I Bring Nothing to the Table

Month: August 2011

  • Larceny Part Deux [Uncat]

    Well…my car was broken into. Passenger side window smashed in and GPS/cell phone charger stolen. Good times…

  • More on Why “The Help” Is Whitewashing The Past [FB/YCQMOT]

    There was no real-life book similar to Skeeter’s magnum opus; it’s a fictional flourish that feels like a college-educated white liberal’s wish-fulfillment fantasy of how she would have conducted herself had she been time-warped back to the civil rights era. I wouldn’t have just stood by and let it happen. I would have done something! […]

  • What I’ve Been Doing 15 Aug 2011 [FB/IB/BT/GO]

    Movies Blade Runner – Until today I’d never seen what many people consider to be the greatest sci-fi movie ever made. Fixed that this week. It’s an amazing movie full of symbolism and all kinds of neat visual imagery, but I didn’t love watching it. Definitely important to see, but you might not have a […]

  • “Otis” Video [F/ER]

    Jay-Z and Kanye’s latest album, Watch The Throne, features this fantastic track backed by Otis Redding’s “Try a Little Tenderness”. I love it.

  • Neon Indian “Polish Girl” [F]

    Neon Indian – Polish Girl by Hypetrak I know this song was already on my tumblr, but it’s seriously awesome. So perfect a discovery the same day I saw Blade Runner for the first time. Can’t wait for Era Extraña (the album that contains this song) to drop 13 Sept.

  • “Cry Baby” Video [F/ER]

    Were you wondering what Jaleel White has been up to? apparently making great videos with Cee Lo Green

  • What I’ve Been Doing 8 Aug 2011 [FB/IB/BT/GO]

    Movies Horrible Bosses – Part of me thought it was hilarious and part of me thought it was passable. There were some really strange story beats in this no doubt because this wasn’t the dark comedy it was advertised to be. I dunno what the proper word for it would be…dim comedy? Without implying that […]

  • The Artist Trailer [FB/ER]

    Yep…a silent movie in 2011.

  • Shaolin Trailer [FB/ER]

    It’s great to see Jackie Chan in a martial arts movie, even if he’s far from the main character. The best part is that the fighting he appears to be doing looks a lot like Jackie’s comedy style and a lot less like the CG and hyper string-assisted stuff elsewhere in the trailer. Could be […]

  • A-Bomb Day

    Today marks 66 years since the atomic bomb was first used as a weapon, unnecessarily killing 160,000 human souls. There is no excuse for the continued threat of nuclear weapons on this planet. Weapons that terrible to power unnecessary war have no place in human society.