June 2012
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“I get satisfaction of three kinds. One is creating something, one is being paid...”
– :: William F. Buckley Jr.
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Collateral :: Film :: Mann :: 2004 :: Crisp, neo-noir perfection, masquerading as a summer action flick but with a dark and existential core. Tom Cruise plays against his type as an assassin, a lone grey fox named Vincent sent to make five hits in a single night using any means necessary… and cab driver Max (Jamie Foxx) happens to be that means. Deftly directed by Michael Mann—who...
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:: by jozef conaway ::
:: unframed image Sometimes the dirt looks a lot like me. A little giant lives inside my fists, and its desire, driving and endless. “nothing,” he smiles. she wakes, “again.” leave for work pockets full of keys use two IV. a weakening knee a tense jaw a degenerative disease asleep in the spine they never knew they had A sleep in the dirt, so close to me.
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:: A Weekly Good News Source Independent bookstores embrace digital publishing independence independence still dependent on some form of payment penchant or penance. independent interdependence: not a bad thing
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:: Scanners some of the most thoughtful and interesting articles on film on paper i mean in a blog
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:: fluorescent buzz reminiscent of electricity flows around the place and down the halls the yellowed halls in warm dead air I may be an idiot but at least I’m cordial! And I know way more about space than you. Way more. He thought as he smiled his violent smile as the man walked away, dopily. I can’t even begin to express this berth of anger. I don’t even want to. I’m...
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“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends...”
– :: Upton Sinclair
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Prometheus :: Film :: Scott :: 2012 :: I went into this film with a bucket full of popcorn and almost no foreknowledge of the movie whatsoever. Having seen Blade Runner and Alien, I was purely excited at the thought of a new Ridley Scott movie. I expected to be launched into an entirely new setting and atmosphere, a strange new future from the mind of a noted director—however, saying I was...
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:: by charles simic ::
:: Slaughterhouse Flies Evenings, they ran their bloody feet Over the pages of my schoolbooks. With eyes closed, I can still hear The trees on our street Saying a moody farewell to summer, And someone, under our window, recalling The silly old cows hesitating, Growing suddenly suspicious Just as the blade drops down on them.
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:: A Weekly Good News Source People, animals flee floods in Duluth area; seals and polar bear rescued rumors of the seal hit by a car rumors… so typically untrue
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:: Fisher Fest “Sam Fisher must die,” and other amusing priorities.
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Thinking about all my friends in Duluth during this flooding madness… and the escaped seal…
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“I was trying to figure out what a memory feels like.”
– :: Charlie Kaufman
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Lessons of Darkness :: Film :: Herzog :: 1992 :: The landscape of Iraq after the short-lived Gulf War was torn and alien. The fires set by the Iraqi Republican Guard in the oil fields burned for weeks, thick black smoke billowing across the empty desert. In the middle of this scene, a bipedal creature gestures at Herzog and his camera team. He is unsure what sort of message is being conveyed,...
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:: by jozef conaway ::
:: man and his actions man stares into crowd man smiles man talks with people man smiles while talking to people man sits alone man chews thoughtfully man sweats man smiles man stands in a cold breeze looking out at so much water man doesnt leave man smiles without smiling man laughs without smiling man talks without smiling man dances without smiling man smiles man stands outside alone and stares...
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used in: - the fertilizer - the insecticides - the motors of harvest - the stickers placed upon - the plastic wrapped around - the motors of the workers - the lotion on their hands - the helmets on their heads - the motors of the loaders - the plastic in their shoes - the motors of the shippers - the lubrication of their lifts - the plastic of their windows - the machines that make these machines...
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:: A Weekly Good News Source Mister Rogers Remix Will Make You Cry Tears of Joy do you ever imagine things? are they scary things? things you’d like to have? do you ever grow anything in the garden of your mind?
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:: Solar System Candy the planets are hungry you know they’d devour you just as you’d devour them
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…in fact, I mean not to.
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“We can’t be direct, so we end up saying the weirdest things.”
– :: Andre Gregory
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Adaptation :: Film :: Jonze :: 2002 :: My third Charlie Kaufman-penned film on my favorites list, but probably his best written one. Nicholas Cage stars as Charlie Kaufman who has been assigned to write an adaptation for the book The Orchid Thief. He is having great difficulty doing so, and, as a solution, decides to write himself into the script. But his neurosis gets in the way, and on multiple...
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:: by wislawa szymborska
:: Nothing Twice Nothing can ever happen twice. In consequence, the sorry fact is that we arrive here improvised and leave without the chance to practice. Even if there is no one dumber, if you’re the planet’s biggest dunce, you can’t repeat the class in summer: this course is only offered once. No day copies yesterday, no two nights will teach what bliss is in precisely the...
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:: A Weekly Good News Source NASA Study of Clays Suggests Watery Mars Underground MARS It’s not your home MARS We’re gonna make it your home!
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:: They’re Good for Something Dead dead flies buzz no more except online
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Hourly flip-flops, positive/negative, no in-between. Doomed to thoughtless doubt to thoughtless doom. The reward is in the journey, and that reward is the same rumination.
