February 2012
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Argos, dog of Odysseus
mills:
At the end of The Odyssey, Odysseus returns home in disguise after two decades of war and wandering; his old swineherd, Eumeaus, taking him for a stranger, walks him across his property and nearby his old dog, occasioning one of the earliest sentimental descriptions of the human-canine bond (from the eighth century BCE):
Now, as they talked on, a dog that lay there lifted up his muzzle,...
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Bring it on, London:
We’ve got polenta, fennel sausage ragù, home-made crostata, and a bunch of movies. We’re ready to be snowed in.
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The Vinyl Diaries: Bruce Springsteen, "Tunnel of... →
fuckyeahtheboss:
I was 17 the year Tunnel of Love was released; Bruce Springsteen was 38 and intent on ruminating, on taking stock, on running down a list of decisions and regrets, looking backward and around himself, because he was unable to see the way forward. I missed that then. To me, the album was just good; I simply didn’t know enough to recognize the pain and confusion that was quite...
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January 2012
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WTF tumblr?!
what’s with all the snakes tonight? There are at least five different posts with snakes on my dashboard right now, which makes it a no-go area for me. Please stop?
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“When Sony launched the Walkman back in the late 70s, its main appeal was that...”
– Charlie Brooker - I’m all for sharing, but why the online obsession with revealing every detail of your life? | The Guardian
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Fußgänger →
My little brother is on tumblr! You can follow his adventures as a theatre director/PhD student of German theatre in Berlin here.
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“I’m going to begin by telling you about Miss Frost.”
– There’s a book excerpt from John Irving’s forthcoming novel In One Person over at the Simon & Schuster homepage.
(This on the same day a new Springsteen single comes out and I give my last lecture for this academic year. Now my happy new year may begin, thank you very much.)
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Charlie Brooker: How to realise David Cameron's... →
British film-makers! Put down those clapperboards and pay attention because David Cameron, who happens to be a huge fan of your work – assuming you’re making The King’s Speech II – wants you to focus on films likely to be a “commercial success”. Which presumably is the last thing you want.
Cynics say Cameron knows squit about British films. When that photo of SamCam and...
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The birth of film criticism – 100 years ago | Film... →
The early film critics, wrote Alistair Cooke in 1937, were presented with a new art form, unencumbered by tradition, and free “to define the movies with no more misgivings than Aristotle defined tragedy”. Or at least they would have been, but the press lost interest once the novelty wore off, and so “through a trick of snobbery the simple Aristotelian lost his chance”....
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My Thoughts On...Steamboat Bill Jr.
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Like Keaton I feel out of step sometimes with the world around me. Not quite fitting in to the way the world is. Never more so than when watching a silent film, live scored, introduced by Jim Broadbent and being overcome with joy and escapism that I rarely get from modern cinema. Maybe I have to reclaim my mode of viewing, create opportunities and environments for sheer...
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