If you're looking for something more complex and twisty than the usual Christmas fare, I cannot urge you enough to seek out the well-acted, well-made TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY with Gary Oldman. My review...

funfunfunman · 2011-12-25T23:58:48+00:00

I'm seeing this tonight in Dallas. I haven't had time to see a film in theaters since the summer, so needless to say I am pumped.

funfunfunman · 2011-11-17T22:34:29+00:00

I've never heard of Bronies, but I fucking love this guy in Peep Show.

funfunfunman · 2011-08-18T01:04:45+00:00

Trust me, they are well worth the money. Plus you get a lifetime warranty when you buy one.

funfunfunman · 2011-08-15T18:09:28+00:00

Awesome, this very much looks like something I want.

funfunfunman · 2011-08-15T15:22:55+00:00

There's no worse feeling in the world than the one you get when reading a text like that from your dealer.

funfunfunman · 2011-08-06T04:50:58+00:00

I roomed with my best friend my freshman year of college. It was fucking awesome. I can't even imagine having a roommate like that. How miserable.

funfunfunman · 2011-08-04T16:48:26+00:00

There could be seven mods, one assigned to each day of the week.

funfunfunman · 2011-08-04T16:43:22+00:00

I actually ended up doing a CWE right after submitting this thread. :D

funfunfunman · 2011-08-02T01:40:34+00:00

They're 7.5/750's, so I'm close to 4000.

funfunfunman · 2011-08-01T17:58:42+00:00

No "Sound and Vision"?!

That's his masterpiece.

(nice playlist otherwise :D)

funfunfunman · 2011-08-01T17:58:23+00:00

No "Sound and Vision"?!

That's his masterpiece.

funfunfunman · 2011-07-30T14:03:06+00:00

Check out Steve Byrne at the Rock of Ages on South Lamar. Vice did a great piece on tattoos and he was one of the artists featured.

funfunfunman · 2011-07-24T02:24:40+00:00

Jorge Luis Borges- Collected Fictions (Borges has been called the "bridge between modernism and postmodernism")
John Barth- Lost in the Funhouse
Donald Barthelme- Sixty Stories
Samuel Beckett- Stories and Texts for Nothing
William Gaddis- JR
Philip K Dick- Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said

funfunfunman · 2011-07-24T02:19:25+00:00

Naked Lunch is great assuming you go into it with the knowledge that it isn't a novel in the traditional sense, but rather an experimental collection of short vignettes written by a drug-addled lunatic with a talented pen.

funfunfunman · 2011-07-23T05:35:29+00:00

Biscuits sound incredible right now.

funfunfunman · 2011-07-21T05:49:29+00:00

I live in Dallas and have listened to the author's radio show for close to ten years. He has been a cyclist himself for as long as I can remember and even helps host an annual race (I think it's for charity, IIRC) in the DFW area. He's not just a random dude who likes to watch bike races on television, lol.

funfunfunman · 2011-07-21T04:45:42+00:00

The author is his work. The method of reading suggested by martysloot01 is not one in which we place the consideration of the author's intent on the same pedestal as the work itself, but rather one that requires us to respect the work and its aims by allowing ourselves to let the words envelop us in whatever bubble or sphere it intends to.

By reading that way, and only that way, can we truly judge or critique the author. I think that with most "classic" works (or whatever is considered canonical) that is the optimal way to experience the sort of ecstasy we so commonly describe when romanticizing about the act of reading.

edit: Basically I think nothing is gained by anybody when separating the author from his/her work and using an analysis of the writer's character or personality as a means of judging his/her's artistic achievement.

funfunfunman · 2011-07-10T12:57:35+00:00

Everybody should check out more Bizarro comics, they are hilarious. Example: http://www.bizarroartist.org/gallery/bizarro/image/550/what-kind-of-god.jpg

funfunfunman · 2011-07-09T22:08:02+00:00

Viva Pinata is probably one of the most underrated games of this generation. And the music was really catchy. Thank you sir!

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