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pay no attention to the man behind the curtain?
Two gnostics go head to head. Harold Bloom on Robert Crumb’s Genesis was a classic review. America’s greatest underground comic artist from the 60’s and a literary genius in Bloom from the depths of Ivy League academia. They are both … Continue reading
ballad of a thin man with stogie
You, the owners of property are the truly brutish ones, runs the line of ironic implication; we slaves have remained human. Caught between what he expected and what he actually felt, the cultivated German spectator found hmself animated by chronic … Continue reading
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Tagged Bertolt Brecht, Bob Dylan, carl a. rossi, Donald Kuspit, Hannah Arendt, helene weigel, Jonathan Rosenbaum, lotte lenya, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, suze rotolo, The Frankfurt School, Walter Benjamin, Wassily Kandinsky
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little house on the prairie: zabriskie point
Getting away from it all and building a dream home in the middle of everywhere and nowhere. It’s a bit like a Paul Theroux’s Mosquito Coast except this is landlocked, dry and hot.What about following E.B. White’s command to be … Continue reading
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Tagged daria halprin, e.b. white, fabrizio rondolino, Jonathan Rosenbaum, joyce wadler, mark frechette, Michaelangelo Antonioni, Michelangelo Antonioni, paul theroux, the shady lady nevada, wild boy of aveyron, zabriskie point
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hustling those creepy patriarchal fantasies
The packaging of male ego and sexual conquest.How its peddled , this male libido as sublimated women hatred is often a matter of status. Whether its through the latest Stieg Larrson, or Hustler magazine, the ingenuity or lack of subtlety … Continue reading
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Tagged Anita Sarkeesian, Bell Hooks, Charles Baudelaire, Christian Schad, dario saftich, david eisenbach, David Fincher, Donald Kuspit, Edouard Manet, Jonathan Kay national Post, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Joshua Glenn, larry flynt, larry flynt one nation under sex, laurie penney, Otto Dix, pierre bourdieu, Sigmund Freud, stieg larsson, Theodor Adorno, thomas frank the baffler, Thorstein Veblen, Tom Peters, Werner Fassbinder, William Burroughs
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one of the boys: men in long black coats
John Lennon was once quoted as saying that Bob Dylan was intentionally opaque in his lyrics so as to position himself as “secure in his hipness”. It is often taken that Dylan provided the Beatles with the understanding of depth, … Continue reading
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Tagged andy greene, anthony scaduto, art blog, Arthur Rimbaud, Bob Dylan, Camille Paglia, Charles Baudelaire, Constance Rourke, elliot mintz, Greil Marcus, Heinrich Heine, henry timrod, james damiano, jann s. wenner, jann wenner, John Lennon, johnny cash, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Joni Mitchell, joseph heath, Larry Charles, robert shelton, scott warmuth, Steve Jobs, Susan Sontag, Theodor Adorno, Thomas Frank, thomas frank the baffler, William Burroughs
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DIDDLERS: SECRETS HIDDEN IN THE SHUFFLE
It’s what Griel Marcus termed “the old, weird America.”; a peculiar terrain, a strange yet familiar backdrop to a common cultural history of America : the “playground of God, Satan, tricksters, Puritans, confidence men, illuminati, braggarts, preachers, anonymous poets of … Continue reading
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Tagged Boardwalk Empire HBO, Bob Dylan, Brian Wilson, Constance Rourke, David B. Kesterton, De Tocqueville, Edgar Allan Poe, Griel Marcus, Herman Melville, Jesse Bier, John Goodman, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Larry Charles, Luc Sante, Matt Goldberg, Michael Moore, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Fulford, Ruth Schwartz, Sinclair Lewis, Stephanie Zacharek, Stephen Matterson, Van Dyke Parks, Virginia Heffernan, William E. Lenz
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VIRIDIANA & NEW WORDLY IMPULSES: Free and Imprisoned Old Sicknesses
Luis Bunuel tells us that the comfortable man ( or woman ) , self-concerned, attempting to embrace more comfort, bores us stiff. And what Bunuel is telling us in cinema is what De Tocqueville forecast in “Democracy in America” . … Continue reading
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Tagged Alfred Hitchcock, Allen Josephs, Andre Breton, Bert Cardullo, Carlos Fuentes, Charlie Chaplin, De Tocqueville, Derek Malcolm, Ezra Pound, Frederico Fellini, Frederico Garcia Lorca, George Orwell, Georges Braque, Gilles Deleuze, Ian Gibson, James Joyce, Jean Paul Sartre, Jean-Luc Godard, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Leah Churner, Luis Bunuel, Marilyn Ferdinand, Michael Douglas, Oliver Stone, Pablo Picasso, Pauline Kael, Salvador dali, Sigmund Freud, Silvia Pinal, Stanley Kauffmann, Stephen Marche, T.S. Eliot, Tarkovsky, Umberto Eco
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PERSONALITY CRISIS: VAMPIRES & INSUPERABLE DISTANCE BETWEEN TRUTH AND POSSIBILITY
“In Persona the stunning sensuous-mouthed Liv Ullmann plays Elizabet Volger, an actress who suddenly, during a performance, gets an overwhelming desire to laugh. (She’s acting in a tragedy, so the laughter seems inappropriate to her) And after she gets the … Continue reading
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Tagged Alan Fish, Anton Chekhov, August Strindberg, Bernard Shaw, Bibi Andersson, Bruce Kawin, Bryant Frazer, Buck Theorem, Daniel C. Shaw, Daniel Shaw, David Bordwell, David Lynch, David Thomson, George Bernard Shaw, Holly Hunter, Ingmar Bergman, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Kelly Oliver, Liv Ullmann, Michael Haneke, Orlan, Robert Boyers, Rumi, Sheila O'Malley, Sigmund Freud, Stuart Jeffries Guardian, Sven Nykvist
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TRIUMPHS OF ARTIFICE: MIXING BAD FAITH & GOOD CONSCIENCE
When you’re not by my side The world’s in two, and I’m a fool When you’re not in my sight Then everything, just fades from view The mystery of love belongs to you The mystery of love belongs to you … Continue reading
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Tagged Albert Camus, Andrea Modica, Annette Lavers, Ben Myers, Betty R. Mcgraw, Brecht, Bruno Latour, Carl Jung, Charles Baudelaire, Ferdinand de Saussure, Franz Kafka, Fred Jameson, Frederic Jameson, Gary P. Radford, Jacques Lacan, Jean Baudrillard, John Jones, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Kathleen Woodward, Lyle Rexler, Marcel Duchamp, Marcel Proust, Margaret Iverson, Marquis de Sade, Michael Silverman, Michel Foucault, Nicholas Lockwood, Sigmund Freud, Stephen Heath, Steve Ungar, Steven Ungar, Victor Burgin, Voltaire
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