My take on Stanley Kubrick’s final work, EYES WIDE SHUT, on the ten-year anniversary of its release. Check it out.
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Wednesday, July 29, 2009
Monday, July 27, 2009
Literature Map
Only click on this if you’re willing to get lost in it for at least ten minutes: The Literature Map. I will say no more. Enjoy.
Monday, July 20, 2009
Like something from a Don DeLillo novel...
In this clip, UK comedian Tommy Cooper literally dies on stage. But the audience just laughs along, thinking it’s part of the bit. An oddly disturbing piece of video, though I’m not quite sure why.
Monday, July 13, 2009
King on Kubrick
This Thursday, July 16th, marks the ten-year anniversary of the release of Kubrick’s last film, Eyes Wide Shut. In honor of the event, here’s a blip of Stephen King sharing an anecdote about the enigmatic director:
Monday, July 6, 2009
Paul Siegell
Hometown poet Paul Siegell’s latest collection — jambandbootleg (read: “jam band bootleg”) — was just released. You can buy your copy here.
To give you a taste of his work, here’s an intriguing video/poetry short based on some verse from his first book, Poemergency Room:
To give you a taste of his work, here’s an intriguing video/poetry short based on some verse from his first book, Poemergency Room:
Monday, June 22, 2009
Jack Kerouac
I’d completely forgotten about this: a posthumous voice-over reading from Jack Kerouac in Woody Allen’s Manhattan. The images on screen compete with those that Kerouac’s words are creating in your mind, but it’s still a good sequence.
Two lines in particular that I love from this. The first is when God tells him: “Go thou and be little beneath my sight.” (How perfect is that?) Second is when he considers his present loneliness and looks out to glimpse his inevitable end, and says: “Nothing here but my own tragic hands that once were regarded by a world with sweet attention, but now are left to guide and disappear their own way into the common dark of all our death.”
Two lines in particular that I love from this. The first is when God tells him: “Go thou and be little beneath my sight.” (How perfect is that?) Second is when he considers his present loneliness and looks out to glimpse his inevitable end, and says: “Nothing here but my own tragic hands that once were regarded by a world with sweet attention, but now are left to guide and disappear their own way into the common dark of all our death.”
Monday, June 15, 2009
Dave Eggers
The Eggman has a new nonfiction book coming out called Zeitoun. Goo-goo-ga-joob. It follows a Muslim-American family around New Orleans during the Katrina disaster. Sounds inarrestin’.
Eggers recently sat down with Stephen Elliott from The Rumpus for a “long interview,” which you can read here. Enjoy.
Eggers recently sat down with Stephen Elliott from The Rumpus for a “long interview,” which you can read here. Enjoy.
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