February 2012
30 posts
January 2012
43 posts
Stepping up to lead First Person Arts: Brunson replaces organization founder Solot →
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From the Daily News, January 30, 2012.
Sorry what I ment to ask was do penises seem more gross now you know that they can be fractured?
Nope. My feelings on penises haven’t changed.
UPDATE: This is an awesome question, by the way.
Do you have less respect for the penis now that you know that they can be fractured?
No, same amount (envy for my inability to pee standing up), but now I kind of want to watch that episode of “Grey’s Anatomy” referenced in the post.
“We had this patient who suffered penile fracture after running across the room and trying to penetrate his wife with a flying leap. ”
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What I did today: Looked up “broken penis” on the internet.
(But seriously, read that post because it’s hilarious how many times during the intro I had to remind myself I was reading Scientific American.)
“Hephaestus, a young god, is cast from the heavens after losing a dance battle to Zeus, the mighty king of mount Olympus.
Crippled from the fall, and humiliated from the defeat, he curses the god and his kingdom.
Instead of returning to his home on the mountain he decides to build his own heaven themed dance party on earth.
He constructs a woman robot named Ladybot to keep him company, and vows never to return to Olympus again.
But his past cannot be left behind so easily.” —Actors Needed for GREEK MYTHOLOGY HIP HOP ROBOT DANCE BATTLE FILM (Philadelphia, PA)
Crippled from the fall, and humiliated from the defeat, he curses the god and his kingdom.
Instead of returning to his home on the mountain he decides to build his own heaven themed dance party on earth.
He constructs a woman robot named Ladybot to keep him company, and vows never to return to Olympus again.
But his past cannot be left behind so easily.” —Actors Needed for GREEK MYTHOLOGY HIP HOP ROBOT DANCE BATTLE FILM (Philadelphia, PA)
H/T Jameson
Reel Men: Jean Mason and Neil Oxman compete to see who watches the most movies →
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Sidebar: Jean and Neil’s top 10 films of 2011
From the Daily News, January 24, 2012.
This is about two guys who compete to see the most movies every year. They ahve to see half the movie, it has to be seen in a movie theater and they have to pay for a ticket. Jean Mason, the winner of the last five years, saw 409 movies in 2011. That’s 1.12 movies a day.
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This is a conversation Cronenberg wishes Paul Haggis had with him when he was prepping “Crash”: When Ivan Reitman was planning a movie called “Twins,” he called up his longtime friend and former compatriot. The conversation went something like this, according to Cronenberg:
Ivan: “I hear you’re making a movie called ‘Twins.’”
David: “Yeah, it’s about these twin gynecologists.”
Ivan: “I want to make a movie called ‘Twins’ as well.”
David: “Oh, really?”
Ivan: “Yeah, and I need the title more than you do. Arnold Schwarzenegger, Danny DeVito, twins. That’s the sell.”
David: “I can see that.”
Ivan: “So we can’t both have movies called ‘Twins.’”
David: “OK. How much?”
Reitman ended up paying Cronenberg for the use of the title, and Cronenberg changed the title of his 1988 film to “Dead Ringers,” which was now financed by “Twins” money. “And they both did OK, on their own levels,” Cronenberg chuckled.
” —On how the movie “Twins” financed David Cronenberg’s wonderfully fucked “Dead Ringers,” a movie I watched because I was trying to flirt with a co-worker at the video store I worked at (he worked at the adjoining theater) so I did what any movie geek would do and had him recommend me a movie. We were this close to falling in love forever, but then he moved away to D.C. or something. Considering that he recommended ”Dead Ringers,” this is probably a good things.
Also later, I heard he was addicted to heroin or something so that’s probably another reason why our love was never meant to be.
Description of gallery owner Bridgett Mayer as blond objectified her →
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I never get nice letters! Thanks Leonard Ellis of Swathmore!
