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Twitter Updates for 2008-08-19
Driving tester was all “EPIC FAIL!”, and I was all “NO WAI!” and he was all “PSYCHE!” #
Translation: I passed! #
Fifteen minutes into Wall-E and I’ve started blubbing. I think I’m getting worse. #
Pedestrians beware
That license in your wallet, that’s not an ordinary piece of paper, that is a driver’s license, and its not only a driver’s license, it’s an automobile license, and it’s not only an automobile license, it’s a license to live, a license to be free, a license to go wherever, whenever and with whomever [...]
Twitter Updates for 2008-08-17
Dentist appointment in the morning. Probably more nervous about that than my driving test. #
Growing Up.
Then suddenly again, Christopher Robin, who was still looking at the world with his chin in his hands, called out “Pooh!”
“Yes?” said Pooh.
“When I’m — when — Pooh!”
“Yes, Christopher Robin?”
“I’m not going to do Nothing any more.”
“Never again?”
“Well, not so much. They don’t let you.”
Pooh waiting for him to go on, but he was silent [...]
Twitter Updates for 2008-08-13
I love it when BBC news translators try to emote what the person is saying. #
Favourite example of this right now: English toff pretending to be a tragic-looking 90-year-old Georgian man. #
Sammy Davis Jr’s version of The Candy Man is amazing. Now I want a groovy lemon pie :( #
In Italy, a homeless person is [...]
Heading home
In eight hours, I’m flying back to Ireland for a few days. Over the next week, I will be:
down in Limerick for a wedding
meeting my parish priest to sort out some wedding stuff
getting my teeth checked out
practicing my driving
sitting my driving test
getting an eye test done so I can get contacts
eating KFC
not spending my [...]
Twitter Updates for 2008-08-12
Bah. Chipped a tooth. Getting old sucks balls. #
Twitter Updates for 2008-08-11
Got bored, fancied a change, so I redesigned lowbrowculture.com. Easier than actually updating it, I guess. #
Off to print our wedding invitations. We’re waaaay past the point of no return now. #
Why is the Flash installer insisting on searching my *entire* hard drive before finishing its installation? #
Just found out that thepiratebay.org is now being [...]
FU RRoD
That’s my second Xbox Red Ring of Death.
Obligatory Braid blog-post
It seems like every time a new quirky, offbeat videogame is released, it’s used as an excuse to bring up the old “are videogames art?” argument. This time, it’s the turn of Braid, which has just been released on Xbox Live Arcade as part of Microsoft’s “Summer of Arcade” promotion.
Now, let me start off [...]
The Last Kiss
Dir: Tony Goldwyn, 2006, 115′
IMDB Keywords: Remake Of Italian Film, Cheating Wife, Female Rear Nudity, Twenty Something, Stripper
Zach Braff and his group of man-child friends all simultaneously start panicking about the fact that they’re in completely unrealistic relationships with stupefyingly hysterical women and try to run away from their adult lives. Into Braff’s life [...]
New York Times on “Malwebolence” - web trolling
“You look for someone who is full of it, a real blowhard. Then you exploit their insecurities to get an insane amount of drama, laughs and lulz. Rules would be simple: 1. Do whatever it takes to get lulz. 2. Make sure the lulz is widely distributed. This will allow for more lulz to be [...]
Lost Boys 2: The Tribe
Dir: P. J. Pesce, 2008, 92′
IMDB Keywords: Vampire, Direct To Video, Second Part, Sequel, Number In Title
Apart from Corey Feldman (and the briefest of appearances by Corey Haim), this film has almost nothing in common with the original Lost Boys. To the point that, while watching it, I began to wonder if it wasn’t [...]
The Signal
Dir: David Buckner, Dan Bush, Jacob Gentry, 2007, 99′
IMDB Plot Keywords: Extreme Violence, Flashback, Poison, Beaten To Death, Loss Of Family
All the best horror movies deal with weird, unexplained shit happening on a large scale. We know this. The directors of the Signal (all three of them) know this, and they want us to [...]
Google Street View coming to Rome
Going to the shops on Tuesday, I saw a car with some weird shit on top of it. At first, I just thought “man, people have some weird shit on their cars here in Rome” and was ready to write it off as just another aspect of Italian culture that I just don’t get. [...]
Be Kind Rewind
Dir: Michel Gondry, 2008, 101′
IMDB Plot Keywords: Underpass, Interracial Romance, Camcorder, Steamroller, Power Transformer
A freak accident in a power station has Jack Black accidentally erasing all the videos in Mos Def’s video store, leaving the two to re-create (’swede’) a bunch of movies. Let’s face it, the sweded movies were always going to be [...]
Still got it
BBC News: Eastwood hits back at Lee claims
Clint Eastwood has responded to fellow director Spike Lee’s claims that there are too few black actors in his films, saying he should “shut his face”.
Clint Eastwood may look like a 150-year old burn victim, but he’s still got it.
Abby Normal
Clicking through hundreds of Wikipedia pages eventually led me to the page for Lexington Steele, a porn actor1. In it, he talks about his struggle:
Yes, I am religious. I am Christian, Baptist. I grew up in as close to a Cosby-show lifestyle as you can get. Doing porno, on a repeated basis, I am [...]
100% humidity
This is a fucking travesty. Send air conditioning.
Well…
I suppose I could tell you about how my exams are going. But instead, I’ll just use my tiny bit of free time here to point something out.
Less than two weeks until the new Indiana Jones movie comes out!
Okay, now I’ve got that off my chest, it’s time to point something else out: Moichandising! [...]
