Tag Archives: paul theroux

little house on the prairie: zabriskie point

Posted on August 9, 2011 by Dave

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 →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | 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 | Leave a comment

naipaul: at the mercy of the “bow and arrow men”

Posted on July 13, 2011 by Dave

“If a writer doesn’t generate hostility, he is dead. …Writers should provoke disagreement.” – V.S. Naipaul. Naipaul is something of a master craftsman in putting down rivals, the art of invidious comparison, and the guile of over-the-top self adulation. It … Continue reading →

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history undone:android basterds

Posted on May 19, 2011 by Dave

A vision of the primeval past wandering out of an imaginary forest of pre-historic times, lost in quirk of time. Yes, its the same notorious auroch found in the cave of Lascaux in southern France. The ferocious wild ancestor of … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Alex Constantine, allan hall, auroch cattle, bobby sands, Charles Darwin, Emile Durkheim, eric vogelin, ernst haekl, fountain of life program, Francis Galton, Friedrich Nietzsche, joel whitebook, katie drummond, Lascaux Cave, lutz and heinz heck, Max Horkheimer, Michel Foucault, Michel Houlebecq, Oswald Spengler, paul theroux, Sigmund Freud, simon de bruxelles, the island of lost souls movie, Theodor Adorno, Thomas Hobbes | Comments Off

bank run but you can’t hide

Posted on May 11, 2011 by Dave

Discrepancy of wealth, that yawning chasm between the haves the have haves and the uber haves vs. the slaves on the bottom of the pyramid has always been a populist theme. Our brains seem to be hard-wired to rearrange the … Continue reading →