I do love how NZ’s (awful) anti-filesharing legislation has become known all over as the Skynet Law. Hee. Maybe we need shouty Christian Bale to lead the resistance?
Two Cellos doing Smells Like Teen Spirit
How hard is it to get a cartoon into the New Yorker? Worth reading just to hear about the process involved. It’s quite something. Also: funny cartoons that didn’t quite make it!
Foreign Policy lessons drawn from hip-hop disputes.
Purely for nostalgia and laughing at fashions: SEARS 1983 catalogue.
An elegy for the age of space
As the ill-advised prequel to John Carpenter’s (ill-advised remake of) The Thing approaches, here are some Thing linky: an audio version of the story “The Things” that retells the movie from the alien’s point of view. The text is there to if you just wanna read it, I thought I’d linkied to the story ages ago but apparently not.
Also: closely-argued (very detailed) video essay about the ambiguous ending of The Thing – are there enough clues to work out the film-maker’s intention? As Mr D Ritchie of Hamiltron has pointed out, includes a slightly-too-long clip from the essayist’s student film, to the bemusement of all.
And finally, from Jenni Talula, here are the Men-Ups
I always feel to special when you include something I linked you to XD
it is like a scritchy-scritchy-skritch behind the ear of a dog, only it is for a person and over the internet.
Cellos made my day – up there with the UOGB!
yay cellos!
Just out of curiosity, when you describe John Carpenter’s re-make as “ill advised”, have you seen the original? What didn’t you like about the remake?
I should clarify – because it was a bit of a joke that only works in my brain. I *love* the remake. And I like the original very much indeed. But I think if someone came up to me in 1982 and said “I’m gonna remake that movie about the vegetable man who stomps around the arctic base!” I would’ve said “Um… sure that’s a good idea?”
Carpenter pulled off something amazing with his remake. So I guess I’m just saying, in a very roundabout way, there’s a chance the new prequel will be lovely too.
And now that I’ve written that I realise that I have used the words “ill-advised” in a completely inappropriate way. Luckily I am a writer so I am always write good.
Man, I HATE the continued use of Skynet in the “so-called’ bit about the Copyright Amdt Act. Oh yeah, they’re also still calling it a Bill even after it’s been enacted and come into force. Can we put a stop to the MSM deciding what we call legislation by force of meme please? They’ve taken the wheel like it’s a big parping clown car.
nice job on the Carpenter links though Mr Orgue. The past weekend has been a reminderfest to the sheer joy of early Carpenter via a rewatching of Mark gattis’ thoroughly enjoyable HIstory of Horror (screened in prime time on terrestrial channels here instead of Masterchef for a change. I think), and, oddly, the ropey and also ill-advised remake of his The Fog, a personal fave of mine from his oeurvre. Much overlooked, that one, but lots to discuss!