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It was I who was looking at her for the first time.

I’m sure that The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button is going to be a fine movie (read: probably not totally horrible). Fincher, despite maybe not capitalizing on his talents and seizing opportunities...

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Contradictions and cosmic loneliness.

“Too shallow to be truly lonely,” Pauline Kael wrote in her review of L’Avventura, “they are people trying to escape their boredom by reaching out to one another and finding only boredom again.” “Like...

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The Auteur Theory, part five: More like music than fiction.

“A film is – or should be – more like music than fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what’s behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later.” -Stanley Kubrick....

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Our Nada Who Arts In Nada.

Ernest Hemingway with Fidel Castro in 1960 during “The Ernest Hemingway Fishing Competition,” which just sounds like crazy good fun. I don’t know why, but I’ve been thinking about Hemingway a lot...

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A journey without maps.

“All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.” -F. Scott Fitzgerald. Lady By A Window Writing, 1827, by Georg Freidrich Kersting. “That so many writers have been prepared to...

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The person I am tonight.

“Think how you love me,” she whispered. “I don’t ask you to love me always like this, but I ask you to remember. Somewhere inside me there’ll always be the person I am to-night.” -from Tender Is The...

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“With your feet in the air and your head on the ground.”

From the internet: Schizophrenia: the insanity virus. The return of literary magazines? Bill Clinton to be in The Hangover 2. How the CIA used modern art as a weapon. Darren Aronofsky’s Wolverine...

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The suburb of the soul.

Mad linkage: Who is Arcade Fire?! It seems like the theme of Sunday’s Grammys were “I don’t know who this person is.” The most British movie ever. The oral history of Party Down. The Machinist‘s Brad...

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Past Prologue: September, 2009.

The end looms large, but is still a ways away and down the road a bit. But I kind of wanted to look back a little, month by month, at this blog. Maybe not every single month, but most, if I can. I...

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