Holy CHRIST. This movie is the goddamn business. Ip Man is a movie about a Wing Chun master during the 1938 Japanese occupation of China. Just watched him beat down 10 guys at once in a very brutal manner.

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Late night! This debate, while less scholarly, was far more entertaining and even-handed than I expected, considering it’s with Al Sharpton. He does get schooled, though.

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On an atheist kick, I guess. This was a most fascinating debate between Christopher Hitchens and Alistair McGrath about all things religious and moral. For once it’s not a network news commentator asking Hitchens how can he have the nerve to not believe in god, but rather an intelligent former atheist who is now a theologian of note. He still appears to be out of his league, although Hitchens (as usual) comes off as a real jerk.

The full thing is here at fora.tv; it’s quite long since it’s an actual structured academic debate, but worth watching all the way through if you have a spare 90 minutes.

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Christopher Hitchens absolutely hammers a Christian talk-show host. The guy really gets served and can’t accept it. There are little bits missing but the gist is there.

Have a fully-cooked breakfast and get ready for work in under 5 minutes. If I wore pajamas, I’d take them off like that every time.

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Forget Shorter Showers

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Peach Pit – “I”
Split w/ Majmoon

My friend Jeremy dropped this in my lap. Peach Pit, a Croatian (?) math-rock band that takes the usual “weird progressions and signatures” style of math-rock music and adds a surprising amount of power and melody. This is the first track of four, and they really cover a huge amount of musical ideas over the 26 minutes they use up. It’s actually shocking how good they are sometimes.

You can download the second track here, and here’s a video of a live performance of “4x100m”. More stuff here at the Peach Pit page.

And now, conscience, I defy thee!

Young Fashion in The Relapse, John Vanbrugh