| Quotage |
[Dec. 16th, 2008|08:27 pm] |
P: Can we get a muzak subscription? Some kind of soulless corporate drone?
J: But we already have you!
P: ...Touché. |
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| Genre Parody Movies |
[Dec. 16th, 2008|01:06 pm] |
Your suggestions are solicited!
Please add to my list of possible movies for a movie marathon of all genre parody movies! That is, the movie is not only a silly spoof, but also makes fun of an entire class of other movies...
Here are some ideas to get you started:
Shaun of the Dead - Zombie
Kung Fu Hustle - Kung Fu
Best in Show - Documentary / Big Competition
Enchanted - Fairy Tale
Hebrew Hammer - Blacksploitation
Murder by Death - whodunit
Galaxy Quest - Star Trek (might be a bit too specific)
Spaceballs - Star Wars (also might be a bit too specific)
Mystery Men - superhero
The Incredibles - also superhero (kind of a stretch as parody)
The Pink Panther - detective
Also encouraged are suggested three or four movie groupings. |
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| I need an iphone or something |
[Dec. 7th, 2008|12:02 am] |
Also, to answer a bar question from tonight,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stone_(mass)
So my guess of 16 pounds is close to the high end used for some items (14 pounds). 14 pounds is what Google says when you type "1 stone in pounds". Another guess of 6-8 pounds includes the 8 pound value that was also used for some items. So it would be a bad bet, as both guesses are "right". It's also in common British use as equal to 14 pounds when reporting body weight. |
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| Freezepop show |
[Sep. 20th, 2008|03:17 pm] |
Hey kids,
There's a Freezepop show on Thursday October 9 at Pyramid on Ave A, after 7:30pm. I will be there. It is $15, no advance tickets. You should be there too.
Oh man. I just checked the calendar; that day is totally Yom Kippur. Break your fast with bagels, lox, and synthesizers! It's even on the lower east side! How Jewish can you get! More exclamation points please!!! (BYO bagels, synthesizers will be provided) |
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| Movies |
[Jun. 14th, 2008|11:53 am] |
Dr. No on Monday night in Bryant Park!
Who wants to help me stake out space at 5pm? |
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| Help! |
[Feb. 4th, 2008|05:00 pm] |
| [ | Current Location |
| | behind a firewall | ] |
| [ | Current Mood |
| | isolated | ] |
| [ | Current Music |
| | television | ] |
I'm trapped in a blog factory! |
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| Concert Schedule |
[Aug. 22nd, 2007|10:34 am] |
I will be going to most of these shows. Perhaps you should, too.
Stereo Total - Friday, August 24 - 8pm Bowery Ballroom
The Ditty Bops - Saturday, September 8 - 9:30pm The Fillmore at Irving Plaza
Underworld + James Holden - Friday, September 14 - 5pm Rumsey Playfield
The Chemical Brothers - Friday, September 21 - 8pm Hammerstein Ballroom
The Chemical Brothers + Ladytron - Saturday, September 22 - 6pm McCarren Pool
TMBG - Sunday, October 14 - Columbia University
Bad Religion - Monday, October 15 - Nokia Theater |
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| (no subject) |
[Aug. 19th, 2007|10:00 pm] |
Not enough of you have seen this video yet:
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| Movie in the park! |
[Jul. 16th, 2007|12:01 am] |
I will be staking out space in Bryant Park tonight for To Sir with Love! Let me know if you would like me to save space for you.
It looks like the rain will hold off until after the movie is over; to be updated if tomorrow afternoon turns out to be wet. |
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| Events! |
[Jul. 7th, 2007|08:53 am] |
Sunday evening there is a Tortoise concert at Webster Hall. Tickets are currently available on ticketweb for $25. Join us....
The Bryant Park movie this Monday is Wait Until Dark. Audrey Hepburn! Please let me know if I should save space for you. |
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| Apparently, Some Russians Are Not Criminals |
[Jun. 13th, 2007|10:31 am] |
I know, I'm surprised too.
A friend who I haven't seen online in a few months logged on to ICQ this morning. After a while, it became apparent that the reason I couldn't read any responses was that they were written in Cyrillic. (My computer rendered them as: "õóé", "äà ëàäíî?", and "âîò áåäà òàê áåäà..".) And I found myself chatting not with my friend, but a Russian teenage boy who was quite abashed to be using someone else's account!
He said he had gotten the account as a gift. When he realized it was probably someone else's, he was really nice and said he wanted to return it.
[10:08] Russian kid: i'd like to give this number back..
[10:08] Russian kid: i don't want to be a.. a.. a man who steals things..
Then he just went ahead and gave me the password... poor trusting fool :)
[10:15] Russian kid: don't think badly about all russian
[10:16] Jeremy: i just think the russian internet is like the wild west...
[10:16] Russian kid: oh, you're right.. our country has many hackers
I wonder where you go to get recycled ICQ logins and if they are all hacked or just most of them. I think it's pretty naive to expect that a login you get anywhere but the real site would not be stolen. But maybe there is a legit board where people post their old accounts that they don't want any more.
I did not end our conversation with "I'm blogging this." I did change the password right away and send it back to my friend. :) |
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| Need Internets |
[May. 25th, 2007|06:35 pm] |
I am shopping for internet and telephone service for the company I'm working for in Manhattan.
If you also work in Manhattan:
- Which ISP do you use? Do they not suck?
- Which telephone company do you use? Do they not suck?
Thanks. |
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| Fluid Dynamics |
[May. 25th, 2007|11:57 am] |
This video is quite amazing:
Many people at my lab at NYU work on simulations that would let you animate graphics of this kind. Seeing the real thing in slow motion is an impressive reminder that even the simulations that look about right are often much simpler than real life. |
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| Poker anyone? |
[Apr. 2nd, 2007|05:17 pm] |
I want to play some penny-stakes games of no limit Texas hold'em. ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) bluemilker and stella_art will play and I know someone else has said they are interested but I can't remember who you are. So please respond so we can invite you to a game. We can host games at our apartment. |
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| Totally accurate review |
[Mar. 15th, 2007|12:51 am] |
As some of you have heard me ranting in the past, I hate critics. I remember first realizing this years ago when reading the weekly music reviews written by Greg Kot, Tribute Rock Idiot. So many critics think their job is to find new and ever-more erudite ways of showing their disdain for the works they review. Last week's Time Out film reviews section included the word "risible" twice in the same column, by different reviewers. Really, you could have said "laughable." It would be okay.
And yet, I still regularly read the Time Out film and music sections, because I have to have some way of finding out what's going on. I even pay for the privilege. I encountered this totally accurate little gem of a review in last week's Time Out. It is quoted verbatim.
Requiem for a Dream Dir. Darren Aronofsky. 2000. 102mins. Drugs are bad. Do not take drugs. That's what Darren Aronofsky's show-offy parable about substance abuse boils everything down to: Narcotics will fuck you right up, and that is no lie. Incidentally, drugs? Not such a swell idea. Admission is $5. (Don't use drugs!)
Well, totally accurate except for the "show-offy" sniping. Fucking critics. |
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