Archive for March, 2008
I would like to be angry
I’m about to turn on part 1 of the Frontline documentary “Bush’s War“. I expect to be very upset in about 20 minutes. I’ll let you know how it goes.
Update:
I just finished the first 2 hours, and I’m pretty keyed up. A lot of this stuff was covered really well last year in “The Dark [...]
David Simon and The Wire
From a fascinating interview with the occasionally obtuse but always interesting David Simon, creator of HBO’s The Wire, comes a tidy explanation of the motivations behind the show, encapsulated as only a writer could:
It’s a Greek tragedy, and everyone’s trying to think Antigone or Medea or Oedipus out of the box. Which is understandable. When [...]
nurblecast episode 13
Holy shit, I’ve been pretty terrible about keeping this going, haven’t I? Sorry ’bout that.
Onward!
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Get A Move On – Mr Scruff
If you’ve been living anywhere but a sealed up bomb shelter in Chernobyl, you’ve heard this song a million times. Fact. However, I’m pretty sure your reaction upon hearing it [...]
film school in a jar
I just watched a documentary called Fog City Mavericks that’s been sitting on my Tivo for months. It occurred to me about 20 minutes in that my History of Cinema teacher could have saved us all a lot of trouble and just showed this movie on the first day of class* and then let us [...]