• A Rant: Do I sound like a total babbling fanboy? If so, good; because I always hope I’ll be floored when I get to meet someone who makes great music - or a great artist, or a great writer, for that matter. Oh, and few things in life make me as happy as meeting someone whose music I respect and hearing “The teenage me is flipping out.” When you’re a musician, particularity a musician in an obscure punk band, you often wonder if any of those people who grew up on your music went on to make music themselves. And finding out that they made music you love makes a decade of riding in a smelly van and sleeping on sticky floors worth it. And when you meet a musician whose work you respect and they turn out to be a really decent human being, well…it reminds me to make an effort to be less of a dick.

    —Rodney Anonymous, My Belated, Yet Totally Fuckin’ Awesome, Tour Diary Concludes


  • believermag:

    He really saved my life. He explained to me that it wasn’t just about shocking people, but that it had to have a point. It has to be funny. He was giving me lessons on why to do it.

    John Waters, life coach.

  • louobedlam:

    Battleship (2012)

    This movie is despicable.  This movie is created solely to make money.  Not to entertain, or enlighten, not to educate or even distract.  This is a giant business deal given celluloid flesh.  A golem, with Hebrew writing on its forehead that roughly translates as “MAKE MONEY MACHINE”. 

  • Getting back on the highway this morning, there was a man at the side of the on-ramp with a sign that read ‘to the end of Rte 70.’ Jen wanted to pick him up, but we drove past him. As we passed by, our sound guy said ‘John Waters’ Luke said, ‘Yep, definitely John Waters.’ We got off at the next exit and circled back. He was still there. We pulled up, opened the door and asked where he was coming from. ‘Baltimore,’ he said. And we said ‘Get in, sir.’

    —Hitchhiking Director John Waters Picked Up In Ohio By Indie Rock Band: DCist


  • Ping pong table, check!
    Pool table, check!
    Having a stand up!
    Some people writing some kick ass Java.
    The higher reaches of CIM City.

    cimapps:

    This is where we work, glass, light, and color. You can see out over Philadelphia from no matter where you are. Pretty cool right? You could too if you wanted to, just check here.

    Pictures courtesy of @davidmays and his awesome little camera!

  • It’s hard to put people in prison in hyperspace, because there are so many directions that you can go to get out. Flatland prison cells have four walls; ours have six, if you count the ceiling and the floor. Hyperspace prison cells have 2000 walls, and each one is very expensive to build.

    —The Universe of Discourse : Amusements in Hyperspace

  • So apparently Romney hired A Gay to spout insane shit about Iran, and some Family Research Majority Silent Council Organization of Concerned Women for American Enterprise were like WHOOOAAAAA, buddy; you can’t have a gay man mouth bellicose slogans about distant foreign countries. That would be immoral! Now one of my nice liberal friends said of this episode that he just can’t believe any gay could ever consider himself a Republican after this incident; she was incredulous. Meanwhile, the moral questions about slaughtering thousands of Iranians for some reason or other remains un-addressed.

    —

    Who Is IOZ?: Bombs A-gay

    Update: See also, Reality Check: Yes, President Obama Is a Hawk