What should I watch tonight: Winter’s Bone or the last couple of episodes of Breaking Bad? There’s a theme running to whatever I screen (to myself, and maybe one of the cats) tonight. I mean, let’s face it: it’s probably going to be Breaking Bad whatever the internet says, but, social media, the age of networking, and so on.
→ Jane Goldman gets interviewed over at ScriptShadow
Goldman wrote X-Men: First Class, Stardust and the very exciting The Woman in Black. It’s a very unpretentious, practical interview with someone whose work I admire. So go read it.
This evening’s screening: She’s Gotta Have It.
The arrival of the latest Florence and the Machine album sparked a debate between Adam and I. Basically, Florence Welch always looks like she’s doing one of two things, and we want you, internet, to help us decide:
- having a really slow, lingering orgasm, or
- trying to levitate.
Adam’s is option 1. He wants to be associated with the word “orgasm” when you Google him.
Millie: a love story
Back in 2004, when I was told I’d actually be passing some of my exams and it might be a good idea to go and have a look at some universities, my grandparents drove me up to the University of Glasgow, some 200 miles away. Beyond the gates into that Hogwarts-alike building, the first thing I saw was Millie, and at that moment I knew where I was supposed to be.
With Millie on offer, the decision was made: I would go to Glasgow. I would go to wherever Millie was, actually. I’d follow Millie anywhere. Out of everything I encountered that day – badass grammatologists, a safe containing the footprint of Kurt Cobain, a whole city that sounded like Billy Connolly – it’s Millie that stands out to this day, and my incredulity that nobody else seemed to feel the same way about her that I did.
Millie was a full-scale statue of a Tyrannosaurus Rex.
“Someday,” I vowed there and then, both to myself and to everyone within earshot, “when I graduate from this place, I’m going to ride that thing like a cowboy with my graduation cap in the air.”
And so it was done. I went home and scrawled DINOSAUR in red crayon all over my UCAS form. A few months later, I packed all my things and headed North, beyond the Wall, braving the wargs and the Scotsmen, to begin a new chapter in my academic life, at DINOSAUR.
Fast-forward to 2007, and the cost of replacing those parts of Millie which kept getting hacked off and stolen by the students has proven too much for the administration and Millie is towed away, leaving only her head behind at the Hunterian museum. Disappointment number one.
A little further on, in 2008, I am trying to hire the graduation gown. Somehow, I have been convinced to stay behind at DINOSAUR Glasgow University. Millie is gone, but not forgotten. It’s expensive. “I’m sorry — how much for a cap?” I ask. “Oh, don’t worry. You won’t be needing a cap,” they tell me. “As one of the oldest universities in the country, graduates of Glasgow University don’t have to wear a cap.” Disappointment number two.
Eventually, I graduate to the sound of church organs. They are playing the theme to Star Wars. But the lightsaber fight that ensues in the cloisters – Kirsty and I doing battle with our degrees in our first act as real, adult human beings – is half-hearted.
[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]
Ladyhawke – Black, White & Blue.
Because fuck you, I like Ladyhawke. New album in March. Yes.
50/50 hasn’t been nominated for any Oscars, but it has been nominated for several Jamie Awards in the following categories:
- Most Effective Mood Whiplash
- Least Obviously Shoehorned-In Romantic Subplot
- Best Joseph Gordon-Levitt in a Starring Role
- The Manly Tears Award
- Writing That Made Me Want To Give Up All Those Stupid Dreams of Running Off to Hollywood, Selling Out, and Becoming a Screenwriter Because What the Fuck was I Even Thinking
“A Fistful of Woolongs” is a 1998 Japanese Spaghetti Western Science-Fiction Anime directed by Shinichiro Watanabe and written by Keiko Nobumoto. Released in Japan in 1998 and then in the United States in 2001, it initiated the popularity of the animated Space Western genre. It was followed by “For a Few Woolongs More” and “The Good, The Bad, and the Vicious.”
What’s this? Oh, nothing, just a T-shirt I really want, by ninjaink on Redbubble. Just the kind of thing you might buy for a broke but handsome guy on the internet whose birthday is coming up.*
*in about eight months
1x09 The Dreamscape
To pull off the Peter Bishop Classic, you need a badass “gun face” – the face you make while threatening your adversary with a gun – and the absolute inability to be screencapped walking like a normal person.
It’s been really difficult to find a screencap of Joshua Jackson walking like a normal person.
bishopcoats.tumblr FAQ
Q. how much time did you spend queueing up screencaps of Peter Bishop’s awesome coats from every single Fringe episode, in order, and what did you hope to gain from the experience?
A. shut up.
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