omg <3 that kools clip. three great readings!
― i want to say one word to you, just one word:buzzfeed (difficult listening hour), Tuesday, 4 February 2014 02:07 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hy1Q1WL57Qo
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 4 February 2014 02:25 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkeLGisUHtc
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 4 February 2014 02:27 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ornzkdo9t1w
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 4 February 2014 02:28 (ten years ago) link
he looks off his nut i that tbh
― i lost my shoes on acid (jed_), Tuesday, 4 February 2014 02:41 (ten years ago) link
Half-related, someone reposted this Russell Brand essay on addiction and empathy: http://www.theguardian.com/culture/2013/mar/09/russell-brand-life-without-drugs
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 4 February 2014 02:44 (ten years ago) link
Whatever his failings in other areas of public discourse, that is a really really strong piece.
― Simon H., Tuesday, 4 February 2014 02:58 (ten years ago) link
Agree!
― we slowly invented brains (La Lechera), Tuesday, 4 February 2014 03:08 (ten years ago) link
please to keep posting the outtakes
shit, i have to see The Master now
― Beatrix Kiddo (Raymond Cummings), Tuesday, 4 February 2014 03:11 (ten years ago) link
It really is
― gbx, Tuesday, 4 February 2014 03:46 (ten years ago) link
State and Main! Forgettable movie, but I totally forgot he was in it and once again good.
― tbd (Eazy), Tuesday, 4 February 2014 05:17 (ten years ago) link
i can't believe Philip Seymour Hoffman is dead
― i also enjoy in line skateing (spazzmatazz), Tuesday, 4 February 2014 18:08 (ten years ago) link
so I haven't read all of this so maybe this has already been brought up, but I'm not sure why the all out NYPD search for the people who sold him heroin. Do they do this for everyone who ODs? No.
― akm, Tuesday, 4 February 2014 18:20 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLtNd1h34F8
― slam dunk, Tuesday, 4 February 2014 18:25 (ten years ago) link
― akm, Tuesday, February 4, 2014 1:20 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark
they do it for cool and important people
― Hungry4Ass, Tuesday, 4 February 2014 18:27 (ten years ago) link
akm i'm assuming it has to do w/ the large amount though it might have to do w/ this fentanyl spiked heroin that supposedly hit the east coast?
― balls, Tuesday, 4 February 2014 18:28 (ten years ago) link
yea i was wondering that, if the fentanyl was related to hoffman's death
― marcos, Tuesday, 4 February 2014 18:31 (ten years ago) link
That's the most likely scenario here. They've probably determined the stockpile all came from the same source and that it's related to the fentanyl spiked incidents.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 4 February 2014 18:33 (ten years ago) link
horrible
― we slowly invented brains (La Lechera), Tuesday, 4 February 2014 20:02 (ten years ago) link
Has heroin really dropped down to $6 a bag? Wow.
― Nhex, Tuesday, 4 February 2014 20:02 (ten years ago) link
nyt piece seems to suggest it's meant to flood the market and create addicts
― PSY talks The Nut Job (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 4 February 2014 21:17 (ten years ago) link
The possibility that there are '80s action movie-style heroin distribution factories in the city is legitimately horrifying
― Nhex, Tuesday, 4 February 2014 21:18 (ten years ago) link
Get Seagal and Van Damme on the case, asap.
― an enormous bolus of flatulence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 4 February 2014 21:22 (ten years ago) link
a job for Che de Blasio
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 4 February 2014 21:22 (ten years ago) link
i'm sorry - that clip of Hoffman bouncing off the top of that car is hilarious!
― Porto for Pyros (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 4 February 2014 22:20 (ten years ago) link
Surprised it did not lead to an addiction to painkillers, tbh.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 4 February 2014 22:25 (ten years ago) link
yeah, that Mattress King ad is all-time
― Nhex, Tuesday, 4 February 2014 22:49 (ten years ago) link
for new yorkers:https://www.facebook.com/events/291040771044583/
― PSY talks The Nut Job (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 4 February 2014 22:54 (ten years ago) link
;_;
― grape is the flavor of my true love's hair (Jon Lewis), Wednesday, 5 February 2014 00:29 (ten years ago) link
I think The Master deserves more praise. Some speculated that the film was too controversial for scientologists and that it would frustrate too many viewers who wanted a more conventional beginning, middle and end, to really achieve any success. But some people are betting on it being a future mighty classic. The film was really nothing like I had imagined. I thought Phoenix was going to be the audience insertion/identification figure, but he was nothing like that.
I think Hoffman's performance was really great for the way his character tried to appear endlessly wise, jolly and generous, but his rage gets the better of him and I think those scenes of him awkwardly losing it are some of the best in the film.
I heard different takes on how much this was a critique of scientology/Hubbard. I think there is quite a lot of it, but it doesnt really seem like a main goal. Hubbard was quite open with friends and family about his cynical moneymaking scheme but Hoffman's character appears to have deluded himself. Hoffman's child in the film has a similar appalled stance as Hubbard's own children.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Wednesday, 5 February 2014 16:10 (ten years ago) link
well it's harder to make an ambitious film about a con man than about a "visionary" who at least partly believes his own shit. I guess Elmer Gantry is the first exception that comes to mind, but it has Burt Lancaster lusting, tumbling and shouting all over the place.
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 5 February 2014 16:16 (ten years ago) link
well it's harder to make an ambitious film about a con man than about a "visionary" who at least partly believes his own shit
Why not both?
http://www.cinema.indiana.edu/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/jpg34
― Eric H., Wednesday, 5 February 2014 16:28 (ten years ago) link
The film was really nothing like I had imagined. I thought Phoenix was going to be the audience insertion/identification figure, but he was nothing like that.
maybe not for yoooou
― mh, Wednesday, 5 February 2014 16:33 (ten years ago) link
yup, at the time it befuddled both packed theaters i saw it with, none of my PTA-loving friends were into it, i was disappointed, but it seemed like a movie that would make more sense in time…now that this has happened, that process will no doubt be expedited…
― i also enjoy in line skateing (spazzmatazz), Wednesday, 5 February 2014 16:36 (ten years ago) link
The Master felt more like the story of an alcoholic and his perfect antagonist than a shot at Scientology.
Good interview with his acting coach (with shitty URL name).
Also, four arrests.
― tbd (Eazy), Wednesday, 5 February 2014 17:02 (ten years ago) link
none of my PTA-loving friends were into it
interesting. i lean towards anti-PTA and i thought it was pretty awesome.
― goole, Wednesday, 5 February 2014 17:08 (ten years ago) link
The Master was great but it is pretty slow so definitely watch it only on a good stereo system/tv setup, like if you saw it on a laptop you might enjoy it but you might fall asleep.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 5 February 2014 17:29 (ten years ago) link
re: four arrestsgood info, but no thanks for telling us "what we're learning"
― we slowly invented brains (La Lechera), Wednesday, 5 February 2014 17:30 (ten years ago) link
friend on FB:
Well, it looks like we got a couple of heroin dealers off the street, so Philip Seymour Hoffman's death wasn't completely in vain. Cold comfort to the families of the many who die of overdoses without anyone batting an eye, but that's what they get for not being celebrities.
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 5 February 2014 17:44 (ten years ago) link
What an asshole.
― the "Weird Al" Yankovic of country music (stevie), Wednesday, 5 February 2014 17:51 (ten years ago) link
do you know Richard Pryor's "My GOD, it's an EPIDEMIC!" bit? Asshole too i guess.
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 5 February 2014 17:54 (ten years ago) link
xp That doesn't feel asshole-ish to me tbh? Maybe I'm not getting it?
― Orson Wellies (in orbit), Wednesday, 5 February 2014 17:56 (ten years ago) link
List of threads to avoid if X, Y and Z ppl are on em is gettin' real fucking long.
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 5 February 2014 17:59 (ten years ago) link
so why don't you avoid them?
― da croupier, Wednesday, 5 February 2014 18:02 (ten years ago) link
False Equivalency Twitter is having a field day with observations like "hey why didn't they find Whitney Houston's dealer? make you think huh"
― scott c-word (some dude), Wednesday, 5 February 2014 18:03 (ten years ago) link
http://rand.info/rands/images/marx.jpeg
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 5 February 2014 18:04 (ten years ago) link
stevie 100% otm obv
― indifferent strokes (rip van wanko), Wednesday, 5 February 2014 18:14 (ten years ago) link
#falseequivalencytwitter
― i have the new brutal HOOS if you want it (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Wednesday, 5 February 2014 18:16 (ten years ago) link
look forward to seeing this on counterpunch in a day or two
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Wednesday, 5 February 2014 18:26 (ten years ago) link
he isn't nearly as left as i am, but he would say sayonara to this board in about 5 minutes.
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 5 February 2014 18:28 (ten years ago) link