Yesterday turned out to be a pretty sad day for legendary European filmmakers. Italian director Michelangelo Antonioni passed away hot on the heels of Ingmar Bergman. If it’s true that these things come in threes, Godard better watch out.
In case you missed it, the Kids in the Hall hanging out and working together again.
This is reassuring and comforting on many levels. Here are a few things along those lines:
This is most likely man’s single greatest achievement…
…at least until this comes out.
And of course, this is amazing.
Nah, nah wait to I get my money right.
Swedish Film Legend Day rolls on with a somber bit of news: Director Ingmar Bergman inevitably lost his chess match with Death. I had to write something like 14 papers on Bergman in college, so whether I wanted to or not, I got to know his work pretty well. Most of the time he made me terribly depressed, but occasionally he offered a beautiful glimmer of hope. Even though I walked away from most of his films wanting to curl up and die, I’d still argue that Bergman was the greatest director in cinema history. I wouldn’t have Woody without Ingmar.
PS - Am I being terribly insensitive when I post stuff like this? I know a man died, but consider the circumstances. A DIY exorcism?
Thanks to Bizarro Joel for the link. Why this is on Jeff Bridges’s site, we do not know.
“I sell ice in winter / I sell fire in hell / I’m a hustler, baby / I’ll sell water to people who already have a cheaper and more environmentally friendly source at home.”
(Sorry, Jigga.)
You may have noticed that Barber College was running slowly for a week then was completely offline for a couple days. If you didn’t notice, that probably means you don’t visit us as often as you should. We’ll forgive you for now, but you better believe we’ll be tracking your visits in the future and e-mailing you if they’re too infrequent.
Only kidding, of course! Anyway, thanks to Webmaster Gordo for completely reinstalling, like, everything on the server and getting us back to where we were and even slightly beyond that as far as awesomeness goes. All it cost me was some pizza and a Slurpee.
Here’s some random crap I found while browsing CNN.com, still my favorite news site for no other reasons than the clean layout and Ted Turner’s politics:
That’s one way to handle it.
History has taught us that it takes at least 10 goofy bastards to stage a successful coup.
Crazy white man at Roger Williams uses the N-word and explains thus: “I apologized for that. What else can I do? Kill myself?” Is that an offer? At least he’s being magnanimous about the whole thing…
All this world needs is more apologies. I hate unnecessary apologies. I make people apologize for them.
Speaking as a moral relativist, you’re boring the fuck out of me. Obama did coke and pot back in the day, and he acts like it wasn’t a big deal, because it wasn’t a big deal. That says more about his morals than any of Edwards’s bland bullshit.
Best places to live? Or do you mean best places to avoid being near poor people? The list should go like so: 1) New York City 2) Portland, Oregon 3) Other big cities 4) Medium cities 5) Crappy suburbs 6) Rural communities 7) Money’s list… inverted.
When all is said and done, this guy will end up with the best nickname ever. My first thought was Toothface, but that sounds too much like a Batman villain.
I smell the end of the GOP.
I always thought he choked on his own ego… or his own dick.
I’m not sure we should let this person continue to give language warriors a bad name without a bit of a fight.
Oh, Grammar Vandal. This is difficult for me to say. I know you think you are doing God’s work, but I think you’d be a happier person if you left the sanctimonious, prescriptivist fervor to the religious right and got a job as an editor, which job would allow you to use your powers for good.
In other words: Settle down, grasshopper. You have much to learn. Relax, have an iced tea, and consider these important facts:
1) Botched “sentences” are entertaining. RUN EASY BOSTON? That’s hilarious! Why are you trying to deprive me of that sign?
2) Some rules of grammar are stupid. Tell me, do you honestly give half a shit whether I split an infinitive with an adverb? If you answered, “Yes,” you revealed your allegiance to a pointless, archaic rule artificially imposed on English by Latin-worshipping dead guys who thought it would make them sound smarter. They’re dead now. Do you see where I’m going with this?
3) By harping on strict adherence to the rules, you hurt the cause. It’s nice when people use apostrophes well and funny when they don’t, but honey, we’ve got bigger fish to fry.
4) Nobody likes a smartass.
You may remember when Scott first wrote of the anti-Slovak sentiment in Eli Roth’s Hostel. As someone of western European heritage, my beef with Roth and his mod-horror buddies is limited to their incompetence, but they suck nonetheless. Thankfully, it looks like the horror porn genre in general is on the outs. Our horny teens deserve something better than such a shitty, inartistic bunch of shit. Where’s John Hughes when you need him?