The Ferris Bueller Fight Club Theory
My favorite thought-piece about Ferris Bueller is the “Fight Club” theory, in which Ferris Bueller, the person, is just a figment of Cameron’s imagination, like Tyler Durden, and Sloane is the girl Cameron secretly loves. One day while he’s lying sick in bed, Cameron lets “Ferris” steal his father’s car and take the day off, and as Cameron wanders around the city, all of his interactions with Ferris and Sloane, and all the impossible hijinks, are all just played out in his head. This is part of the reason why the “three” characters can see so much of Chicago in less than one day — Cameron is alone, just imagining it all. It isn’t until he destroys the front of the car in a fugue state does he finally get a grip and decide to confront his father, after which he imagines a final, impossible escape for Ferris and a storybook happy ending for Sloane (“He’s gonna marry me!”), the girl that Cameron knows he can never have. - Cool Papa Bell (from a thread on MetaTalk)(thanks to @jfine for passing along this little gem)
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Hot Joint of the Day: Kid Cudi, Vampire Weekend’s Rostam Batmanglij, & Best Coast - “All Summer”
The official Converse Summer Anthem.
Making of a Domino’s Pizza commercial The food stylists actually drill the pizza down to the table to make a better action shot. (via coudal.com)
The 100 Greatest Movie Insults of All Time (via kottke.org)
Nuts to Soup! Play by play story on conquering the two pounds of noodles and two pounds of combination beef Phở at Phở Garden in San Francisco. Who wants to try it with me?
Easter Egg of the Day: Step 1) Go to Newsweek.com. Step 2) Enter the Konami Code (up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, B, A, enter). Step 3) ???????
Step 4) RUN!!!
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“But when Kenny G decided that it was appropriate for him to defile the music of the man who is probably the greatest jazz musician that has ever lived by spewing his lame-ass, jive, pseudo bluesy, out-of-tune, noodling, wimped out, fucked up playing all over one of the great Louis’s tracks (even one of his lesser ones), he did something that I would not have imagined possible. He, in one move, through his unbelievably pretentious and calloused musical decision to embark on this most cynical of musical paths, shit all over the graves of all the musicians past and present who have risked their lives by going out there on the road for years and years developing their own music inspired by the standards of grace that Louis Armstrong brought to every single note he played over an amazing lifetime as a musician. By disrespecting Louis, his legacy and by default, everyone who has ever tried to do something positive with improvised music and what it can be, Kenny G has created a new low point in modern culture - something that we all should be totally embarrassed about - and afraid of. We ignore this, “let it slide”, at our own peril.”
Pat Metheny
Excerpt taken from jazzoasis.com/methenyonkennyg.htm (which is an absolute fascinating read, regardless of your stance on Pat Metheny).
Pat Metheny
Excerpt taken from jazzoasis.com/methenyonkennyg.htm (which is an absolute fascinating read, regardless of your stance on Pat Metheny).
Cinema’s Top Villains by hh1edits
Man’s Heart of Darkness: A montage of the best villains to grace the silver screen, displaying the human condition at its worst.
