October 2011
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August 2011
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February 2011
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It might be going cheesy
Rather spot-on daily comics by Natalie Dee on Valentine’s Day. I need one of these tee shirts, too.
(I realise it is a tad ironic that I appear to have a date tomorrow, but I wasn’t aware of the calendar date, so it doesn’t count, right?)
January 2011
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August 2010
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April 2010
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Attending.
March 2010
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“Frankly Colin kisses like a nymphomaniac on death row, but it was a real...”
– Matthew Goode on Colin Firth (via heckyesmatthewgoode)
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February 2010
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January 2010
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December 2009
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November 2009
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Graduation blues
Ah, graduation. Not so far away now. I wish I could stop making mental lists.
(Image via What Makes The Pie Shops Tick?)
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This list is anything but subjective
Everyone’s doing it right now, so I thought I might as well. This can be anything but all-encompassing, for obvious reasons; these are my favourite 15 records of the decade. I may not listen to some of them as much now as I did in the past, but their significance is undeniable in my opinion. So expect, I guess, some overlaps with everyone else’s lists. Some records are just that good....
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October 2009
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September 2009
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the monotony in patterning
‘When I use a word,’ Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, ‘it means just what I choose it to mean - neither more nor less.’ ‘The question is,’ said Alice, ‘whether you can make words mean so many different things.’ ‘The question is,’ said Humpty Dumpty, ‘which is to be master - that’s all.’
Lewis...
August 2009
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8 ½
El mismo título de 8 ½ (1963) de Federico Fellini ya anuncia su elemento autobiográfico: siete largometrajes, dos cortometrajes y un largometraje en colaboración con otro director conforman su filmografía hasta el estreno de la película. En esta, acompañamos a un director de cine, Guido Anselmi, ya en la cuarentena, mientras intenta superar un período de director’s block. A la vez, hace malabares...
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Your friends in the North (East)
May 2009. (Via her record player.)
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A song to intentionally read as in accordance with...
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(Very briefly) On 'Film' by Samuel Beckett
Samuel Beckett escribe Film en 1965 como guión para un cortometraje que sería llevado a la pantalla por Alan Schneider un año más tarde; no se trata, sin embargo, de un guión tradicional en tanto que no es un mero instrumento o fase en el proceso de creación de la obra de arte en sí, esto es, la película. El guión del escritor irlandés es parte del producto artístico, que se nos presenta a la vez...
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“Inside the frame” y “Lap dissolves” de Robert...
Los títulos de estas dos narraciones breves de Robert Coover señalan la clara relación de ambas con el cine, que se refleja temáticamente a la vez que se traduce en el plano formal; “Inside the frame” parece funcionar como una ékfrasis de una película o, mejor dicho, de varias que confluyen. El lenguaje es en general objetivo, austero, elíptico, como si estuviera describiendo los planos de una...
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Romance is boring.
“The postmodern reply to the modern consists of recognizing that the past, since it cannot really be destroyed, because its destruction leads to silence, must be revisited: but with irony, not innocently. I think of the postmodern attitude as that of a man who loves a very cultivated woman and knows that he cannot say to her ‘I love you madly’, because he knows that she knows (and that she...
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4th of July
“Por el camino hasta hemos perdido el derecho de llamarnos americanos, aunque los haitianos y los cubanos ya habían asomado a la historia, como pueblos nuevos, un siglo antes de que los peregrinos del Mayflower se establecieran en las costas de Plymouth. Ahora América es, para el mundo, nada más que los Estados Unidos: nosotros habitamos, a lo sumo, una sub América, una América de segunda...
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“There is no female mind. The brain is not an organ of sex. Might as well speak...”
– Charlotte Perkins Gilman (for the record).
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