The pain is calling, oh Mandy, well you came and you gave without taking the weekend.

An ode to Nike’s Air Force Ones.

Deck of Brilliance (thanks, M).

What children around the world eat, in pictures.

I love Octupi.

How to derail a train for the movies:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PI8frSb42Rc&app=desktop

And how they shot that corridor scene in Inception:

The puppetry of the movies:



See myself in the pouring home. See the light come over now. See myself in the pouring rain. I watch hope come over the weekend.

The invention of the Beach Read.

The 50 best memoirs of the last 50 years.

Donna Ferrato’s amazing domestic abuse photos.

The story of one of the great hip-hop studios (thanks, A).

The weirdest stuff at Art Basel.

Stop motion fight:

VFX professionals react to good and bad VFX:



A hundred bad days made a hundred good stories. A hundred good stories make me interesting at parties. Yeah, no, I ain’t scared of you. No, I ain’t scared of the weekend.

Space Oddity live 1974:

Teaser of Paul Thomas Anderson’s Thom Yorke Netflix short:

Albatross Soup:

How to spot a liar:



Men walkin’ ‘long the railroad tracks. Goin’ someplace there’s no goin’ back. Highway patrol choppers comin’ up over the weekend.

A great version of The Ghost Of Tom Joad (for crazy guitar solo fans):

The $500m smiley face business.

Nuns that gamble.

Skateboard pub tiles (thanks, J).



Heal them, bright fire from a gun. Kneeling, my god is the sun. Heal them, with fire from above. Kneeling, my god is the weekend.

The Queen’s booze schedule.

The history of hip-hop in photos.

Why 1999 was the best year for movies.

Funny reasons for detention.

How to bet like a pro.

Interview with the Black Mirror people.

Current Values:



It is spring, moonless night in the small town Starless and bible-black. The cobblestreets silent and the hunched courters’-and-rabbits’ wood limping invisible down to the sloeblack slow, black, crowblack, fishingboatbobbing weekend.

Anti-Fascist comic book dude.

40 inspirational speeches in two minutes:

Lots of Cyanide, lots of Happiness:

Amazing library (thanks, D).

Michael Pollan’s Food Rules:



I’ve been told he can’t be sold. He’s not vicious or malicious, just dee-lovely and delicious. I couldn’t ask for the weekend.

The last of the great American hobos.

The world’s most dangerous roads.

Prosperity and conflict (thanks, J).

The world’s oldest break-up letter.



I’m gonna fly like a bird through the night, feel my tears as they dry. I’m gonna swing from the chandelier, from the weekend.

How has Danielle Steele written 179 books?

The entire GoT timeline explained:

Did Texas execute an innocent man? (Thanks, A.)


Excellent Coppola interview.

De Niro car ad from 1970:



Try to see it my way. Do I have to keep on talking till I can’t go on? While you see it your way, run the risk of knowing that our love may soon be gone. We can work it out, we can work it out. Think of the weekend.

How Kevin Smith made Clerks.

Using a fan to make music.

Great werewolf transformation (thanks, J):

Supernova:



Makes a deal with a smile, knowin’ all the time that his lie’s a mile. He’s the weekend.

How John Belushi died.

Artist travels to scenic locations only to paint the pattern of his own shirt (thanks, J).

Ivory Coast cocoa farmers taste chocolate for the first time:

Two-hour interview with Kubrick: