Fierce.
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A draft page from Don DeLillo’s “Underworld.” (via New Yorker)
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An Oboist With So-So Vibrato by Sufjan Stevens
When my mother dropped me off at music school in upstate New York, she said, “Oh Jesus help this kid be something special!” She wanted a child prodigy, like Mozart and Lizst, but I was just an oboist with so-so vibrato. When my mother left, I changed my name from Horace to Horatio. It was a boarding school. You could be whatever you wanted for a year. I told everyone I was from Argentina, which made things better, since I was last chair in the orchestra. I refused to speak Spanish since I was in America now and I wanted to be American.
Not many people say no to George Lucas. David Lynch did when he was offered to direct, what was then titled, Revenge of the Jedi. This is that story.
[reblogged via bryanwashere]
Comic Relief
Stills from La Jetée (1962, dir. Chris Marker)
“La Jetee’s fans insist that it’s the finest science fiction film ever made, and why not? It’s truly unique, implementing a series of hundreds of unmoving pictures, beautifully edited together to tell a mind-bending story of time travel that doubles as a melancholy fable about memory, loss, childhood, and destiny. Only for a moment is there any action on screen (besides the implied action in the cuts from shot to shot), and that motion is one of the cinema’s most profound. It’s no exaggeration, finally, to say that La Jetée may represent film’s closest approach to poetry.”
-Bryant Frazer, Deep Focus
The 26-minute film, which inspired Terry Gilliam’s 12 Monkeys (1995), tells the story of post-apocalyptic, nuclear war-ravaged Paris, where underground commanders run time travel experiments on prisoners. The film can be seen here.
Oh. My. God. This (Spanish) Season Six promo just gave me chills.
The imagery, the words, the Radiohead…
Wow.
- Crit
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