December 2010
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Watchvia popeater:
via maggiecoughlan:
Willow Smith interview is live! The best reason behind wearing sneakers to work ever!
MAGGIE INTERVIEWED WILLOW! MAGGIE INTERVIEWED WILLOW!!
The best day of all our young lives here at PopEater.
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Eryk Salvaggio on the Soul as a Mini House in Your... →
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Briefly, some of that art stuff gets in the house. We put the Beatles on the wall or a Neutral Milk Hotel lyric gets written on the door. On the bookshelf we put Salinger and Rilke and anyone else who makes us cry or glow or burn. We don’t realize this time is so short, though, so we never get around to noticing when we’ve run out of space.
Great writing of the...
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How to Live in New York City | Thought Catalog →
You’ll think it’s another sarcastic, blackhearted screed before realizing it really does speak to the magic of living here, even if that magic only creeps into your life once a week sometimes, then never for two months, then constantly for three days.
Go out to bars in the Lower East Side because the Internet told you so. Fall in love with a bar called Max Fish and always stay out...
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Swiping my egg nog through the beepy checkout...
this Brooklyn grocery employee was singing along to that posthumous Michael Jackson/Akon duet ‘Hold My Hand.’ It didn’t surprise me someone in a grocery store was singing along to a song on the radio, but it did catch me off guard—and sorta hearten me—that she was singing along as if it were ‘Rock With You’ or ‘Black or White.’ Not because...
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Lisanti Quarterly: The Ten Best Films Of 2010, In... →
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The Sweet-Hearted-But-Poignant Animated One We’re Supposed To Take More Seriously
The One By The Famously Exacting Director With The Great Script By The Famously Jerky Screenwriter
The One Where You’re Going Insane Waiting Around For The Crazy Thing To Happen, Then It Happens
The One With A Bunch Of Authentic-Feeling Regional Stereotypes
The Other One With A Bunch Of...
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I wouldn't be able to live with myself if I didn't... →
A long form piece about a master of long form pieces. Brilliant and inspiring. And I’m not even a huge Esquire fan.
(Jones is the guy who wrote the Ebert profile this year, and The Things That Carried Him.)
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Based on a True Story
2010 had a great swirl of documentaries, mockumentaries, and movies based on real people and stories—127 Hours, Nowhere Boy, The Social Network, I’m Still Here, Celine: Through the Eyes of the World. Here are my 10 favorites: ►THE VIRGINITY HIT: Inspired by Actual Events ►SMOKIN’ ACES 2: A True Tale ►JACKASS 3D: Based on the Autobiography ►PIRANHA 3D: Based on Science ►HOT TUB...
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Blogging has resumed at Every Concert I've Ever... →
It’s an ongoing project, already written in a notebook and just waiting to be transcribed. This project will not fizzle out, people. Promise. Enjoy if you’re into nostalgia and concertry and pictures of ticket stubs.
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On establishing dominance over feelings of...
From sixth grade until I got a car and a driver’s license (and even a bit into that latter territory), my weeks consisted of being dropped off at school in central Maine, doing school, walking home from school, eating a snack, closing my bedroom door, and doing a combination of reading and napping. The reading never made me tired, as it does relentlessly in adulthood, and I did lots of it. I...
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If you speak German and want to hear one of my... →
Click about a third of the way into the Quicktime player. The first time you hear a man speaking, that’s my buddy Bastian Kresser, doing his first public reading. His novel, ‘Bin Ich Ohne Dich,’ is damned close to being published. I interviewed him about creativity and writing here, and posted about an Austrian adventure with him here and here.
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I have recurring dreams of riding in cars with...
Last night’s edition: Bill Murray driving me to Martha’s Vineyard.
Previous installments: Jay-Z giving me a ride from Manhattan to Brooklyn (awesome), and flying somewhere on Justin Bieber’s jet (unwelcome and embarrassing — even more so considering the Biebs was actually super cool).
For more/better documentation of celebrity dreams, I recommend Kelly Oxford’s...
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YOKO ONO: What I've Learned | Esquire →
Brilliant read. Includes:
Obviously, it was a very negative thing for me to lose such a good partner. He was very good. He was a very strong and beautiful and protective force for me. But his words and his music are still here. It will still affect people. And that’s the only thing they knew, anyway, when he was alive. So that’s the fate of an artist. It’s not a bad one. As long...
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100 Interviews: #21 -- Stephanie Carcieri, an... →
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“I wondered if I would ever find anybody to love me or get married,” she says. But that fear was slightly assuaged when she was 12 years old and saw an old couple walking together. The man had the same “nub” Stephanie has and when he saw her, he pointed at his arm and smiled at her.
“It was so nice to see he was married. I’m not going to die alone with a bunch of cats,” she...
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Jesse Camp Is Still Wicked Alive Guys →
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12 Megapopular Or At Least Oft-Mentioned Names I...
1. Jonathan Franzen 2. J. BIEBS 3. Stefani Germanotta 4. Anyone on the cast of Glee, probably even Jane Lynch 5. Bryan Cranston (extremely unfortunate, but repaired) 6. Matthew Weiner (finally fell into that golden pool of AMC programming) 7. Kourtney/Khloe Kardashian 8. Any Real Housewives (I could probably name 10 now) 9. Nicki Minaj 10. Michael C. Hall 11. Michael C. Sorrentino 12. Willow Smith...
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Stephen King in Photos: Alternately Super Cool and...
Even in elementary school, I was baffled by the vast difference of his looks through the years.
I don’t own any of these photos, except for the STUDY DAMMIT one, which I do own as a signed poster in my apartment. Yeow!
His new book, FULL DARK, NO STARS, is terrific, by the by.
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Oh no, No-Shave November is over?
Time to move onto the rest of the beardly calendar year:
Don’t Shave December Just Leave Your Beard on Your Face January Forget Shaving February Fuzzy February (thanks, KH) Man-Up March Am Not Shaving April Manface May Jump Up and Down to Celebrate Your Awesome Facial Hair June Just Keep Your Beard Regardless of Whether Or Not It Makes Sense Thermodynamically July Are People Still Asking...