August 2009
1 post
June 2009
2 posts
Movies and music and books can be trivial in the grand scheme of things, but I think its just our desire to fill our lives with sights and sounds and thoughts and ideas and people that bring us happiness. I think the reason today is so sad is because it means a huge part of your life and my life can now forever only exist in the past. There’s this line in the sand now regarding our...
Marshall McLuhan
With every piece of information that comes out about Iran, especially how citizens across many countries are using new techonology to communicate important information about their rights and basic freedoms and working together as a people who share a common goal…
…it reminds me that you and I have done nothing substantial with the incredible techonolgical privileges that have been...
May 2009
9 posts
“If brevity is the ‘soul of wit’ then is saying nothing the smartest thing you could do?”
- Pompous version of Me
1 tag
“As for me, I am in pursuit of excellence. I...
1 tag
An Update From My Dealer
“LA Confidential rite now. Bomb kush strain. Holler!”
1 tag
Idolatry
“I’m beginning to understand myself. But it would have been great to be able to understand myself when I was 20 rather than when I was 82.”
Brubeck!
1 tag
Things My Friends Have Said
RE: “Tiptoes” (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0316768/)
“Producer: You mean you got me Gary Oldman?? I said Gary COLEMan!” “Casting Director: oops, sry kthanxbai”
- Mark Blumberg, 5/11/09
1 tag
Idolatry
“I believe entertainment can aspire to be art, and can become art, but if you set out to make art you’re an idiot.”
Martin!
1 tag
The countdown to Shoegazer Summer begins NOW.
...
1 tag
A Thousand Words
1 tag
I Shouldn't Relate to Costanza
I have basically unpacked everything, but I’m missing a couple of books. I can’t find them anywhere and its driving me nuts. I was up at 7 AM looking for them, and now my room is a giant pile of mess.
JERRY: So forget about the books. Did you read them? GEORGE: Well, yeah. JERRY: What do you need them for? GEORGE: I don’t know. They’re books. JERRY: What is this obsession people...
April 2009
5 posts
1 tag
“Did anyone see that new Woodsy Allen movie?
I like his films, ‘cept for...”
–
1 tag
Dream
I was about to have sex with ********. We casually stumbled into a bit of intimacy. We could feel it building between us, and it finally had to happen in that moment. We were being very honest and open to each other, in a very good way. It was all very passionate.
And as we hurriedly walked to the bedroom from the hallway, we could hear a commotion on the fire escape just outside the...
1 tag
Things My Friends Have Said
“I feel like an extra in someone’s really strange murder scene.”
- Mark Blumberg, 4/11/09
1 tag
I Shouldn't Relate to Costanza
There’s an episode of “Seinfeld” where George is hitting on this woman in a bar. He brings up that he is developing a sitcom for NBC, and she laughs in his face.
Then she motions to her friend that “this guy is writing a sitcom” and her friend laughs too. They walk out on him, as he stands there dumbstruck.
I never understood why that was so embarassing for him; I...
1 tag
Things My Friends Have Said
“In a Williamsburg subway stop, a Scottish guy doing touching Magnetic Fields covers. Cop looks on smiling. ‘Aren’t you gonna arrest that guy?’ I say.”
- Mark Blumberg, 3/26/09
March 2009
2 posts
1 tag
Things My Friends Have Said
“I eat Chinese noodles in the rain because ‘Blade Runner’ taught me that’s what city living is like.”
- Mark Blumberg, 3/26/09
1 tag
