November 2010
20 posts
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Watch- My love for Jacques Tati couldn’t be any bigger; even my failed Halloween plans this year had me trying to be Monsieur Hulot. Since Monsieur Tati himself is no longer with us (and hasn’t been since four years before I was born), the next best thing is Sylvain Chomet’s new film “The Illusionist”, an animated film based on an unfinished script by Tati and featuring a...
Watch“The Suburbs” directed by Spike Jonze. This is allegedly a music video excerpted from a longer film directed by Jonze and inspired by the (amazing) Arcade Fire album and song of the same name. Peep Win and Regine guest-starring as local police officers packing heat and keeping those no good kids from figuring out just what is going on.
”Never again, never again!”
And yet there’s the contradiction: “never again” isn’t eternal, since you yourself will die one day.
“Never again” is the expression of an immortal.
- Roland Barthes
Museum of Modern fArt.
- So good news and bad: I finally managed to get a job, but the only hitch is that it’s temporary. It’s working at the design shop at the Museum of Modern Art, and for the most part I’m pretty psyched about it. Either way I’m pretty glad that at least for now I can have a set schedule and start having some sort of income rather than feel that guilt weighing down on me as I...
Watch- “Helicopter” into “He Would Have Laughed”…this is epic in the best slow building sparsely noisy yet melodic kind of way I could imagine.
