Forget the rest of it - what stands out to me is that he apparently valued Muxtape at $9.5M.
1 day agonotthatkindagay:getthefuckoutrightnow:
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I’m sure most familiar with the song Mad World, as it was the haunting theme for the movie Donnie Darko sung by the amazing Mike Andrews, but did you know there was a video as well? This little gem was directed by Michel Gondry of all people, and features a rooftop perspective of a bunch of kids making shapes on the ground below. As is the usual for Michel, the idea is extremely simple and lo-fi but is totally effective and beautiful when you see it. I think my favorite part is the boat on the water, when you squint your eyes it looks so rad.
For some reason the video plays three times, though I didn’t bother watching them all cuz’ I figure they’re all the same, but I wanted to give a heads up!”
via Kitsune Noir
Big fan. Pretty sure this was sung by Gary Jules, though.
1 day agoHow Could My Big, Beautiful Loan Go So Bad, So Quickly? - Seeking Alpha
Oh, so it’s all investors’ fault, huh? Oh wait … it actually is the investors’ fault.
1 day agoOnion Volcano in reference to the McCain Campaigns post about the “pro-Obama Dungeons and Dragons crowd.”
I think Derek does a good job of putting my frustration over this comment into words. This is the McCain camp continuing its repeated lines of us vs. them attack. It’s not populism—it’s popularism. It smears education. It smears the angry radicals. It smears people who refuse to shun the angry radicals. It even attacks the media. And this quote wraps the whole thing up nicely. To the McCain campaign, there are the real Americans who play football and swagger and keep everybody else in their place and there’s the Others. It doesn’t really matter who or what sets them apart—to the McCain campaign, they’re all the mouth-breathing Dungeons and Dragons crowd. It’s the whole be true to your school, be true to your country crap that neither cares nor understands why vast swaths of people might feel their peers aren’t treating them fairly.
(via squashed)
The best way to respond to this is to send McCain home in November. Oh, and ditto to everything written above.
1 day ago
I used to love this movie when I was younger. I wouldn’t mind seeing it again. I love Tom Hanks and I miss Shelley Long.Anna: Walter?
Walter: Oh, Anna, thank God it’s you! Thank God!
Anna: Walter?
Walter: Thank God you’re here, honey!
Anna: Is that you?
Walter: Is it me? I’m speaking so loud I’m hallucinating! For a while, I thought the Care Bears were here!Love this movie.
Let’s try … BRAD! Brad-Brad-Bo-dad Banana-fana Fo-fad…
2 days agoFiscal Security
After seeing bits of McCain’s economic plan, I wanted to introduce a phrase. Fiscal Security means keeping the national debt low enough and in the right hands that it does not present a threat to national security. It means making sure that the middle class is healthy enough to make some sacrifices if those are necessary. It means keeping certain manufacturing jobs domestic so we can produce whatever we need to produce in the worst case. And it means addressing poverty and dissatisfation at home so that when Al-Qaeda and the U.N. join forces and go all Red Dawn on us they won’t find a lot of domestic allies. And it means doing all these things in a way we can sustain for generations.
But joking aside, McCain’s proposed tax cuts without corresponding budget cuts aren’t very well thought out. There certainly was a point, maybe twenty years back, where corporate taxes or capital gains taxes were inhibiting growth. But we’ve lowered taxes quite a bit since then. There’s probably a sweet spot where increased revenue from economic growth will match decreased revenue from lowered taxes—but we’re long past that. Our economy is now more hampered by the out of control deficit (and corresponding inflation and decreasing investment domestically) than it is by federal taxes.
This makes an important point: like a lot of things, tax cuts in response to growth-inhibiting rates was at one point a legitimate policy goal. But we’ve long since reached the point where the gains that resulted from this policy are gone.
3 days ago
3 days agoI love popbitch. This week’s gem “John McCain was at the bottom of his military class at Annapolis, but still got to pilot a fighter plane due to his father’s connections. He is the son and the grandson of admirals. He finished 894 of 899 in his graduating class. Despite crashing five aircrafts, John McCain was never disciplined. And son-of-single-mother Obama is, of course, the privileged elitist.”(via joiningthesenses)