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Saturday, 14 June 2008
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Currently Listening
Slow Riot for New Zero Kanada
By Godspeed You Black Emperor!
see relatedCohenisms
From singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen:
"Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language he has barely mastered." -

Currently Listening
Out of the Reeds
By Pharaoh's Daughter
see relatedShyamalan
Manohla Dargis of the New York Times reviews Shyamalan's "The Happening."
Best lines:
"It’s a shame he doesn’t know what to do with [his story's premise] other than mow people down."
"Mr. Shyamalan’s bag of tricks is awfully familiar — the camera races forward, the characters stand locked in place, a child’s empty swing sways in the wind, eyes widen, mouths gape."
then to sum up Shyamalan's movies (the work, not the creator), she says they are all "manufactured sincerity and cornball messages."
http://movies.nytimes.com/2008/06/13/movies/13happ.html?ref=movies
Thursday, 12 June 2008
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Currently Reading
Solomon among the Postmoderns
By Peter J. Leithart
see relatedWeek of June 8, 2008.
Nothing good on DVD this week. That's okay. Season Four of "Rescue Me" from last week is plenty of entertainment.
Eastwood Tells Spike Lee to "shut his face" at The Guardian.
http://film.guardian.co.uk/interview/interviewpages/0,,2283921,00.html
M. Night talks about his Hollywood career.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/02/business/media/02night.html
I dread watching his new movie: The Happening, isn't it? No, "Global Warming Attacks!" Commence hiding immediately.
Scorsese's new film "Ashecliffe" is no longer titled "Shutter Island"?
http://www.cinematical.com/2008/01/29/scorseses-shutter-island-gets-a-name-change/
I'm long overdue for a website update. I'll have to change that.
www.viewandreview.com
Monday, 20 March 2006
Tuesday, 31 January 2006
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Currently Listening
Good News For People Who Love Bad News
By Modest Mouse
see related"You wasted life, why don't you waste death?" ~ Modest Mouse, "Ocean Breathes Salty"
There's a double meaning in that. =)
[Photo of Johnny Depp as Ichabod Crane in Sleepy Hollow]
"I have a lot of pudding that I can redeem in six to eight weeks and if you give me that much time I can get enough miles to fly with you wherever you have to go . . . can you please let me redeem the mileage?" ~ Barry Egan (Adam Sandler), Punch Drunk Love
"Insanity oozing through telephone cables, oozing into the ears of all those poor sane people, infecting them! Whackos everywhere! A plague of madness." ~ Jeffrey (Brad Pitt), Twelve Monkeys
"'I know I can do it,' Todd Downey said, helping himself to another ear of corn from the steaming bowl. 'I'm sure that in time, every bit of her will be gone and her death will be a mystery . . . even to me." ~ Mort Rainey [reading his story out loud] (Johnny Depp), Secret Window
"A storm is coming, Frank says / A storm that will swallow the children / And I will deliver them from the kingdom of pain / I will deliver the children back the their doorsteps / And send the monsters back to the underground / I'll send them back to a place where no-one else can see them / Except for me / Because I am Donnie Darko." ~ Donnie Darko (Jake Gyllenhaal), Donnie Darko
Reviews, you ask? Soon. =D
God bless








