December 2011
132 posts
Movies in 2012
2012 doesn’t look shabby to me at all, movie-wise.
January: New Steven Soderbergh.
February: New David Wain.
May: New Wes Anderson.
June: New Ridley Scott and new Pixar.
July: New Christopher Nolan.
November: New James Bond, and new Alfonso Cuaron.
December: New Kathryn Bigelow, new Judd Apatow, and new Quentin Tarantino.
Plus, somewhere in there: New Paul Thomas...
1 tag
Least Favorite Things of 2011
I am an unpleasant person filled with negativity!
Least Favorite Movie: Girl with a Dragon Tattoo. I tried explaining this movie to someone the other day, and I couldn’t. I really genuinely found this this just mystifying, on a “why did they make this” level. It’s the exact same movie as the first Spiderman movie, just with a goth girl instead of Spidey— origin...
1 tag
A Things I Liked in 2011 Type List
My way of saying “I don’t think anything remotely good’s going to happen to me in the next two days!” Killing time!
I want to sum this 2011 thing up, but… This wasn’t a year I was very plugged in at all. On purpose. I wanted to be focused on my day job, my own projects and a general getting-things-done-iness, this year. I did an okay job of that, but the...
1 tag
1 tag
1 tag
“It was a huge moment for comics,” Niles says. Yes, 30 Days of Night was a...”
– LA Weekly article on Steve Niles.
2 tags
2 tags
1 tag
“I love Los Angeles. I know a lot of people go there and they see just a huge...”
– David Lynch, Catching The Big Fish (via mlee525)
1 tag
2 tags
1 tag
2 tags
“A Sacramento parolee convicted of sexually assaulting a chihuahua was sentenced...”
– LA Times, from Christmas Eve. The article actually gets much more unpleasant after that.
1 tag
So, let me see if I can write the “official” announcement for Watchmen 2:
Not the announcement from DC— the article that’ll be run by hacks like that USA Today guy or that one shitty LA Times blog when Watchmen 2 gets announced. I always enjoy those articles more.
The first paragraph will start with some bland sentence that references the book’s popularity,...
1 tag
1 tag
An IMDB list of Actresses Some Guy "Would Do a... →
2,545 actresses are listed, and I know what you’re asking: Meryl Streep is at 259. Bette Midler is at 25, and 13 year old Elle Fanning is at 59 (“some of them are minors but if I became an actor I would do this stuff then they were in a proper age. I’m not that old”).
2 tags
“A Northern California family victimized in a burglary a few days before...”
– LA Times. Who steals the family dog??
1 tag
1 tag
1 tag
1 tag
2 tags
1 tag
funkadelic — can you get to that
1 tag
1 tag
1 tag
Christmas! →
Red Letter Media reviewed Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull! This is the most I could have asked for from Santa. God bless us everyone! Let’s never enjoy everything, you and I, internet— let’s never enjoy anything at all! YAY!
1 tag
Re: RAGNAROK, Ron Paul gets it. →
areasofmyexpertise:
”This portfolio is a half-step away from a cellar-full of canned goods and nine-millimeter rounds,” he says. Link courtesy DKos. That is all.
“At our request, William Bernstein, an investment manager at Efficient Portfolio Advisors in Eastford, Conn., reviewed Rep. Paul’s portfolio as set out in the annual disclosure statement. Mr. Bernstein says he has never seen...
1 tag
Best Essay about Comics in 2011 →
USA Today actually published the perfect summation of what comics looked like in my head in 2011. It is … perfect in ways I could never hope to achieve. I could never come close to this. I’m… I’m envious of this.
It’s a list of “36 of the best things that happened in comics” — 36! sure, why not?— punctuated with cliches like “epic...
1 tag
1 tag
The name of one of Pixar’s next movies is Frozen 3D. Which: why does every 3D movie need to have 3D in the title? It’s purely a technical feature. Why are titles featuring technical features? Do I have to start calling movies “My favorite Deniro movie is GOODFELLAS 2D?” ”SCHINDLER’S LIST STEREO SOUND is one of the best movies about the Holocaust.”...
1 tag
1 tag
Comics Reporter Interview with Tucker Stone →
Oh man, I love the holiday interviews! I hate the holidays for all other reasons, except interviews relating to comic books! Also, unrelated: I saw some reviews Tom had done that I hadn’t read the other day— the last paragraph of these Kirby Captain America reviews is really great.
2 tags
“Would you have sex with Ryan Gosling if he was your mom on the inside?”
– (via molls)
1 tag
“The other reason why I’m feeling so much anxiety is that I’ve had to turn down a ton of good work in order to do PRJ. Here’s a quick list of what I’ve turned down:
-another Grant Morrison book -a Mark Millar book -a James Robinson book -Batman and Detective Comics (about 7 times) -Swamp Thing -Hellboy -a Dr. Strange mini series -a Spider Man 2099 one shot -work...
1 tag
“I have a lived a phantom of a life all year.”
– Reading best-of-2011 lists while I eat my lunch. I suppose I should be happy that I have ALL THIS COOL STUFF ahead of me, but I’m too petty and Scrooged-out for that kind of goodwill-towards-man good tidings non-petty attitude. Mostly, I’m just sitting here thinking, “What was I...
2 tags
2 tags
1 tag
Neal Pollack: I knew Christopher Hitchens better... →
jessethorn:
A+ work from one of the literary world’s brightest lights. Burn on, sweet Pollack. Burn on.
1 tag
1 tag
1 tag
“What can be done? Say who you are, really say it in your life and in your work....”
– Charlie Kaufman.
1 tag
1 tag
2 tags
1 tag
"The Power of the Powerless" →
mills:
Though he started as a playwright and rebellious intellectual and became, after decades of uncertainty, the president of a reborn Czechoslovakia, his was not a transformation in the traditional sense; he never stopped being an Enlightenment thinker, an artist, an heir to what his friend Milan Kundera called the culture of the novel: that world which sees the highest morality in resisting...
1 tag
1 tag
