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Dan Szymborski retweeted me yesterday. Many of you may not know who he is but it was a pretty cool moment for me.

Guys check out my cool new t-shirt.

*sigh*

Okay, fine. What's updawg?

Ahahahahaha!!!






Nothin much hbu?

Comedy gold is never old.

You aren't cool unless you have shirt with your face on it.

dude Paul you're looking fly man that's some good shit right there dam.......

thanks mac. long time, no virtual connection man.

Sorry for the double post but here are my top 10 movies of 2014 in alphabetical order since its award season.

Boyhood (Richard Linklater)
Frank (Lenny Abrahamson)
Gone Girl (David Fincher)
The Grand Budapest Hotel (Wes Anderson)
Guardians of the Galaxy (James Gunn)
The Imitation Game (Morten Tyldum)
Inherent Vice (Paul Thomas Anderson[!!])
Interstellar (Christopher Nolan[!!!])
The Lego Movie (Phil Lord and Christopher Miller)
Nightcrawler (Dan Gilroy)


Underrated: The Double (Richard Ayoade) and Muppets Most Wanted (James Bobin)

Still need to see a few more, but it was a damn good year for movies.

I keep forgetting to come here but I thought Boyhood was really overrated (but I think I missed something with that), Gone Girl was incredible, Grand Budapest Hotel was incredible, Guardians of the Galaxy was okay, Inherent Vice was really good, Interstellar was Brutally Overrated but still a *(censored)* spectacle, The Lego Movie was great and I really want to see Nightcrawler. I'd throw Selma in there.

Haven't seen Selma yet, but I'd really like to. Also Mac, If you haven't, you should check out Frank, I think you'd really like it.

As for Boyhood, I thought it was an entirely unique cinematic experience that didn't really even fall into many cliches of the coming of age genre. It was just a family going through life. And the scenes where he's going off to college hit me pretty hard emotionally because I thought of how this characters whole life had just flashed by before me. I guess I related to the mother's last monologue about how she didn't think it would all go by that fast.

man as much as I'm a sucker for coming-of-age stories that are really emotional and depict the Alternative Adolescent, I just really felt as if a bunch of Boyhood's ideas were recycled from old sitcoms and slapped together to make 3 hours, and people were overrating it because of the concept and the fact that it's Fookin Linklater (btw, you should watch Slacker if you haven't before -- full to the brim with extraordinary dialogue, truly gives meaning to *(censored)* meandering if you're into that sort of thing, which I am). idk, maybe I missed the point. getting totally *(censored)* lost on the way home from seeing it in the middle of July at like 12:30 in the morning was a highlight of my summer though.

and Frank's been on my list for some time. what'd you think of Inherent Vice specifically?

Oh holy hell the more I think about Inherent Vice, the more I love it. I saw it twice with some friends. The first time I enjoyed it for its atmosphere and got some big laughs from it, but some of the dialogue was hard to follow and it felt a bit long. Second viewing however, I was able to get into the labyrinth of a plot it had, caught some new jokes I hadn't noticed the first time, and laughed even harder than before. If I had to put the movies in order, it would probably be number 3.

Also, I picked up the novel from Barnes and Noble the other day and I'm *(censored)* loving it man. I have to write an 8 page essay on Pynchon this year so I read The Crying of Lot 49 (loved) and V. (will have to revisit when I'm not struggling to finish it as an assignment). So yeah, pretty great. What about you?

on it. I'm sold on just about anything that pairs Linklater and Hawke after the Before trilogy.

I really need to see Inherent Vice again. honestly I didn't like The Crying of Lot 49, I thought it was way too convoluted for way too small of a novel and I felt little to no attachment to anybody and the ending was *(censored)* Bizarre (and this is from someone whose favorite book is Infinite Jest so I am not particularly averse to postmodernism or confusing shit). I'm currently reading Gravity's Rainbow right now and I absolutely love it, though. it takes awhile to get into a groove but when it does it's like Wow, Man. it's so confusing (and pornographic at times Lmao) but if you pay close attention it's so rewarding. there are so many characters which is obviously typical of Pynchon. and the atmosphere is unbelievable. so it's great.

if you haven't read Infinite Jest stick it on your to-read list. it's 1100 pages long and it has 388 footnotes and it's the size of a *(censored)* textbook but you won't regret reading it.

do you have skype or something btw? I feel as if we're mucking up this thread (not like anyone comes here anyway)