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WHAT I'VE SEEN LATELY:

MOVIES
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God Told Me To (1976, Cohen)

Whispering City (1947, Otsep)

Times and Winds (2006, Erdem)

Dirty Money (Un flic) (1972, Melville)

10th District Court (2004, Depardon)

RFK Must Die: The Assassination of Bobby Kennedy (2007, O'Sullivan)

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SUGGESTED VIEWING:
The Power of Nightmares: The Rise of the Politics of Fear (2004, Curtis) [available for streaming/download here]





READING NOW:
(r) = re-reading

The Blonde - Duane Swierczynski

Swansea Terminal - Robert Lewis







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vaccine - v/a [hot flush]

skin diagram - david tagg

microcastle - deerhunter

saturdays=youth - m83

the serpent in quicksilver - harold budd

index of metal - fausto romitelli

Rocket to Russia - Ramones

and then one day it was over - elian

monsoon point - amelia cuni & ali gromer khan

set or performance - richard chartier

the world that was surrounded by a deep forest and warm light - ryonkt

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Sunday, February 25, 2007

in case you need a simple way to convert m4a to mp3, iPod fans: hymn

this is one of the reasons i won't be buying an iPod: NO PROPRIETARY FORMATS, NO DRM.

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just when one of their own was making it big . . .

R.I.P. Arthur magazine [easy bake coven]

as you may know, i was the northern arizona distributor, and i'm sorry to see it go. print media is a bitch these days; i wish it at could at least be a web presence, but i guess not.

UPDATE: Arthur not dead yet, as a web presence/concept anyway. the news about the pdfs is good.

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Thursday, February 22, 2007

on the other hand

A Republican student group in New York has sparked claims of racism by organising a game called "Find the Illegal Immigrant"

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why i still live in the u.s. and not someplace like

Egyptian blogger jailed for "insulting the President"
Soliman, 22, was tried in his native city of Alexandria. He blogs under the name Kareem Amer.

A former student at al-Azhar, he called the institution "the university of terrorism" and accused it of suppressing free thought.

The university expelled him in 2006 and pressed prosecutors to put him on trial.

During the five-minute court session the judge said Soliman was guilty and would serve three years for insulting Islam and inciting sedition, and one year for insulting Mr Mubarak.


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Tuesday, February 20, 2007

R.I.P. Eleanor Burnett

Susan's (my girlfriend) mother passed away at 9:15 Arizona time tonight.

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Sunday, February 18, 2007

Ballardesque

Abandoned Jetsons' style housing project, Taiwan [Boing Boing]

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Maybe Ms Rice should be studying diplomacy in Moscow -- or at least this article
By projecting itself as a bridge between the West and the Muslim Middle East, Moscow neatly served its own interests. It is making an ambitious bid to restore its traditional position and influence in the Middle East. It is wading into a power vacuum resulting from the loss of US influence in the region. And it is forging links with the Islamic world as a partner ready to make promises and willing to listen to Muslim opinion with respect. As Lavrov put it, "We will not let anyone put us at odds with the Islamic world."

Actually, Russia didn't have to say so explicitly. In Muslim Arab perceptions, Russian policy stands in sharp contrast with the Western (primarily US) approach that is characterized by pressure and the ever-threatening prospect of the use of force.


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Thursday, February 15, 2007

Jeph Jerman was interviewed for Arizona Week by the AZ public station KJZZ; I think it's a good introduction to his M.O.

Photo of an occasional, mutating group he's been involved with over the last few years, the animist orchestra, at a performance last month in Seattle.

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Sunday, February 11, 2007

If: carbona not glue then. . .

surfboards not Harleys
For $10,000 a day, you can have the ultimate surfing sojourn in Indonesia aboard the 110-foot Indies Trader IV, a sort of floating hotel with 15 cabins, a helipad and three-course meals with wine. A motorized tender takes you to the waves.

Or for a daily rate, in addition to the cost of his airfare, Brad Gerlach will give private instruction to select clients anywhere in the world. Mr. Gerlach, who was ranked No. 1 on surfing’s world professional tour during the 1986 and 1991 seasons, termed the cost “not cheap at all.”

Surfing, once the sport of Hawaiian kings, has come full circle. After becoming a counterculture activity for beach bums and bohemians, it has emerged as a status sport, like skiing and golf.


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Saturday, February 10, 2007



Interesting update on Bobcat Goldthwait, whose Share the Warmth stand-up video was one of the comic highlights of the 80s, for me anyway

He was kind of a punk Jonathan Winters -- in the sense that he was very talented and moved from playing in a punk band in Boston into what sounds like a thriving stand-up scene, but it was hard to picture him in any context that showcased his talent (particularly after seeing him wasted in stuff like One Crazy Summer & the Police Academy movies).

I never figured he'd survive this long, never mind end up directing movies like Stay (aka Sleeping Dogs Lie) (and I never knew REM were fans of Shakes the Clown).

Though the apparently heart-rending sensitivity of Stay was always present beneath the surface, fused uncomfortably with the transgressive outrageousness.

I'll check it out on disc, as well as Windy City Heat. Maybe give Shakes a shake too. . .

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Friday, February 09, 2007

a disturbing warning from Zbigniew Brzezinski on the threat -- and folly -- of inciting war with Iran, which he knows a few things about
Brzezinski, who opposed the March 2003 invasion and has publicly denounced the war as a colossal foreign policy blunder, began his remarks on what he called the “war of choice” in Iraq by characterizing it as “a historic, strategic and moral calamity.”

“Undertaken under false assumptions,” he continued, “it is undermining America’s global legitimacy. Its collateral civilian casualties as well as some abuses are tarnishing America’s moral credentials. Driven by Manichean principles and imperial hubris, it is intensifying regional instability.”

Brzezinski derided Bush’s talk of a “decisive ideological struggle” against radical Islam as “simplistic and demagogic,” and called it a “mythical historical narrative” employed to justify a “protracted and potentially expanding war.”

“To argue that America is already at war in the region with a wider Islamic threat, of which Iran is the epicenter, is to promote a self-fulfilling prophecy,” he said.

Most stunning and disturbing was his description of a “plausible scenario for a military collision with Iran.” It would, he suggested, involve “Iraqi failure to meet the benchmarks, followed by accusations of Iranian responsibility for the failure, then by some provocation in Iraq or a terrorist act in the US blamed on Iran, culminating in a ‘defensive’ US military action against Iran that plunges a lonely America into a spreading and deepening quagmire eventually ranging across Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan.”


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Thursday, February 08, 2007

The Sony award for missing the point of a new technology goes to . . .

I've had nothing but good results with amazon, though I purchase mostly from the Marketplace; but their Unbox movie download service is so laughably orwellian that it makes the email I just got from them touting Unbox as "the way Philip K Dick would like" to watch movies so richly humorous I gained 5 lbs just reading it

Compare the amazon service with netflix's answer: I now get 18 hours of free downloaded movies a month just for ALREADY SUBSCRIBING to their 3-at-a-time plan. I doubt very much I'll watch a whole movie at my PC, I just don't see the point; but I can now preview many films which don't have trailers available, and flip through clips like trying out music tracks online. The only drawback is that my 3MB/second cable modem (which translates to about 300-400k/sec in real life) is the lowest speed that makes the system watchable, and I have to use IE to do it.

Eventually I'm sure I'll be downloading instead of borrowing discs for many titles, once the speed & TV/PC integration issues are resolved to the point where the line between them disappears. But I sure won't be giving dingbats like amazon any of my money.

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Monday, February 05, 2007

Local scene

If you're in the Sedona area this weekend, there's a party featuring DJ Nate Metro, whose mixes I know through my friend Courtney, and he's got the funk, so check him out at Casa Rincon Saturday evening

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Scientists offered cash to dispute climate study
Scientists and economists have been offered $10,000 each by a lobby group funded by one of the world’s largest oil companies to undermine a major climate change report due to be published today.

Letters sent by the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), an ExxonMobil-funded thinktank with close links to the Bush administration, offered the payments for articles that emphasise the shortcomings of a report from the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

Travel expenses and additional payments were also offered.


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Saturday, February 03, 2007



Rosenbaum on Inland Empire

Prognosis: best since Eraserhead, which he considers Lynch's best up to now.

Which, despite my love for Velvet, Twin Peaks & respect for Mulholland Drive, I have to agree with.
Lynch usually concentrates on whipping up his childlike or adolescent perceptions of good and evil without worrying much about their sources, but in his more personal takes on Philadelphia in Eraserhead and on Hollywood in Mulholland Drive he confronts aspects of the complex dealings he's had with both industrial cities. In Inland Empire, after 30 years of struggling with studios, he goes further, recording some of his own visceral recoil from Hollywood in general and its meat market in particular -- which makes me wonder if his art has been permanently changed for the better. The titles Eraserhead and Inland Empire, his only metaphorical titles, point to his guarded way of coping with his own ambivalence: he either censors (erases) some of his darkest thoughts or retreats into the relative safety of his inner self. And the title Inland Empire might even suggest the insularity of America itself.


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Friday, February 02, 2007



I found Hubert Cornfield's Pressure Point at the library last week, and borrowed it mostly due to the cover blurb from Le Figaro referring to it as a "masterpiece of psychological analysis", odd for a film from that period I thought; also I vaguely remembered that a film with Bobby Darin playing an American Nazi showed his acting chops. . .

Aside from the self-consciously inspirational and ham-handed prelude/afterlude (?) -- which Cornfield says in the commentary producer Stanley Kramer tacked on himself -- this IS a remarkably gripping and effective -- and eerily prescient -- unmasking of the psychology of a fascist.

I looked up Cornfield on IMDB and it seems to me he's ripe for a reappraisal as anotable noir auteur, if nothing else.

Unfortunately, his voice is so altered by what sounds like emphysema that the commentary creeped me out too much to listen to it. It's very strange, particularly as the film is so unusual it caught me off guard to begin with.

Another odd thing is that despite the extraneous nature of the Kramer bookends, Peter Falk is pretty cool to watch with Poitier.

None of Cornfield's other films are available on DVD apparently (at least in region 1, except for Night of the Following Day, the Brando vehicle which seems the least interesting of the lot), despite the rash of recent noir releases on disc, of which he directed 4 which seem worthy of revival (Lure of the Swamp, Plunder Road, Les Grandes moyens and The 3rd Voice).

Here is F X Feeney's teasingly short obit in LA Weekly.

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