Benjamin Button: Trailer Two
A while ago I posted something about this movie. It looks pretty awesome. But somewhere I heard it was based on a short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald. So I dug it up and am sharing it with you here because I think its great and definitely worth sharing.
HD version here
Paul Newman: 1925 - 2008
Someone once told me one of the best ways to learn something is by imitating people in the Know. Paul Newman is in the Know. He's been a crook and a convict but also a Daytona racer (at 70) and a philanthropist. Hollywood is full of weird semi-celebs, but Paul Newman was a fucking star.
“We are such spendthrifts with our lives,” Mr. Newman once told a reporter. “The trick of living is to slip on and off the planet with the least fuss you can muster. I’m not running for sainthood. I just happen to think that in life we need to be a little like the farmer, who puts back into the soil what he takes out.”
I cant put my finger on it...
There's something strangely alluring about this picture. Could it be the symmetry in the crossed legs? Is it the uniformity of the skirt wearing (Whoopi included!)? What about the fact that Bill Clinton is in his element surrounded by women with skirts and crossed legs angled at his direction, eating up his every word? Or maybe is it the strange phenomenon that six chairs pushed together is called a "couch?"
I don't pretend to answer the tough questions, but like The View, I sure as hell ask them.
The Colbert Effect: Real Interviews with Comedians Rarely Seen Out Of Character
What happens when Stephen Colbert, Sasha Baron Cohen, Amy Sedaris, Sarah Silverman, Jemaine Clement, Bret McKenzie, some other dude from Flight of the Conchords, Ricky Gervais, and post-tweak-out-escape-to-Africa Dave Chapelle stop being their over-the-top, truthy, lovable selves and start being real. Holy crap it'd make a good reality show to put all these folks in a wagon train westward and call it Oregon Trail. Check out the channel on searchles aaaaaaand click here to read the best "where are they now" piece I've seen in a good while.
Like RL Stein
I'm getting Goosebumps. Thanks to Austin from Boston for providing this little niblit from ESPN to hold me over until FNL comes out.
Does anyone in Hanover have DirecTV?
Mad Men
Sometimes I use AMDAL as my personal diary and sometimes I treat it like a bully pulpit. This time I choose to do both in confessing my love for Mad Men and to demand that you watch it. For those who don't know, Mad Men is about a 1960's ad firm on Madison Avenue (I promise this little pun of a title is the worst thing about the show, and its not even that bad). The characters, the writing, and the style make it one of the best shows I've seen. The people at the Emmy's agree, giving it 6 awards including Best Drama and Best Writing.
I normally try to avoid telling you what to do, but I don't want to see history repeat itself here. Remember how we almost lost our beloved Friday Night Lights (FNL for you n00bs) to the TV gods? It's that serious. In fact, I may be so bold as to say this:
Man Men > FNL
Discuss.
Mad Men is currently in its 2nd season, though I recommend you watch Season 1 on DVD first. If you want it, you can borrow mine. Or we can do a slumber party at my place and watch all 14 episodes at once (sofabeds to come).
Sundays on AMC at 10PM and AMC OnDemand. Check your local listings.
How many DAYS!?!?!?
If I were less lazy, I could give you an exact number. But the answer to that question is however many days there are from now until October 1st.
That day should be etched into your brains/datebooks/gcalendars because it marks the return of FNL.
I was just fwd'd this link to an LA Times piece. Not too much new info, and I still don't know what the deal is for people who don't have DirecTV. (I'm sure we'll be able to get episodes iiiillegally on bittorrent or whatever, but will they be up for purchase on iTunes?).
The more important question raised by the Times piece is what footprint DTV is looking to leave on the series. Case in point...
That promo, apparently the 4th released thus far, plays like some strange mix between Night of the Twisters and a live-action Nightmare Before Christmas. And I hope they don't get too biblical with Riggins' creepy pursuit of Lila Garrity.
On the other hand...
(sigh)
In a related confession, I still haven't watched the last episode from last season. Back when it aired, we still didn't know if the writers' strike meant the end of the series. Well for whatever reason, I just couldn't go through with watching what my be the last episode ever.
If it was initially meant to run in the middle of a longer season, I can't imagine anything too major happens. Still, maybe it's about time I exorcize this demon. Popcorn, anyone?
That day should be etched into your brains/datebooks/gcalendars because it marks the return of FNL.
I was just fwd'd this link to an LA Times piece. Not too much new info, and I still don't know what the deal is for people who don't have DirecTV. (I'm sure we'll be able to get episodes iiiillegally on bittorrent or whatever, but will they be up for purchase on iTunes?).
The more important question raised by the Times piece is what footprint DTV is looking to leave on the series. Case in point...
That promo, apparently the 4th released thus far, plays like some strange mix between Night of the Twisters and a live-action Nightmare Before Christmas. And I hope they don't get too biblical with Riggins' creepy pursuit of Lila Garrity.
On the other hand...
(sigh)
In a related confession, I still haven't watched the last episode from last season. Back when it aired, we still didn't know if the writers' strike meant the end of the series. Well for whatever reason, I just couldn't go through with watching what my be the last episode ever.
If it was initially meant to run in the middle of a longer season, I can't imagine anything too major happens. Still, maybe it's about time I exorcize this demon. Popcorn, anyone?
From the Foggy Monocle
Luke: how do you do the heart thing?
Yoda: < (it’s next to the m)
Yoda: then a #
Yoda: 3
Yoda: <3
Luke: <#
Luke: fuck
Yoda: no
Yoda: < 3
Yoda: together
Luke: <#
Yoda: 3
Luke: fuck
Yoda: 3!
Luke: <####
Luke: ,3
Yoda: NO
Luke: ,3
Yoda: <3
Yoda: shift
Yoda: comma
Yoda: three
Luke: <<<<<<<<<<<<
Luke: <<#
Luke: <#
Yoda: LOL
Luke: fucking retard
Yoda: stop holding the shift
Luke: im laughing so hard im crying
Yoda: ME TOO
Luke: <<<<<<#
Luke: fuck it
Yoda: GOD DAMIT WOMAN
Yoda: shift
Yoda: <
Yoda: 3
Luke: <<<<<<<<<#
Yoda: shift, let go of the shift then 3
Luke: #
Luke: 3
Luke: <3
Yoda: YEY
Yoda:HEEE HEEE you did it
Yoda: <3
Picture and text courtesy of The Foggy Monocle
Secret
Not really sure what this guy's website is all about, but it's kind of awesome. Especially this:http://www.itbinsider.com/?page_id=51
The feminine mystique
If you're a girl, you have it hard. Statistically you'll make less money, stay at home with the kids, and be the first to join the broken-hip club. But add the fact that you have to wake up 1 hour early almost every day of your adult life to get your hair and face did and you've successfully sold me on the male race. Sure, you get free drinks and have an excuse to buy sickies shoes and clothes, but I've yet to be convinced its worth it.
Well per usual, AMDAL is here to help. Save time tomorrow and every other morning by cutting your hair. All of it. Before you do though, I'd like to show you the risks/benefits in multimedia form.
See babe in video. Short hair works here but it doesnt hurt she's a straight looker (push-up bra optional)
Natalie Portman post V for Vendetta. More like B for Babealicious (see what I did there?)
NP with hair here. I think we all know where I stand on her by now.
Mena Suvari - I've yet to see her in a movie role so I think she just went aggro and cut it.
The buzz cut works for her but so does the hair. Tough call.
Speechless.
Yea I know - its a weave. [Head shake / finger snap]. Dont go there, girl.
I leave it to you to decide what looks good but I'll leave it to my girl Joanie (around 1:00 in) and Jake Crumbine '07 for some parting words.
Dartmouth Board of Trustees
For those of you attempting to follow current events on the Hanover Plain, note that the Board of Trustees quietly expanded its membership yesterday with 5 new board members, at least one of which was rejected by Alumni in the previous trustee election.
Asher Roth
I'm not going to pretend this guy is the next Eminem or Kanye West but he's better than Bubba Sparxxx and he's Jewish. He's also my hero because he's managed to fool the entire rap industry into thinking it should hang out with this kid. Video here and MySpace* with a bunch of songs here
*MySpace is a popular social networking website offering an interactive, user-submitted network of friends, personal profiles, blogs, groups, photos, music and videos for teenagers and adults internationally. It is not facebook.
UPDATE:
Basement rapping and Keute Azns. Cmon.
Rotten Tomatoes steals from AMDAL
We've made it. A credible(?) website, Rotten Tomatoes, is stealing ideas from AMDAL. You may remember Popeye Jones tackling the same topic a few months ago. Lawsuit ensues, exit opportunity in site.
In other news, the US may not be making good cars, decisions, etc, but we are making babies. Ignore the 7+ year old study he cites.
Down South
In Peru last week I ran into something that doesn't exist yet in NYC.
Traffic Mimes...wtf?
Traffic Mimes...wtf?
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| From Peru August 2008 |
No pretengineering here
Dartmouth '04 Brian Mason and team have developed one of the most clever solutions to a global problem. The video above explains it all but basically its like Waterworld, except on a bike.
And here I am
So after all my talk of being a grown up and living a real life that happens to be in Hanover, I've gone and set up shop scoping out freshman (ie 12s). You can't see the cherubian faces from this angle (seen above at the HCREW show) but I'll just tell you - they're all hot.
