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Ignatius

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About Me


Q: What are you thinking about?
A: Oh, the usual.

My Interests

The cinema, the 21st century, everything and its opposite, the post-cinema, the library, systems of symbols, aesthetics, historicism, spoken and written language, pop music, economic status as the elephant in the room, images, criticism, sounds, words, edits, ideas, emotions, phonology / phonetics, history, auteurism, post-auteurism, anti-auteurism, falling asleep, meanings (especially accidental ones), slapstick, grimoires, dictionaries, cinema as cinema, texts, fiction as biography, novels, tea, 'pataphysics, the Christian Left, Lettrisme, hypergraphics, Scrabble and other word games, those jackets with the patches on the elbows, Tintin, conlangs, C86, your laundry, late-period Titian, early Manet, visual puns, experiences, performances, museums, Lorenzo Lotto portraits, the Canterbury Scene, the mysteries of Udolpho, handwriting analysis...

I'd like to meet:

Strangers.

Music:

Pop songs and symphonies.

Movies:

Films and videos.

Television:

Is a labyrinth.

Books:

Paperbacks.

My Blog

Song of the Day: Henry Cow, "Half Asleep / Half Awake"

It's the day after Thanksgiving, and the weather's unnaturally warm. Doesn't the end of Thanksgiving mark the beginning of Winter proper? Isn't this how these things work? God needs to take a look at ...
Posted by Ignatius on Sat, 25 Nov 2006 07:59:00 PST

Song of the Day: Joanna Newsom, "Emily"

I always ask people how if they feel different on their birthdays. It's a habit. They shrug their shoulders and then we both laugh a bit. Today is my twentieth birthday. I worked late l...
Posted by Ignatius on Tue, 05 Sep 2006 01:37:00 PST

Song of the Day: The Luv'd Ones, "Up Down Sue"

I don't have a good idea of what Char Vinnedge looks like, but I think she's incredibly sexy. I've seen a picture of the Luv'd Ones, and I assume she's the tallest one. There's another photograph I've...
Posted by Ignatius on Sat, 15 Jul 2006 04:39:00 PST

Song of the Day: The Clean, "Crazy"

Back in the spring, when warm weather was less of a reality and more of a future possibility, I'd celebrate the sunny days by listening to this song on my break at work. It's got the kind of slow rhyt...
Posted by Ignatius on Thu, 22 Jun 2006 12:55:00 PST

Song of the Day: The Beau Brummels, "Laugh, Laugh"

Eric and Matt are having a party. We had one a week or so ago, and there was a keg left over (long story), and since Eric couldn't return it to the liquor store, an imprompty soiree was staged. Matt a...
Posted by Ignatius on Sat, 28 Jan 2006 01:35:00 PST

Song of the Day: Belle & Sebastian, "Dress Up In You"

God bless the Internet, and God bless leaked albums. Like Wilco's A Ghost is Born, Radiohead's Hail to the Thief, and their own Dear Catastrophe Waitress, the Belles' new album has found its way on to...
Posted by Ignatius on Sat, 03 Dec 2005 02:13:00 PST

Song of the Day: Link Wray and His Ray Men, "Jack the Ripper"

Link Wray is dead. The grandfather of all crunchy, noisy electric guitar has passed away. "Well, he was 76," my Sensible Side says. My Sensible Side is far more successful. He's sitting in a padded a...
Posted by Ignatius on Tue, 22 Nov 2005 02:58:00 PST

Song of the Day: Galaxie 500, "Listen, The Snow Is Falling"

Galaxie 500 is a band best suited for polar opposites of weather--the songs truly seem to gain the most resonant meaning in either the most desolate, Siberian winter, or the freshest, most virginal ea...
Posted by Ignatius on Thu, 17 Nov 2005 04:19:00 PST

Song of the Day: Close Lobsters, "My Days Are Numbered"

I picked up "Diary of a Nobody," a satirical 19th century novel, at Myopic this evening. A man tipped me $50 at work for finding his lost wallet, and I've been living the life of a gadabout, going aro...
Posted by Ignatius on Tue, 15 Nov 2005 09:37:00 PST

SHORT FILM: "Boy Sleuth"

Can be viewed here.
Posted by Ignatius on Fri, 11 Nov 2005 10:01:00 PST