Jason Cosper

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  • Pitchfork Etiquette

    If you don’t have anything nice to say, let a YouTube video of a monkey drinking its own urine do it for you. [via]

  • Marie Antoinette

    I don’t care if the French booed it at Cannes — I’m really looking forward to Sofia Coppola’s Marie Antoinette. The 75% Rotten Tomatoes seems to be pretty positive, although I’m sure that’ll fluctuate a bit as more critics weigh in on it. I’ve never really cared much about what critics have had to say tho. *shrug*

  • Cracked Eggs

    Songbird DJ

    While Songbird is straight up crashtastic on both my Dual G5 at work and my Powerbook at home, it really shows a lot of promise as far as media players go. Do yourself a favor and check out the screencast if you have a few minutes.

    I’m looking forward to seeing this mature and not be so crashy. Hopefully that day will come sooner rather than later…

  • Hard Candy

    I’ve been wanting to see this one for a while now, but I told Sarah that I’d wait so we could see it together. While the scores on Metacritic seem to be a bit mixed, it still looked like the sort of movie I’d actually enjoy.

    And I really don’t care what most reviews say anyhow. Despite being a bit of a critic myself, I know that most people’s tastes are subjective. Anyhow, I finally gave in and managed to score a copy from a couple of peers — if you know what I mean — that the girl and I managed to watch over the weekend.

    And you know what? I’m pretty damn happy that I finally got around to seeing it. It really was a pretty good but slightly flawed psychological thriller.

    P.S. For those of you who don’t want to deal with the pixelated YouTube video up above, there are higher quality versions of the trailer on Apple’s site.

  • Links for 2006-09-30

  • Archival Gomi: 10 Questions With Eric Kleptone

    You know, I realized the other day that I’d managed to lose a few pretty decent posts when I decided to stop doing Gomi No Sensei as my day to day blog. Furthermore completely shutting off the archives from the outside world probably wasn’t the best move — even if it did get rid of a few moments and posts that I wasn’t exactly proud of.

    So in the interest of preservation, I’ve decided to go ahead and dust off a few of those 1334 old posts and run them here. This first one is an interview with Eric Kleptone — who as part of The Kleptones has released two albums and three limited release EPs since — from almost 2 years ago to the day. Enjoy!

    Originally Published: September 28th, 2004

    Move over “Grey Album”, The Kleptones “A Night At The Hip-Hopera” seems to be gathering plenty of buzz with the cool kids in intarwebland. I was lucky enough to exchange some mail with Eric Kleptone who agreed to answer a handful of my amateurish questions.

    The answers he returned to me were as extensive and well thought out as the mix he contributed to. With his permission, I’ve gone ahead and reproduced our impromptu Q and A below. I hope you enjoy it.

    Okay, seriously. Why Queen?

    Erm…why not? It was a combination of things — we chanced on some really good source material to start with, and we’re already huge fans anyway — I’ve been listening to Queen since I was knee-high. They made so much excellent and varied music during their existance that we knew we could do something that had a good range to it — it wouldn’t get boring after a couple of tracks.

    Also it was light years away from The Lips…and we wanted something that had stuff on it that people could get down with, and that we could take out and DJ.

    (more…)

  • Links for 2006-09-29

  • Subway Ride

    I’ve been doing a little noodling with iMovie lately and I managed to turn an old quiet .mpg into a nice little clip. I’m nowhere close to becoming one of those dorky vloggers, but becoming familiar with the tools may inspire me to post a little more than just photos and text here. *shrug*

  • Phone Etiquette

    Dear Unidentified Caller,

    If you’re gonna call me more than half a dozen times from an unlisted number over the course of 10 minutes, please have the dignity to leave a fucking message. If you really wanted to talk to me, you would have the common decency to do that at the very least.

    KTHXBYE,
    Jason

  • Nibbles The Goat

    Sarah tried to make friends with a goat over the weekend. The goat had other ideas tho…