"You lack the key qualities of a true movie star. Namely, a shock of brown hair that zigs and zags across my ever changing browline like polarized metal filings at the cruel mercy of their mother magnet, all perched upon the face of a weathered possum king. And that, my friend, is the true meaning of Christmas."
Andy Samberg as Nic Cage, interviewing Jude Law, on SNL
In the Sims, you don’t say, “I love you.” You say, “Habadu bashubi,” which roughly translates to, “I cannot move because there is furniture in the way.” I think that’s absolutely beautiful.
"If imperialism is the highest form of capitalism, then tourism is its ghostly afterlife in the form of commercial nostalgia which is sold as ‘art’ or ‘culture’."
Hanif Kureishi, “Some time with Stephen” (via metaphysicks)
"But the 8-hour workday is too profitable for big business, not because of the amount of work people get done in eight hours (the average office worker gets less than three hours of actual work done in 8 hours) but because it makes for such a purchase-happy public. Keeping free time scarce means people pay a lot more for convenience, gratification, and any other relief they can buy. It keeps them watching television, and its commercials. It keeps them unambitious outside of work. We’ve been led into a culture that has been engineered to leave us tired, hungry for indulgence, willing to pay a lot for convenience and entertainment, and most importantly, vaguely dissatisfied with our lives so that we continue wanting things we don’t have. We buy so much because it always seems like something is still missing."
