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Culture Lab: 'Extract' - Mike Judge
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Growth Serum For Your Neurons. Extract' - Mike Judge. I'm a pretty big fan of Mike Judge. Being at least partially from Texas, I always thought King of the Hill. Was a funny and poignant take on a 'typical' Texan family. In addition to being hilarious, Office Space. Spoke to my generation's distrust of 'adult life' like few films have before or since. I even thought Idiocracy. And Beavis and Butthead. Make something so. bland? He's boring, never really funny, and his exasperated face gets old, quick....
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Culture Lab: June 2009
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Growth Serum For Your Neurons. The Game - Neil Strauss. And because of this book. A pickup artist is someone who develops certain lines, strategies and skills to be able to attract and seduce women. If this sounds creepy, it is. Is the writer Neil Strauss' introduction to, and development within the pickup community. Strauss is a writer for Rolling Ston. And found Mystery to be equally ridiculous and fascinating. Just look at his outfits! Blue Velvet - David Lynch. The terrible Twin Peaks. Is probably hi...
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Culture Lab: The West Wing: Seasons 1-3 - Aaron Sorkin
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Growth Serum For Your Neurons. The West Wing: Seasons 1-3 - Aaron Sorkin. Back in when I was in secondary school, everyone in my family had 'their show'. We didn't have cable, and weren't really prodigious television watchers so everyone ended up having one show they were really into. As stated before, I was a Buffy. Person. My sister (although she watched TV less than everyone else) was a Friends. Person (which I also occasionally participated in) and my Mom was always a West Wing. Unlike most creative ...
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Culture Lab: February 2010
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Growth Serum For Your Neurons. Extract' - Mike Judge. I'm a pretty big fan of Mike Judge. Being at least partially from Texas, I always thought King of the Hill. Was a funny and poignant take on a 'typical' Texan family. In addition to being hilarious, Office Space. Spoke to my generation's distrust of 'adult life' like few films have before or since. I even thought Idiocracy. And Beavis and Butthead. Make something so. bland? He's boring, never really funny, and his exasperated face gets old, quick....
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Culture Lab: August 2009
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Growth Serum For Your Neurons. Ponyo - Hayao Miyazaki. As I have hinted at before, I have tried to get into Japanesse Anime but mostly have come upon a wall of failure. Now I won't claim to have viewed every Anime movie and series worth seeing, but I have come across a few that I like and everything else I have absolutely hated. Besides Cowboy Bebop. Miyazaki is pretty prolific, and his multitude of films have included My Neighbor Totoro. As such, Ponyo. But really, you're not going to see Ponyo. Is beca...
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Culture Lab: Early Cancellation: Bane or Boon?
http://gouis.blogspot.com/2010/03/early-cancellation-bane-or-boon.html
Growth Serum For Your Neurons. Early Cancellation: Bane or Boon? Having recently finished watching the entire run of Arrested Development. I started thinking about why it seems that so many beloved and acclaimed shows appear to pass on before it is their time to do so. Firefly, Arrested Development. Wonder Falls, Veronica Mars. Maybe), Freaks and Geeks. Before I go into these shows in general, I'd like to first discuss what is perhaps the most famous (infamous? And was without a laugh track. One coul...
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Culture Lab: October 2009
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Growth Serum For Your Neurons. Eating the Dinosaur - Chuck Klosterman. On the back cover of Chuck Klosterman's newest book there is a fake question and answer with the writer. Besides containing some of the typical smartassness found in Klosterman's writing there is the following section discussing the book's theme:. Q: Is there a larger theme? A: Oh, something about reality. "What is reality," maybe? Compared to the other books of his that I have read ( Killing Yourself to Live and Sex. He stays much mo...
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Culture Lab: July 2009
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Growth Serum For Your Neurons. Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card. As a child I never really read 'young adult' fiction. I went straight from reading kids books to reading Lonesome Dove. And Stephen King novels. In middle school I even had an English teacher that would question my reading list for the journal entries we were to write for class. Mr. Hillenburg. Wrote 'this book might be inappropriate, do your parents know you're reading this' in my first Lonesome Dove. But I sure enjoyed reading them. As we ...
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Culture Lab: May 2009
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Growth Serum For Your Neurons. Broca's Brain - Carl Sagan. The pain of childbirth is especially marked in human mothers because of the enormous recent growth of the brain in the last few million years. It would seem that our intelligence is the source of our unhappiness in an almost literal way; but it would also imply that our unhappiness is the source of our strength as a species -. A whole chapter on how we name craters on the Moon? These mystical insights must mean something. But what? Before going i...
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Culture Lab: April 2010
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Growth Serum For Your Neurons. Early Cancellation: Bane or Boon? Having recently finished watching the entire run of Arrested Development. I started thinking about why it seems that so many beloved and acclaimed shows appear to pass on before it is their time to do so. Firefly, Arrested Development. Wonder Falls, Veronica Mars. Maybe), Freaks and Geeks. Before I go into these shows in general, I'd like to first discuss what is perhaps the most famous (infamous? And was without a laugh track. One coul...
