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My Interests

Music:

MUSIC: mission of burma, minutemen, eleventh dream day, volcano suns, cheater slicks, wire, flat duo jets, ornette coleman, bud melvin, come, chris brokaw, kustomized, gories, u.s.maple, pere ubu, television, naked raygun, lyres, mule, husker du, x, tom waits.....immortal lee county killers, love, velvet underground, kinks, minor threat....

...the thin man, butthole surfers, nick cave, the stooges...
...Silver Jews, Slovenly, Sorry, Human Sexual Response...

Movies:

MOVIES: Andrei Rublev, Stalker, Pickpocket, L'argent, Le Samourai, Stranger Than Paradise, Touch of Evil, Taxi Driver, Mean Streets, Aguirre the Wrath of God, Even Dwarves Started Small, Kings of the Road, The Wages of Fear...Inland Empire, Pan's Labyrinth, Out 1, Brand Upon the Brain

Heroes:

HEROES: Breugel, Matisse, Morandi, Max Beckmann, Fairfield Porter, De Kooning, Philip Guston, Cormac McCarthy, William Gaddis, Celine, Robert De Niro Sr.& Jr., Robert Bresson, Lucien Freud, Euan Uglow, Chardin, Stanley Lewis...

My Blog

Superbad vs. Rocket Science

I'm not usually one to compare movies since each has it's own intent, yet sometimes there's enough thematic or stylistic common ground to warrant some discussion. In this case both Superba...
Posted by Dmitry Samarov on Thu, 23 Aug 2007 07:01:00 PST

Two Ways to Bring Democracy to America

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Posted by Dmitry Samarov on Tue, 10 Jul 2007 02:00:00 PST

Movies That You Loved....

Every so often it occurs to me that my views don't tend to jibe with those held by most of the populace. Frequently this is evident in reactions to films, so here are a few recent examples:I. Th...
Posted by Dmitry Samarov on Sun, 17 Jun 2007 01:07:00 PST

Willem DeKooning

Posted by Dmitry Samarov on Thu, 14 Jun 2007 07:07:00 PST

Eduard Manet

Posted by Dmitry Samarov on Thu, 14 Jun 2007 07:05:00 PST

Jacques Rivette's Out 1

A few weeks ago I spent the better part of a weekend at the Film Center watching Rivette's 12 hour film "Out 1"...Why would anyone want to spend 12 hours over two days in a movie theater? Well.....
Posted by Dmitry Samarov on Fri, 08 Jun 2007 02:42:00 PST

My Love Hotel on Wheels

I picked them up in Wrigleyville after another Cubs loss...An average looking couple, probably in their early thirties...they wanted to go to Union Station, so off we went...No more than a minute in, ...
Posted by Dmitry Samarov on Wed, 06 Jun 2007 12:35:00 PST

The List Makers

This week I listened to a show called "Filmspotting" on the radio...It's two guys talking about film, but what stuck in my mind was a list that they had made of the Top Five most memorable chara...
Posted by Dmitry Samarov on Tue, 15 May 2007 06:41:00 PST

A Day in Artropolis

Yesterday, as in pretty much every year about this time, I gritted my teeth and went to Art Chicago...This year, for reasons known only to the savvy marketeers behind the scenes, it's been renam...
Posted by Dmitry Samarov on Tue, 01 May 2007 10:59:00 PST

SCAMMED!!

About a month ago I was contacted by a woman named Deborah Clef...She wanted to purchase some artwork that she had seen on my website...We settled on a price and she said she would send me a postal mo...
Posted by Dmitry Samarov on Tue, 27 Mar 2007 05:32:00 PST