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This local car commercial showcases the talent of a very relevant impressionist.
(Source: twitter.com)
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Chuck Klosterman on tUnE-yArDs →
This sentence is 100% true:
“The only thing I knew was that the words ‘Tune Yards’ were spelled ‘tUnE-yArDs,’ which seemed like reason enough to ignore it (not a good reason, but a reason nonetheless)
w h o k i l l is still a fantastic album, and Merrill Garbus still puts on a fantastic show, but that sentence is still absolutely correct.
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Things I learned at Sundance: Days 4+
-The animated shorts made me realize I need to stop dragging ass, and update my reel.
-Don Hertzfeld’s latest short, “Its Such a Beautiful Day,” is funny and touching. I got teary, and the lady next to me was weeping. I’ve been a fan of his work for 8 or 9 years or so, and imagine my surprise when I realized he’s just a but older than me.
-Mexican food 3 days in a row means you blood cheese content level is past the legal limit.
-Sundance passes get you into surprisingly little.
-Maybe that’s not really a surprise.
-Mike Bribiglia’s directorial debut, an adaptation of his one man show, “Sleep Walk With Me,” is as entertaining a story of trying to make it as a comedian, as it is about having sleep disorders that make you jump out of hotel room windows in your sleep.
-Crashing an company’s karaoke party means you don’t get to sing karaoke.
-There’s an RV in one of the parking lots that hosts a karaoke party from 10:30pm to 1:30am every night of the film festival.
-People are upset about Oscar nominations.
-The Cranberries are releasing a new album. -
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Things I learned at Sundance: Day 3
-I lied about Hollywood types being short. John Krazinski is 8 feet tall.
-Mexican food. Lots of Mexican food.
-Safety Not Guaranteed staring Parks and Rec’s Aubry Plaza, The League’s Mark Duplass and The New Girl’s Jake Johnson has won JamesDance Best Film I’ve Seen so Far Award.
-The NY Giants are going to the Superbowl!
-Utah bars sell beers that are 3.2%. Read your menu carefully.
-All the charm in the world won’t get you into these fancy Hollywood parties, but they will get you free full strength beers at the bars. -
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Things I Learned at Sundance Day 2
-Salt Lake City is full of grown up contestants from Toddlers and Tiaras
-There is a Mormon sculpture garden, where the founder of the religion is represented as a sphinx
-Mormons believe Jesus lives on planet Kolob
-The Great Salt Lake rather large and salty
-Snow. Holy crap, snow.
-Even one of the largest film festivals in the world, hosted in a ski resort town, can still be crippled by massive amounts of snow.
-Utah runs the liquor stores.
-Liquor is expensive.
-Tim & Eric’s Billion Dollar Movie is exactly as wrong in all the wrong ways as you’d expect. Fans will love it, others not so much. The best part was the avalanche of movie goers walking out halfway through.
-Oh, and walking out is kind of a “thing” at film festivals. I guess it’s because of the passes.
-Modern Family’s Ty Burell (Phil Dunphy) owns a bar in SLC called Bar X. It’s a classic cocktail joint that’s still pretty good, despite Utah’s antiquated liquor laws.
-Ty Burell is a lot skinnier and shorter that I thought.
-Hollywood people are all way shorter and thinner in person than on the screen.
-Except Sigourney Weaver. She’s like, real people size. -
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Hanging out with a sphinx of the founder of the Mormon faith, Joeseph Smith, like a boss. (Taken with instagram)
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Things I Learned at Sundance: Day 1
Mountains: Holy shit! Purple mountains majesty INDEED.
Skiing: Looks fun!
German Mothers: Amazing hosts.
Celeste & Jesse Forever: My friends who are ladies will love it.
Elijah Woods: Indeed looks like a child in person.
Sigourney Weaver: Is tall.
Cillian Murphy: Pronounces his name with a hard C.
LA people: Wear all their winter clothes inside for some reason.
Red Lights: The director of Buried’s follow up feature starring Ms Weaver, Cillian Murphy, Elizabeth Olson and Robert Deniro sounds exciting, but is a terrible movie that apparently sent prospective buyers running out of the theater. -
"Manatees were once mistaken for mermaids by sailors, who would then drown trying to catch and/or kiss them. Manatees were the original autoerotic-asphyxiation."
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Last shot of mezcal. I got the worm. :-(
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I went to Columbus in December to see my friends Mike and Elaine, and their nearly 3 year old daughter, Darla. Turns out, Darla and I had similar sweaters, so we had to take some pictures, whether Darla cooperated or not.
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Is this what the renovation has come to?
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I miss thinking the future was going to look like this.
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Spider-Man by Pendleton Ward
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Energy Drink 'N Draw
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So many beers, so little time.
Falling rock tap house. -
Comedy Audiences And Taping
by Jonas Polsky
This evening there was a dust-up about how a young Patton Oswalt handled an audience member...
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Vintages. (Taken with Instagram at The Lind Home)
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Sad face ;(. (Taken with Instagram at Tillie’s of Brooklyn)
