March 2009
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Andrea e io facemmo molte cose insieme, a volte duellando. Disegnò un tavola muta del mio Absolut, un foglio con alcune vignette slegate tra di loro, sfidandomi a intervenire con un testo che desse ai suoi disegni un senso compiuto. Fatto. Disegnò uno che esce di corsa da una casa elegante e con l’ombrello levato urla al suo autista «Gino, al ministero». Mi sfidò a inventare la risposta di...
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It looks like Labyrinth meets The Neverending Story with a little bit of Being John Malkovich thrown in for good measure, which is exactly what we’ve always hoped for from this project. It seems Spike Jonze has turned a ten sentence kids’ book into a work of cinematic art. The Story Behind “Where The Wild Things Are” [With illustrations, pics and videos.]
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All-Time Coolest Heroes of Pop Culture →
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The Way You Look Tonight, Dexy’s Midnight...
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Ordinary People (1980)
Conrad: Anyway.
Jeannine: Hm, what?
Conrad: Oh just anyway. It's a conversation starter.
Jeannine: Hm, catchy.
Conrad: I knew you'd like it, I've been working on it all day.
Tumblr Audio Parser Every song of your Tumblrtrack
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Wishlist #2
byronic:
Things I wish to see less of on Tumblr
Twlight / Robert Pattinson
boobs
kittens
Things I wish to see more of on Tumblr
Pearl Jam
whales
black/white photographs
vintage baseball cards
armadillos
1950s cars
guys in ties
short stories
So I must be really lucky: never seen boobs nor Twilight stuff on my dashboard.
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Female Action Directors →
[With videos]
Flatshare Fridge
For creator Stefan Buchberger, a design student at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna, the idea grew out of a semester-long theme about keeping personal space clean and tidy. “I decided to create Flatshare fridge because there is nothing more disgusting than a dirty fridge in a shared flat,” he says. “At the time, I was living in such a flat!” The fridge consists of a base station and up to...
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Addio a Maurice Jarre, auguri a Warren Beatty.
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“I love the swift leap of a good story, the excitement that often commences in...”
– [Raymond Carver]
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When the Red, Red Robin Comes Bob, Bob Bobbin’ Along
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La zanzara dello Zambia quando zompa su una zampa da Kasempa alla Tanzania mica danza, mica smania, mica semina zizzania, sente solo che uno zampirone brucia nella stanza. Toti Scialoja
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The Violence of the Image (2004) Jean Baudrillard thinking and talking about the violence of the image, aggression, oppression, transgression, regression, effects and causes of violence, violence of the virtual, 3d, virtual reality, transparency, psychological and imaginary.
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Earth Hour →
[Gallery 1 & 2]
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Dal sito FilmTv mi avvertono del passaggio di “A casa per le vacanze” (*prenotato* un paio di anni fa, quando la mia copia era ancora solo in versione vhs) su un canale satellitare, subito prima delle feste pasquali. Diversi avvisi mi erano giunti durante tutto il mese di dicembre, in prossimità del Natale. Ma chi si occupa della programmazione di SKY lo saprà che le vacanze del film...
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“In un villaggio c’è un unico barbiere. Il barbiere rade tutti (e solo) gli uomini che non si radono da sé. Chi rade il barbiere?” Il paradosso di Russell
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High Fidelity
nightswimming:
[negozietto di dischi usati, un’ora fa, musica] K: E’ la terza canzone di Marlena Shaw che mettete, che è, un best? Commesso (stupitissimo): Sì. K: Vorrei comprarlo! Commesso (un po’ grugnisce, un po’ ride): Veramente lo stavo ascoltando io… K: Perfavore? Commesso (sorriso di high five): Ok! K (solo pensato): E’ come quella scena di “Alta...
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Tea parties must make a comeback →
[Chow-Recipes, cooking tips, resources, and stories for people who love food.]
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Manhattan (1979)
Isaac Davis: It's an interesting group of people, your friends are.
Mary Wilke: I know.
Isaac Davis: Like the cast of a Fellini movie.
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P. S. You Rock My World, Eels
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“I don’t believe in elitism. I don’t think the audience is this dumb...”
– Quentin Tarantino [Happy B’Day, QT!]
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Pondering the Movie Cocktail
Robert Downey Jr’s reporter Paul Avery makes a huge show out of the fact that he drinks Aqua Velvas in David Fincher’s Zodiac. The most eye-catching feature of this cocktail, named after an alcohol-based mouthwash, is that its most important ingredient is Curaçao, which is what creates the blue colour. Amusingly the concoction is also the drink of choice of Jake Gyllenhaal’s...
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lollodj:
Prendiamo dei grandi musicisti (rock, jazz, classica, quel che vi pare) noti per il “caratterino”: chi più incazzoso di Beethoven, o anche Miles Davis, ma pure i Clash vanno bene. Immaginiamoli arrivare trafelati e scoglionatissimi alla riunione con il loro discografico, che esordisce consigliando un atteggiamento più solare per accattivarsi il pubblico di fascia media. Non...
Online Comics →
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Chances Are (1989)
Woman in the bookstore: [quizzing Alex about past lives] Who were you?
Alex Finch: Oh, me, I was no-one special.
Woman in the bookstore: Oh, we're all special!
Alex Finch: I mean I wasn't Cleopatra or Hannibal or someone great or famous.
Woman in the bookstore: I know you weren't Cleopatra! I was.
nightswimming:
Top 10 coffee scenes in fiction (dal Guardian)
(via byronic)
7. A Wild Sheep Chase by Haruki Murakami
I met her in autumn nine years ago, when I was twenty and she was seventeen.
There was a small coffee shop near the university where I hung out with friends. It wasn’t much of anything, but it offered certain constants: hard rock and bad coffee.
This early paragraph is marked...
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Crossword Mug →
[Ne ho una simile, ma più bella, presa in Inghilterra una ventina d’anni fa. Per fortuna sulla mia non ci si può scrivere, altrimenti chissà quante volte mi sarei ritrovata con le mani imbrattate…]
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Oggi è il compleanno dell’architetto Mangoni. Auguri!
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Alessandro Alessandroni: un nome che per molti non significa nulla. Eppure il suo fischio lo conoscono tutti.
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All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy
The Several Journeys of Reemus Chapter 1 and 2
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How to Talk to Girls
If you are in elementary school, try to get a girl to like you, not to love you. Wait until middle school to try to get her to love you. Otherwise, you have to hold on to her for a long time and that would be very hard. [”Dating expert” Alec Greven, 9, shares advice on winning with the ladies]
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Wade in the water, Eva Cassidy Waiting for the...