I have no problem admitting I'm a Phineas Newborn dilettante. Even Stanley Booth, the author of the thorough, admiring, and extremely painful appreciation of Newborn that was my first exposure…
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Weird Culture - Weird Custom (1986) was, as far as I know, the first record release co-ordinated by the entire New Zealand student radio network. There were twelve tracks on…
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Almost immediately (in historical time) after Robert Benayoun's citation of "authentic sadistic cinema" (in his 1960 essay "Zaroff; or, the prosperities of vice") and a good two decades before Nick…
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Did I ever tell you guys about the first screenplay I ever wrote, or, rather, co-wrote? No, I didn't think so. Among other things, I figured that doing so might…
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Extracts from provisional Artificial Intelligence rehearsal, 5/21/11. The personnel for this iteration of A.I. was G.K., vcl and noise guitar, Ron Goldberg, keyboards and laptop, Doug Harvey, bass and vcl,…
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Grooving to the "Ride" in Richard Linklater's Dazed and Confused, 1993 The comments thread on my post concerning my "The Tree of Life" review for MSN Movies has taken an…
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