The company of myself is wonderful and a heartbreaking experience. [via]
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To put right what once went wrong
Christopher Bird at Mighty God King gives us the sublime Scenes From An Alternate Universe Where The Beatles Accepted Lorne Michaels’ Generous Offer. [via]
A lot of people are shocked by the result of this week’s show and are angry at Simon Cowell’s decision to keep John and Edward despite his harsh criticism of them for the past couple of months.
I’m shocked that Lucie was even in the bottom two as she is clearly the best girl in the competition and I think in the top 3 of all the contestants. However I wasn’t surprised with Cowell’s vote once she was in the bottom two because in spite of what people think this is a popularity contest not a talent contest.
Cowell knows this and this is why in situation like this he always votes to cause a deadlock so that it comes down to the public vote. He’s in the business of selling records and the person that sells the most isn’t necessarily the most talented person in the competition it is the most popular.
I don’t think that it really as simple as that though as previous years have shown that the winner will not be consistently
Finally I think Simon Cowell has his eyes on John and Edward releasing a massive selling novelty Christmas record.
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Don’t talk to the police
Reading a passage in Homicide about how the detectives go about getting confessions from their suspects despite their right to remain silent brought to mind the following lecture given by Law professor James Duane on how you should never under any circumstance talk to the police.
The second half of the lecture was given over to Officer George Bruch who pretty much agreed with the professor but hoped that suspects wouldn’t take his advice. [via]
David Simon’s book Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets is where it all started, it is the book that directly spawned two of the best TV shows of the past 15 years and influenced many others.
A brilliant piece of non-fiction following one of the shifts of the city of Baltimore’s homicide detectives for a whole year. A compelling year of stories of tragedy which paradoxically was unremarkable for all the detectives but for the rookie Tom Pellegrini, whose first case as primary was a the rape and murder of an 11-year old girl that was never solved and probably still haunts him to this day.
Simon takes what could be a quite dry subject because real life is nothing like as dramatic as like on TV, even in the cases of The Wire and Homicide: Life on the Streets, and creates an enormously readable book because he understands that at its core each and every murder is a story of human beings.
Fans who own this pair of sunglasses, we are the one who is breaking the true principle of “Fight Club”. We are buying shit that we don’t need. We are buying items to complete our boring sad lives. We are just sad “Fight Club” imitators who wanted to be cool. We are nothing like Tyler Durden or ever will be. The fact, Tyler Durden hates us.
“Fight Club” is not about imitating Tyler Durden. It is about reinforce his perception of life and live unwastefully.
