Two texts are now sitting on my desk. They are still and inert — like rectangular paperweights. I would like to activate them, to mingle their pages. I would like to set them, if only momentarily, into motion. * The first text in front of me is a little gem of a book: Paul Scheerbart’s The Perpetual Motion [...]
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A D & Jeremy Talk about Movies: Source Code, Friends, Woody Allen, The Man from London, Sucker Punch, Zardoz, Tron, Willow, and Shoot ‘Em Up
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged A D & Jeremy Talk about Movies, A D Jameson, AMC River East 21, Applebee's, Avatar, Bass/Rankin, Béla Tarr, Chad and Jeremy, Cindy Morgan, cinema, cineplexes, Duncan Jones, Eastern Promises, Elliot Gould, film distribution, films, Fox & Obel, Friends (TV show), Hollywood, James Bell, Jeremy M. Davies, Jim Jarmusch, Joel Schumacher, John Boorman, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Justin, Legend (film), Marshall McLuhan, Monica Bellucci, movies, narrative, Nth Man: The Ultimate Ninja, Sherlock Holmes, Shoji Ueda, Shoot ‘Em Up, Sight and Sound, Source Code, Sucker Punch, Television, The Last Unicorn, The Man from London, The NeverEnding Story, Thor, Tilda Swinton, To the Bracken Fields, Tron, Tron Legacy, Warebi no kou, Wendy Carlos, Willow, Woody Allen, Zack Snyder, Zardoz on May 16, 2011 | 16 Comments »
[Last weekend, while en route to Abu Dhabi, my good friend Jeremy swung by my cold-water Chicago flat. After a lengthy Indian-wrestling match, we headed downtown to the AMC River East 21, where we caught a screening of Duncan Jones’s latest film, Source Code. Two hours later, expelled into the brisk April evening, we hunkered [...]
On Lavender-Smith’s From Old Notebooks
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Avatar, Blaze Vox, Evan Lavendar-Smith, From Old Notebooks on December 31, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
If one ever wondered what happened to the guys in high school who sat around reading philosophy and fancying posey, From Old Notebooks (Blaze Vox) gives a good facsimile of what their life might be like in their thirties, married with children and living in the work-a-day world. If the character of Evan Lavender-Smith in the novel, created by Evan Lavender-Smith [...]
This Will Probably Incite a Riot
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Avatar, James Cameron, Undeserved Praise on January 20, 2010 | 57 Comments »
Since Sunday night I’ve planned to write a scathing post about the Golden Globes, a once “renegade” award platform, that gets a little closer to being Oscar Jr. every year. But now it’s Wednesday, and Sunday seems like forever ago, and people probably don’t care. Instead of going into depth I’m going to complain about [...]
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