Lukewarm reviews notwithstanding, Franz Ferdinand’s last album has a lot of good stuff on it. At the very least, it’s less boring than fucking Animal Collective. Better a bunch of Scottish goofball ironists than another set of infantilized hipsters calling themselves cutesy names. Stupid kids with their loud hair and long music. I AM CROTCHETY.
From a Slate and Magnum’s photo gallery on people living among ruins.
I can’t get over the shoes.
PS. Those photo galleries are routinely fantastic.
No? Huh.
According to the iTunes robots, I’ve listened to this more than anything else. Available on Electrelane’s 2007 album “No Shouts No Calls” as well at the “Now That’s What Depressive Eastern European Immigrants Call Music!” compilation.
In honor of our pilgrimage to Niles to see an American hero, a couple of stories about Ira Glass:
Story A)
My new friend Keith: “If you could be any celebrity, who would you want to be?”
Me: “Well, I know you’re going to think that I’m a nerdy hipster when I tell you this, but I’d really like to be Ira Glass.”
Keith: “Who is Ira Glass?”
Keith: “That is so weird that you want to be a man.”
Me: “Don’t get me wrong, I’m very happy being a woman, but I wouldn’t mind being a guy if that meant I could be Ira Glass.”
Me: “Really, you don’t know who Ira Glass is? I’m even dorkier than I thought. I bet you’d want to be David Beckham.”
Keith: “Close. I used to want to be David Beckham, but now I’d rather be Tom Brady.”
Me: “Yeah, Tom Brady is pretty amazing.”
Story B)
One time, Ira glass played poker at my weekly home game. Unfortunately, I wasn’t there that night. Still, I get a little fluttery inside when I realize that I have lost and won money in the same seat where he has lost and won money. I bet if he knew I played poker that he’d like me. Maybe he’d invite me over for dinner or ask me to have his baby.
Okay, now this blog can die again.
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And the Lord saith, “Let this blog be reborn! Temporarily, anyway.”
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Wow, the Criterion Collection has my number. The lineup for their inaugural Blu Ray releases: Bottle Rocket, Chungking Express, The Third Man, The Man Who Fell to Earth, The Last Emperor.
Time to sell the other kidney, I guess.
You can’t kill me, I want to win all my fights, and I get the girl at the end of the movie, if I want her. Those are my three Hollywood rules.
-Fred Williamson explains what he does in movies.
In an A.V. Club interview filled with wondrous quotes, former football star and blaxploitation legend Fred Williamson drops wisdom on a variety of topics, from the kinds of sports he enjoys (“I don’t watch sports that have incidental contact. Basketball, baseball… You hit somebody and then you got to apologize for it? No, I never was a fan of incidental contact sports.”) to the difference between his nickname and Hank Aaron’s (“I think they called him “Hammerin’ Hank.” That’s specific to baseball. They didn’t call me “Hammerin’ Hammer.” It was The Hammer.”)
By far the best exchange in this already elevated discourse comes towards the end of the interview, on the topic of his future roles:
AVC: What is Black Kissinger? That’s listed on your IMDB page as your next movie.
FW: Black Kissinger is a film the Jamaicans want to do, but the Jamaicans have been dragging their feet. I’m not sure they want to do the film, and in the meantime I’m putting a project together called Spats.
The best part of this (fantastic) answer is that it completely ignores the mind-melting awesomeness of a film called BLACK KISSINGER.
If I may reiterate: BLACK KISSINGER.
Get your head together, Jamaicans. I want BLACK KISSINGER.
BONUS SPECIAL CHERRY ON TOP OF THE AWESOMENESS SUNDAE: Turns out, I should have described Fred Williamson as “former football star, blaxploitation legend, and TRAINED ARCHITECT”
