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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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Film and Televison: Funny Games

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...

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Film 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...

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Commercials: 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...

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Film 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...

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Film 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...

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Film 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...

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Film 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...

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Film 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...

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If 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...

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If 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...

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If 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...

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Film 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...

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Non 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...

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Racism 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...

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Book 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...

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Film 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...

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Non 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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