sittin by the Window |
Sipping cappucino with my friend Wen by the window of a real yuppie joint. When a respectably bohemian cutie comes by and raps softly. Cigarette betwixt her scraggly gloved fingers, she forms a heart ...
Posted by on Tue, 09 Jan 2007 22:17:00 GMT |
sticky thoughts |
In Terry Gilliam's Brazil, there is a memorable dream sequence in which the protagonist imagines himself being saved from the clutches of bureaucracy by the de Niro character. At a certain point in th...
Posted by on Sun, 07 Jan 2007 15:17:00 GMT |
Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert are the only news anchors |
A commonplace among "media gurus" these days consists in noting the decline of "serious broadcast news." Turning away from the usual talking heads, today's "youth" prefers the infotainment provided by...
Posted by on Wed, 03 Jan 2007 15:17:00 GMT |
Spike and Ernst |
Last night, Jungle Fever and Mo' Better Blues came on. Having seen the latter film so many times, it was Jungle Fever that particularly hit like a heart attack.
There is nothing so strange that I can...
Posted by on Tue, 26 Dec 2006 21:30:00 GMT |
To understand and to understand are two different things |
"Censor yourself and you become a candidate for mediocrity," says Neil Simon
Incontestably, a powerful truth. All the more so because there are many, close and far, who I wish might engage ...
Posted by on Sun, 24 Dec 2006 15:01:00 GMT |
Children are absolutely necessary |
Children are not on my horizon, but their necessity for the over 25 crowd is obvious to me now. Simply put, nothing is more infuriating, more aggravating than the futile attempt to make decisions on t...
Posted by on Sun, 24 Dec 2006 14:14:00 GMT |
Impending Examination |
My mind feels like a 19th Century boiler machine deep in the bowels of a luxury ocean liner whose exploited workers have deserted in protest over the inequitable usurpation of their labour-power.
Posted by on Fri, 15 Dec 2006 11:28:00 GMT |
Something's missing alright |
So bizarre, when watching a film a second time, experiencing that discrepancy between one's first and second impression. I mean, of course I subscribe to the precariousness of interpretation...
Posted by on Sat, 25 Nov 2006 20:09:00 GMT |
six feet under |
Amazing, in a way, that Six Feet Under managed to be a hit show. Amazing because, unlike most any other realistic show I can think of, Six Feet Under is really, excuse the pun, life-like.
Not very am...
Posted by on Mon, 13 Nov 2006 21:03:00 GMT |
Soviets and us |
Watching an eighties cold war flick with Michael Caine. Depiction of some characters inside Russia. Fairly high-ranking officials, living an everyday life. Let us presume that for Soviet society ...
Posted by on Mon, 30 Oct 2006 13:45:00 GMT |
