I'm no good, you're no better

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guys what if gifs create a universe within the gif where it's actually hell because the person in that gif is forever doomed to repeat the same action over and over and over. There's gifs on my blog that have been there since 2009. Buddy the Elf has been in that revolving door for four years. [source]

A GIF as a Phantom Zone window.

Idea: A remake of Memento in which Leonard uses Twitter and Instagram instead of tattoos and Polaroid photos.

Idea: What if every time you recorded your life (via camera, blog, et cetera), what you recorded was erased from your memory? So, for example, you could watch a video recording of your wedding, but you would not remember the experience at all. Bad memories could easily be forgotten, while good times could only be remembered mentally.

Idea: What if the government could surreptitiously modify the eyes and ears of a baby so that it could spy through the baby's eyes and ears, see and hear what the baby sees and hears – unwitting human surveillance? And what if the government targeted persons of interest by turning their children into said "baby monitors"? And what would become of Baby Monitors that were not decommissioned?


Mashup: 'Elysium' and 'Behind the Candelabra'

Adam Riff™ Clip of the Week

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39. Bad Boys (The League, S05E04)

"Television Episode of the Year" nominee.

Honourable Mention

Stray Observations

  • RT: "Michael C Hall has the unique distinction of acting in the best series finale (Six Feet Under) and the worst." (Dexter, S08E12)
  • RAHM EMANUEL IS JUDGING PIZZAS ON THE GREAT FOOD TRUCK RACE (S04E06)
  • Terrible stuff I love: Whenever Tyler Florence says "Let's get rolling!" on The Great Food Truck Race (S04E06)
  • RT: "Can we take away Emmys? Because Breaking Bad just let Bob Odenkirk lift empty luggage, and it's not okay." (Breaking Bad, S05E15)
  • General Gilligan's march to the sea (Breaking Bad, S05E15)
  • "Here are two pictures: One is your locker, the other is a garbage dump in the Philippines." (Brooklyn Nine-Nine, S01E02)
  • "Drinking to be cool, Nick? That's not a real thing."
    "That's the only thing in the world I know to be true." (New Girl, S03E02)


Laura's cubism-inspired make-up (Face Off, S05E07)

  • Terrible stuff I love: CCH Pounder's wig (Sons of Anarchy, S06E03)
  • Nolan Gould hit puberty (Modern Family, S05E01)
  • RT: "That tape made me start questioning the show's timeline, since I was thinking they've been using 1 tape for almost a decade, but it's less time? They're about 28 in the 1st season but should be about 33 by the end of the 7th for their high school reunion. Season 5 ends late 2009, because of the World Series. Plus, season 6 takes place over almost a year, while season 7 into episode 3 of season 8 all took place over the course of like 2-3 months (according to Mac in the Gang Gets Analyzed). I think it all works if season 1 and 2 are in 2006, but who even knows man." (It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, S09E04)
  • Watch Charlie Day Yank Off Danny DeVito's Undies (It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, S09E04)
  • Dana White? (The League, S05E04)
  • "I'm never gonna forget the last thing I said to him, man. I said, 'Spaz, you can't fit the whole thing in your mouth.' And he said, 'Aarrgghhhaauugh.'" (The League, S05E04)
  • "Here we are at the Grand Canyon, jerking off. Just another of our 'Cumming on America' series." (The League, S05E04)
  • "I'm not your type?! I'm everyone's type! My junk is like O positive blood – it's universally compatible!" (The League, S05E04)
  • "I got blue clues!" (The League, S05E04)
  • "The Accused? The movie? It's only like the greatest romantic comedy ever made! It's like Sleepless in Seattle meets The Proposal meets non-consensual sex." (The League, S05E04)
  • The pinball machine is emitting my mobile's ringtone and it's disorienting (The League, S05E04)
  • The imagery in Linder's scenes (The Bridge, S01E12)
  • "Enjoy the fact that your royal overlords are a frail old woman and a tiny baby." (Parks and Recreation, S06E01)


(Parks and Recreation, S06E02)

  • "You better call the cops, 'cause I just committed assault and vinegar." (NTSF:SD:SUV, S03E10)
  • "Do you have any strains of hepatitis?"
    "It's pronounced 'herpes,' and no." (NTSF:SD:SUV, S03E10)
  • "We'd now like to invite all foreign passengers who have not yet been called to ignore us and try boarding anyway." (Saturday Night Live, S39E01)

#clipoftheweek

Star Wars and sandwiches

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Double Dare We Say It – A Nickelodeon Historical Celebration
On September 27 at 7 pm ET, Marc Summers will bring together creators, stars, writers, producers and musicians from such classic 80s/90s Nick shows as You Can't Do That on Television, Double Dare, Salute Your Shorts, The Ren & Stimpy Show, Doug, The Adventures of Pete and Pete, Clarissa Explains It All, Nick Arcade, Welcome Freshmen, Wild & Crazy Kids and Hey Dude. Many of these guests haven't been together since these shows aired.

I don't remember Welcome Freshmen.

Live music will be provided by Double Dare composer Edd Kalehoff.

Bringing it all together is master-of-ceremonies Mathew Klickstein, author of Slimed: An Oral History of Nickelodeon's Golden Age.

Hmm… I could attend in person, but I would need assurance that Phil Moore is one of the guests.

I feel like Garfield and Friends is under-nostalgized. I know it's uncool to say anything positive about Garfield, but the cartoon was a staple of Saturday mornings.

Idea: An oral history of VH1's I Love… series.

On Tuesday, October 1st at 8PM, the Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center will host a free-to-the-public event discussing the music of GTAV, moderated by Ryan Schreiber, founder of Pitchfork Media. [source]

Who is the audience for this?

Adam Riff™ Mailbag

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Larvelle Jones writes:
Jon, have you ever walked out of a film?

Yes, James Toback's Black and White.

I've sat through worse films, but… I don't know what overcame me. Elijah Wood and the Wu-Tang Clan… I just couldn't.

I think I walked out of Idle Hands too – you know, Seth Green and Devon Sawa – but I may be remembering Derek Chow saying that he walked out of Idle Hands.

Does stopping a DVD count as walking out? Because I stopped BASEketball.

I wanted to love BASEketball – Trey and Matt plus David Zucker?! – but I did not feel it AT ALL.

Oh and at a sleepover birthday party for my childhood mate George (R.I.P.), I walked out of his living room during this scene in Terminator 2 and played Super Mario World in his parents' bedroom until the film ended. For some reason, my nine-year-old self could not handle the final act of Terminator 2.

$440 / 2br – 110ft² – $440/mon Jan 2014 long term 1br in 3br 2ba townhouse (Everett)

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*important* Let me make it clear that the bathroom DOES NOT work. And I DONT plan on fixing it. I like it the way it is. That's how my father was and that's who I'm gonna be!

I've been here since Jan 2011 up from Seattle for some quiet time trying to get A) some papers ready on what I believe is a new paradigm related to super string theory. Need to finish a computer program to help check and generalize about 25 notebooks (8×10) worth of calculations. Subsequently B) do a book on some statistical data involving 14,000 data sets in microbiology.

One person who stayed here previously opened her heart chakra doing yoga. She was working as a regional director of Snohomish & Skagit county for Ron Paul's presidential campaign. Enjoyed her stay here. Perhaps because both of our hearts were open.

Personally I do believe in remote healing having experimented with remote diagnosis of patients in a workshop under the Silva Mind Control Method based on electronic frequency waves.

Have done some paintings in the spirit of van Gogh, Picasso, Matse, Chagl, Miro, El reco, Dali etc. This led to Willem de Koenig & Franz Kline type abstract paintings, being a pure mathematician, and finally to composing live auora (as in ethereal dynamic aurora borealis moving in the night sky).

The streets I know will never take me anywhere but here

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Previously on Adam Riff™:

2005:
I decided to leave Los Angeles and move to either Seattle or Chicago. I chose Chicago. My mother asked a fortune teller to assess my future. "You're best-suited to live in the northwest – Seattle, Oregon, Vancouver."

2013a:
I work in Manhattan, but sleep every night on a couch in someone's living room.

2013b:
—Going forward, where do you want to live, Jon? You've been very accommodating to me, relocating to the east coast and whatnot, and so I will accommodate you wherever you wish to live.

Ever since we converted his apartment into a home office, my boss has been gently trying to kick me out.

—Do you want to live in Brooklyn? I don't know if you want to return to the Bay Area…

I want, more than anything, to live in the Pacific time zone, but I just don't think it's practical.

The median selling price of a house in Detroit right now is $13,556.

I'd like to live in a house, and I wouldn't have to worry about finding a job, and…casinos, but I'm terrified of driving in snow.

Tony: if you want to come check it out, let me know and you can stay at my place

Every few months, I dally with moving to Seattle, and every few months, Tony offers a place to stay.

I turn 31 in two weeks. Maybe it's time. What's that quote from Inception? "Do you want to become an old man, filled with regret?"

Chris: you know it snows every 2 or 3 years here
Chris: and the hills make it terrifying to drive in

[pause]

[looks at houses in Oregon]

Devil Jon: Seattle? Oregon? You turn 31 in two weeks. Do you want to become a cold man, filled with regret?
Jon: Where, then? San Diego? Seal Beach? Back to Los Angeles?

I've dallied with moving back to Los Angeles, but I'm terrified of parking in Southern California.