A two-week old issue of New York magazine was sprawled on my couch.
I’ve spent the past three weeks working long hours at a web start-up, so my entire life is an unapologetic mess. I spent the morning cleaning, when I found the magazine, without any idea how it got there. Usually my habit is to pile old magazines in drawers with…
I think most, if not all New Yorkers would agree, that winter in the city is a frosted version of hell. Whether it be the snow piled high enough to drown a teenager, or the cutting wind that chaps the necks of unsuspecting tourists, the Big Apple doesn’t seem so delectable when seen through the filter of a cold grayscale.
But…
By Chris Baily
About a month ago, I saw this video of Bush and the Prime Minister of the Philippines. For some reason, our ever-tactful President decided that the best way to compliment an entire nation and its leader was to mention how much he loves Philippino cooking. It’s pretty terrible:
The first time I saw the video, I got this sneaking suspicion that…
By Hawkes Klein
I’m seriously making the most grossed-out face of all time.
Vampires are all the rage right now, and no, it’s not 1994 and I’m not reviewing Interview with a Vampire although it would go something like this (in 1994 twelve year old Taylor speak) “oh wow, I was like, totally scared, and the vampires are so cute and still…
By Juan Carlos Pineiro Escoriaza
I’ve never actually seen birds dance like they do in this video. Even in the beautiful documentary Winged Migration there was never something so complex as this.
By Peter Brauer
I just went to a fantastic wedding. The pic is of the happy couple, my cousin and her man. I will not bore you with details, but I had about as much fun as you can have in 24 hours. On the drive back to the city I had a long talk with my cousins about how to create such…
By Juan Carlos Pineiro Escoriaza
The other night CB and I began drawing on his couch. CB has this idea that he’s going to get everyone to draw and sign it. I think he’s onto something here. So if you’re in the lower east side, and think you’ve got a little artistry in you. There is a home for you to go draw in anytime…
By Juan Carlos Pineiro Escoriaza
It was the last days of the Apprentice 3. I had met the Donald enough times that I had declined to ride in a limo with him. Which seems silly in retrospect. Either way I knew I didn’t want to do another year of reality shows (even though they are pretty bizarre sometimes).
In the end I was an NYU alumnus…
I’m not a vengeful guy, and I’ve never been in a relationship where I’ve had use for a malicious “Welcome to Dumpsville, Population: You” mix. But as a Hornsby-esque music obsessive, who has spent half of his adult life creating meaning from song lists, I appreciate the art of making a great break up mix. And, of course, I had…
By Andy Marino
The tagline for the 1944 film To Have and Have Not is “Humphrey Bogart… with his kind of woman in a powerful adaptation of Ernest Hemingway’s most daring man-woman story!”
The tagline for the 1987 film The Running Man is “A game nobody survives… But Schwarzenegger has yet to play.”
They’re worth comparing because it takes a certain breed of cosmic superstar to get…
Matt Ellsworth and I met while making Second Skin, a documentary I directed on virtual worlds. He’s one of the boys from Indiana who loves to game. Our conversations over the years have led to a few things, one of them was finding a common love for Johnnie Walker Black Label, and the second was a penchant for postulating about…
The geek have officially inherited the Earth, as was prophesied in Psalms 37:7 (more or less) so many bearded men ago. It’s a fairly recent thing, having happened somewhere between Google’s ascent to ubiquity, the second installment of the Lord of the Rings trilogy and the eyebrow-raising popularity of Weird Al’s White & Nerdy. And since history is told by the…
How much does James Cameron ride George Lucas’ dick? Only enough to base an entire movie, Avatar, on the final battle sequence from the last good film in the Star Wars franchise, Return of the Jedi. Each film has its ragtag band of native creatures, each film pits basic bush weaponry against mechanized slaughter machines, each film has exploding trees.…
Come with me, friends, to another time. Let’s say 1998ish. Ross and Rachel rule the airwaves, ER is hailed as the Best Drama Evar. As the sun sets on Seinfeld, critics mourn its passing, proclaiming that we’re not likely to see a show of its brilliance ever again.
I watched an episode of Seinfeld yesterday. It’s still funny, despite the canned…
I sincerely hope I made every attempt to be fair and honest and if I left off a film you love, please know that it was not with malice and there are only ten spots. I even split them into two genres because taking any of these off the list kind of made my heart hurt. Also, feel free to…
