I try not to reblog things like this too much, as I feel like this blog should represent me and my thoughts, not just passing amusements I encounter, but this is just too good not to reblog.
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Cut Leaf Illustrations by Leagas Delaney for Plant for the Planet
source. This is Colossal
HAPPY NEW YEAR TV PEOPLE
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Roger Ebert: I'll tell you why movie revenue is dropping...
1. Obviously, the absence of a must-see mass-market movie. […]
2. Ticket prices are too high. […]
3. The theater experience. […]
4. Refreshment prices. […]
5. Competition from other forms of delivery. […]
6. Lack of choice. Box-office tracking shows that the bright spot in 2011 was the performance of indie, foreign or documentary films [this has arguably been the case since 1989 with Soderbergh’s Sex, Lies, and Videotape]. On many weekends, one or more of those titles captures first-place in per-screen average receipts. Yet most moviegoers outside large urban centers can’t find those titles in their local gigantiplex. Instead, all the shopping center compounds seem to be showing the same few overhyped disappointments. Those films open with big ad campaigns, play a couple of weeks, and disappear.
The myth that small-town moviegoers don’t like “art movies” is undercut by Netflix’s viewing results; the third most popular movie on Dec. 28 on Netflix was “Certified Copy,” by the Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami. You’ve heard of [him]? In fourth place—French director Alain Corneau’s “Love Crime.” In fifth, “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo“—but the subtitled Swedish version.
The message I get is that Americans love the movies as much as ever. It’s the theaters that are losing their charm. Proof: theaters thrive that police their audiences, show a variety of titles and emphasize value-added features. The rest of the industry can’t depend forever on blockbusters to bail it out.
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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2009)
Why remake this movie? It is like when they remade Psycho; it was a complete waste of time.
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Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening
Whose woods these are I think I know.
His house is in the village though;
He will not see me stopping here
To watch his woods fill up with snow.
My little horse must think it queer
To stop without a farmhouse near
Between the woods and frozen lake
The darkest evening of the year.
He gives his harness bells a shake
To ask if there is some mistake.
The only other sound’s the sweep
Of easy wind and downy flake.
The woods are lovely, dark and deep.
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.
Robert Frost New Hampshire 1923
The quieter you become, the more you can hear.
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submission from justin-lee519:
Daria Reference in Whip It?Have you ever seen the movie “Whip It” with Ellen Page? There’s a cool part in it where she’s dressed like Daria, not sure if its on purpose or not, but as a fellow fan, I thought I’d share it with you… :) http://justinblythe.webs.com/whip-it-daria.jpg
A picture of Harper Lee on the back cover of her book To Kill a Mockingbird, which deals with the issues of racism that she saw as a child in Monroeville, Alabama.
It is disappointing so few of us notice that most promotions could end with Next on Sick Sad World.
Merry Christmas National Defense Authorization Act
I saw a Christmas tree and called it a Christmas tree. I read the National Defense Authorization Act and I think .. hold on, someone is pounding on my door …
I like to look at this. I don’t know why. The why doesn’t matter.
Joseph Cornell, Untitled (Apollinaris), c. 1954
