December 2010
12 posts
Ephemera as past-tense
I’m home sick, but working, stuck trying to finish a small story so I can move on to a huge one, and one procrastination Google led to another led to another, and I ended up on the wikipedia page for Ephemera. It’s a really good example of the contradictions that come up on Wikipedia, where documents are edited by committee, and quickly. First sentence:
Ephemera is transitory written...
The Social Network, Or, Why I Quit Facebook →
“Sold — and bought — as the year’s most “intelligent”...”
– My Top 10 Films of 2010, with shout-outs to Jackass, Harmony Korine, Roman Polanski, Jean-Luc Godard, James L. Brooks, James Murphy, Noah Baumbach and the diabolical Danish version of Sacha Baron Cohen.
“Other high-profile partiers such as William Burroughs and Boris Yeltsin lived to...”
– Ian Svenonius in VICE. This happened in August, but I’m only finding out about it now, thanks to the K Records Tumblr (which, !)
“The movie resonates in the current moment because each day it becomes more clear...”
– Carr on The Company Men
WatchThe scourge of a certain brand of online/fanboy film criticism is the phrase, “Movie X made me feel like I was 12 years old again!” Ie: whatever newfangled highly CGIed predetermined blockbuster was so holy shit transformative that it blew off Blogger X’s Professional Critic hat, leaving them unable to employ the critical faculties that they have presumably developed since they...
Das Racist →
Vazquez: My dad is black and my mom is white, and I don’t know if I am neither or both. And we don’t have the time to get into the identity-politics discussion that this would lead to.
Suri: Then what are we doing here?
Vazquez: We’re bigging up our brand so that we can make more money.
Suri: To buy things. I want to start dressing more like a British colonialist in a red coat and maybe...