Got this from a friend. Looks like it’s going to take everyday white America a little longer to adjust to their new president. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=neCIg0BiXbE][...]
Archive for the ‘Off Topic’ Category
January 22nd, 2009 - 11:42 pm § in Off Topic
The Naive Yuppie Mobile
I’ve recently been reviewing a few of my favorite films and I realized that in three of them main characters all drive the same car. I noticed this because it was the same car my mom had for a while when I was growing up, the Mercedes ML-320 Sport Utility Vehicle. Ours was even silver. [...][...]
January 21st, 2009 - 2:30 pm § in Off Topic
Obama
“our collective failure to make hard choices and prepare the nation for a new age.” I have my reservations about America; just yesterday I was reminded by a friend that it still has the death penalty. Despite all its problems I felt an overwhelming sense of hope reading the New York Times’[...]
January 19th, 2009 - 3:37 pm § in Off Topic
Schöneberg
I have been looking for extras for the science fiction teaser I am working on. We have very little money and are looking for bald men between 20 and 35 years old from 1.70 to 1.85 meters tall. There is one place in Berlin that is densely populated by these sort of men; Schöneberg. A [...][...]
January 17th, 2009 - 8:01 pm § in Off Topic
Inferno I, 32
In the final years of the twelfth century, from twilight of dawn to twilight of dusk, a leopard looked upon some wooden planks, some vertical iron bars, men and women who were always different, a thick wall and, perhaps, a stone trough filled with dry leaves. The leopard did not know, could not know[...]
January 17th, 2009 - 7:52 pm § in Filmmaking, Off Topic
Permanent Vacation (Jarmusch, 1980)
Jim Jarmusch famously dropped out of NYU film school and used his scholarship funds to finance Permanent Vacation. Shot by classmate Tom Dicillo (Living in Oblivion, Johnny Suede), it allowed him to hone his skills for his breakthrough feature Stranger than Paradise. I had thought for many years tha[...]
January 17th, 2009 - 6:43 pm § in Off Topic
Leoš Janáček
Leoš Janáček was a Czech composer that I recently discovered at my local library, the Amerika Gedenkbibliothek, donated to Germany by the people of America following the Berlin Airlift. I don’t usually read the booklets when I check out CDs, but there are often interesting essays in them. T[...]
January 16th, 2009 - 7:32 pm § in Off Topic
East German Porn
A friend recently told me about a study that showed that in East Germany, where pornography was banned, people actually had more sex than in our unified capitalist Germany. Pornography is, among other things, about consumption. It is not surprising to me that pornography is replacing actual sex. The[...]
January 16th, 2009 - 4:14 pm § in Off Topic
Missing Michigan
This video speaks for itself; [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gwfe5lH1n9Q][...]
January 16th, 2009 - 10:22 am § in Off Topic
The Great Fires
Love is apart from all things. Desire and excitement are nothing beside it. It is not the body that finds love. What leads us there is the body. What is not love provokes it. What is not love quenches it. Love lays hold of everything we know. The passions which are called love also change [...][...]