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Clerks – The TV Show – (1995 show)

2016-01-11

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(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0352045/

Stuck at a dead-end job, a guy ignores his girlfriend’s nagging until she uses an old high school enemy to push his buttons.

I’m really really happy this series didn’t get approval. This pilot is a steaming pile of shit. It has nothing to do with Clerks – (1994 movie) and so it cannot build on its mystique, and it isn’t even particularly original or interesting on its own.

This is the single pilot episode. The full series was never produced.
Kevin Smith, the author of Clerks – (1994 movie) was unaware of this proposed TV show until its casting was under way, during his production of Mallrats – (1995 movie)
Properly titled Clerks. (with a trailing period) or more sensibly Clerks: The TV Show

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Clerks – (1994 movie)

2016-01-11

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(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0109445/
https://www.miramax.com/movie/clerks/

Instead of being allowed to sleep in on his day off, a man is called in to work an extra shift at his convenience store job, and his day goes to complete shit.

The acting is a little halted in places, since these are mostly or perhaps entirely first-timers, but the writing is spectacular. It’s got great flow and style, and is hilarious and memorable.

I first rented this as a VHS tape back in the day, and was immediately impressed. I’m glad this movie, and its author, have done well.

aka Clerks. (with a trailing period)
Takes place in Leonardo, Monmouth County, New Jersey, United States.
Re-issued as “Clerks. X”

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Heavy Metal – (1981 movie)

2016-01-10

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(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082509/
https://www.sonypictures.com/movies/heavymetal

A girl kills her father, blows up her house to hide the evidence and flees the scene.

While this might have been good at the time, and particularly notable because of the nudity, it’s only vaguely entertaining like a sort of late-night TV-movie. It’s too low-brow compared to science f
iction movies, too adult compared to fantasy movies and too childish for grownups.

Based on Heavy Metal (magazine)

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Casablanca – (1942 movie)

2016-01-10

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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0034583/

The widow of an underground-resistance fighter falls in love but her life gets complicated when she learns her husband didn’t die.

I can easily see the allure of this movie, and I don’t have complaints, but it doesn’t do it for me. The legacy of this movie remains in all sorts of little quotes that I recognize. I know I must have seen this years ago, and it’s stuck in my head until even now. I don’t regret re-watching this, but it’s not something I’ll watch again.

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Male webcam modelling

2016-01-10

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(on Wikipedia)

There appear to be some differences between female and male webcam models and modelling.

I jotted down some thoughts, but I got a bit burnt out so maybe there’s more to be written at some future point.

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Webcam modelling

2016-01-10

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I have more notes which I will eventually get around to retiring into these pages.

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(on Wikipedia)

This was a project to understand why live streaming is so popular.

There is also very little information out there which targets males, so I decided to do some digging to learn more. I ended up needing to adapt female-centric writings to extract things which are gender-neutral, rewrite things so they are more presentable to a male or just write my own stuff.

While interesting, this was a side-project I lightly researched ending in August 2015, but never pursued.

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Breakfast at Tiffany’s – (1961 movie)

2016-01-10

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(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054698/

A privileged middle-upper class white woman loafs about taking advantage of her male harem.

Snooty as all fucking hell. I want to play father figure to the main character and paddle some sense into her. The characters and the way they’re portrayed are so grating that I couldn’t get to 25 minutes before being too disgusted to continue.

Trailer
Inspired by Breakfast at Tiffany’s – (1958 book), by Truman Capote
This film is brought to you by Tiffany & Co..
I know this movie because of Breakfast at Tiffany’s – (1995 song), by Deep Blue Something. The world has gone to hell, and I never noticed.

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The Lone Ranger – (2013 movie)

2016-01-09

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(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1210819/
https://movies.disney.com/the-lone-ranger

A child with an allergy to peanuts hallucinates an indian statue as Tonto telling him a story with the Lone Ranger.

Johnny Depp has started taking terrible cornball roles, and this movie is a steaming pile of shit. His native-American character feels cringeworthingly blackface-esque. I can see how the occasional comedic bit can make a movie fun, but the entire spirit of this movie feels just a touch too serious for there to be the right comedy-adventure feeling like that in Pirates of the Caribbean꞉ The Curse of the Black Pearl – (2003 movie).

See Lone Ranger

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I’ll add notes when I re-watch this.

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(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094625/
https://v-storage.jp/sp-site/akira/

In a future Tokyo which has survived a massive explosion, a highschool student motorcycle gang stumbles into a military research program whose earlier efforts lead to that disaster, and they become embroiled in the revived project.

A genre-defining movie on so many levels. It portrays a world unique to those unfamiliar with manga (a form of Japanese comics) and has both great storytelling and incredible animation.

Kyocera pens

2016-01-08

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(company page, on Wikipedia)
store on penloversparadise.com
was global.kyocera.com:80/prdct/fc_consumer/stationery/index.html

These are high-quality pens which use ceramic-tipped water-based refills.

Much of my writing is pen and paper, and the right pen is extremely important. A certain balance, texture and weight of pen, and a smooth writing experience are important to me. Put one of these pens down on a table, and spin them. They spin around the central closure for when the cap fits against the pen. That’s Japanese quality.

I’ve bought these from ThinkGeek , but most recently I’m buying them from penloversparadise.com.

I do not know if this ink is archival quality!

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Clerks – The TV Show – (1995 show)

Clerks – (1994 movie)

Heavy Metal – (1981 movie)

Casablanca – (1942 movie)

Male webcam modelling

Webcam modelling

Breakfast at Tiffany’s – (1961 movie)

The Lone Ranger – (2013 movie)

Akira – (1988 movie)

Kyocera pens

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