I know that I’ve fawned over Kate Beaton a bazillion times in this blog (and my Facebook, and my Twitter, and my old LiveJournal), but god, has there ever been a more perfect human being? This is a sixteen-minute long interview. Enjoy.
I own way too many videogames I haven't played and books I haven't read yet.
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BBC News: Burma's Aung San Suu Kyi wins by-election: NLD party →
Burma’s Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi has won a by-election for parliament, her party says, after a landmark vote that saw 45 seats contested.
Ms Suu Kyi’s opposition National League for Democracy (NLD) said she had easily won in Kawhmu, though no official results are expected before Monday.
In a statement, she urged supporters to show restraint in their celebrations.
YAYYYYYY.
(Source: se-smith, via perseidbadger)
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Neko Case: Real American Hero.
Neko Case: Yeah, like postfeminist theory in art school. Oh, it’s oppressive! [Laughs] I don’t wanna paint with my menstrual blood! I just wanna learn how to use this printing press, man! Come on!
Sherman Alexie: [Laughs] That just killed me! Oh, man…
Neko Case: That really happened, actually. Several times.
Sherman Alexie: Really? God.
More of the Believer conversation between Neko Case and Sherman Alexie here.
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Julie Delpy Talks "2 Days in New York", Possibility of Acting Retirement →
…Uhh, she can’t retire until we get a (great) third film in the Before Sunrise/Before Sunset franchise. Though had been reported that this was going to happen, Delpy revealed that it is far from certain. Not the happiest news in the world. Let’s at least hope for the theatrical release of 2 Days in New York, her Sundance feature follow-up to 2 Days in Paris.
No Julie, nooooo!~ I never put much weight into these sorts of announcements, anyway.
If she did retire from acting, I’m sure she’d make an exception for another Before film, considering how involved she is creatively in those. I plan on seeing 2 Days in New York in NYC (so Gretchen and I can bug out together, of course), but a wide release would be great news.
(Source: life-between-films)
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Peter Watkins' Culloden →
This film is (currently anyway) playing on Netflix. For 1964, it’s pretty novel I think, being shot like a modern news documentary with interviews and commentary by the participants. This event has captured my interest since a long time ago.
KATE BEATON HAS A TUMBLR. Like, a real Tumblr. And she’s posting about history in it! We’re not worthy!
This is the best news ever.
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IT ALL COMES FULL CIRCLE — B52s record in the foreground.
Happy birthday to Carrie!
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Julie Delpy Will Make Another ‘Before’ Film →
“I’d done those movies with Richard [Linklater] and Ethan [Hawke],” she said, referring to Before Sunrise and Sunset, “and we’re probably going to do a third one—where it’s the same relationship with two people, so, I wanted my character [in Two Days in New York] to have a new boyfriend.”
So it is subtle…BUT STILL I’LL TAKE IT.
I’LL STILL TAKE IT TOO. The prospect of a third Before film is absurdly tantalizing. Like, I find it a risky prospect—Before Sunset is my definition of a perfect film—but still, very intriguing, and I trust that Delpy, Hawke, and Linklater would not disappoint. How would it work? What will the set-up be? How will they try to top the first two movies, or create a different spin on them? So many questions!
Also, ohmygod, look at this bullshit:
Delpy, who’s directed five films, says that was always her dream, not acting. “At fourteen, I went to meet Jean-Luc Godard. I wanted to work for him as an assistant or work on his films. And he was like, ‘Well, you look kind of okay.’ And I could play clarinet. So, he said, ‘Why don’t you play clarinet in my film and become an actress?’” She calls what followed a “shit battle”; it took her twenty years to direct a film. “ You have no fucking idea what a fucking nightmare it was…I gave a screenplay to a writer that I was a big fan of and I worked with, Sam Shepard, who said to me the thing I had written was shit. And when I wrote Before Sunset, my agent at the time fired me, saying that I was shit, writing a shit sequel, to a shit movie and that I should be auditioning as a sexy Latina in Rush Hour Three or Four.”
WHAT. Fuck that!
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Carl Sagan on astrology in newspapers. From his interview with Ted Turner.
Also, photosets are fun.
Because Astrology is so delightfully ambiguous and easy to apply to daily life…unfortunate, but that’s just how it goes.
On a high note, my dad wants to subscribe to Scientific American. I asked him if that means we can unsubscribe from our local newspaper because it’s crap.
Scientific American is pretty cool! Carl Sagan is even cooler. This is a very unfortunate disproportion, though.
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Kate Beaton reading some of her “Hark! A Vagrant” comics at last year’s SPX
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I seriously cannot express how much I adore and admire Kate Beaton. The words simply do not exist.
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PBS Video: Carrie Brownstein on her participation in girls' rock band summer camps and female empowerment →
I really cannot describe how much I respect and admire Carrie Brownstein. She is an extremely talented musician who played in the seminal riot grrrl/punk/indie rock/generally awesome band Sleater-Kinney as lead guitarist and a vocalist; she is hilarious on IFC’s Portlandia, which she co-stars in with her friend Fred Armisen; she ran the awesome (and sadly now-defunct) blog Monitor Mix on NPR. Brownstein even wrote a couple of interesting articles about Rock Band and Wii Music. This is a wonderful four-minute interview with Carrie about her involvement with the Girls Rock Camp program, which she views—quite rightly—as a practical means for young girls to both empower and express themselves in a creative fashion. I adore everything about this.
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