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"But, it's a post on film noir!" I told her. She jerked away from me like a startled fawn might, if I had a startled fawn and it jerked away from me. I knew that caving into my desires meant I might lose her. But I didn't care. I went out to the kitchen to make
coffee -- yards of coffee. Rich, strong, bitter, boiling hot, ruthless, depraved. I knew she'd be back.
posted to MetaFilter by miss lynnster
at 12:56 AM on January 11, 2008
(48 comments)
I Met the Walrus
In 1969, 14-year-old Jerry Levitan snuck into John Lennon's hotel room in Toronto and convinced John to do an interview about peace. This is the whimsically animated film that Jerry has produced about the interview.
posted to MetaFilter by milestogo
at 2:31 PM on July 6, 2008
(26 comments)
After 80 years, a complete version of Fritz Lang's
Metropolis has
been discovered in Buenos Aires.
posted to MetaFilter by Nathaniel W
at 2:27 PM on July 2, 2008
(81 comments)
Did a 'dream team' of biblical scholars mislead millions?
[Chronicle of Higher Education] You may recall the curfuffle over the gnostic "Gospel of Judas"
(previously). The National Geographic's documentary premiere "attracted four million viewers, making it the second-highest-rated program in the channel's history, behind only a documentary on September 11. . . . However, it's a perfect example, critics argue, of what can happen when commercial considerations are allowed to ride roughshod over careful research. What's more, the controversy has strained friendships in this small community of religion scholars — causing some on both sides of the argument to feel, in a word, betrayed."
posted to MetaFilter by spock
at 7:48 AM on June 30, 2008
(142 comments)
A rap education for an picky atheist feminist weaned on indie, punk and new wave - primarily music but books/essays would be good too.
posted to Ask Metafilter by carbide
at 3:45 AM on April 25, 2008
(76 comments)
Throwing bones in the air as 2001 turns 40. Stanley Kubrick's film, 2001: A Space Odyssey turned 40 yesterday and Movie City Indie collated a good selection of links about the film and its maker to commemorate the occasion.
posted to MetaFilter by slimepuppy
at 7:40 AM on April 3, 2008
(39 comments)
Hey, kids, I've moved to Chicago. This seems to be a perfect excuse for a meetup.
posted to MetaTalk by eriko
at 8:12 PM on March 30, 2008
(59 comments)
Syd Barrett, the iconic, ephemeral, sadly recently-deceased founder and original frontman of Pink Floyd, recorded several singles and an LP (plus at least one song on their second LP) with the band before his genius was amputated by mental illness and they became an arena rock dinosaur. He also recorded two solo albums, the
making of which was almost as interesting as the gentle, crystalline, almost fractal-like music contained on them. However, as Barrett aficionados have long known, the solo sessions produced many more recordings than were eventually released. Now, though, all known Barrett material that wasn't commercially released has been assembled in a fan-made collection: Have You Got It Yet?,
version 2.0 of which has just been released to the world. More download links inside.
posted to MetaFilter by DecemberBoy
at 12:31 PM on March 1, 2008
(39 comments)
Over 2000 classic short stories
from
American Literature as well as an option to sign up for a
short story of the day rss feed. Among the authors on offer are Kate Chopin, Saki, O. Henry, Louisa May Alcott, Ambrose Bierce, H. P. Lovecraft, Jack London, James Joyce, Willa Cather, Guy de Maupassant, Charles Dickens, Herman Hesse, Mark Twain, Oscar Wilde, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Franz Kafka, Honoré de Balzac, Edith Warton, P. G. Wodehouse, Virginia Woolf, Langston Hughes, Leo Tolstoy, Aldous Huxley, Roald Dahl, Henry James, Katherine Mansfield and I could keep going for a while. The point is, there's over 2000 short stories in there.
posted to MetaFilter by Kattullus
at 9:32 AM on February 17, 2008
(31 comments)
I'm researching scientists who dispute / are skeptics of man-made climate change (a la the UN IPCC's findings.) Which peer reviewed, scholarly science journals should I be searching through?
posted to Ask Metafilter by damnthesehumanhands
at 8:59 AM on February 12, 2008
(8 comments)
American audiences remember
Akira Kurosawa as the genius of the samurai epic, a past master who used the form both to revise and revive Western classics - Shakespeare with
Ran and
Throne of Blood, Dostoevsky with
Red Beard and
The Idiot, Gorky with
The Lower Depths - and to give splendid and ultimately immortal life to new archetypes, as in
The Seven Samurai, Rashomon, Yojimbo. But Kurosawa also made films of his own time. His
masterpiece, in fact, was the quiet story of a gray Japanese bureaucrat dying in post-war Tokyo, and of his attempt to do something of lasting good before he leaves. The film is
Ikiru ("To Live"; 1952).
posted to MetaFilter by Iridic
at 8:17 PM on January 29, 2008
(46 comments)
What well-known (or lesser-known) plays are written intentionally so as to be unperformable -- only readable as scripts? I'm thinking stage directions along the lines of
pulls out a handgun and fires at random into the audience, or that instruct the actors to walk on the ceiling, or specification in the dramatis personae that goats are to be cast in speaking parts. Who's employed this device to the greatest artistic effect?
posted to Ask Metafilter by electric water kettle
at 10:00 PM on December 25, 2007
(24 comments)
Eclipse is a free on-line archive focusing on digital facsimiles of the most radical small-press writing from the last quarter century.
posted to MetaFilter by Hypocrite_Lecteur
at 9:02 PM on December 15, 2007
(10 comments)
Life-altering experiences. Can you point to a single experience in your life, as a child, which you can define as having contributed to the person you are today? (+)
posted to Ask Metafilter by jeremias
at 4:41 AM on February 2, 2005
(216 comments)
Ulysses -
An
Irish guy (in West Virginia) reads
Ulysses and posts it to the web in 20 parts. It's a work best appreciated when read aloud and here is someone who has read it aloud just for you. (ultra-condensed version
here )
posted to MetaFilter by caddis
at 7:44 PM on November 25, 2007
(21 comments)
Name your own Paste price.
Paste Magazine, arguably one of the best music magazines available today, is taking a page from the Radiohead playbook by letting subscribers pay whatever they want for a 12-issue/12-CD subscription (minimum $1).
posted to MetaFilter by jbickers
at 8:58 AM on November 6, 2007
(22 comments)
1897,
Eastland, TX. A cornerstone was being laid in the foundation of the
new county courthouse (to replace the
old county courthouse, not to be confused with the
original county courthouse). People put various items in the hollow space in the marble, time capsule style. Just before they sealed the box court clerk Ernest Wood (E.E. to his friends), acting on a whim, grabbed a
horny toad that his son, Will Wood, had picked up on the way in to town and placed it in the box.
Entombed forever. But...31 years later, 1928. Eastland, having decided it needed a NEW new courthouse, was about to demolish the old one. Someone recalled the time capsule, and the unfortunate horny toad, and 3,000 people showed up to see the poor dead lizard.
"As a county official held up the dusty reptile, his leg twitched, and then his whole body came alive."
posted to MetaFilter by dirtdirt
at 9:23 AM on September 28, 2007
(22 comments)
The Way of All Flesh
Fascinating series of found photographs, all of the same woman, documenting 50 years of changes. Sort of like those before and after meth photos, but without the meth and without the sleaze. Sort of not like that at all, actually.
Previously (that link at bit NSFW) Also, see
photobooth.net (
previously) and this
link (very web 2.0, that fancy "press here, no HERE" link technique) to Betty Hines' show of found photobooth photos has lots of other similar sites linked.
posted to MetaFilter by johngumbo
at 11:17 AM on September 1, 2007
(25 comments)
John Lennon's Jukebox (BBC,Google vid,48min)
wiki "In 1989, John Lennon's jukebox surfaced in an auction of Beatles memorabilia at Christie's, and was sold for £2,500 to Bristol-based music promoter John Midwinter. Lennon had apparently bought the jukebox – specifically a Swiss KB Discomatic – in 1965, and filled it with forty singles to take with him on tour. Midwinter spent several years restoring the box and researching the discs catalogued in Lennon's spidery handwriting. When Midwinter developed cancer, and his health began to deteriorate, his desire to see the player featured in some kind of documentary became all the more important."
Guardian article,
music.
posted to MetaFilter by vronsky
at 5:59 PM on September 1, 2007
(61 comments)
Dice Wars
is a flash game, similar to Risk. The goal is to conquer the entire board. Start easy, with just the two player version (play goes up to 7 players max). In order to "win" a square, the randomized total of your die roll must be higher than your opponent's total. Tie/Lose, and all your dice (but one) are removed from your square. After each turn, the number of dice you earned is randomly distributed among your conquered squares. Strategically, it's good to build a solid base of contiguous squares, and staff your front lines with more dice than your edge squares.
posted to MetaFilter by jonson
at 5:50 PM on August 2, 2006
(32 comments)
OK X - Radiohead's
OK Computer covered by 12 modern artists. Free download.
posted to MetaFilter by puddleglum
at 9:14 AM on July 11, 2007
(50 comments)
"We were wrong, terribly wrong.
We owe it to future generations to explain why."
In
The Fog of War, a revelatory new documentary about his life and times, a disquieted
Robert McNamara implores us to understand why he did the things he did as an Air Force lieutenant colonel who helped
plan the
firebombing of Japanese cities in
World War II, and, later, as a secretary of defense and pivotal decision-maker during
Vietnam, which some Americans came to call
"McNamara's War."
One of the movie's most powerful passages covers McNamara's little-known service in World War II, when he was attached to Gen.
Curtis LeMay's 21st Bomber Command stationed on the Pacific island of Guam.
LeMay's B-29s showered 67 Japanese cities with incendiary bombs in 1945, softening up the country for the two
atomic blasts to come. McNamara was a senior planning officer. Story by
"Killing Fields"' Sydney Schanberg in the
American Prospect
(more inside)
posted to MetaFilter by matteo
at 10:40 AM on November 12, 2003
(83 comments)
This time-lapse video of an oil-painting being created
by Pablo Picasso is brief, but captivating. The clip is a scene taken from the 1955 French documentary "
The Mystery of Picasso," in which director Henri-Georges Clouzot filmed the artist painting 20 different pieces. Bizarrely enough, almost all the art created for the film had to be destroyed upon close of production due to contractual obligation.
Via
posted to MetaFilter by jonson
at 9:44 PM on January 1, 2007
(28 comments)
Help me entertain a first-time visitor!
posted to Ask Metafilter by slyboots421
at 12:36 PM on October 12, 2006
(33 comments)
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