oh, you bet I’m serious
- 08.31.08
- scraps
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Batman Begins is superior to The Dark Knight due to the fact that BB has deep, dark and intensely human symbolism that TDK lacks. I’m acquiring both films to make a proper comparative analysis. Star-Trek: TNG hit it’s peak in Season 5. This might simply be due to the fact that the characters are fully [...]
Patience and Discipline
- 08.30.08
- poker
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Labiodental fricative? My new favorite phrase.
- 08.26.08
- armchair philosophy, linguistics
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Language’s Carnality: This linguistic vocabulary interests me, with its attention to language’s sound; I hope it will interest you, too. It gives voice to the qualities of these sounds we use when we mean. And it, in certain cases, at least, describes the manner with which language’s sound is made. “Labiodental fricative” describes not only [...]
Aural Attak: Apocalypse Hoboken – Date Rape Nation/Jerk Lessons
- 08.25.08
- Aural Attak
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Today I present the “punk rock you forgot about, but damn it was awesome when you heard it” band that you (now that you’re thinking about it) haven’t listened to since high school. Put your volume up and prepare for high-energy shenanigans: it’s Apocalypse Hoboken – Date Rape Nation/Jerk Lessons. 1. Pop Sensibilities2. Girl3. Great [...]
Movie Review: Fire In The Sky
- 08.22.08
- movie review
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Fire in the Sky is one of those UFO abduction classics, and it has DB Sweeney and that guy from Terminator 2 made out of liquid metal. And a badass title. And that’s about where it ends.The whole dude-got-taken-by-aliens-but-they-think-we-killed-him sequence plays out about as well as you’d imagine it would. There is a lot of [...]
tidbits – day three of fall ’08
- 08.20.08
- armchair philosophy, drugs, law, scraps
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Drank Anti-Energy Drink – They’ll commercialize huffing glue, too, if you give the bastards a chance. In Praise of Melancholy. It would be unamerican to admit that you’re unhappy, but you know what? This place sucks for a lot of reasons, the least of which is a lack of material needs. America crushes the human [...]