glumshoe:

bigscaryd:

zerofarad:

whofan26:

robstmartin:

tilthat:

TIL The Beatles approached Stanley Kubrick to direct a LOTR movie starring themselves. Tolkien killed the project as a result of his hate for The Beatles. A hate developed after moving 3 doors down from The Beatles in 1964, who irked him with the “indescribable” noise from their practice sessions.

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the man who spents hundreds of pages describing trees and meals and worked out the linguistics of multiple fictional languages and the entire cosmology of his fictionsl world called the Beatles’ rehearsal sounds “indescribable”

You lost me at “Lord of the Rings starring The Beatles”

a window into the not so distant world where lord of the rings is a classic of hippie stoner counterculture

I honestly can’t tell if that last post is a joke.

According to Peter Jackson, Paul wanted to play Frodo, Ringo wanted to play Sam, George wanted to play Gandalf, and… John wanted to play Gollum.

This was a real thing that people wanted to actually happen. And by “people”, I think that mostly meant John Lennon and no one else. 

roxilalonde:

roxilalonde:

there’s a line in twilight that goes “there was nothing more beautiful than Edward in his khakis and pale
beige pullover” and i think about that every day of my life

like stephanie meyer really did go “hmm. what’s the absolute sexiest garment i can think of. the most gorgeous clothes imaginable. how do i communicate how absolutely fucking fine edward looks at all times” and then 0.5 seconds later she went “oh, of course. khakis”

carry-on-my-wayward-artblog:

ghost-with-the-toast:

carry-on-my-wayward-artblog:

Batman is cool and all, but how does Bruce Wayne treat his low wage workers

Pretty well, if I remember rightly. 

I’m working off memory here, but he hires ex-cons and former sex-workers (giving one young woman a business card as Batman and telling her Wayne Industries was hiring receptionists), pays for his employees’ scholarships, hires people released from Arkham, made sure no employees were sacked when WI took over GothCorp after their CEO was fired, hired a bunch of homeless guys he met while undercover as a homeless guy (investigating the kidnapping of Gotham’s homeless, which turned out to be a slavery/human trafficking ring).

He also runs the Thomas/Martha Wayne Foundations, which provide cheap medical clinics and soup kitchens across Gotham. Both fall under the Wayne Foundation: The primary aims of the foundation are, globally, to enhance healthcare and reduce extreme poverty, to expand educational opportunities and access to information technology, and to fund scientific research and help altruistic people with research by providing facilities and training.

According to Wikipedia, his company is researching cures to HIV/AIDs and alternative fuel sources, if that helps any.

Excellent comment 10/10, good to know Batman is awesome