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We’ve made no secret about our love for Nicolas Winding Refn‘s beautifully moody thriller Drive, and we know that many of our readers fell for it as well. So for a lot of you, the following clip of the first seven minutes of the film won’t really be a “first look” so much as a little reminder of what made the movie so special, in case you’re still trying to make up your mind about whether or not you want to buy the Blu-ray / DVD / digital copy when it goes on sale. (via)
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"One day, I was reading a psychology book and a word jumped out at me. “Sociopath.” It called to me. I read it over and over. “Sociopath. The essential characteristic of this disorder is a lack of remorse, even for violent or criminal behavior. The sociopath lacks the fundamental quality of empathy.”
I ran to the battered old dictionary I kept in my cell. “Empathy: the intellectual identification with or vicarious experiencing of the feelings, thoughts, or attitudes of another.” I puzzled it out. A sociopath thinks only his own thoughts, walks his own road. Feels only his own pain. Yeah. Wasn’t that the right way to live in this junkyard?
Do your own time, keep your face flat.
Don’t let them see your heart."[Andrew Vachss, Blue Belle]
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Lasagna vs. lasagne
For the flat, wide pasta and the dish made from such pasta, North American English speakers use lasagna. English speakers from outside North America use lasagne. Other than the spelling, there is no difference between the words in English.
The word comes from Italian, of course. In that language, lasagna is the singular noun and lasagne is the plural. The word first appeared in English in the 19th century, but the dish did not become popular in English-speaking countries (the U.S. first, then elsewhere) until the second half of the 20th century.
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Walkers’ motto (by tankesopp)
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The Crow by James O’Barr
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[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]
Morrissey - First of the Gang to Die
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Vincenzo Agnetti - Libro dimenticato a memoria
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Lumiere and Company (1995)
► David Lynch ► Peter Greenaway ► Wim Wenders
Lumière and Company (original title “Lumière et compagnie”) was a collaboration between 41 international film directors in which each made a short film using the original Cinématographe camera invented by the Lumière brothers.
Shorts were edited in-camera and abided by three rules:
1. A short may be no longer than 52 seconds
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I’m just going to leave this here for a special friend
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Vivre sa vie: Film en douze tableaux (1962)
- Nana: Shouldn't love be the only truth?
- The Philosopher: For that, love would always have to be true.
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Can’t wait to see West of Memphis
