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Make good stuff, then make it easy for people to buy it. There’s your anti-piracy plan.
– Jonathan Coulton, definitively. (via merlin)(via merlin)
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Ben and Blake’s Ticket Fridge 2011
13 movies
Black Swan - 20/1
True Grit - 5/2
Sucker Punch - 15/4
Fast Five - 22/4
Thor - 11/5
Transformers Dark of the Moon - 3/7
Captain America - 31/7
Rise of the Planet of the Apes - 10/8
X-Men First Class - 6/10
Contagion - 23/10
Inception (Rooftop) - 7/12
Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol - 19/12
The Adventures of Tintin - 27/12
3 Sporting Events (all-time low)
A-League Grand Final (Roar vs Mariners) - 13/3
Super 15 Queensland Reds vs Warratahs - 23/4
Super 15 Queensland Reds vs Brumbies - 4/6
3 Art Gallery Exhibitions
Surrealism GOMA - 3/7
Henri Cartier-Bresson QAG - 23/10
Matisse Drawing Life GOMA - 28/12
3 Concerts
Mos Def: The Ecstatic Tour - 26/1
Zan Lyons vs. Blade Runner - 25/2
Bliss N’ Eso - 10/6
1 Vaguely homoerotic personally addressed flyer from the Brisbane Lions
1 Slightly evocative message from Stamford hotel concierge - 27/6
1 Cadel Evans face-mask - 13/8
Blake’s first business class upgrade - 3/10
Blake’s Platinum Frequent Flyer achievement unlock - 5/12
1 Joke Greeting Card referencing to Skyrim - 27/11
Any number of restaurant business cards and Qantas boarding passes
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My top 10 movies of 2011
alphabetically….
The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn
Another Earth
Contagion
Drive
Hanna
The Ides of March
Margin Call
Midnight in Paris
Source Code
Win Win
Honourable Mentions: Attack the Block, Hesher, The Rise of the Planet of the Apes
Movie I would recommend to everyone: Another Earth
Best Comic Book Movie: X-Men: First Class
Best 3D: Tintin (animated), Transformers: Dark of the Moon (live-action)
Number 1: Drive
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1/2 a day of work left for the year and new The Weeknd. Life is good.
http://the-weeknd.com/ (http://hulkshare.com/wyqfsf4ovgiz/ZpO3e2dAqv0p.zip)
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Aziz Ansari and Matthew Shawver present…
Emojis in Paris (N*ggas in Paris Remix)
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My new cookbook
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Vonnegut’s Firefighters
“I can think of no more stirring symbol of man’s humanity to man
than a fire engine.” — Kurt Vonnegut, The New Inquiry -
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Misogynistic board game jokes… the ladies must love you.
Blake made me do it.
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True ‘dat.
