What Your Favorite Wes Anderson Movie Says About You -
The Royal Tenenbaums [2001]
You are an old soul. Your family, while small, is in no small way dysfunctional, thank goodness, because the worst thing in the world, the worst, would be to have a boring family. Or an ugly one. You would never watch TV in the bathtub for fear of electrocution, but you would and have read many a book, regardless of the damaged pages that ensue, regardless of whether said book came from the library. But mostly you buy books; you like their smell, you smell them often. Your friends describe you as “loyal,” “good-natured,” and “quirky,” with “pretty hair.” One time at a ski lodge you tripped on a serving tray while playing Tetris and only just barely avoided stitches and had to get one of those butterfly bandages right on the side of your face, to hold the skin together while it healed. You went from “talented and gifted” to slightly less talented in the year between fourth and fifth grade. Sometimes you throw around the word “twee,” and when drunk, you speak with the intercontinental accent of ’60s-era movie stars. Astrological sign: Pisces.
The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou [2004]
You like bands that other people like, but you only like their really obscure stuff. When you describe a piece of art or something as “difficult,” you mean it as a compliment. You probably have a graduate degree in something specific or you just work at a used book store. You want to move to Portland but you just haven’t done it yet. Sometimes people call you an asshole and you respond, “All I’m saying is that it’s important to understand what the term ‘craft beer’ actually means.” If you’re a straight guy (and you probably are) you have a girlfriend named Cara who is a research assistant and wants to move to France, but not Paris. When you have a kid (not with Cara), it will have, for a first name, the last name of a writer you like. (Maybe Wallace, because you love Infinite Jest.) One summer when you were a kid you spent a month with your cousins at their island house in Maine and something big happened that you never told anyone else.
(via shellyfilleddonut)
“Love it or hate it, Community without its creator makes as much sense as Mad Men without Matt Weiner or Inspector Spacetime without Constable Reggie. If you take Harmon out of the equation, it’s hard not to see Community withering into just another show, as unremarkable as Robocop 2 or Jim Belushi. And that would be a shame. There are plenty of dull shows on television; very few can inspire and infuriate with such abandon. Only a crazy person like Dean Pelton can run a nuthouse like Greendale, and only a repairman like Troy could repair men.” — NBC Comedy Recap: Community’s 8-Bit, Air-Conditioned, Triple-Episode Season-Ender (via synecdoche)
GY!BE Flyer, 2003
hope
(Source: slow-moving-trains)
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Slate’s David Plotz on bin strategy: “Choose the most obscure band you really like, go to the bin where the band should be. When you find your favorite of the obscure band’s albums there, nod appreciatively, show it to your friends, buy nothing, and then tell everyone that the record story is really great, has amazing selection, and so much integrity.”
Here, customers crowd the stereo records section of an HMV store in 1960s London. One woman deploys the shoulder wedge to stay competitive.
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Comics: Philosophy & Practice
May 18-20, 2012 at the University of ChicagoIn a three-day conference featuring a range of events — lectures, conversations, panels, and workshops — cartoonists will come together at the University of Chicago, long a location of word-and-image study, to take stock of their own ground-breaking work and the future of comics.
They will explore comics autobiography and journalism, the current shape of the “graphic novel,” the power of hand-drawn images to shock and provoke, historical print culture, the narrative impact of comics style, and where and how today’s most exciting work is happening.
The first of its kind, this historic conference brings together 17 world-famous cartoonists whose work has defined contemporary comics. These internationally acclaimed figures have innovated the visual styles, genres, and formats that make comics popular and fascinating; they set the terms for the possibilities of the form.
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According to the website this event is totally FREE to the public. Gonna attempt to make it out to Chicago for this!
(more info via University of Chicago)
No way I’m missing this.
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