July 2010
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yeah this song is just about amazing in every...
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Stream El-P's new album for free →
@therealelp Listening to this right now. It’s amazing. And with song titles like “Secret Police Man’s Ball” and “Whores: The Movie” how could it not be?
“Music is the only comforter, I’m tellin’ you the truth, man.”
– Lee Scratch Perry in The Upsetter
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How Fanboy Obsessions Became the Pop-Culture Norm →
Beware of “group polarization” (a tendency for people who agree to gather and prod each other toward further extremism). And if you find yourself yelling at someone (or no one in particular) because they don’t appreciate your favorite new film, tv-show, comic book, rapper, political blog, conspiracy theory and/or theorist, website, underground cultural movement, etc as much as you would like...
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6/25/10 Sunset
drug dealing neighbor, fat, white, mid-40’s, balding, smoking joint on his stoop
-probably not the most inconspicuous method of doing business
3 obese teenage girls, dancing to Pharrell in the middle of the sidewalk
“Drop it like it’s hot”
baby brother in his underwear watching from the top of steps, swinging a toy truck
cop rolls through a stop sign, lighting a...
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Rappers
OUT: Just about everyone
IN: @LilBTheBasedGod
@dasracist
Deserves a comeback: Bonecrusher
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Slang words
OUT: Trill
IN: Based
Deserves a comeback: Extra Manish
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Recent Netflix Ratings 7/25/10
New Releases
Precious ***
Inglorious Basterds *****
Where the Wild Things Are ****
Hurt Locker ***
Avatar ***
Up In the Air ***
It’s Complicated *
The Lovely Bones **
Brothers **
The Wind that Shakes the Barley ***
Crazy Heart ***
Old Stuff
Team America *****
Harold & Kumar Guantanamo Bay ***
Airplane! *****
O Brother Where Art Thou? ***
Bruno ***
Talladega Nights ***
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Absolutely hilarious story by screenwriter Josh Friedman.
SLEDGEHAMMER AND WHORE
This is the story of a Procedural. So I’m at a meeting with a producer the other day and he’s pitching me a tv idea. As way of emphasizing why I need him and his idea, he brings forth a piece of paper. On it, my credits. He doesn’t actually hand it over to me but he says this: PRODUCER:...
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What I'll miss about Blockbuster →
My first job was a VHS shelf re-stocker at a Blockbuster in Virginia at the age of 15. I was paid $4.25 an hour to restock the shelves with incoming returned tapes. We didn’t even have a cart so I would carry them in two big stacks, 15 to 20 in each hand, down the aisles. The one perk was I got 5 free rentals a week and that was my film school education right there. Reservoir Dogs was on the...
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What they dont teach you in film school →
@peterchunmaowu put me on to @darren_bousman ‘s 6 part series about the reality of a career in filmmaking. I was skeptical at first but after reading the letter from his dad in part 1, I was hooked.
I’ve never seen any of Darren’s films but some of his experience mirrors my own, albeit a west coast ‘Hollywood’ version of my New York City indie film come-up with Rock...
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MAYA album by MIA (stream for free) →
16. “Caps Lock” I don’t wanna get lost on your screen / I want you to know my thought stream…
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how a hit film forced an indie filmmaker to leave...
via @alisonwillmore via @ryuganji I can relate to this filmmaker, this was the story of my life after making Bomb the System except I had nothing to lose because I was 24, no wife, no kids, living in South Williamsburg Brooklyn sleeping on a mattress on the floor in a room the size of a walk in closet subsisting off rice and beans from the Puerto Rican deli for 2 years until I finally moved in...
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DJ Yo Yo Dieting - Untitled
DJ Yo Yo Dieting is...
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Justin Bieber Meets El P in a Baby Death Mix...
Screenwriters find work is dwindling - latimes.com →
Insightful article on the depreciation in value of the screenwriter in today’s cut-throat shitty economy. I know more than a couple writers who can tell stories much worse than the examples mentioned in this article.