September 2009
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“He made his directional debut with the film Wisdom, which made Emilio the youngest person to ever write, direct, and star in a major motion picture.[7]”
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Emilio Estevez - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Statements on Wikipedia that may not be true. Though, his follow-up, Men at Work, is in fact a “garbage comedy.”
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Michael Pollan on Boycotting Whole Foods
A couple of weeks ago, Whole Foods’ CEO made some bullshit comments on health care. Since then, calls have been made to boycott the health-conscious grocer. Michael Pollan weighs in:
John Mackey’s views on health care, much as I disagree with them, will not prevent me from shopping at Whole Foods. I can understand why people would want to boycott, but it’s important to play out the hypothetical consequences of a successful boycott. Whole Foods is not perfect, however if they were to disappear, the cause of improving Americans’ health by building an alternative food system, based on more fresh food, pastured and humanely raised meats and sustainable agriculture, would suffer. I happen to believe health care reform has the potential to drive big changes in the food system, and to enlist the health care industry in the fight to reform agriculture. How? Because if health insurers can no longer pick and choose their clients, and throw sick people out, they will develop a much stronger interest in prevention, which is to say, in changing the way America feeds itself. When health insurers realize they will make thousands more in profits for every case of type II diabetes they can prevent, they will develop a strong interest in things like corn subsidies, local food systems, farmer’s markets, school lunch, public health campaigns about soda, etc. So Mackey is wrong on health care, but Whole Foods is often right about food, and their support for the farmers matters more to me than the political views of their founder. I haven’t examined the political views of all the retailers who feed me, but I can imagine having a lot of eating problems if I make them a litmus test.
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Liam Finn - “Never Feel the Same”
“Boogie Town is loosely based on Arthur Laurents 1957 stage musical, West Side Story. On December 22, 2008, Variety reported that Vivendi Entertainment acquired worldwide theatrical distribution rights for the film and that Chris Stokes would be directing, writing the screenplay and producing the film. The distribution agreement also covers television, home video, internet/digital and mobile rights.[7] It was also reported that Monique Scott and Cheryl Trimmer will also serve as producers of the film, additionally, Stokes has brought Shane Sparks to choreograph the film.[7] The film has been described as You Got Served meets Twilight.[8]”
—Boogie Town - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
“The film is set in in a futuristic New York City, in the year of 2015 where battle dancing is permanently banned because Chief Salisbury’s son was murdered during a battle in 2009 when battle dancing was at its height. Ever since then, with help of the secret government agency SG7, Chief Salisbury has made it his own personal mission to permanently put an end to battle dancing.[5][6]
The film centers on the dancers, Micah (Marques Houston), Natalie (Brenda Song) and Jay (Mykal Anthony Bean). Micah is a very skilled dancer and is the leader of dance crew, “The Trojans” while his former best friend Jay is the leader of “The Warriors”. Micah, Jay and their crews have been rivals for a very long time and because of the ban on battle dancing, the crews have created an underground world named “Boogie Town” in order to continue battle dancing. Micah then meets Jay’s beautiful young sister, Natalie at a popular restaurant who has just arrived home from college. Natalie, unaware that this is her brother’s rival invites him to dinner and he accepts. Soon after the dinner, the two become a romantic couple and after Natalie realizes that her boyfriend is her brother’s biggest rival, she tries her best to keep their relationship a secret with the help of Micah. Natalie and Micah become a modern day Romeo and Juliet and are aware of the consequences of being seen having a romantic relationship but are deeply in love with each other. Both Micah and Jay have several mysterious and supernatural powers such as “ENERGY” and “HERCULEAN”. Chief Salisbury and the SG7 created a special unit in the police department called the “Boogie Police”, a unit that are specially trained to track down and capture anyone who is caught dance battling in New York. The SG7 is after Micah and Jay because they want to use their blood to create super soldiers for an upcoming war (World War III). Natalie then explains to Micah that she knows he is a Herculean and tells him to go see a man named Genesis, and that he will answer all his questions. Micah takes the number and goes to see him. He gets no answers. Instead Genesis tells him that he is not ready yet and that when he is, he will see him then. The respectful rivalry between the two crews, goes past battle dancing and becomes a dangerous war when Jay finds out that his young sister Natalie is having a romantic relationship with his enemy. In the end, Natalie experiences a painful ending and after Natalie’s painful ending Genesis tells Micah that he is ready.[6]” —Boogie Town - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The film centers on the dancers, Micah (Marques Houston), Natalie (Brenda Song) and Jay (Mykal Anthony Bean). Micah is a very skilled dancer and is the leader of dance crew, “The Trojans” while his former best friend Jay is the leader of “The Warriors”. Micah, Jay and their crews have been rivals for a very long time and because of the ban on battle dancing, the crews have created an underground world named “Boogie Town” in order to continue battle dancing. Micah then meets Jay’s beautiful young sister, Natalie at a popular restaurant who has just arrived home from college. Natalie, unaware that this is her brother’s rival invites him to dinner and he accepts. Soon after the dinner, the two become a romantic couple and after Natalie realizes that her boyfriend is her brother’s biggest rival, she tries her best to keep their relationship a secret with the help of Micah. Natalie and Micah become a modern day Romeo and Juliet and are aware of the consequences of being seen having a romantic relationship but are deeply in love with each other. Both Micah and Jay have several mysterious and supernatural powers such as “ENERGY” and “HERCULEAN”. Chief Salisbury and the SG7 created a special unit in the police department called the “Boogie Police”, a unit that are specially trained to track down and capture anyone who is caught dance battling in New York. The SG7 is after Micah and Jay because they want to use their blood to create super soldiers for an upcoming war (World War III). Natalie then explains to Micah that she knows he is a Herculean and tells him to go see a man named Genesis, and that he will answer all his questions. Micah takes the number and goes to see him. He gets no answers. Instead Genesis tells him that he is not ready yet and that when he is, he will see him then. The respectful rivalry between the two crews, goes past battle dancing and becomes a dangerous war when Jay finds out that his young sister Natalie is having a romantic relationship with his enemy. In the end, Natalie experiences a painful ending and after Natalie’s painful ending Genesis tells Micah that he is ready.[6]” —Boogie Town - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
“Boogie Town[1] is an upcoming 2009 science fiction, battle dance romance film which is directed by Chris Stokes…”
—Boogie Town - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Liam Finn - “I Will Explode”
“I’m being chased down by your street/by angry women, children and the cops/I will not be, not be stopped”
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The Flying Tourbillon Orchestra - “In A Dream”
My friend Andrea saw The Flying Tourbillon Orchestra in concert a few days ago and wrote me highly recommending them. There’s not much information about the group floating around the web, but I can tell you they’re from LA, Andrea says they’re amazing performers and their five song release Escapements came out last month. Also the ever-accurate Wikipedia says that a flying tourbillon is a cantilevered tourbillon and a tourbillon is a part of a clock that lets it defy gravity or something along those lines.
I’m a huge fan of songs where there is a disconnect between how the song sounds and what the song says and this song exemplifies that. It has male female duo vocals that sing so sweetly and calmly you’d expect it to be a love song. Psych! It’s about strangulation! Bonus points for the soprano sounding like one of the ghosts in The Haunted Mansion at Disney World.
This song, it is interesting…and just came up on iTunes shuffle. Jimmy Buffett by way of David Lynch.
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Anyone who chooses cats over sharks
is lame.
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Rollerskate Skinny - “Man Under Glass”
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Elvis Perkins in Dearland - “I Heard Your Voice in Dresden”
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Cody ChesnuTT - “5 on a Joyride”
GREAT
The world needs a new Cody ChesnuTT album. Seriously.
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“TV listings: The Prime-Time TV grid in Thursday’s Calendar section mistakenly listed MTV’s “Jackass” show on the MSNBC cable schedule at 7 and 10 p.m. where instead MSNBC’s “Countdown With Keith Olbermann” should have been listed.”
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This is pretty funny.
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“Skills and in fact, explained in political science community 2.0 Therefore, the training of social conservative and liberal blog, the two drivers and the media and friends. The number of street violence and pain of the benefits themselves. Let the future, and these opinions are correct, clear support for the people. Apparently, 5 in this region does not apply to the war want to go.”
—My contribution after being translated through every language in Google Translate alphabetically.
“Inaccuracy is the art of being intentionally inartful in an immaculate way; it
differs from most other liberal arts in that it is not constricted by the singular
political perspective ever so entrenched in academe. Thus, it behooves the
modern renaissance 2.0 person-in-training to see the world as composed of
the true dichotomies—conservatives and liberals, bloggers and journalists,
Friendster and MySpace, vapidity and profundity, and greatness and failure.
And obviously, a future contributor to society needs to display vim and pizazz
in order to make a contribution. After all, inaccuracy can start wars—or end
them.” —
differs from most other liberal arts in that it is not constricted by the singular
political perspective ever so entrenched in academe. Thus, it behooves the
modern renaissance 2.0 person-in-training to see the world as composed of
the true dichotomies—conservatives and liberals, bloggers and journalists,
Friendster and MySpace, vapidity and profundity, and greatness and failure.
And obviously, a future contributor to society needs to display vim and pizazz
in order to make a contribution. After all, inaccuracy can start wars—or end
them.” —
myself, on the topic of “Inaccuracy,” from the awesome book New Liberal Arts
Surprised I didn’t post this before.
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Bob Dylan - “Lay Lady Lay”
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Blair - “Hello Halo”
A song that encompasses a number of topics, including kittens and rainbows.
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“Can’t Stand It” by Telepathe
Unbelievably gorgeous. That melody plants itself firmly in your noggin and won’t let up all day.
“Last year, during the presidential campaign, Weigman heard a YouTube video of Mitt Romney’s son Matt dialing his dad. Weigman listened closely to the touch tones, deciphered the candidate’s cellphone number — and then made a call of his own. “Mitt Romney!” he said. “What’s going on, dude? Running for president?” Weigman says Romney told him to shove the phone up his ass, and hung up.”
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The Boy Who Heard Too Much : Rolling Stone
This is pretty amazing.
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3D Anaglyph Concert Photography Coachella 2009 →
ryancolditz.com
Get your flimsy red and cyan glasses out because this is actually pretty awesome.
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Stephen Fretwell - “Coney”
A Waits-y, carnivalesque waltz about a member of the world’s oldest profession.
