Images We Should Be Protected From
Whew! I’m glad my government censorship agencies are on the job!
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Holy Smoke
When I grow up, I want to be Kate Winslet. P.S. I will never, ever, ever understand WTF it is Jane Campion sees in Harvey Keitel. Or why the fuck she has to slap on those stupid, stupid, stupid feel-good addendums to otherwise interesting movies.
My Latest Addiction
E.S. Posthumus radio! Because you can never have enough good stuff to write by.
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Does it Bug Anyone Else…
… that all the women they’ve cast in GI Joe look exactly the same? And where the hell is Lady Jane, srsly? Jinx? They kept Scarlett and Baronness, both of whom are used as “love interests” for either side (after all, somebody has to be “the girl!”), and “Cover Girl” a “Super model turned Joe”????
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V for Vendetta
I love this movie more every time I watch it. Which might say something terrifying about the state of the world. Or a lot about me. Or both.
The Cult of Loving Kindness
The third book in Paul Park’s Starbridge Chronicles arrived today. I am continally in awe of writers who write so well that they make this shit look easy.What stunned me even more is when I discovered this was actually his first series. Dammit, man.
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Heroes and Monsters
A TED talk by Philip Zimbardo, most famously known for the 1971 Stanford Prison Experiment, about power and corruption. And power and redemption. Includes an overview of the Millgram experiment, for those unfamiliar with it. That one still terrifies the crap out of me. This is about the power of institutions and how they affect
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Wild at Heart
I think I may have actually liked this Lynch movie. In the way you find it interesting to, say, examine some particularly strange yet somehow appealing malformation. Laura Dern still annoys me, and I still have no idea what Lynch sees in Isabella Rossillini. As ever, the main female character is brutalized and overly sexualized.
"The Most Important Reading You Will Ever Do"
How books have changed your life.
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