• For all you suburbanites, South Carolina based linemen heading north in front of “Titan”.

  • I’d happily argue Only Lovers Left Alive is Jarmusch’s best film, but it might be more helpful to say it’s his most fluent. The leads are Eve (Swinton) in Tangier, an ancient city forever on the cusp of rebirth, and Adam (Tom Hiddleston), in Detroit, contemporary America’s most famous icon of decay. Both are exotic in their own way. She Skypes him on an iPhone. He answers on a rotary relic that he’s rigged up through a tube television. They’re vampires, and they’re in love.

    Jim Jarmusch, Only Lovers Left Alive, The Guardian

    (via kateopolis)

  • The internet is a weird place.

    Tainted Love played by Floppy Disc Drives - now with vocals! (by Marc Almond)

  • A ‘dull witted person’ is chosen as the referee or ‘jobanowl’ and the two teams decide who flonks first by tossing a sugar beet. The game begins when the jobanowl shouts “Here y’go t’gither!”
    The non-flonking team joins hands and dances in a circle around a member of the flonking team, a practice known as ‘girting’. The flonker dips his dwile-tipped ‘driveller’ (a pole 2–3 ft long and made from hazel or yew) into a bucket of beer, then spins around in the opposite direction to the girters and flonks his dwile at them.

    If the dwile misses completely it is known as a ‘swadger’ or a ‘swage’. When this happens the flonker must drink the contents of an ale-filled ‘gazunder’ (chamber pot (‘goes-under’ the bed)) before the wet dwile has passed from hand to hand along the line of now non-girting girters chanting the ceremonial mantra of “pot pot pot”.

    A full game comprises four ‘snurds’, each snurd being one team taking a turn at girting. The jobanowl adds interest and difficulty to the game by randomly switching the direction of rotation, and will levy drinking penalties on any player found not taking the game seriously enough.

    Points are awarded as follows:
    +3: a ‘wanton’- a direct hit on a girter’s head
    +2: a ‘morther’ or ‘marther’- a body hit
    +1: a ‘ripple’ or ‘ripper’- a leg hit
    -1 per sober person at the end of the game

    At the end of the game, the team with the most number of points wins, and will be awarded a ceremonial pewter gazunder.

    —Dwile Flonking, an East Anglian game. (via errorsimilitude)