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10/01/2010 23:42 #52875

the social network
Category: movies
Wow! What a great film. It just shows what really drives the internet after all, love/sex and other raw volatile emotions.

I hate to say it but I really feel for Mark Zuckerburg. I guess it was the opening scene after getting dumped by Erica Albright when he starts drinking and blogging on Livejournal. Who knew that is how to become a Billionaire is to: (Have ZERO ZLICH NADA Social Skills or Game with the Ladies) Thus fueling your sexual frustration and then not only flaming her, but taking it to an exponential level!

But yea, you have to give him credit for rising above the pecking order of society and becoming CEO, Bitch!

There were also some great references in this movie. One to Niagara Falls and the other one to the Original Karate Kid, which was too funny given the prototype of the members of Harvard Crew.

Did I also mention that the sound track is totally kick ass?
How can you go wrong with Trent Reznor. Some great pick for songs included California Uber Alles by the Dead Kennedy's. Also whatever electro/trance song that they were playing in the club when Mark is having an Epiphany with Sean Parker Mr Napster is just plain SICK!

Plus it was also a fun time seeing it with great company, someone who could also relate to references "back in the day" (e:theecarey)

In the end just go and see it. It's dark, yes but at the same time brilliant.
metalpeter - 10/02/10 11:46
Glad it was a good time. Just wanted to add that there are two other movies about facebook but one of them is on the internet and I think is real. One of the phone companies has some promotion with facebook and someone on there has videos where they go meet people that they don't know but know through facebook. then there is another movie that is a horror/suspense movie where some guy falls in love with someone on facebook and goes to the house, from the previews it looks like an empty house. Now that I know this movie was good I may have to go see it....
tinypliny - 10/02/10 00:13
Is this the film about the facebook inventor. I saw the trailer when I went to see Inception. Looked interesting

NB: I don't feel impelled to join facebook, regardless.

09/22/2010 11:34 #52809

Why I hate this area
Category: people
This is how rich white people really are deep down inside.



I seriously bet that if it was a dog on the side of the road in pain 10 people would stop, call 911 or the SPCA. What is scary is that he was a middle aged white guy with money. GOD Forbid if it was a scruffy homeless looking minority dying on the side of the road in Lilly Rich White Lewiston. Notice it was a guy NOT from Lewiston that stopped??? This says a ton about the demographics in this town but I'll keep this post short, it doesn't need further explanation as you can draw your own conclusions.
vincent - 09/22/10 23:27
I never thought of that whole serial killer thing.
libertad - 09/22/10 13:21
I'm not sure what I would have done. Serial killers are almost always white men and have been known to feign emergencies in order to get their victims. I think I might have driven away too. It's hard to say because I wasn't there. Maybe I would have not stopped but call 911 anyways? I hope this doesn't make me seem like a jerk because I really do care about others, I just don't trust them.

09/21/2010 10:52 #52798

F'ing Hipsters
Category: hipsters
I have to agree with this guy.



They totally stole Solid Frame Glasses, Zombies, Pirates and Heroin. I really don't care about the aweful haircuts for abviousl reasons.

But I need heroin addicts to be like Layne Staley from Alice in Chains or Renton from Trainspotting. Not some twerp with a shitty superior attitude in skinny jeans, neon socks, solid frame glasses drinking a PBR.

He's on to something I actually prefer to be down south among rednecks than hipsters up North. Their attitude is a bit better IMHO than some pussy hipsters up here on Elmwood.

09/19/2010 23:08 #52784

Nutshell
Category: self perception
I went to see Deftones and Alice in Chains last night in Toronto. It was a great show and I'll post more in the future from it. But I need to get this off of my chest now.

For me I've had self love / self esteem issues for most of my life now. When I saw this song last night it has basically opened up the floodgates. I haven't listened to anything from Jars of Flies for years as I never bought the CD even though I should. I've always had more of an emotional connection with Alice in Chains than any other "Grunge" era band. Dirt embedded itself into my mind right when it came out. I don't want to get into details about it from back in the day but it fired on all cylinders. So needless to say I've been crying uncontrollably since I got back from Toronto tonight. What's even crazier is I had a total heart felt breakthrough conversation with them as I'm just in a very vulnerable place right now. Anyway here it is music starts at 1:20



Here is a the facebook update that I never bothered to post:

Holy Shit! This song last night just took me to an emotional place that I've been avoiding for a decade. It was the one spiritual experience that I've been seeking all this summer concert season. Sorry if it's TMI but I've had self love issues for most of my life, Lane so tapped into how it feels even though I guess he was writing about his addition. Plus I haven't listened to anything off of Jars of Flies for years.

If you want the original version with Layne

Lyrics
We chase misprinted lies
We face the path of time
And yet I fight
And yet I fight
This battle all alone
No one to cry to
No place to call home

Oooh...Oooh...
Oooh...Oooh...

My gift of self is raped
My privacy is raked
And yet I find
And yet I find
Repeating in my head
If I can't be my own
I'd feel better dead

Oooh...Oooh...
Oooh...Oooh...
tinypliny - 09/20/10 08:42
Yes, but Alice is in Chains. You are free - absolutely and completely FREE of any bonds! They are not you. You are not them.

09/14/2010 00:00 #52731

Abandoned Amusement Park
Category: urban exploration
I came across this randomly tonight and thought that it was pretty cool. It kind of reminds me of Crystal Beach and Olcott Beach. I have no idea why I am so drawn to abandoned amusement parks. Maybe it was abandoned around the time I was born and just slowly decayed or something along those lines. But WOW!


tinypliny - 09/20/10 08:43
They look like rotting corpses of dinosaurs.