June 2009
15 posts
chih:
Holy Ghost People, 1967
This documentary has pretty much assumed the status of anthropological gem. I’ve been looking for this on the Internet for a year now. We viewed this in The Anthropology of Witchcraft, Magic and Religion as critical commentary on how this specific pocket of people in Scrabble Creek, West Virginia confronted extreme unemployment and poverty through the 1960’s. ...
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Reza Aslan is often quite awesome. →
J: It was a happy day my day
P: oh man I miss Happy Days.
P: Oh that reminds me, about Happy Days. ! I used to think it was really filmed in the 50s.
P: :/
J: Hooooollly shit
P: Yeah. I don't have any excuse for myself.
P: I watched it A LOT when I was a kid, when I had no cable. And the tv I watched had, like, three channels. [my life = hard!!] And during the day when there was nothing to do I'd watch, like. Happy Days, and I Love Lucy, and The Andy Griffith Show reruns. All together, back to back. So I just ASSUMED they were all the same? I guess?
J: Wow
J: Woww
J: It never dawned on you that RON HOWARD was in BOTH SHOWS and in Happy Days he was magically like ten years older??
P: HAHAH...
P: fuck.
P: I swear to god it hadn't dawned on me until just now.
J: Amazing
P: holy shit.
P: You just completely blew my mind right there.
J: LIKEWISE
supahswank:
Jesus fuck, how do people routinely wake up at this time of day? Since I graduated high school, when my overly persistent mother served double-duty as my overly persistent alarm clock, I don’t think I’ve been up before 7:45, and that only happens after an hour and a half of pressing the snooze button on each of my several alarms.
(Relatedly, how fucking weird of a word is snooze....
We’ve been together for eight years, but I’m not married. It is a long-term...
– Anna Friel, when asked “are you married?”
One thing I respect is other people’s phobias.
– Habel Con Ella
All I wanna do is graduate from high school, move to Europe, marry Christian...
– Movie-Buffy was the fucking queen, don’t even try denying that.