May 2012
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“The Road goes ever on and on down from the door where it began. Now far ahead...”
– :: J.R.R. Tolkien
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Songs from the Second Floor :: Film :: Andersson :: 2000 :: Years ago, I was searching for a surreal film, something vast and strange and incomprehensible that I would struggle to wrap my brain around, when I found Roy Andersson’s dystopian masterpiece. Meticulously photographed and yet minimally directed, with mise-en-scène that would make even Orson Welles jealous, the film tells the story...
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:: by jozef conaway ::
:: deny me sensibility all daydreams spent with you and you and you my friends my more comfortable dreamfriends i say the wrong things even to you it’s hard to forget that i may never see you again not as you are as i make you dreamfriend i am yours and you don’t even know me at all do you?
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Cormac McCarthy and Werner Herzog discuss: Who are...
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:: A Weekly Good News Source Of Alien Intelligence, the Supernatural and Divinity All nature is but art, unknown to thee; All chance, direction, which thou canst not see; All discord, harmony not understood; All partial evil, universal good. :: Alexander Pope
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:: This Is Why I’m Broke obscurities that i need gadgets i’ll get if ever i’m not broke
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Sometimes those temptations to change are so easily quelled by the comfort of stasis. Stress Mfg. LLC.
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“Some sort of pressure must exist; the artist exists because the world is not...”
– :: Andrei Tarkovsky
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Solaris :: Film :: Tarkovsky :: 1972 :: Rarely does a film entrance me with the kind of atmosphere and ideas that Tarkovsky’s films do. He is the master of nostalgia, of the great struggles with reality and memory, of morality and selfishness. Can one escape a mistake from the past? How do you possibly learn from a mistake like that while simultaneously putting it behind you and out of your mind?...
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:: by jozef conaway ::
:: he’s got it all figured out oh i see you didn’t want me you were just channeling your lust hoping it’d be healthy someday and never your fault for it all maybe you were right i cant stop thinking maybe you were right
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local goodies from TENSE FAMILY DINNER
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:: A Weekly Good News Source Mars Rover Snaps Stunning Self-Portrait oh great vain robots what’s next
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:: The Thief something for the passionate something for the trod behind the scenes of animation’s holy grail the thief and the cobbler
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That it is easier to do the bad than it is the good is a grave concern. That I still don’t do enough good despite my efforts is another, and that I may take these concerns to the grave is my modus operandi.
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“Facing it, always facing it, that’s the way to get through. Face it.”
– :: Joseph Conrad
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The Avengers :: Film :: Whedon :: 2012 :: Being a huge Joss Whedon fan, I went into this knowing I’d like it, even though I hadn’t watched any of the individual superhero’s films. I couldn’t have been more right. I am so happy that the executives at these studios finally bet big on Whedon to carry their well-defined troupe of characters, and that it is paying off. There is...
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:: by jozef conaway ::
:: A morning on the rocks I saw the sunrise, half above the sea; hammered gold leaf blowing in sodden wind; a different world, all clouded and misty, drifting on without an eye to see. what sweat what flame what burnt and naked skin does peel at early light, this cracked and thin old page that needs no man to read it to know it is to gaze at its electric...
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William S. Burroughs class on creative reading ,...
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:: A Weekly Good News Source Thomas Jefferson’s Vegetable Garden: A Thing of Beauty and Science monticello once a garden then a parking lot now, triumphant, jefferson’s garden returns
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:: Tophattwaffle’s Tutorials and just like that a new favorite person
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Work, work, work. I’m starting to think I enjoy these self-imposed deadlines. Productivity and creativity—an unrivaled pairing.
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“Secrecy is the freedom tyrants dream of.”
– :: Bill Moyers
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Pan’s Labyrinth :: Film :: del Toro :: 2006 :: Director Guillermo del Toro shows us what he has been working on for over a decade in this highly imaginative and visually stunning film, and it does not disappoint. Ofelia’s mother is pregnant but very ill, so they pack up and move to live with her new husband—a brutal Spanish Nazi commander. Things are not going well at the post....
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:: by tim rutili ::
:: electric fence
lit a blue tip match off the white of your eye it’s apples and cigarettes on cold water drive give your belly to the lions and your throat to all their babies the power washer screams like a panther your rope and scar and rabbit hearts jesus drains electric fences to fill you again sailors mouth and falling brail don’t fall away you sleep like an angel with sparrows...
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:: Lischtz & Lists ::
David Foster Wallace’s Word Lists & Jozef Conaway’s Word Lists plication - act or process of folding bolo - long heavy Phillipine machete murenger - wallmaker antipodal - situated on opposite sides of the world tarantism - disorder where you have uncontrollable need to dance & ossifrage - bone breaker prosopopoeia - literally making (inventing, imagining) a person...
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:: A Weekly Good News Source Marty Kaplan’s Media Fast no news is good news
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:: Lomax Files a massive collection of traditional folk songs recorded by one relentless individual over forty countries over forty years
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A certain freedom envelopes me and I don’t even know where to start and I don’t even know where to end. An analytical perspective seems so cold sometimes. My brain is a computer intent on evolving, intent on improving, and that is the goal. That cold objectivity getting better every day.
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“But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go...”
– :: Robert Frost
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The Five Obstructions :: Film :: von Trier, Leth :: 2003 :: Lars von Trier invites his friend and mentor, Jorgen Leth, to participate in a series of exercizes—or Obstructions—in which Leth must re-shoot his best known film, The Perfect Man. With each re-shooting, von Trier introduces a list of rules that Leth must follow, intent on analyzing not the film, but the director behind it....
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:: by jozef conaway ::
:: Trust i share a lot with my shadow but never anything personal.
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:: A Weekly Good News Source A Poem Store Open for Business, In the Open Air endearing and enduring a schtick that stuck an obstruction becomes a lens a focused lens
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:: BBC: Discover the ocean trench what sleeps in the black where dine the hungry in the deep parts of the world?
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After working for so long and being so focused on one point and then the next and the next, it becomes comforting to see the quality you’ve completed and how close the finished product has come. Strange, gaining comfort through constraints; self-imposed constraints. :: Left 4 Duluth
