[a] this weekend, smartlikejustin and i watched eastern promises -- on the dvd extras, there is a little making-of segment that's full of classic viggo mortensen batshittery: viggo learned russian, viggo read a book about russian tattoos, viggo went to russia, viggo made friends with russian mobsters, etcet. etcet. etcet. at one point he tells a story about how ( Read more... )

a. if you are like me, and you use the number of songs you have to shuffle through on your ipod as some kind of sanity gauge, i feel obligated to mention that today i had to shuffle through 346 songs to soundtrack probably 45 minutes of travel time. usually when i'm shuffling, i tell myself that i'm waiting for some song i forgot existed, and that ( Read more... )

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bill simmons says: Today is the one-year anniversary of Game 7 of the 2004 ALCS, or as I like to call it, Bastille Day. Warrants mentioning. fate and destiny and world series championships and bad ass new god-like behavior aside, the end of the 2004 ALCS will always be synonymous, for me, with the end of the near-three months of wretched, ( Read more... )

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a. i don't know if this has already been posted about livejournal dot com, but if you are a fan of that fellow viggo mortensen, you should look for a copy of the latest issue of mean magazine, in which viggo discusses how old he was the first time he jacked off and also how he and exene "experimented with vegetarian cooking" and also how henry ( Read more... )

thursday: relapsed of the consumption and stayed home sick from work again. spent basically the ENTIRE day reading this super fantastic 40 part and still work-in-progress viggo/orlando hooker AU. upon finishing the most recent part, i felt a little bit like i was coming off a 36 hour coke binge and had woken up on the floor in the lobby of a ( Read more... )

you know, some days are just days when i wake up and realize that the world still isn't ready for me to quit my job and devote myself to the task of writing the script for a road trip buddy movie staring HeterosexuAL sparks, iron mike tyson and their beloved pet pigeon allah. and you wonder why it's sometimes hard to muster up the urge to get out ( Read more... )

as aforementioned by others, the apartment has progressed into the second season of alias. it's strange, because when we started watching the fourth season, i liked it enough to want to watch the first three seasons, but the more i watch of the first three seasons, the more i realize what people who have watched the show all along seem to be saying ( Read more... )

so this week has been the worst work week i have had since i worked at the center, and possibly the worst work week since the week of vermont gay pride, during which i worked 80 hours and had to sleep at night in a park because we couldn't afford tent security ( Read more... )