Posted in Uncategorized, tagged AC/DC, animated gifs, Back to the Future, Big Brother, Big Other, Byron the Bulb, Caravaggio, Cardassians, christmas, Continental Philosophy, David Bowie, David Warner, Donald Barthelme, Gravity's Rainbow, Jean-Luc Picard, John Madera, Nick Lowe, Nirvana, Saint Paul, Star Trek, The Borg, The Flash, The Goonies, Thomas Pynchon, Tiny Toons, Twitter, werewolves on October 23, 2012 | 5 Comments »
What’s happening in this image?
The leftmost light bulb is exploding.
Why would it do that?
Perhaps it wanted to? It’s the suicidal counterpart to Gravity’s Rainbow‘s Byron?
No.
Well then it simply overheated?
No. Please note that it hasn’t blinked out.
True, true.
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged answers, chimpanzees, Dog commercials, Garfield, GI Joe, Star Trek, Transformers on January 21, 2012 | 1 Comment »
The problem with giving your audience what they want is that they don’t know what they want.
vs.
vs.
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Chris Marker, Claude Debussy, Jack Horkheimer, Sans soleil, Star Hustler, Star Trek, Tom Carvel on August 21, 2010 | 5 Comments »
Back when I was in late grade school/early high school, every Friday night, my local PBS station would run two episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation, plus one episode of the Original Series, all commercial free. In between ran episodes of Jack Horkheimer’s Star Hustler:
I’m not ashamed (now) to confess that, in those awkward adolescent years, this three-hour block of TV was the highlight of my week. (Yes, I was that kid, mad for Star Trek and astronomy.) Star Hustler is where I probably first heard Debussy’s Arabesque No. 1—and certainly where I first heard Isao Tomita’s electronic music. (And it’s also, along with Tom Carvel’s deranged ice cream cake commercials, probably where I first gained my love of cheap 1980s video art.)
RIP, Mr. Horkheimer, sir. Thanks to you, I’ll keep looking up.
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Agnès Varda, Andrzej Wajda, Antichrist, Bill Murray, Bradley Beesley, Bright Star, Bruno Delbonnel, Chaos Reigns, Chris Marker, Christian Petzold, Christmas on Mars, Christoph Waltz, David Mamet, David Yates, Fanny Brawne, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Frank Miller, George Salisbury, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Hayao Miyazaki, Il Divo, Inglourious Basterds, J.J. Abrams, Jane Campion, Jerichow, John Keats, Katyń, Lars von Trier, Les Plages d’Agnès, Mike Stoklasa, Nicolas Roeg, Nightwatching, Oren Peli, Paolo Sorrentino, Paranormal Activity, Peter Greenaway, Ponyo, Puffball, Quentin Tarantino, Redbelt, Rembrandt, Richard Kelly, Ricky Jay, Rita Tushingham, sexism, Star Trek, Star Wars: The Phantom Menace Review, The Beaches of Agnes, The Box, The Spirit, torture porn, Tsai Ming-Liang, Visage (Face), Watchmen, Wayne Coyne, Wes Anderson, Whatever Works, Woody Allen, Zack Snyder on December 31, 2009 | 25 Comments »
[Update: 2010 is here] [and 2011 is here]
Here are my favorite new movies of 2009, like you care. I’m drawing from the films I saw in the theater this year, some of which were “officially” released a year or two ago. But they’re all new.
NOT one of my favorite films this year
…So, Mr. Cranky, what did you like?
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged 40 Watts, Abraham Smith, All The Little Red Girls, Angela Veronica Wong, Asobi Seksu, Ben Mirov, Birds of Lace, Blue Hour Press, BraveMenPress, Brooklyn Copeland, C.D. Wright, Chris Toneli, Christie Ann Reynolds, Collected Ghost, Cy Gist Press, Fabulous Essential, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Flying Guillotine Press, For The H In Ghost, From Monument to Masses, Generic Whistle-Stop, Hospice, H_NGM_N, idiot heart, Janaka Stucky, Julia Cohen, Justin Mark, Mathias Svalina, New School Chapbook Series, Niina Pollari, No Theater, Octopus Books, On Little Known Frequencies, One Neither One, Play, Popular Songs, Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs, Reunions, Rope-a-Dope, Scantily Clad Press, Shane McCrae, Star Trek, Steven Karl, Take 11 Wolf Teeth and Call Me In The Morning, The Antlers, The Cupboard, Thomas Fink, to know this, Voir Dire, Yo La Tengo, Your Name Is The Only Freedom on December 16, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Here’s a makeshift list for 09.
2009 was a great year for chapbooks. A couple of presses released multiple titles that I devoured such as BraveMenPress which released Janaka Stucky’s Your Name Is The Only Freedom, Chris Toneli’s No Theater, and Julia Cohen’s For The H In Ghost.
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