July 2009
53 posts
The Michael Bay Surprise Sex Theory
Theory: Suspense trumps surprise.
Hitchcock implied it when he gave his famous “bomb under the table” example:
There’s a bomb under the table and the audience doesn’t know it. It explodes. That’s surprise. There’s a bomb under the table and the audience knows it, but it doesn’t explode. That’s suspense.
A film that handles suspense well, building...
New York Dolls, “Trash”
Because...
On Religion...
toldorknown:
luckyshirt:
No religion, no politics.
Ok… this one time.
I hear and read many people calling themselves atheists, and just out of some combination of curiosity and intense interest wonder how many of them are actually agnostic.
So many people confuse the two because unfortunately agnosticism is frequently folded under atheism by many of the loudest voices. But there is a very...
Worker falls into chocolate vat, dies →
gesteves:
Philadelphia Inquirer:
A worker died this morning after falling into a vat of melting chocolate in Camden, officials said.
Police say the man, in his late 20s or early 30s, fell into the vat about 10:30 a.m.
According to Marquese Ernest, a security guard who works at the factory’s front gate, the tank is a bulk chocolate melter, and workers stand at the top of the tank to throw in...
snuff films, porn, technology and crack
inthefade:
[that title has something to please everyone]
I was thinking about VHS movies.
Oh, I know. No one watches VHS tapes anymore. Once again, old age and mortality get together to mock me as another part of my youth gets thrown into oblivion.
Insert some wavy lines here as we are transported back to my glorious youth.
Home VCRs were introduced in the U.S. in the late 1970’s. They were...
here's why i don't like guns - pictures or for...
atsirhc:
when i was with my ex dumbass, “for fun” - he held a unloaded sawed off shotgun to my head.
and that’s why i don’t like guns.
PS - the owners of said shotgun (they were twin brothers) slammed him against the wall and threatened him for doing that.
When I was around ten, I spent my summer school breaks at my dad’s pharmacy. One day, two guys robbed the place and one of them put...
103171.2537@compuserve.com
That was my Compuserve user id, around 1995. Apart from various local BBS’s, it was my first online experience. At that time I was using a crappy 2400 bps hand-me-down modem, so surfing the Web was pretty painful (Remember how long it took to download a single picture of a naked girl? Yes you do!) This is why the Compuserve walled garden was actually pretty fast and cool, a nice...
La Maza by Silvio Rodríguez
To go with the...