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June 2013

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Ok those were good answers. How about an underrated actor and actress?

First one that comes to mind is Juliet Stevenson. She’s not well known to American moviegoers, but in Truly, Madly, Deeply, a movie which is inexplicably not available on DVD in the US, she gives just about the most heart-wrenching performance you’ve ever not seen.

My favorite underrated actor of the male persuasion is someone most people know by face if not by name. I first noticed JK Simmons on the prison show Oz, and remember thinking to myself, “this guy is too believable as a neo-nazi prison gang boss, I will never be able to see him as anything else.” See how aggressively he proved me wrong in Spider-Man, Juno, The Ladykillers, Burn After Reading, etc. 

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Favorite movie characters. Go!

26. Favorite movie characters

Yay I got one! I have two quick answers for this.

 - Daniel Plainview from There Will Be Blood. Probably the most believable villain of all time. Riveting enough that There Will Be Blood doesn’t even need a good-guy character. “DRAINAGE!!!!!!!”

 - Johnny Caspar from Miller’s Crossing. The Coen Brothers’ gangster movie masterpiece separates itself from all the others by having rich, nuanced, and entertaining characters that aren’t trying to sell the movie by winning a machismo competition. And the richest, most fun character of them all is kinda-mean, very-sensitive, kinda-dippy, kinda-adorable mob boss Johnny Caspar. “ALWAYS PUT ONE IN THE BRAIN!”

Honorable mention: Sara Goldfarb in Requiem for a Dream, Miranda Priestly in The Devil Wears Prada, Jack D. Ripper in Dr. Strangelove, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, 

And if I were to be permitted a “character” from a documentary (in other words, an actual person that’s the subject of a documentary), Timothy Treadwell from Grizzly Man. If you’ve seen that movie, you know what I’m talking about!

Jun 16, 20132 notes
I like to answer questions about movies...

…but usually when I ask to be asked questions on tumblr, there is minimal compliance. Posting this at 9am CDT on a Sunday probably won’t help either, but fuck it, I’m posting this! Please shoot me numbers 1-60 so I can dazzle you with my highly educated, yet practical movie wisdom!

  1. A movie you’ve seen most times in cinema.
  2. Your most rewatched movie.
  3. A movie you quote on a daily basis.
  4. Favorite movie soundtrack.
  5. Top 5 films of [insert actor and actress here].
  6. Top 5 performances of [insert actor and actress here].
  7. A movie storyline you wish you had actually lived.
  8. A movie that reminds you of your mom.
  9. A movie that reminds you of your dad.
  10. Favorite movies from your childhood.
  11. Favorite quote(s).
  12. Top 5 favorite female performances.
  13. Top 5 favorite male performances.
  14. Favorite year for movies.
  15. Your favorite movies from [insert year].
  16. Favorite [insert actor/actress/director] movies?
  17. List all you’ve seen from [insert actor/actress/director].
  18. An underrated actor.
  19. An underrated actress.
  20. An underrated director.
  21. An overrated actor.
  22. An overrated actress.
  23. An overrated director.
  24. A film you wish you had seen on the big screen.
  25. A movie you’ve seen that you think no one else’s here will have heard of?
  26. Favorite movie characters.
  27. A film that was better than the book.
  28. Best remake.
  29. Your first favorite actor.
  30. Your first favorite actress.
  31. Favorite animated film.
  32. Your most anticipated films.
  33. Last movie you were disappointed with.
  34. Last movie that surpassed your expectations.
  35. Actor in need of new agent.
  36. Actress in need of new agent.
  37. Share an unpopular film opinion you have.
  38. Favorite Oscar win/speech.
  39. Biggest Oscar snub(s).
  40. Who do you think is overdue for another nomination/win?
  41. How many movies have you seen (rough estimation, of course)?
  42. A movie that made you go ‘wtf was that’.
  43. A film that scarred you.
  44. Most movies watched in a single day.
  45. A film that always makes you cry.
  46. A film that always makes you laugh.
  47. Movies that you think everyone should watch (not necessarily your favorites).
  48. A movie that took you a couple of viewings to appreciate.
  49. A book you want to see adapted to the big screen.
  50. A book you really, really, really don’t want to see made into a film.
  51. Favorite child performance.
  52. Favorite pre-code.
  53. Favorite silent film.
  54. Favorite coming of age film.
  55. Favorite superhero film.
  56. Best cinematography.
  57. Movies you know you should watch but you can’t bring yourself to do it?
  58. Favorite genres.
  59. Least favorite genres.
  60. Biggest movie pet peeve.
Jun 16, 2013
Wish You Were Here - 2011 - Remaster → open.spotify.com

Wish You Were Here - 2011 - Remaster, an album by Pink Floyd on Spotify.

Pink Floyd will only have their catalog available on Spotify if Wish You Were Here gets streamed a million times. Or something. It’s a nice song, so play it & let’s see if Internet Democracy can get something done!

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#gpoy
Jun 3, 2013
Here's a couple things:

1. My previous post, the last one I sent from the They Might Be Giants Concert, was my 2500th post! So, like, ohmygawdorwhatever.

2. Anyone know what happened to littleangrygirl? 

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May 2013

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#source: my friend Kai
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#www.tickld.com
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I already miss you, Chris Kluwe... → blogs.citypages.com

The Onion didn’t waste any time this week in ribbing Chris Kluwe. Only a day after the Vikings announced…

Okay, so there are three levels of this.  Four if you count the actual truth.

  1. THE ACTUAL TRUTH: Chris Kluwe is a smart and outspoken NFL punter. He was recently cut from the Minnesota Vikings.
  2. The Onion recently posted a satirical article about how he raged about the plight of cut punters. (He did no such thing, that’s just The Onion being The Onion.)
  3. Chris Kluwe responded with a satirical article of his own (in a series of tweets), demonstrating his excellent sense of humor and ability to mock himself.
  4. Commenters to the City Pages article about his satirical response clearly don’t get that he’s just playing along, complaining that he is vulgar and has no class and that his true colors now finally come out, etc.

Sigh. That is all.

May 8, 20132 notes
If I were the kind of person that posted pictures of food I was excited to be eating...

…you would get a photo every Tuesday of whatever deliciousness I got that day from the awesomeness that is Tollefson’s Food Truck.

And today it would be of a sandwich with a seasoned pork patty with pulled pork and bacon and Swiss cheese and hot barbecue sauce on it.

Instead I am attempting to convey verbally that I like my Tuesday Tollefson’s Food Truck meal.

So good.

Yum.

The best.

I don’t generally care for pictures of your food though.

But srsly Tollefson’s Food Truck OMG.  (Minneapolis-St-Paulitans: they also have a presence at the Minneapolis Farmer’s Market.)

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Dick Cheney Vice Presidential Library Opens In Pitch-Dark, Sulfurous Underground Cave → theonion.com

SUMNER, NE

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April 2013

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Apr 29, 20136 notes
I am full of win!

Feeling win-y right now!  Mainly from the two things I just “won”.  Kai presented me with a difficult 20-questions challenge: “Guess what caused this bleeding puncture wound on my hand.”  With one question to go, and with Elliot’s help, I was able to determine that what caused his puncture wound was a little shard of thyme.

Also I just won an Ebay auction!  I haven’t used Ebay much, and the times I have used it I wasn’t in a real bidding war.  But this time I was, and I won it!  Yay!  (What happens now exactly?  Seller only accepts PayPal, so will he be mad that it will take a few days to put the money in my PayPal account?  I DON’T WANT TO LOSE THIS!  I AM A WINNER!  TODAY I WIN!)

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#you hi
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