Ink-Stained Wretch

Dirty deeds were done, dirt cheap.

(Taken from some beautiful mug-shots of Australian prisoners circa 1920, posted on La Boite Verte.)

Bam.

I read this play, some time ago. It always amazes me how a good actor can take even a small word and inflect it in ways that aren’t immediately apparent on the page.

Finally, a holiday movie I can embrace.

Neill Blomkamp, the dude who created District 9, has a supremely, er, gooey teaser drifting around the Internets (from io9 via Wired).

This is part two of the same short film/ad. Very Lost Highway-style late-’90s neo noir, despite it being shot in 2004.

Apparently, Robert Downey Jr. shot an extended ad for Volvo in 2004. It’s very David Lynch meets, well, a Volvo ad. With an emphasis on David Lynch.

Thirty seconds later, down came the frogs.

When they finally broke onto the porch, she was nowhere to be seen. They did, however, find a lively plant sprouting from the gray astroturf.