Planet of Evil and Pyramids of Mars. Both fun but sadly lacked a bit in seriousness. Perhaps the Android Invasion before I manage to sleep proper.
Chicken soup Cheap from a can.
The Mighty Boosh Live #1. I need to rewatch season one.
Cookies These are mine!
My supergreen blanket Cozy. Soft. Warm.
Old 97’s...
Apart from being sick, laying in bed and doing nothing but watching old Dr Who episodes, the episodes named Pyramids of Mars didn’t live up to my expectations. Sure, they were a bit stupid to begin with. I wished for something more… Zak McKracken. (Pyramids and Mars, how could I not?) Still, a mouse-eared Egyptian god and people being breast-rubbed to death by robots in rags equals...
fredrik:
[translated summary: talk and photograph strangers]
This is something I’ve thought about a lot too. The thought “oh, let’s ask that $PERSON over there if a photo is okay” comes along much much easier. Any week now I’ll probably give in to it. Scary stuff. But at the same time, I do look forward to it. Nothing really ever happens by dollying about never...
The early fourth Doctor episodes titled Arc of Space contains the following things:
A working sonic screwdriver (Didn’t know it made an appearance so early).
An ortopcy of an rubber space bug.
Green painted bubblewrap with som yarn glued ontop as a larva.
Not a single reference to PIGS IN SPACE. This was a major, and I mean major, disappointment.
Lots and lots of white space walls.
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Project Move the Computer is a slight success. It has been about a year in the making, but “the meek shall inherit the earth”. Or in my case, lots of dust. Normal dust, not a problem, big dust bunnies though, they trigger my allergies. (Most other things have gone though, when I was in Uppsala all I got from Tesla was bite marks because that cat loves the teeth.)
This and the previous...
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sterlingpowers:
James Mercer (The Shins), Sam Beam...
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Problem: got the new edition of John Crowley’s Ægypt (retitled The Solitudes) and an old hardcover of Dæmonomania. Now that the whole quartet is out in matching paperbacks, I think I should buy D again. To get that unifying look on the shelf. However. What bothers me is when I should replace it. After I got the other books or at the same time. If I read it first and then get the new edition,...
It still feels weird. I was only gone a week but being “home” is odd, and not only because I need to relearn my Firefox shortcuts. (I used other peoples browsers for a week and the things I’ve set up and used to years suddenly disappears? Stupid brain.)
This is not home, it’s a transition that numbs me down a bit. I don’t know where home is, but I’ll know when...
People with cars, got a question for you. Is there a rule that says that you need to listen to shitty music and have the bass turned up to twelve so that you can hear it a few blocks down? If it’s a rule, I have to live with it. I’ll whine and all that, but I’ll accept it. Sort of.
But if it’s only a suggestion or less, then knock that shit down. Listen to real music, you...
I want to go into hibernation for a month or so. Is that ok? Will you lot bring me food?
This saturday will be spent doing bugger all. Lay down, watch Farscape and Dollhouse (give me a season two!), listen to Sonic Youth (The Eternal, hope there will be a less pricy LP-edition). All this makes up for the nosebleed and dizzyness I’ve had today.
The Vaselines: Enter The Vaselines (SP810) →
It includes new mixes and re-mastered versions of everything by The Vaselines, plus never-before-heard demos, and live recordings from 1986 in Bristol and 1988 in London.
Three LPs! To an affordable price even, this needs to be mine.
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Tumbling over the cracks
When I got to the end destination of the subway — my end destination anyway, there were other stops after that — I was both early and hungry. It was a bit past four and my breakfast had been two slices of bread some hours earlier. Hunger! The stomach growled. It was the bark of a small dog, but even those can bite you hard if they aim properly.
Giving into the fear, I lurched into the shop...
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