February 2012
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January 2012
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What if modern movies where made in the past? →
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Where do your Apple products come from? →
November 2011
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October 2011
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My blog post also appeared here over at The... →
September 2011
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July 2011
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Lots of wasted time can be spent here →
I'm putting on a series of Tom Hanks films. →
May 2011
4 posts
Women and Death
These are the two topics that seem to dominate my everyday thoughts. Both remain an inevitable mystery. Both leave me feeling consistently anxious. I am paralysed by this anxiety. I seem to want to intellectualise my lazyness. Sloth and apathy dominate my sobriety, as much as this pointless naval gazing prose.
March 2011
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February 2011
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Pretty damn good film blog - Check out the Nic... →
January 2011
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December 2010
3 posts
Possible academic investigations
- Discuss the nature of identity and the self in relation to the Terance Davies collection.
- Look at representations of London and Paris on film in the 1910’s. Compare and contrast each city in relation to itself and each other.
- Examine masculinity in American ‘Smart Films’ of the 1990’s.
It's December and thus... My Top 5 Films of 2010
Here we go, in reverse order: 5 - Enter The Void http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPxgi-PiNFE&feature=related - Visually and aurally stunning film whose punch could’ve been a KO if I’d have cared about the characters. As it was, I just got a severe beating. 4 - The Killer Inside Me http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_U2LUsfeMwg - KO-ed by Affleck’s performance. One of the...
November 2010
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A more famous but no less relevant Johnson quote:
’ He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man ‘
Excert from Kenneth Tynan diaries
Then I pick up Johnson and find this:
’ That man is never happy for the present is so true that all his relief from unhappiness is only forgetting himself for a little while. Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment ‘
The first words of a book....
She asks me again in the usual, passive aggressive manner:
’ Why don’t you hang out with us anymore? ‘
I answer:
’ Anything that I hold in awe and respect are absent within you - In its place there’s an abundance of all that I despise. Why would you force me to say such things? You have nothing to blame but your own vanity. ‘
A sentence Kenneth Tynan may have said:
’ She had and was a tight lipped cunt. Although not without its pleasures, she was ultimately tiresome ’
Exert from Diary - 8-11-2010 - From London to...
A thought whilst on tube station looking at a large advert for The Pacific:
’ The extreme genderification of advertising is vulgar and leaves a bitter taste as I realise it’s wholly justified’
I've been enjoying all things Atlantic recently →
