December 2011
14 posts
Chris Kelly: 2011 In Review: My Fake Favorites In... →
chriskelly:
FAVORITE MUSIC:
Thistle - You have to listen to Thistle. It’s two identical twin brothers who live in the woods, and each morning, they chop down a single tree, whittle two ukeleles from it, then record a song inspired by that particular wood. Their music is haunting.
Lady Slit - She…
Well, shit. I’m embarrassed for really wanting to see those movies.
"The Die Hard Effect" on Christmas Movies
There is a shortage of holiday movies right now. There must be because films that have nothing to do with Christmas are still pretending on billboards and bus benches everywhere that they absolutely are about the holiday. They promise it, the guarantee it, just pay your goddamn money and surely at some point in 90 minutes some character will say the word Christmas, or holiday, or tree....
This Dan O'Brien: Getting Hit By a Car: A... →
thisdanobrien:
Hey World,
Last Monday, I got hit by a car and immediately wrote an article about it.
On Friday morning, that article was published on Cracked.
Then I left New Jersey and the internet behind for an annual, three-day mini-vacation, to a cabin in the mountains of Pennsylvania with around ten of…
See?! Dan if fucking fine. Everybody get back to work paying attention to me.
Dear Lexus December to Remember Sales Event,
How did you get inside my head? I found you there this morning, humming a classic rock song and going through my things. I don’t remember taking you home, I don’t even remember meeting you. I only saw you in my peripherals, singing over my friends’ voices or the top of Newsweek. But I woke up saying your name as though you were part of my life, part of my vocabulary, like any other word I use...
Marlo from The Wire Is Doomed to Forever Be Marlo...
Two days ago I wrote a column about your new favorite lacrosse movie. If you haven’t rushed out to see A Warrior’s Heart in select theaters I promise right now that it will be life-changingly bad.
It was made by Xenon Pictures, a production house which, thanks to my keen journalistic whiffery, I suspected might have other piles of shit laying around on DVD. A quick perusal of their website...
Watchcracked:
Rick Perry’s Really Gay Creekside Christmas Party
YouTube took our Rick Perry video down again, so here it is in our own video player so you can watch it whenever and forever. We will not remove it. It only took YouTube an hour to remove it the second time. We are baffled by this for two reasons, one being that we know that thousands of people have already flagged the original video,...
I’m a strong believer that narrative fiction...