dude, the Rocketeer is real?
next you'll be telling me he wears a suit of Iron and shoots mini rockets out of his wrists.....

Quoted: Swiss pilot Yves Rossy, who calls himself "Fusion Man", becomes the first person to fly with jet-fuel powered wings strapped to his back. He completed several loops at 300km/h (186mph) above the Alps.

i mean seriously, is this like everyday Austrian news that is finally just making its way onto my cpu screen now, or is this whole country all of a sudden turning into a sick and twisted familial nightmare?

Quoted: An Austrian man hands himself in after allegedly hacking his wife, daughter, parents and father-in-law to death.

hahaha
awesome.
even though this is srsly safer than a lot of the riding i do in chicago's Loop district (way more heinous), it's still pretty funny just to see bikes on the freeway.

Quoted: Last month a group of cyclists calling themselves The Crimanimalz took to the freeways in a daring demonstration showing exactly how inefficient driving a car in Los Angeles can be sometimes. They rode their bikes on the freeway.

hmmm
also could be good, despite the incredible Oedipal overtones.

Quoted: Son Hayes never speaks of the scars on his back. The shotgun pellets left under his skin make for a sporadic pattern of blue-black dots. The men he works with take bets on how he got them. His brothers, Boy and Kid Hayes, don’t discuss it. His past, just like these scars, is never far behind him. This stands true for the memory of his father, a man that never bothered to give his children proper names. He left the three brothers, Son (MICHAEL SHANNON), Boy (DOUGLAS LIGON) and Kid (BARLOW JACOBS), when they were young. Their last impressions were of a violent drunk who never hesitated to put his own needs ahead of his family. The brothers were left to be raised by their mother, a hateful woman, who to this day blames her children for the life she’s been left with and the man she could not keep. Their father, having left the memory of his children as completely as he left their home, managed to move on and put his life back together. He sobered up, became a devout Christian, married a wonderful woman, and fathered four new sons. All of who received proper names. His life became a model that most would aspire to, a man successful in business, community and family. His only true failing being the sons he turned his back on. At the beginning of the film, we find Son, Boy and Kid as grown men. The three brothers’ lives progress and their futures play out, but their past inevitably comes to claim them. Following a dispute at their father’s funeral, a feud begins to simmer between these sons and the new young men their father has raised. It is an anger that has always rested uncomfortably in the background of their lives. However now, it is a thing that will rise up to overtake them all. Set against the cotton fields and back roads of Southeast Arkansas, these brothers discover the lengths to which each will go to protect their family.

hehe

i kinda want to see this....

ps. anyone think it's incidental that he's reading Kojeve in two scenes in the trailer?

Quoted: Director Henry Bean (“The Believer”) returns to the big screen with a complete rarity in American movies today: a comedy of ideas. David (Oscar-winner Tim Robbins) is a successful lawyer who can’t stand the fact that Manhattan is a place where it’s too noisy to get a good night’s sleep, listen to classical music, or even make love to his wife without disturbance. Every time David hears a car alarm going off, he swings into action. Adopting the guise of “The Rectifier,” he engages in acts of vandalism that satisfy him immensely but which generate no end of grief from his wife (Bridget Moynahan). They also make him politically controversial when he provokes the ire of the city’s arrogant mayor (Oscar-winner William Hurt).

i may be sick to death of Antigone, but i'm going to this paper, because Keltner's great.

Quoted:
10.30am-11.45am
Chair: Fanny Soderback, Philosophy, New School for Social Research
Speaker: Stacy Keltner, Philosophy, Kennesaw State University
"Sacred Oedipus, Anti-Oedipus, or Antigone? Unravelling Kristeva's Figures of the Modern Nomadic Subject"

this could be good or it could SUCK.
at least it's not Jerry Bruckheimer directing....

Quoted: Award-winning Russian filmmaker Sergei Bodrov (PRISONER OF THE MOUNTAINS) illuminates the life and legend of Genghis Khan in his stunning historical epic, MONGOL. Based on leading scholarly accounts and written by Bodrov and Arif Aliyev, MONGOL delves into the dramatic and harrowing early years of the ruler who was born as Temudgin in 1162. As it follows Temudgin from his perilous childhood to the battle that sealed his destiny, the film paints a multidimensional portrait of the future conqueror, revealing him not as the evil brute of hoary stereotype, but as an inspiring, fearless and visionary leader. MONGOL shows us the making of an extraordinary man, and the foundation on which so much of his greatness rested: his relationship with his wife, Borte, his lifelong love and most trusted advisor.

just posted a leak of the new L*ad*ytr*on album on the bl*og, and some other stuff too.

OMG OMG OMGOMG OMG OMG OMGOMG

YESSSSS!!!!

My Bloody Valentine is playing Chicago this September...!!!!

hooray!

i'm buying 4 tickets first thing tomorrow, when they go on sale.
one is for you nealist, so never fear.
the others i'm just gonna hold onto. i have no fear they will be snatched up at the right time.