When Harry Potter (some people call him by his stage name, Daniel Radcliffe) was in London's West End play Equus, he had a nude scene. During the play's run of 4 months, no one ever took a picture or video of his bits and posted it on the interweb.
Equus opened in NYC on September 25. It took until September 25 for someone to post a picture of his bits on the interweb (see it here).
America!
1. Bought it for 40 pence.
I recently heard that a study had been done which found that Europeans and Americans work, on average, the same amount per day, week and year. The difference was that Americans spend more time at work and do less work at home; Europeans spend less time at work but do more work at home.
Sorry for the inconsistent posting these days. It's for your own good.
I've decided to change the regularity of my posts from "once a day except when I'm traveling" to "whenever I want, regardless of my location and potentially even more than once daily". I'm guessing that quantity may drop ever so slightly, but if today's brilliant Pizza/Pasta Hut post is any indication, the quality will remain indisputably top shelf.
I've got trips to Cairo, Ljubljana/Zagreb and Stockholm coming up this month. I've never posted while traveling before but that doesn't mean I didn't have interesting things to say and sarcastic observations to make. I had rules for when/where to post that prevented me from posting at times (and forced me to write when I was at my most uninspired).
Glad we had this talk.
So Pizza Hut UK has the brilliant idea of changing their name to Pasta Hut, because they do more than pizza.
Well done lads. But you also do more than pasta, don't you? You do pizza too. So maybe you should change your name to Pizza H... er.
The real elephant in the room, if you want a descriptive and literal name, is that you're not serving any pizza OR pasta in a hut these days, are you?
Hate to keep being political, but this transcends politics:
A candidate for president should not be judged by the color of his skin. And to anyone who thinks differently, I say, please do not reject John McCain just because he's white. I think the recent news from Wall Street has made us all less tolerant, and only reinforced the stereotype that white people are shiftless, thieving welfare queens.
Now, take a look at these pictures. Here are the CEO's of Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, AIG and the Lehman Brothers. I know the first thing that jumps out about these faces is they all happen to be white, and they all happen to be responsible for stealing. But, what you have to understand is that these whites are a product of a society that made them that way. It was the neighborhoods and the schools they went to: Harvard, Yale, the Wharton School of Business. They never learned the value of doing real, actual work. And the first step to fixing that is better role models so kids growing up white today don't think the only way out of Westchester is corporate crime. Or a government handout. Or sailing.
So, I get it. The temptation is to look at McCain and vote against him because you don't see an individual; you just see another typical welfare "whitey." And it's true. He spent his entire life shuffling from one low-paying government job to another. Well, except those years he spent in prison. Typical. And, between you and me, he's not very articulate. Oh, he may have some street smarts, but he's not what you'd call an "educated" man. He freely admits he's ignorant about the economy. And apparently the only thing his white running mate knows how to do is crank out one baby after another.
And now, of course, her teenage daughter is pregnant out of wedlock, because she learns it at home! But, that doesn't mean we should assume all white people are like that just because so many of them are. I believe there is hope. I believe even the stupidest, greediest, laziest whites can break the cycle of dependence, like this November when we finally move George Bush out of public housing.
- Bill Maher
I understand that I'm seen by some of you as a father figure. Here is what er/uk (call me dad) has in his tape deck at the moment. I can dub some of these for you if you want. My current top 50, in no particular order:
move your feet junior senior
spoken for we are scientists
out there on thin ice cut copy
so much love to give dj falcon & thomas bangalter
bizarre love triangle new order
i go i go i go wave machines
learnalilgivinanlovin' (stryafoam kid "sunshine" mix) gotye
churches under the stairs brendan canning
tiger mountain peasant song fleet foxes
i told her on alderaan neon neon
sleepy head passion pit
all i need radiohead
over and over hot chip
headphone song junior senior
swagga like us jay-z (featuring kanye west, ti & lil wayne)
we own the sky m83
archangel burial
what a wonderful world (dub mix) axwell & bob sinclair (featuring ron carroll)
electric feel mgmt
mostly a friend less gonzalez alvarez
paper planes m.i.a.
with every heartbeat robyn (with kleerup)
lay me down cyndi lauper (with kleerup)
lights & music (moulinex remix) cut copy
kids mgmt
black & gold (phones as hard as diamonds edit) sam sparro
cape cod kwassa kwassa (the teenagers remix) vampire weekend
gun emiliana torrini
to cure a weakling child/boy girl song adem
superstar lupe fiasco (featuring matthew santos)
death will never conquer coldplay
i believe simian mobile disco
love lockdown (studio version 2) kanye west
the penalty beirut
when water comes to life cloud cult
charlotte booka shade
one pure thought hot chip
untitled #8 (popplagio) sigur rós
lost! coldplay
to build a home the cinematic orchestra
he doesn't know why fleet foxes
while you wait for the others grizzly bear
mirando ratatat
far away cut copy
the weight of lies the avett brothers
this boy's in love the presets
together dj falcon & thomas bangalter
time to pretend mgmt
touch too much hot chip
until we bleed lykke li (with kleerup)
