FOURTH WORLD BLUES: Archive

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My perfect date night: I pick you up. In my Kia Sorrento. You get in. There’s candles in the car. You go, ‘…Is that dangerous?’ and I go, ‘Yes—but I like danger.’

We go to your favorite restaurant, and we have a fantastic meal. We come outside and we see my car’s on fire. You go, ‘Aziz, your car’s on fire. Aren’t you upset?’ I pull out a bag of marshmallows and I go, ‘No. I knew this was gonna happen.’

And then I kiss you. In front of my burning car.

” —Aziz Ansari on his perfect date (via finefools)

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“The extent which the Jonze/ Gondry/ Cunningham/ Bjork axis influenced how I think is pretty much like 80%. Maybe more than that. Like, it’s these guys and science fiction and Stanley Kubrick. I love so much stuff, but nearly all of those things I think of as intellectual influences, like smarter things and artier things and really understanding film and comics and music all that s***. But to be 100% honest, Moebius and Godard and Alan Moore and William Gibson and Brian De Palma and all that s***, those guys are what I sought out to appreciate to learn from and really “get” what those things say to me. But music videos, specifically being a fan of music video directors (which both makes perfect sense for a really nerdy teenager who got into music late and the most bizarre thing to get into for someone who’s recently discovered pornography) - that’s what my brain kind of formed around. Like, it’s a really strange time period to be nostalgic about because music videos as an art form really only existed for good music between like 1990 and 2003, and I was only in high school from 99-03. The first wave of Director’s Label DVDs came out my senior year of high school, and then MTV2 stopped even playing videos at night and YouTube hit big in 2006 and I threw out the CDs I’d burned with all those music videos I had grabbed off filesharing sites back when those were a thing. (Yep, you wanna know who would wait hours to download the black and white version of Radiohead’s High and Dry that only came out in the uk? Yo.) It’s odd that I’m even at all reminiscent of it all, I think. The “It’s what I liked in high school” logic that people say when they don’t want to think about things, maybe that has a lot more to do with not really understanding why certain things are important to you because they literally formed structures in your brain. You can’t intellectualize them because the reason you intellectualize things is because you sat up to 3 in the morning waiting for them to play “Devil’s Haircut” or “Hyperballad” or “Just.” And while some of it had to do with music, a lot of it didn’t. And wanting to be a music video director is a stupid idea, but g**dammit if there wasn’t a pretty long period in my life that it wasn’t all I wanted to do.” —

Via supervillain.

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You Can't Talk to the Dude Jonathan Richman

Jonathan Richman, “You Can’t Talk To the Dude.”

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pizzapunk replied to your photo: Each sold separately.

The arms came off way too easily on these things.

Holy crap. I think you just figured out where Geoff Johns gets his predilection for dismemberment from.

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#it all makes sense now

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“(And in case you think his life couldn’t get any worse: one day he walked into the Game Room and was surprised to discover that overnight the new generation of nerds weren’t buying role-playing games anymore. They were obsessed with Magic cards! No one had seen it coming. No more characters or campaigns, just endless battles between decks. All the narrative flensed from the game, all the performance, just straight unadorned mechanics. How the f***ing kids loved that s***! He tried to give Magic a chance, tried to put together a decent deck, but it just wasn’t his thing. Lost everything to an eleven-year-old punk and found himself not really caring. First sign that his Age was coming to a close. When the latest nerdery was no longer compelling, when you preferred the old to the new.)” —

From The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, by Junot Diaz

(via terenceoverbaby)

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“I love teasing kids, I go, ‘I know what’s on the other side of the veil,’ ‘cause Sirius Black goes through that veil and then he’s gone, and they look at me and ask, ‘what?’ and I say, ‘Batman.’” —Gary Oldman (via unilintu)

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