January 2012
1 post
Browsing through some of Roger Ebert’s film reviews I notice that many of his closing paragraphs contain the phrase “You know who you are”, pointed at those who like their moving pictures served in a certain fashion.
That’s another good way to know yourself, I guess - know what you like to read, hear, or watch, and you know who you are.
July 2011
4 posts
June 2011
7 posts
“Make no little plans. They have no magic to stir men’s blood and probably...”
– Daniel Burnham, Chicago architect. (1846-1912)
May 2011
6 posts
“I think there should be holy war against yoga classes. It detours us from real...”
– Werner Herzog
Links for today: two observations on feelings.
one and two
April 2011
5 posts
March 2011
10 posts
“Frederic Raphael, who co-authored the screenplay for “Eyes Wide Shut,” recalls...”
– Richard Brody about Kubrick’s unmade The Aryan Papers
BASSBEDIENER plays the Andreaskirche in Selb →
BASSBEDIENER in der Andreaskirche in Selb
zur Eröffnung der Ausstellung ART in ART 18.07.2008
BASSBEDIENER - performance in the „Andreas-Church“ in Selb (Germany) for the opening of the exhibition ART in ART 18th july 2008
Christian Weiß, Florian Tuercke
Herzog vs. Bay
I read this excellent Guardian profile on Werner Herzog
-and shortly thereafter Michael Bay’s commentary on his very own billion-dollar-budget robot movie
Talk about contrast.
“It was a real drug midnight
swoooooooooooooooah dreary
I was goofing
Beat and...”
–
Lord Buckley’s 50s hipster adaptation of Poe’s The Raven
The Bugbird (“The Raven”) , A Most Immaculately Hip Aristocrat (CD)
February 2011
9 posts
Dead Philosophers in Heaven: Non-philosophers... →
http://hitlergettingpunched.blogspot.com/ →
…there’s a blog for that.
“Fuck the fiddly bits.”
– Joe Strummer
http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2010/01/nakatomi-space... →
“Over the course of the film, McClane blows up whole sections of the building; he stops elevators between floors; and he otherwise explores the internal spaces of Nakatomi Plaza in acts of virtuoso navigation that were neither imagined nor physically planned for by the architects. His is an infrastructure of nearly uninhibited movement within the material structure of the building.”
November 2009
1 post
The Straight Dope: How did the states establish... →
Step 6. Sober up. In the 1770s a party-hearty type named Collins led a team that surveyed the boundary between Quebec and Vermont. On one 22-mile stretch, a fifth of their expenses went for booze. The result, an international commission later acknowledged, was “very far from a straight line.”
October 2009
2 posts
“I don’t hate it he thought, panting in the cold air, the iron New England dark:...”
– Absalom, Absalom! by Faulkner
“We need not destroy the past. It is gone.”
– John Cage