August 2008
27 posts
The Impending iPhone Subprime Crisis
rickyv:
Since there are no results on Google for this term, let me be the one to coin it.
The iPhone Subprime Crisis is what will happen as a result of Apple lowering the point-of-entry price of a new iPhone while increasing the overall cost of ownership over the two year term of the contract (up to $2700!).
People who thought they couldn’t afford an iPhone when they cost $400 now (falsely)...
July 2008
48 posts
“I’m writing to ask you to turn in a friend. If you know someone who...”
– Ira Glass, the host of This American Life. This is yet another reason why Ira and TAL are awesome.
WatchI’m glad I’m not the only one quoting Joker to myself in the bathroom mirror.
I’m looking forward to the new Jack’s...
Writing off more than I can chew.
I relearned what a comma splice is today, I hope i haven’t been using it in my writing.
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It’s terms like comma splice and dangling modifiers that scare me away from professionally writing. How dare I even think about stringing together words without knowing [remembering] all of the rules that govern that practice?
“As for us and now, the movie screen is traded for a computer screen, and the...”
– Myspace.com Blogs - BATMAN. - To Write Love on Her Arms. MySpace Blog
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The new Avett Brothers EP [The Gleam Two] came out...
fauxbama.
[note: i came up with the title for this post before i realized that what happened here was not really a “faux pas.” i am keeping it the same because i particularly enjoy the pun; even if it could translate to “fake obama.” a better title may have been Dyslexidential Candidate ]
joy wrote: Omaha’s cool, just super hot and kinda flat and boring.
i [mis]read:...
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Ben Fools.
Bed Folds has a new album, Way to Normal, coming out on September 30th.
Last week, nine tracks from the new album leaked to the internet via an anonymous user on benfolds.org.
Turns out, most of the songs are complete crap. And not like the fake Death Cab leak where someone retitled a Velveteen album as Narrow Stairs tracks on April fools, but actual crappy recordings from Folds himself.
Most...
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WatchIf you don’t know Team Submarine, you should.
The Last Days of Heath Ledger - Esquire →
If you can get past the first 200 overindulgent words, the back end of this essay is terrific.
offense of thought of the day that i should have...
actualdavid:
this is going to be an on going look into the things that pop into my mind and i usually keep to myself but i thought i start sharing them with all of you.
Brian: Ledger’s death is a tragedy for the batman franchise
Me: Ledger’s death was natural selection aided by modern medicine.
this is a follow up to the Bush comment earlier.
Me: The Joker is so frightening because he'll blow up anything for little or no real reason at all.
David: Depending on who you talk to, that could also describe our president.
“I hate Johnny Richardson, but I love his chocolate bacon!”
– Clint Chapman (via georgeclinton)
THINGS JUST GOT SERIOUS!
SUPER SERIOUS!
“Can you please lay off the ‘Legit’ pills. They stunt your creative...”
– My new biggest fan.
[I don’t know if they used “brian” instead of “brain” on purpose, but I’m into it.]
And. As much as I appreciate the advice, once ‘legit’ is in your system, it never leaves. Believe me. I’ve tried.
WatchI know this isn’t Dark Knight related, but it is still awesome.
“Stop being such a DB! No one cares what you have to say about anything. Can you...”
– S-s-s-something from the comments.
Amy Poehler To Star In ‘Office’ Spin-Off →
First Aziz and now Amy! This sequel is going to go all Dark Knight and be better than the original.
[ I don’t know if anyone else is reporting this, but Nikki is normally right on. ]
Edit: Apparently other people are “reporting” it.
Reuters
Ain’t It Cool
BLOGS!
Most of them qualify it as a rumor, but even so; its pretty awesome.
Jimmy Kimmel and Sarah Silverman Split →
Because there’s a little bit of truth in every joke.
[Yes, those links go to Matt and Ben. This post is about closure.]
How The Dark Knight Went IMAX | /Film →
“You haven’t seen The Dark Knight unless you’ve seen it in IMAX.”
If anyone [everyone] is planning on seeing The Dark Knight, the word is that you should take the extra effort and see it in IMAX.
“If real life had an undo button, there’d be one less five dollar bill in...”
– Ze Frank in The Show on 05.30.06. I wish I had found out about this guy when it wasn’t ancient news. [Yeah, 2006 is ancient.]
WatchTROPIC THUNDER documentary RAIN OF MADNESS Red-Band Trailer
Its a trailer for a documentary about a fictional movie in an actual movie. I think my brain exploded trying to understand all the jokes. And that’s how I know its genius.
Which will be better?
johnnyrichardson:
Robert Downey Jr. as Sherlock Holmes in a drama directed by Guy Ritchie
. vs.
Sacha Baren Cohen as Sherlock Holmes and Will Ferrell as Watson in a comedy produced by Judd Apatow
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If you could only see one, which would it be?
I took a quick peek at the Sherlock Holmes’...
The State of the Web - Summer 2008 →
One, Two, Skip a Few
Things that 100 dollars will buy you:
a] a Coldplay ticket
b] a John Mayer ticket
c] a tank of gas
d] two checked bags at the airport [round trip]
e] a The Dark Knight IMAX midnight ticket in LA or NY
Next post: What I will do for 100 dollars.
Michael Bay's Rejected "The Dark Knight" Script -... →
Its THE DARK KNIGHT month here at the Brianstorm! Lets keep it rolling!
Anticipating Green.
In this post, I talked about my three most anticipated movies of the summer; The Happening, Wall-E, and The Dark Knight.
So far, expectation control is sitting at .500. Worked wonders for Wall-E, and I don’t think anything could have saved The Happening.
However, Wall-E and The Happening share one thing in common: their pro-Gore [after all, Gore = Green] agenda. I’m not sure if the...
Why so Series-ous?
A friend of mine asked for some suggestions for entertainment while she rehabs a torn ACL. This started as a Facebook wallpost and got way out of hand, so I figured I’d post it here.
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Lets start with internet series. 1. Jake and Amir [jakeandamir.com] Two guys from collegehumor.com make some ridiculously funny short videos. Try this link to see some of the fan favorites. Or you...
spelling z.
Lotta quotes lately…wonder if that means something significant in regards to my psyche. [sike ee?] For some reason when I see it typed like that I think the long e at the end shouldn’t be right. By the way, for many years I thought the “gotcha” version was spelled S-I-K-E. And, to be honest, some of me still holds on to that spelling.
That reminds me that I used to swear...
“The early reviews on AICN and Rolling Stone are not at all overhyping. This film...”
– more Dark Knight hype!
Aziz is Bored
“My point is that whenever that someday comes, when I slide into the MRI scanner...”
– John Mayer 2008 Summer Tour
“It’s the “Godfather II” of comic book films and three times more earnest than...”
– Kevin Smith on The Dark Knight.
My Boring Ass Life » Curious George, the Shadow of the Bat, and Other Stuff
Rags: A new era of boom box has arrived: while getting gas, a young gangster across the way pumped petrol while blasting his cell phone...in all its cell phone glory.
Me: Spike Lee is going to make an updated version of Do the Right Thing featuring the new character Razr Raheem.
Drivel
thehotness:
Patrick hesitated to go grocery shopping with Harris following the disaster that took place the last time they had set foot in the food palace.
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Harris, being slightly obtuse, could only think about the significant lack of edible matter in his cupboards. And. He was hungry.
Facestalk.
I have recently kicked into active Facebook usage and subsequently have petitioned a decent number of people; specifically asking them to verify to Facebook that we are, indeed, e-friends.
Because Facebook sends an email everytime someone sneezes [its a flu app…you should totally catch my flu and compare vomits with me!] I have been determining each of my shiny new e-friends’...