Happy?

[Photo Via: Aberrant Beauty]

“The Artist’s Studio,” By Juliaan De Vriendt.

Lebowski in 60 seconds.

Hopper at the Modern.

Looks like a place worth visiting. 

Woody’s New York. 

Alexandra gives us pasta with Marcella’s tomato sauce and hot Italian sausage. 

“Western Skies Motel, Colorado,” By Ernst Haas (1978)

You can’t spend what you ain’t got.

The Searchers Japanese poster, via Wandrlust.

Martin Amis on ET circa 1982:

Steven Spielberg’s films have grossed approximately $1,500 million. He is 34, and well on his way to becoming the most effective popular artist of all time… What’s he got? How do you do it? Can I have some?

‘Super-intensity’ is Spielberg’s word for what he comes up with on the screen. His films beam down on an emotion and then subject it to two hours of muscular titillation. In Jaws the emotion was terror; in Close Encounters it was wonder; in Raiders of the Lost Ark it was exhilaration; in Poltergeist it was anxiety; and now in ET – which looks set to outdo them all – it is love.

Towards the end of ET, barely able to support my own grief and bewilderment, I turned and looked down the aisle at my fellow sufferers: executive, black dude, Japanese businessman, punk, hippie, mother, teenager, child. Each face was a mask of tears. Staggering out, through a tundra of sodden hankies, I felt drained, pooped, squeezed dry; I felt as though I had lived out a year-long love affair – complete with desire and despair, passion and prostration – in the space of 120 minutes.

The fall and winter are coming. This one looks like one to try. 

Found over at Egotrip is this Fact post on beat tapes:

[Image Via: the Chicago Sun-Times]

[Picture by Louis Porter via MPD]

Cool post of famous authors’ handwritten outlines over at Flavorwire. 

Serious East tells us all about fish sauce. 

[Photo Credit: Paul Hillier]

David Parise’s Barbie and Ken. 

Hackman, Elmore, Huston, Dustin, Rip, Willis, Lange and more…Movie nerds: dig in. 

[Picture Credit: Robert Wilson]

“The Victory” by Rene Magritte (1939)

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