Human-Loving Misanthropy

A Question for Alex Karpicke

Hey Alex,

I hope you’re day has been eventful.  I’m at work so- you know.
Question: does out position paper have to be double or single-spaced?

Spike Jonze's Story in an Interview

Jonze: It’s interesting because at this point it’s being talked about. I met some guy on the subway the other day—I was waiting on the subway platform for the F train the other day, and this guy comes up to me who’s roughly my age, and he said, “Is the F train running today? God, I’ve been waiting here forever, and I’ve got to get down to this record store. It’s the only used-CD store in town.” And he was very friendly, nice guy, so I was talking to him about used-CD stores, then the guy was like, “You know what movie I can’t wait to see is Where the Wild Things Are.” And I was looking at him, trying to see—is he just messing with me now? Does he know that I made this? Or is this sincere? And so I just listened to him talk for a minute, and I said, “What made you say that?” And he said, “Oh, because I used to skate a lot, and it made me think, the director’s a skateboarder, and I like his stuff,” and I was like, “Uh-huh.” And so I’m still waiting to see, is he messing with me? And he keeps talking about the movie, and how he’s heard about it, and he’s like, “The movie’s amazing.” And I asked if he’d seen it, and he was like, “No, but I saw the trailer. I know it’s controversial—they said it’s controversial. I think something really crazy happens at the end.” [Laughter] And at this point, I’m still trying to figure out if he’s messing with me, so I’m like, “Are you f—king with me?” “No, no, they said it’s controversial,” and then he’s going on, and he’s telling me how the director made all these music videos, he made skate videos, and I finally realize that he is just genuinely being sincere, and this conversation’s gone on for 10 minutes, and I finally say, “I’m Spike, I’m the director,” and he just looked at me for a minute and he got really sincere and he’s like, “Oh, so why is it controversial?”

1000 best films

I’ve seen 108.  I hope this makes me even more of a hipster, Joe.

You probably think I love being a dick to you.  I do.

josephmichael:

I’ve seen 107 of these. Not very good compared to some. The list isn’t bad, though.