Film and Television: Sons of Anarchy
Sons of Anarchy Created by: Kurt Sutter I have enjoyed watching Sons of Anarchy. While the drama is always on a setting of ten leaving little room for emotional arch, it makes for an interesting piece...
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Funny Games Directed by Michael Haneke This film is a criticism of society’s consumption of violence. It is also a shot for shot remake of an Austrian film by the same title. (Which, considering its...
View ArticleFilm and Television: Lincoln
Lincoln (2012) Written by Tony Kushner Directed by Steven Spielberg This is a great movie that does a great job of fictionalizing the events surrounding the passage of the 13th amendment. In a deft...
View ArticleCommercials: The Surface Movement
I would like to predict the failure of the Surface by Microsoft. I suspect it is a comparable product to the iPAD or other tablet PC’s but I know it is going to fail because as far as I can tell from...
View ArticleFilm and Television: GIRLS
GIRLS Lena Dunham GIRLS isn’t amazing because the writing is so profoundly new and fresh, it is amazing because it subverts the male/non-male paradigm that so codes our sexist televisual experience. I...
View ArticleFilm and Television: Misfits
Misfits Created by Howard Overman Watching film and television from a different country is like going on vacation from the constance of my half developed critical analysis brain that is always on when...
View ArticleFilm and Television: Hung
Hung Created by Dmitry Lipkin, Colette Burson I am so fucking happy Hung was not picked up for another season. Mostly because once I have started a show I feel compelled to watch every episode, and...
View ArticleFilm and Television: Circo
Circo Directed by Aaron Schock This is a simple film about a mexican Circus family and their struggle to persist as they travel across Mexico. It isn’t just the compelling story of the family that you...
View ArticleFilm and Televison: Homeland
Homeland Created by Gideon Raff Homeland tells the story of a CIA analyst and her suspicion of a prisoner of war unexpectedly returned to a changed home. The stories of these two characters arch and...
View ArticleIf this place makes you cry come on baby stay a while – B Side Part 1
I was so fucking stoked on moving to pacific beach with satanic panic. My previous year and a half had been spent living in more nondescript parts of San Diego. The first was College Area, which is...
View ArticleIf this place makes you cry come on baby stay a while – B Side Part 2
The history of that year catalogues itself in my memory by what job I was working. I am not completely sure of the chronological accuracy of what I’ve associated with which job, only of my minds...
View ArticleIf this place makes you cry come on baby stay a while – B Side Part 3
The other way that my time in Pacific Beach is catalogued in my memory is through the people I met and or spent time with. Our neighboring apartment was occupied by a couple of longtime friends who...
View ArticleFilm and Television : Hall Pass
Hall Pass Directed by: Bobby Farrelly and Peter Farrelly Why? Becuase I had time to kill and I like Jason Sudeikis. Result? It wasn’t funny. Also, Owen Wilson really delivered some Owen Wilson...
View ArticleNon Fiction: Some Fire – Part 1
We lived one country block outside of town in a house my Dad helped to build. Across the street from a telephone pole, a ditch, and an alfalfa field. When the air was clear you could see northeast...
View ArticleRacism and Privilege are Difficult
When I heard Macklemore and Ryan Lewis’ Same Love, I thought it was brave for a recently successful hip hop artist to rap about homosexuality (probably because of my own racially biased understanding...
View ArticleBook Review
The Magicians By Lev Grossman I am not an avid reader though I occasionally tear through a book I thoroughly enjoy. The Magicians was one of the those books. Not being an avid reader I imagine there...
View ArticleFilm and Television
How I Hope Dexter Ends I have kept up with Dexter over the last 8 years not because it is great television but because it is good television. The team that produces the show do a pretty good job of...
View ArticleNon Fiction
Lighting and Fire (continued) “What’s that?!” ‘I don’t know, looks like something’s caught fire.” Something had caught fire in the lightning storm, but I couldn’t place where or what it might be that...
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