May 9, 2013
The Source Family

I first became aware of the Source Family by way of the numerous and pretty excellent psychedelic records that several family members put out under various names over the course of a couple decades. It wasn’t until later when I discovered the less seemly, more cult-like aspects of this band of misfits and outcasts who also happened to run the first health food restaurant in America. At one point, the spot was considered the most profitable food service establishment per square foot in the Western World (for a while it was estimated to be grossing $10,000 a day). The Source, with its at-the-time unheard of vegetarian menu consisting mainly of salads and soybean curd-based dishes, became a fairly popular hangout on the Sunset Strip, attracting all kinds of celebrities throughout the 1970s, which supplied the Family with enough money to carry out an idyllic life in huge houses in L.A. The Source Family is about as exhaustive a document on this unique and uniquely American cult/family as can be imagined… [Continue Reading @ Tiny Mix Tapes]

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May 7, 2013

imageoscillite:

Ryan Gosling won’t eat his cereal.

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Ryan Gosling isn’t in the mood for cereal.

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May 6, 2013

thehystericalsociety:

Boogeymen - part of a series of eerie stereoviews - dated 1923 (Via)

Terrifying.

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April 26, 2013

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April 24, 2013
About Sunny

Barely employed, barely housed, driving an inefficient car that barely starts, and attempting to raise an eight-year-old daughter with a learning disability solo, Angela (Lauren Ambrose, who is also the film’s co-producer) is a character constantly on the verge of a major tragedy. From About Sunny’s very first scene, we sense that writer/director Bryan Wizeman’s feature-length debut will only end in tears, being the portrait of the general hopelessness of the working poor that it is. However, Angela is presented to us as a character neither overly virtuous nor particularly vicious, and the real tragedy of her life stems not so much from a personal or moral failing, but from an unfortunate circumstance so far beyond her control that she fails to realize its impact on her life almost entirely… [Continue reading @ Tiny Mix Tapes]

URL: http://garbagetrain.tumblr.com/post/48777060131/about-sunny
FILED UNDER: film 
April 24, 2013
Freejack!

Deciding to follow-up his anachronistic and relatively lucrative foray into the Wild West (1990’s Young Guns II) with a balls-out crazy vision of a dire, polygon-glutted future was a fairly gutsy move on director Geoff Murphy’s part. Trusting one of Young Guns II’s leads to carry the project might’ve been a case of his reach exceeding his grasp, but who doesn’t like an animated Emilio Estevez from time to time? Freejack is a weird one, at times surreally funny and self-aware, and at most others just too ridiculous to ignore. In this dystopian New York City of 2009, how do you suppose you’re going to find your way around Champagne trucks, Renee Russo’s chin, and the finer points of rat haute cuisine? Why, with a scorecard, natch! [Coninute reading @ The Progressive Cinema Scorecard]

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FILED UNDER: film 
March 31, 2013

thispoorunfortunatesoul:

I am DYING. watching Star Trek and there is an “alien” and it is literally a dog in a fur suit. i can’t.

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