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So the duck ate a worm with a funny marking that makes it look like a face..? What's the big deal? "It's an Alien head!"
Review of Drawing Restraint 9
Choke me if I sound too pretentious... Perhaps those words should have been uttered by Matthew Barney or his female life mate Bjork. I for one really enjoyed the film. Having learned a great deal about Barney's work when I TAed an Art History class (for which Nick was...
"It's a nuthouse [Hollywood]. The other day a man phoned and wanted me to endorse a certain brand of cigarettes. I had nothing against them and in fact will smoke them or anything else that comes along, but I didn't know why he was bothering me. I thought maybe if I...
This is one of the saddest things I've heard in forever. If Moe's closes next then good-bye Berkeley... Cody's Books Closing.
This is pretty pathetic American's score poorly in Geography. "Thirty-three percent of respondents couldn't pinpoint Louisiana on a map."
Review of Hard Candy
Warning! I usually hate the idea of spoiler warnings. I feel like as a former student of film I've had so many plots ruined before hand that I'm kinda numb to the idea of ruining the experience of a film. I feel like I'm sort of halfway between enjoying and analyzing...
I like to periodically check my stats page for my website natecooper.net. One of my favorite things to look at is the "Search Strings" that provide hits to my site. These are the types of searches people do when my site returns a hit meaning that there is something on...
Definition of Hella... I've been talking with G-dawg a lot of the proper uses of hella. What's interesting is that when people from socal or other places use it (my ex for instance) it sometimes feels forced. When trying to figure out why it feels forced I come up...
NIHILIST JOB RÉSUMÉ
GTA does not a good driver make.
Review of Why We Fight
This past weekend I had the pleasure of seeing two movies which I feel operate on similar levels and so rather than doing one single review I'll combine the two. "Why We Fight" is a documentary on the dangers that were alluded to by President Eisenhower way back in...
Review of Thank You for Smoking
I wrote a review for "Why We Fight" and "Thank You for Smoking simultaneously. You can find the dual review here: http://natecooper.net/nate2/04/03/2006/103
Man! Wikipedia has an entry covering EVERY topic! The Meaning of Life
Most people think they are better than average. Those who actually are better than average think they are average or that everyone performs at their skill level.
The mullet come-back
Maps of Santa Cruz
My previous post about what to call my neighborhood inspired me to layout Santa Cruz in a logical arranging of neighborhoods based upon how I know them and how I've been explained its been laid out. First We have all heard the stories of East-side Vs. West-side. But...
Whats in a Name?
I've heard many names for my neighborhood but nothing really sticks. There needs to be some balance between horribly ghetto and not "too" ghetto. I think this is the problem of labeling. Its not the best neighborhood but its not the worst ever. I live on the corner of...
Interesting article on Chaos Theory (From Digg) Favorite line from article: "A fractional dimension is impossible to conceive, but it does make sense." Also it has a reference to UCSC! 🙂