Generation X Doesn't Want to Hear It »
Generation X is sick of your bullshit.
# Oct 19, 2011In fairness, Generation X could use a better spokesperson. Barack Obama is just a little too senior to count among its own, and it has debts older than Mark Zuckerberg. Generation X hasn’t had a real voice since
Kurt Cobain blew his brains out,Tupac was murdered,Jeff Mangum went crazy,David Foster Wallace hung himself,Jeff Buckley drowned,River Phoenix overdosed,Elliott Smith stabbed himself (twice) in the heart, Axl got fat.
Warner Bros buys the movie rights to a Reddit comment »
As if a movie based on the boardgame ‘Monopoly’ wasn’t enough of a sign of creative bankruptcy in the movie industry, now Warner Brothers has bought the rights to a movie based on a Reddit comment.
Don’t get me wrong, it’s a really good comment, but the point still stands.
# Oct 17, 2011The Guardian iPad edition design evolution »
The Guardian design team shows the various stages of the evolution of their iPad app. This is one of the most beautifully designed newspaper applications I’ve ever used - a perfect marriage of interface and content. I’ll definitely be subscribing.
# Oct 16, 2011
How Vimeo Lost Me »
This is unfortunate. Trauma is a beautiful game, and one that screenshots can’t do justice - you have to see the game in action to fully appreciate and understand it. I’m really sad to read about the amount of hassle the developer went through.
I appreciate Vimeo wanting to keep their site free from commercial abuse, but some of their rules honestly make me worry that pretty soon, their site will be nothing but videos of people testing their cameras.
# Oct 14, 2011100
Last night, I saw my hundredth movie of 2011 - Paddy Considine’s amazing directorial debut, Tyrannosaur. I know this was my hundredth because I’ve been keeping a spreadsheet of all the movies I’ve watched this year, like some kind of weird, compulsive, anal-retentive nerd.
I don’t know why I started keeping a spreadsheet in the first place - it doesn’t inform my choice of movies or anything. I’ll still sit down and watch a piece of shit movie knowing it’ll end up in the spreadsheet, like a permanent black mark against my better judgement.
Anyway, some statistics:
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100 movies in what? 41 weeks? Averaging out to 2.44 movies per week.
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I give six movies the highest score of ‘5’ - The Arbor, Serpico, LA Confidential, My Neighbour Totoro, Bronson, Tyrannosaur.
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I gave seven movies the lowest score of ‘1’ - Tron Legacy, Warhammer 40k, The Black Dahlia, The Fast and the Furious, Escape from the Planet of the Apes, Battle for Planet of the Apes, Conan the Barbarian (remake).
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The average score across all one hundred movies is 2.96. Which feels a lot higher than it should be, given the amount of absolute shite I’ve been watching.
Anyway, if you’d like to see the spreadsheet, knock yourself out. But don’t you judge me. DON’T YOU JUDGE ME.
# Oct 13, 2011Siri, what is the meaning of life?
Siri’s take on the meaning of life.
One of many easter eggs.
# Oct 13, 2011