sunday short stack

"Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit." - Norman Mailer

• On the subject of David Mitchell, here are his six favorite books (although I think it's probably more accurately his six most obscure favorites).
• If Movie Titles Were Honest...
• Creepiosity: Nerve's Guide to the Unintentionally Creepy
• Ten of the Best Nameless Protagonists in Literature
• In development...Six illustrated versions of Blood Meridian
• Jane Austen's Fight Club
• 10 Steamiest Moments in Southern Literature
• Watch Bad Day, a 1986 short film by Exene starring John Doe as “Tripped-out Cowboy Priest.”
• 25 Songs for 25 Cities
• I'm terribly sad I won't be watching Mad Men tonight with millions of other people, so I'll have to settle for this Mad Men inspired reading list.

hero worship

Skylight has been kind enough to post a recording of the reading here.

sunday short stack

"No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one." - Elbert Hubbard

• It's true - Tim Tykwer is adapting Cloud Atlas from a script written with the Wachowski Brothers. Whoa. (And don't miss David Mitchell at Skylight on July 21st!)
• The 10 Most Unconventional Movie Trailers of the Past Decade
• C'mon, everyone was thinking it: "Pregnant Women Are Smug"
• Sex and the City 2 actually wasn't as bad as I feared, but here are 20 Gal-Pal Movies to Watch Instead
• 12 Terrifying Jell-O Recipes
• Just because there hasn't been a short stack since this came out...The New Yorker's 20 Writers Under 40
• How to Use a Semicolon (The Most Feared Punctuation on Earth) and introducing...The Friendly Period
• The 19 Most Hilariously Failed Attempts at Sexy Album Covers