Get coal. [25 Dec 2009|10:47am] vengeance_is_me Some art I did for an unborn cousin for Christmas (his due date is the end of January). ( Julian ) [1] [post]

Where The Spirit At [24 Dec 2009|03:25pm] mittenstone Merry Xmas from the Metal gods. [2] [post]

HMMMMMM [24 Dec 2009|12:27am] girlracer My attorney told me today that I should consider law school [3] [post]

[22 Dec 2009|01:30pm] girlracer [13] [post]

[22 Dec 2009|09:52am] ohsnap wtf wall street journal? truly disgusting, irresponsible, nonsense. this kind of bullshit puts lives in danger: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704517504574590200781231082.html [4] [post]

Merry Christmas From Brooklyn, New York [20 Dec 2009|01:14am] chaossix6 ( +37 ) [12] [post]

story [20 Dec 2009|09:32am] trembyle [5] [post]

[18 Dec 2009|09:32am] theashifaction you guys dont appreciate my performance art :( [7] [post]

[16 Dec 2009|03:45pm] bismarcky Roy Disney died today. I remember watching him on certain Disney featurettes, the ones they'd play on VHS tapes, right before the main feature. Hearing him talk about animation inspired me to take classes for two summers. I told him this when I met him summer of... 1998? It was Disney World's 25th Anniversary and he was there shaking hands with all the kids, many of them who assumed he was Walt. He never seemed as creepy as that other Disney honcho, Michael Eisner, who knew how to turn on the charm, but only in front of the cameras. RIP, Roy. [post]

copied from a friend's journal [16 Dec 2009|12:45am] shemale I'm posting this at dashingdeviant's...general request for people to call out Hazel/Cedar, their abuser, when folks see hir work cited by others in anti-oppressive/anti-abusive contexts. Hazel/Cedar is well known for hir blog "Taking Up Too Much Space," which I am not linking here as that would be counterproductive to the point of this post. I have filtered this post, but dashingdeviant is ok with public call-outs. I haven't asked about this directly, but I imagine they would also be ok with others reposting something like this post. Below are some quotes from their blog anarchafemme. "Hir work still gets cited all over the place, by people who know the call out I’ve made, and when a call out occurred in a feminist space, I got to see rape apologism saying that we shouldn’t judge work based on the author’s actions, when hir has written on consent and against transphobia. This occurred in an online feminist space. " "I’m too afraid to name hir this publicly beyond writing this in a way that people who know – and there are a lot of them – know who I’m talking about. Please, when someone cites hir, links to hir, let people know that ze’s a serial perpetrator of abuse, ze is a rapist, that ze has absolutely no interest in being accountable. And don’t cite hir, don’t invite hir in as an authority on things, because every time ze is cited as an authority, and I see it, that does me harm. Every time ze comments somewhere, I just shut down. Every time someone defends hir based on hir work or their interactions with hir, I shut down. I’m sorry, good people aren’t serial abusers, good people aren’t serial rapists. And I feel like every time I say something, I get torn into again and pushed to the side." [2] [post]

brooklyn [15 Dec 2009|02:05pm] eesanera [ mood | calm ] view from my balcony [post]

the 00s in movies [14 Dec 2009|03:44pm] vogdoid OK, I tallied all the votes on the movie lists. Here are the total number of votes for all movies nominated. At the bottom are instructions for round two, which is open to anyone who submitted nominations. ELEVEN VOTES Ten (Kiarostami) EIGHT Mulholland Dr. Werckmeister Harmonies SIX Inland Empire The Host Ratatouille WALL-E FIVE A.I. Fat Girl In the Mood for Love L'Intrus FOUR A History of Violence Cache Casino Royale Goodbye, Dragon Inn Josie and the Pussycats Spider-Man 2 Trouble Every Day THREE 4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days Bright Future Crimson Gold Eastern Promises Friday Night Kairo (Pulse, 2001) Let the Right One In Memories of Murder Moolaadé Spirited Away The World There Will Be Blood TWO 25th Hour A Serious Man A Thousand Clouds of Peace All About Lily Chou-Chou Before Sunset Brand Upon the Brain! Burn After Reading Code Unknown Flight of the Red Balloon George Washington Happy-Go-Lucky Hollow Man Hostel In Praise of Love Innocence Kill Bill Kung Fu Hustle La Commune, Paris 1871 Linda Linda Linda Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers Mean Girls No Country For Old Men Old Joy Ponyo Punch-Drunk Love Regular Lovers Shaun of the Dead Still Life Suicide Club / Circle Sunshine The Death of Mr. Lazarescu The Descent The Fog of War The Forest for the Trees The King of Kong The Mad Songs of Fernanda Hussein The New World The Piano Teacher The Transporter The Wayward Cloud Torque Two Lovers Up You Can Count on Me Wet Hot American Summer ONE 4 2046 12:08 East of Bucharest 13 Lakes 24 City 28 days later 35 Rhums A Mighty Wind A Taste of Tea A2 Adaptation All the Real Girls Amelie Anchorman Antichrist Appaloosa ATL Audition Bad Santa Ballast Battle in Heaven Battle Royale, 2001 Be Here to Love Me Be Kind Rewind Best in Show Big Fish Bill Viola's Night Journey Billy Elliot Black Book Blah Blah Blah - Dietmar Brehm Blissfully Yours Brick Bright Leaves Bring It On Brokeback Mountain Bubble Bug Bus 174 Cabin Fever Catch Me If You Can Cellular Ces Recontres Avec Eux Chicago Chicken Poets Chico Christian Marclay's Video Quartet Cloverfield Collateral Colossal Youth Common Wealth Czech Dream Dagon Dead Man's Shoes Dear Doctor Decasia Diving Bell and the Butterfly Dogtooth Dogtown & Z-Boys Doppelganger Downfall Dream Work - Peter Tscherkassky El Aura Embodiment of Evil Estamira Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind Everything is Illuminated Exiled Faat Kine Favela Rising Femme Fatale Fido Five Flame and Citron Funky Forest Garden State Gerry Ghost World Gomorra Gone Baby Gone Gosford Park Gozu Gradiva Grizzly Man Habla Con Ella Hedwig and the Angry Inch Hitch Hot Fuzz Hustle & Flow I Don't Want To Sleep Alone I-Be Area - Ryan Trecartin I'm Not There In Bruges In My Skin In the City of Sylvia In the Cut Inglorious Basterds Inside Man Inside Irreversible Izo Japanese Story Jennifer's Body Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter Jimminy Glick in Lala Wood Kabluey Khadak La Vie Nouvelle - Philippe Grandrieux Le fils/The Son Lift (2001 short) Light is Calling - Bill Morrison Lilya 4-Ever Liverpool Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Rings Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King Lorna's Silence Los Angeles Plays Itself Love Actually Luck by Chance Man Without a Past Marie Antoinette Mario Movie - Paperrad & Cory Arcangel Martyrs - Pascal Laugier May Metallica: Some Kind of Monster Miami Vice Millenium Mambo Mister Lonely Monday Morning Moulin Rouge Munich Mutual Appreciation My Winnipeg Mysterious Skin Neverwas Nightwatching Noriko's Dinner Table Not On The Lips Old School Oldboy Om Shanti Om (2007) Ong-Bak Pan's Labyrinth Paul Chan's My birds... trash... the future Piano Teacher Pieces of April Pierre Huyghe's This is Not a Time for Dreaming Pine Flat Platform Pontypool Pootie Tang Primer Raspberry Reich - Bruce La Bruce Requiem for a Dream Retribution (Sakebi) Riding the Bus with My Sister Ryan Trecartin's I Smell Pregnant Save the Green Planet! Session 9 Shirin Shirin Neshat's Zarin Silent Hill Sleep Furiously Slither Slumdog Millionaire Southern Comfort Speed Racer Spider Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring Strange Circus (2005) Stranger than Fiction Summer Hours Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance Tale of Cinema Ten Skies The Bothersome Man The Bourne Identity The Bourne Supremacy The Bourne Ultimatum The Brothers Bloom The Bucket List The Chronicles of Narnia The Company The Fall The Fast and the Furious The Heart of the Game The House of Mirth The Man from London The Man Who Wasn't There The Odds of Recovery The Orphanage The Proposition The Royal Tenenbaums The Science of Sleep The Signal The Squid & the Whale The Strangers The Sun The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada The Wind Will Carry Us The Yards Three Times Time Out Time Regained Tokyo Gore Police Tony Takitani Triplets of Bellville Tropical Malady Trouble the Water Turtles Can Fly Twentynine Palms Uzumaki Va Savoir Vanda's Room Victory Over the Sun - Michael Robinson Wheel of Time When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts Wild Zero Worldly Desires WVLNT - Michael Snow xXx Y tu mamá también Yi Yi ZERO Children of Men (what? Seriously? Well, if this was an oversight, or if you thought other people would list it, and you want to add it, it can be like that thing on your taxes where you check a box to add $1 to elections but it does not affect the amount you pay.) DISALLOWED Himalaya (doc series) Band o Brothers Th Wire NOTABLE DIRECTORS (this is anecdotal - please suggest others) Abbas Kiarostami Zhang Ke Jia th Coens Claire Denis K. Kurosawa Lynch Haneke Cronenberg Tarantino Now, you get: - Ten yes votes (this is FOR MOVIES NOT ON YOUR ORIGINAL LIST. DO NOT VOTE FOR MOVIES TWICE.) - Two no votes. In case there's something you really disagree with. This counts as "minus one" vote. - One "special" - a movie that you really want to promote that was on your list and got only one or maybe two votes. Basically, your favorite under-appreciated film of the decade. If you use this, you have to do a little write-up on this film and why it was so special. - You can cajole, state your case, argue, encourage people to watch, link to youtube (or torrents if not otherwise available), etc. here in the comments. Have a ball. *I forgot to mention--nothing with one vote will make the final list (excepting "specials"). So you shouldn't have to worry about "no"ing those yet. The goal isn't really consensus, anyways, as that always makes for boring lists. **Do y'all wanna do some consolidating or fight it out on the Bourne films or the Lord of the Ring films? I will do a follow-up post in early January and post the results maybe a week or two after that, so you have a little time to watch some more films. I hope further film watching will be a part of the process! Let me know if you have any questions etc. Thanks! EDIT After this round, everything that has 3 or more votes, and all the "specials", stay on the list. I'm not sure yet about the two-vote movies--it depends on how many there are. We might have to do a supplemental round to cut down the number of those. [75] [post]

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