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Important Conversations With My Friend Chris About Apocalypse...

Thu, 08 Dec 2011 16:41:57 -0500

Important Conversations With My Friend Chris About Apocalypse Now

Shit! I worked in that area when I moved out there, so I feel a...

Fri, 02 Dec 2011 10:59:36 -0500

Shit! I worked in that area when I moved out there, so I feel a ridiculous fondness for that goddamn well of memories of that whole sector. For example:

-Eddie Izzard slamming on the glass of Virgin Megastore with his fists

-Seeing Let the Right One In there, wishing there were more films like Let The Right One

-Seeing The Room, wishing there were less films like The Room

-Ringing out Geoffrey Rush, thinking “I’ve seen his penis”

-Eating overpriced pizza at California Pizza Kitchen

-Watching countless car accidents at Sunset and Crescent Heights

chriscantwell:

tumblangeles:

So long, old friend.

Seems like it was getting increasingly difficult for the theater to operate, with Arclight now premiering many of the same indie films about a mile down the road. Still, Sundance Kabuki is going to take over the old Sunset 5 space in Spring 2012.

Movies I saw here:

Thumbsucker (alone)

The Proposition (with my Dad)

The first 10 minutes of Silver City before I walked out with Matt Wyatt

Wind That Shakes the Barley (with a good friend and an ex-girlfriend)

The Room (with many good friends)

And probably ten more films. Good times.

Knew I’d seen him on an album cover, Chris.

Tue, 11 Oct 2011 16:01:55 -0400

Knew I’d seen him on an album cover, Chris.

Photo

Mon, 10 Oct 2011 23:25:00 -0400

Hey, I hope he makes it out of this scene from 2012 (for the...

Mon, 10 Oct 2011 18:36:27 -0400

Hey, I hope he makes it out of this scene from 2012 (for the Chris Cantwell photoshop game)

Hey there he is in the last shot of THX...

Mon, 10 Oct 2011 17:40:40 -0400

Hey there he is in the last shot of THX 1338

chriscantwell:

See? It’s that easy.

This album is a goddamn...

Mon, 19 Sep 2011 14:56:24 -0400

This album is a goddamn masterpiece.

attentiondoozers:

cmg420:

yay

nprfreshair:

some music for your monday: npr music is streaming the new wilco album ‘the whole love’ in its entirety. enjoy!

Okay. Yes. Fuck yes.

Video

Mon, 19 Sep 2011 13:33:06 -0400

Tomorrow night.

Fri, 16 Sep 2011 17:38:10 -0400

Tomorrow night.

Line Breaks & Other Violent Crimes: "But You Could Ignore The Sky," by Fritz Ward

Fri, 16 Sep 2011 15:47:58 -0400

Line Breaks & Other Violent Crimes: "But You Could Ignore The Sky," by Fritz Ward:

ewilcox:

East of Alberta, there’s a bridge designated
for the jumpers. Death Guaranteed,
the sign says, Science and Efficiency.

My father liked to say, You can’t
ignore the gravity of a situation.
And he said it slowly, making it last.

I loved him best when he got it wrong:
when the seven horses…

ewilcox: Welcome to “Elizabeth Drinks Wine And Blogs About...

Thu, 15 Sep 2011 11:32:53 -0400

ewilcox:

Welcome to “Elizabeth Drinks Wine And Blogs About Early Modern Science”!

Tonight’s subject: William Gilbert. I had never heard of this guy before a few days ago. Maybe that means I am a bad Early Modern scholar? Anyway, I read about him in Elizabeth Spiller’s Science, Reading, and Renaissance Literature: The Art Of Making Knowledge, 1580-1670 and was intrigued. Apparently we had magnets since forever, and used compasses and stuff starting in the 12th/13th centuries, but no one since the ancient Greeks really bothered to study magnets or magnetism until our man Gilbert was born in 1544.

Gilbert sounds to me like he was probably one of those annoying, popular guys who gets all the awards at the high school awards banquet. He basically got every degree you could get in the 16th century, was elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in 1573, and became its president in 1600. Also, as if that weren’t enough, Queen Elizabeth had the intellectual hots for him, and appointed him to be her personal physician (MMM-HMMM). In the 1893 translation of Gilbert’s famous book, Edward Wright says that Queen Elizabeth showed Gilbert “many marks of her favor” (yeah, you read that right), and gave him an annual pension “said to be the only legacy left by her to anyone.” I bet that if there had been a TMZ back in 1600 they would have been all “QUEEN ELIZABETH SEEN WITH MAGNETIST GILBERT IN RENAISSANCE CLUB” and posted some picture of Liz looking sloshed and laughing at a compass.

ANYWAY, magnets. So no one since Thales and Theophrastus has really given two shits about what magnets do until Gilbert comes along and says “Hey, how do these things attract each other and why are they just lying around on the ground?” and does a bunch of experiments on them. He takes a lodestone and shapes it into a sphere, which he calls a “terrella,” because it’s like a miniature Earth. Oh yeah, did I mention that Gilbert is the one who figured out the Earth is magnetic? All those other guys were just waltzing around thinking that the North Star was the reason their compass needles were pointing north (if you know what I mean), and Gilbert was the one who sat down and went, “Wait, the force is coming from INSIDE THE PLANET!” He figured out that the Earth must have an iron core, and if it weren’t for him, we wouldn’t call the North Pole and the South Pole “poles,” because we wouldn’t know they WERE poles. So we can thank him for making sure that all our childhood letters to Santa were addressed to the most accurate place.

His book, De Magnete magneticisque corporibus, et de magno magnete tellure; Physiologia nova, plurimis et argumentis et experimentis demonstrata, or, as it likes to be called for short, “On the Magnet,” was not just awesome because it declared all of these things we now take as sort of universal truths. It was also awesome because it was one of the first instances of a scientist making his experimental method clear to his readers. Gilbert actually encouraged his readers to try to duplicate his magnet experiments, making it EXTRA easy by putting little asterisks in the margin where he describes an experiment. And this was before Francis Bacon’s Novum Organum.

This motherfucker INVENTED the terms “electric force” and “electric attraction” while rocking a top hat and ruffled collar. I don’t know what else you want from your scientists. I’ll give John Dryden the last words on Gilbert for tonight:

Gilbert shall live till loadstones cease to draw,
Or British fleets the boundless ocean awe.

ewilcox: Got this in my email from Electric Literature (um,...

Tue, 13 Sep 2011 14:58:04 -0400

ewilcox:

Got this in my email from Electric Literature (um, yeah, that link is kind of NSFW) this morning & can’t resist trying to write a story using all of the words in this word cloud. IT WILL BE GREAT! “George looked just like a man who really got his way. But Delia never came.”

bradc: Nick Rallo forces George C. Scott to watch Rick Perry.

Fri, 09 Sep 2011 13:57:59 -0400

bradc:

Nick Rallo forces George C. Scott to watch Rick Perry.

attentiondoozers: Ladies and gentlemen, the crowing achievement...

Tue, 06 Sep 2011 15:37:58 -0400

attentiondoozers:

Ladies and gentlemen, the crowing achievement of my trip to Hawaii: a photo of a goat taking a piss on a secluded beach.

warholreject: Green Patriot Posters – Posters For Energy...

Tue, 30 Aug 2011 11:39:58 -0400

warholreject:

Green Patriot Posters – Posters For Energy Independence And The Fight Against Climate Change.

FYI

Fri, 26 Aug 2011 14:48:23 -0400

FYI

Not a movie to enjoy theater nachos...

Thu, 25 Aug 2011 18:21:36 -0400

Not a movie to enjoy theater nachos to

chriscantwell:

attentiondoozers:

Following up on my post about Irreversible, I was talking to Nick about Antichrist, which is right next to Irreversible on my Netflix queue. He has seen it, and suggested I watch this clip before I decide to watch the film.

The best part about this clip is that it seems like a joke scene that Nick wrote into a movie.

Nick made me watch this scene yesterday, too. I laughed, and then was scared later when I thought about it again.

Chewy, you have to take care of the Princess until this cocktail...

Wed, 24 Aug 2011 13:22:32 -0400

Chewy, you have to take care of the Princess until this cocktail melts

dallasobserver:

Han Solo in Carbonite ice cube trays. Yep, we need these.

ewilcox: I believe reality checks are an important part of the...

Tue, 23 Aug 2011 10:56:49 -0400

ewilcox:

I believe reality checks are an important part of the writing process.

Moondoggies Covering Bob Dylan: a must-listen

Mon, 22 Aug 2011 10:17:15 -0400

Moondoggies Covering Bob Dylan: a must-listen