In the latest of our national pasttime of overreaction:
A carved pumpkin, painted silver and sporting wires, drew the attention of police at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee this morning before a student admitted he was controlling the jack-o-lantern's lights by computer.
"We don't know if it was a class project, science experiment or a prank," said Tom Luljak, vice chancellor for University Relations and... Read More
This album is actually quite good, in a sense. If you take away the songwriting, lyrics, and vocals, it is excellent. There is some superb instrumentation here, often immense, thick with strings and guitars, full of muscle and venom that fit the mood of the lyrics, but not necessarily the content. "Intervention"'s pulsing organ and instrumentation are a wake-up... Read More
I've thrown around an idea between some loyal (and similar-thinking) friends of mine for an article that I'm thinking of freelancing, to see if I can't prove to myself that I'll be able to achieve some sort of financial independence with my sheer talent once I throw aside this college bullshit (which should happen sometime in my junior year, after all the film classes). The... Read More
I know exactly what you mean. I have had many similar thoughts recently just haven't been able to organize them all into the cohesive mass you just did. I sit in my Gen. Ed. classes about useless bullshit like Holistics(doesn't even deserve to be taught as it's all speculative fiction) and wonder why in the hell I'm even in college. I came to participate in the free flow of ideas. I wanted to hear about new ideas and meet people with contrary dispositions similar to my own. Most of all I wanted to participate in intellectual discourse. While these things do exist in very limited pockets, that's just the problem, it should be what college is all about, not something you have to scrounge for. College has become exactly what you describe, a sit down, shut up kind of experience. Whenever you question the validity of the instructor's statements you just get ignored. I'm glad that someone else sees this besides myself and I'm really glad that it was someone who can articulate the idea so well.
You know that feeling you get? You know the one. The one where you're so high, your toes start to tingle. And they tingle so much it feels like they're dipped in some icy mist. An icy mist that starts to numb them, yet tickle them all at once, like a good lover. Where it feels like they're dipped in icewater. You know that feeling?... Read More
I wish I had known when I was in Milwaukee a couple weeks ago. Could have made a sad situation way happier (and your back a lot more scratched up). Yummy. I have awesome fingernails.
Netflix is the greatest invention of all time, ever, period, no exception. I guess period would go after no exception since it is the signifier of a sentence's end, but that's just how superfantabulously fucking awesome Netflix is; it supercedes even the laws of grammar to create some ubernetflixgrammar that is (quite possibly) above the laws of Nature herself, although even the most stringent Neocon... Read More
For three horrid weeks in my life, I worked at the Wisconsin State Fair Park. It really was the worst experience of my life; the fair park stank, the people stank, the job conditions stank, the pay stank. It was like a pigsty for the mind, a place to wallow in self-pity and cess while the rest of the... Read More
Sunshine is no Armageddon. Everything that seminal Michael Bay shitstorm was made of is turned on its head and shat upon in Sunshine (and with good reason); at times it seems like the film was made just to be a rebuttal to the horrible disaster pics of the '90s - Armageddon, Deep Impact, and, to a lesser extent, Independence... Read More
You! Yes you! There! Right there! Have you always wanted to be an independent filmmaker? Yes? Are you arrogant? Conceited about the worth of your talent? Overjudging the worth of your work to society? You bet?! Well how about being an Indie filmmaker instead? It's very similar to being an independent filmmaker only with a forced plot, unlikeable characters, and a predictable storyline! You, yes... Read More
