[caption id="" align=“aligncenter” width=“500” caption=“There are no blades in this movie.”] [/caption] 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 lot of fun watching it. ...

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 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.

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

[caption id="" align=“aligncenter” width=“300” caption=“The new Spider-Man is Miles Morales, a previously unseen character motivated to do good by Peter’s sacrifice…or so Marvel says. I’ve yet to read a story issue with him in it.”] [/caption] 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 comedy was stupid, I mean to say that Jennifer Aniston’s part in the story was treated completely differently than the two male bosses and was resolved in a way that felt tacked on. Decent movie, just not the funniest thing I saw this summer (:cough: Bridesmaids :cough:) ...

Yep…a silent movie in 2011.

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 interesting, but I’m not holding my breath.

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.

Yeah, this happened a looong time ago, but I only just heard it during NPR’s coverage of the Newport Folk Festival and I fell in love with The Civil Wars.

Oh, post-racial America…It’s almost silly to think we’re even there, isn’t it? Being accepted as a member of white suburbia comes with a complex set of challenges that extends down to my daily diet. Because they have coded me as “not that black,” the white people in my life are comfortable airing their deepest insights into black people, and often, those little observations concern food. A boyfriend once told me: “I’m not trying to be racist. I’m just saying that on campus, there was a Subway and a KFC right next to each other. There were never black people at the Subway and there were always black people at the KFC. I’m not saying the stereotype is bad, I’m just saying maybe there’s something to it. I’m just saying.” ...