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47 Good Movies Currently Available on Netflix Instant

Bernie

The Queen of Versailles

Tim & Eric’s Billion Dollar Movie

I’m Still Here

Battle Royale

RoboCop

Jiro Dreams of Sushi

Capote

The Making of South Park: 6 Days to Air

UHF

Being Elmo

Drive

Clueless

Bill Cunningham New York

Page One: Inside the New York Times

The Thing

Paranormal Activity 2

Paranormal Activity 3

Conan O’Brien Can’t Stop

Reservoir Dogs

Half Nelson

This is Spinal Tap

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Adaptation

Being John Malkovich

Memento

Casa de mi Padre

Wet Hot American Summer

Raising Arizona

Team America: World Police

South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut

Punch-Drunk Love

Lars and the Real Girl

Mulholland Dr.

True Grit

Chinatown

Brick

Barton Fink

Blue Valentine

Series 7

The Muppet Movie

Bottle Rocket

Me and You and Everyone We Know

The Conversation

Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work

Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol

Donnie Darko

Super 8

Billy (4 of 11)

- from FUN CAMP

(By the way, I am as offended as you are. Not cool, Billy.)

Letter #1, Letter #2, Letter #3

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Will Ferrell Movies from Least Favorite to Favorite

** Movies where he’s in a starring role. Haven’t seen Land of the Lost, Everything Must Go, or Bewitched. **

Semi-Pro

Kicking and Screaming

Melinda and Melinda

Superstar

A Night at the Roxbury

The Campaign

Blades of Glory

Old School

Stranger Than Fiction

Elf

Step Brothers

Casa de mi Padre

The Other Guys

Talladega Nights

Anchorman

“Life” by Piper

This here’s a collaboration between me and my 7-year-old cousin-in-law, Piper. All lyrics hers:

LIFE

The sun is bright,

the moon is light.

The trees stand tall,

and the leaves will fall.

The birds will build nests

while the flowers just rest.

The children like to play

while the teacher looks away.

-

Piper and I have worked together before, most notably a couple years ago on the live favorite, “Everybody Makes You Cry Today,” which was unfortunately never recorded.

4 New Shorts From FUN CAMP in Heavy Feather Review 2.1

Thanks to Team Teal and Floom! These guys are from the future so you either buy the ebook or have a copy created for yourself on Lulu.

From their site:

Now available electronically via Kindle and Nook, and as a print book from Lulu.com: HFR volume two, issue one, featuring works from Brandon Amico, Jeremy Behreandt, Daniel J. Cecil, Peter Clarke, Dan Crawley, Justin Lawrence Daugherty, Colin Dodds, Gabe Durham, James Ferry, Luke Geddes, Tyler Gobble, Amanda Goldblatt, Nicholas Grider, francine j. harris, Courtney Hitson, Chas Hoppe, Mike Ingram, Matthew Jakubowski, Toshiya Kamei, Terry L. Kennedy, Andrea Kneeland, Allison Kortokrax, Eric Larsen, Erin Lyndal Martin, Megan Martin, Tom McCartan, Amanda McCormick, Patrick Milian, Nathan Moore, Brian D. Morrison, Joseph Mulholland, Alex Myers, Harmony Neal, Delaney Nolan, Daniel Scott Parker, Mark Parsons, Garrett Quinn, Timmy Reed, Daniel Romo, M.A. Schaffner, Natalie Shapero, Michael Dwayne Smith, David Frederick Thomas, David Tomaloff, Sara Uribe, Joshua Ware, Brandi Wells, and Joshua Young.

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Better Animal

And 2.5 years ago, one of Mike Young’s songs: “Better Animal”

Mike, Gale, Anne, Christy, Me.

(Source: http://www.youtube.com/)

Intervention

Cinnamon Urns, 3.5 years ago, in what was Ari and Sara’s apartment and what is now my friend Dov’s apartment.

Me, Ari, Mike, Christy, Anne. No Gale yet.

(Source: http://www.youtube.com/)

Billy (3 of 11)

- from FUN CAMP

Letter #1, Letter #2

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Notes Toward the Creation of a New Book Award

1. Get some money. Here I can’t be helpful. Where the money shouldn’t come from: Anyone with a stake in the outcome of your award, the Prestigious Prize (PP).

2. Form a small committee and together select a judge. Pick somebody smart with broad taste. Not like “He’s into BOTH McCarthy and DeLillo, amazing!” but somebody who seems to be shopping in more than one section of the book store. Somebody who’s an enthusiast, not a hater, but who’s got some critical faculties. Somebody who can talk off the cuff about their taste up to a point and then admits that whatever they like/dislike always comes down to a feeling. Auto-reject if the potential judge only reads men or only reads white people or only reads books w/ a print run < 100 or only reads books w/ a print run > 50,000. Auto-reject if you’re pretty sure you can already predict which book the judge will pick.

3. Our judge is named Dana Moxley. She’s from Fresno but went to college in Philadelphia. She’s written two books that are completely different from each other. Once she went to AWP but she didn’t love it. She doesn’t exist.

4. Don’t pick any more judges. It’s just Dana from now on.

5. Pay Dana some money up front.

6. Invite publishers to send Dana whatever books qualify. Auto-reject the books of anyone Dana goes drinking with.

7. Console Dana. There will be more books than you told her there’d be. Remind Dana that she can stop reading a book as soon as she’s sure it’s not a contender for the PP.

8. Don’t bother Dana while she’s picking her favorite. Don’t remind her of the values with which the PP was founded. Don’t use adjectives to describe the sort of book you hope she will pick.

9. Dana will pick one of the books. Don’t ask Dana to justify her choice with a formal statement. Pay Dana some more money now that she’s done.

10. Issue a press release that says, “Dana Moxley has chosen BOOK for the Prestigious Prize because it was her favorite. It is likely that there are other books she liked as well, but ultimately she chose BOOK.”

11. Dana’s choice will enrage. It will be the wrong choice. It will be A Big Win for the Establishment OR Another Award That Rewards Obscurity for the Sake of Rewarding Obscurity. Dana will be called a sheep and a dummy and worse, and commenters will share what they’ve inferred based on a single photo of Dana that appears on the PP website. It will be asked of Dana’s decision, “Is anyone surprised?” It will be declared, “This is why no one reads.”

12. A few weeks later, if Dana Moxley wants to write a short essay about what she liked about BOOK, she is welcome to do so. But remember, she’ll be pretty burnt out on the whole experience. She won’t regret having judged for the PP, but it’s not something she’d sign up for again. Wow, it took a lot of time. She calculated her hourly pay rate and had to mentally restructure the whole experience and now thinks back on it as Community Service + a little money.

13. Years later, Dana will share with you that it really hurt her feelings, all the things people said about her. “Why would they take an award so seriously?” Dana will ask you. “Don’t they know taste is mysterious?” You will pay for her drink.

14. But at least you created and executed a book award with integrity from start to finish. That’s not nothing! The market bristles any time an award suggests commerce isn’t the final word on taste, and you, Awards Committee, with the help of brave Ms. Moxley, withstood it like a champ. What other awards committee can claim that?

The Acquisitions