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We got that B-Roll!

December 7, 2009 · 1 Comment

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It might just be that simple.

December 6, 2009 · 3 Comments

“DFW: I had a teacher I liked who used to say good fiction’s job was to comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable. I guess a big part of serious fiction’s purpose is to give the reader, who like all of us is sort of marooned in her own skull, to give her imaginative access to other selves. Since an ineluctable part of being a human self is suffering, part of what we humans come to art for is an experience of suffering, necessarily a vicarious experience, more like a sort of “generalization” of suffering. Does this make sense? We all suffer alone in the real world; true empathy’s impossible. But if a piece of fiction can allow us imaginatively to identify with a character’s pain, we might then also more easily conceive of others identifying with our own. This is nourishing, redemptive; we become less alone inside. It might just be that simple”

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Neutral Milk Hotel – ‘Oh Comely’ (live 1998).

December 4, 2009 · Leave a Comment

It probably goes without saying, but I would pay like x million dollars to see NMH live, where x= whatever the hell Jeff Mangum wants.

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Spike Jonze IKEA commerical.

December 4, 2009 · Leave a Comment

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Jean-Luc Godard is 79 today.

December 3, 2009 · Leave a Comment

Happy birthday to my favorite artist, who has a new film (Socialisme) that will be out next year.

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Money-Driven Medicine in Austin.

December 1, 2009 · Leave a Comment

If you’re in Austin, you should go check out one of these screenings of B-Side’s excellent Money-Driven Medicine tomorrow:

MONEY-DRIVEN MEDICINE
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Wednesday, December 2nd
10:00am – Texas Capitol Building
Auditorium E1.004
7:00pm – Millennium Youth Entertainment Complex
1156 Hargrave Street, Austin TX 78702
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followed by a discussion about health-care reform with
Consumers Union and the Center for Public Policy Priorities

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Harry Nilsson – ‘Everybody’s Talkin’ (from Swedish TV, 1969).

November 30, 2009 · Leave a Comment

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Jean-Luc Godard – ‘Soigne ta droite’ (clip).

November 30, 2009 · Leave a Comment

This weekend I met a Canadian Mountie that looked like Jacques Tati. So now I post this clip from one of the strangest Godards, his homage to Tati. This is how my mind works.

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The Beatles – 1000 Years Later.

November 27, 2009 · Leave a Comment

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Hulk Hogan – ‘I Am A Real American’ (music video).

November 23, 2009 · Leave a Comment

Things featured in this video: American flag guitars, head butting the Russian flag, a hilariously phallic shot of a missile.

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