I'm not sure why this unseen footage of The Amazing Lyrebird of Australia is just going around now, but I'm glad it is. I laughed out loud. If you liked Honey Badger, you'll also like Lyrebird. If you want to watch a version with a commercial, you can do that here.
Kyle Chandler finally won an Emmy last night. To celebrate, here's an Emmy trailer video. I don't know if it's official, but it officially gave me chills. So there's that. Watch it if you want to run through a brick wall.
Charles Cushman took color photographs of New York City in the early 1940s, the Daily Mail posted a lot of them. They're so great. Click through to love them.
The state of New Jersey gave the producers of Jersey Shore a production tax credit of $420K. Understandably, several lawmakers are are upset about it. In NJ's defense, the credit was for the first season. That said, where else would it have been filmed?
I'm always fascinated by the 'economics of music' blog posts when they come from the musicians. Uniform Motion has a new album out, but not in stores because they don't have a distributor. They were kind enough to let us know what they earn when you listen to their music (or buy it from a digital service like iTunes). These numbers also make more clear their decision to let you pay what you want for a digital download. *The post is in Euros, but you'll understand.
With Spotify, we’ll get 0.003 EUR/play.
If you listen to the album all the way through, we’ll get 0.029 EUR.
If you listen to the album 10 times on Spotify, we’ll get 0.29 EUR
If you listen to it a hundred times, we’ll get 2.94 EUR
If you listen to the album 1,000 times (once a day for 3 years!) we’ll get 29.47 EUR!
If you use the free version of Spotify, it won’t cost you anything. Spotify will make money from ads. If you use any of the paid versions, we have no idea how they carve up the money. They only disclose this information to the Major record labels…
I know it is absurd to debate the rules of a reality that does not exist, but this genuinely irks me. You cannot kill a vampire with an MDF stake; werewolves can't fly; zombies do not run. It's a misconception, a bastardisation that diminishes a classic movie monster. The best phantasmagoria uses reality to render the inconceivable conceivable. The speedy zombie seems implausible to me, even within the fantastic realm it inhabits. A biological agent, I'll buy. Some sort of super-virus? Sure, why not. But death? Death is a disability, not a superpower. It's hard to run with a cold, let alone the most debilitating malady of them all.
Do you think this quotation:
"Heroes like Bernie Kerik, Rudy Giuliani, and, yes, George W. Bush raced to cash in on the horror. And then the attack was used to justify an unrelated war."
Has a different meaning than this one:
"Fake heroes like Bernie Kerik, Rudy Giuliani, and, yes, George W. Bush raced to cash in on the horror. And then the attack was used to justify an unrelated war."
NPR posted about Donald Rumsfeld's response to a Paul Krugman column about 9/11. For some reason, they left out the word 'fake' when highlighting the column. When I read the NPR piece, I noted to myself that Krugman called Kerik, Bush, and Giuliani heroes, which seemed weird. But he didn't. Why would NPR leave out that word, slightly changing the meaning of the quotation? What angle does that even push?
In the Esquire article about Roger Ebert a few weeks back, Ebert mentioned his interview interview with Lee Marvin as one of his favorites, and now they've republished it online.
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