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the sour mashers
Water of life. … Tested with a glowing splint under favorable conditions, the breath of a habitual whisky drinker will light with a pop and burn with a blue flame; it will also discolor paint, shrivel foliage, rot delicate fabrics, … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged American Civil War, Christopher Hitchens, Christopher Hitchens Johnnie Walker Black Label, Christopher Hitchens whisky, Dan Call Jack Daniel Whisky, Jack Daniel, Jack Daniel Sour Mash, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Quentin Tarantino, Tarantino Inglorious Basterds, Ulysses S. Grant
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boys will be boys: disavowal of the man
Certainly, there are a lot of nightmarish, threatening and hostile aspects to our modern living condition. This is counteracted by an equal perceptive impulse to promote and believe in a sanitized and make-believe view of the world. In fact, both … Continue reading
An Oscar for the “male gaze”
Since the first biblical patriarchs wandered out of Babylonia to the Egyptian Pharoahs and through the Greek theatre of Aristophanes to modern Hollywood, the male hero has been the center of the universe. Copernicus proved “man” was not the center … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Academy awards Oscars, Alfred Hitchcock, Allan G. Johnson, Anita Sarkeesian, Aristophanes, B.F. Skinner, Dorothy Arzner, Dustin Hoffman, Guy Debord, James Bond, Judith Mayne, Kaja Silverman, Katharine Hepburn, Laura Mulvey, Lee Wallace, Oscar Awards, Pablo Picasso, Quentin Tarantino, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Rosalind Russell
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WRESTLING WITH THE AESTHETIC OF VIOLENCE
Masculinity in crisis as a black or absurd comedy. Society’s always seems to rejoice in a misplaced misplaced judgment that portrays violence as a reality principle, perhaps reflecting the influence of Quentin Tarantino. A video of a Halifax, Canada area … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Miscellaneous, Music/Composition/Performance
Tagged Aesthetic of Violence, Caril Fugate, Charlie Starkweather, Daniel Craig, Daniel Craig Defiance, Griel Marcus, Henry A. Giroux, Josh Boutilier, Kathryn Bigelow, Ken Fells, Kevin Costner, Kevin Costner the Untouchables, Natural Born Killers, Oliver Moore, Oliver Stone, Quentin Tarantino, Robert De Niro, Sam Peckinpah, Samuel L. Jackson, Schindler's List, Steven Spielberg, Tarantino jackie Moore, Truman Capote, Truman Capote in Cold Blood, Violence in Cinema, Woody Allen
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MOUSE TRAPS & REALITY FLAPS
”I’m sometimes frightened when I watch his films. Frightened because of some absolute perfection in what he does. This man seems to know not only the magic of all technical means, but also all the most secret strands of human … Continue reading
Don't Kill Me, I'm With Stupid
”The pathological and cyclical nature of violent behaviour”. Little one-eyed bunnies with kalishnikovs and other weapons of group destruction attempting to liquidate each other, vigilante style. Unhinged citizens, mad as hell and taking it out on each other,a gang that … Continue reading
Posted in Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess, Chris Ware, Christopher Coleman, Jonathan Lethem, Julia Spinola, Justin Novak, Marcel Dzama, Mark Ryden, Maurizio Cattelan, Michael Salter, Quentin Tarantino, Stanley Kubrick, Stockhausen, William Osborne, Xavier Morales, Yoshitomo Nara
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