Peter McArthur

“ Someone give Nathan Johnson a couple million dollars so he can be the next George-David-Lucas-Lynch. Regardless of how odd it is, to say it sucked me in is an understatement. The melodic quality of the voices and the beautiful swinging angelic soundtrack brings this flick near-hypnotic qualities. Unforgettable, and a must-watch.

— Vimeo vid of the Day, “The Forest Keeper” by nlj | Indy Mogul

» nuBolo Home Page

omg

“ the glasses were never intended to define Junior. “Everyone else on the show has very large eyes,” Mr. Chianese said. “I have deep-set eyes. David wanted a consistent look. He’s a visual artist. So he gave me the glasses.

— One Final Whack at That HBO Mob - New York Times

“ Albania has such an affinity for America that it issued three postage stamps with Bush’s picture and the Statue of Liberty, and renamed a street in front of parliament in his honor.

— Bush Is Greeted Warmly in Albania - New York Times

“ One of the unusual features of the disorder is that the predators of abandoned beehives, such as hive beetles and wax moths, refuse to venture into infected hives for weeks or longer. “It’s as if there is something repellent or toxic about the colony,” said Hayes, the Florida inspector.

— Suddenly, the bees are simply vanishing - Los Angeles Times

The arrhythmatic logic of fever dreams via whythe luckystiff

» fever dreams

the things that other people see that i feel are alive almost always change sometime in the doing them

“ in a 1997 letter to David Foster Wallace, he wrote that his prose is characterized by “a sensitivity to the actual appearance of words on a page, to letter-shapes and letter-combinations.” (DeLillo saved a copy of the letter.) He goes on, “At some point (in my writing life) I realized that precision can be a kind of poetry, and the more precise you try to be, or I try to be, the more simply and correctly responsive to what the world looks like—then the better my chances of creating a deeper and more beautiful language.” (In his response, Wallace wrote, “I found your comments on the physical architecture of clauses and words and letters real interesting and yet identified with them not one whit. I think I’m maybe 100% aural. My eyesight’s really bad anyway.”)

— Letter from Austin: Final Destination: Reporting & Essays: The New Yorker

“ The Second Inaugural Address was widely considered utopian. Today’s Prague speech is, at best, delusional. “Freedom can be resisted, and freedom can be delayed, but freedom cannot be denied,” Bush said to applause.

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Bush’s deluded speech to the world’s oppressed. - By Fred Kaplan - Slate Magazine

It seems like most of the things Bush says in these addresses are just a few syllables away from completely awesome. This line in particular is so great.

“Freedom can be resisted, and freedom can be delayed, but freedom cannot be denied”

It reminds me of my friend Nathan’s movie about the elk burger in which he says “ELK FOR MY ACNE, ELK FOR MY PASSION, ELK FOR THE BLAZERS, MY FAVORITE BASKETBALL TEAM…ELK FOR BEAUTY, ELK FOR MY STOMACH, ELK FOR MY BRAIN, ELK FOR MY FREEDOM”

» Kiryas Joel, New York - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Unlike most other small towns, it lacks a real downtown and much of it is given over to residential property, which has mostly taken the form of contemporary townhouse-style condominium complexes similar to those found in ski resort communities in western states. New construction is going on throughout the community.