Lost & Found

Lever Boys

Sarah Sez No!

Journeys in Mykronesia

1,000,000 Monkeys

Movies are fun.  Thinking is hard.  But computers are easy!  Thank goodness Brittany Shoot made expressing an opinion painless with the Videoblog Comment Generator.  I expect to use it frequently.

Boing Boing Discovers the Turtles

Mark Frauenfelder of Boing Boing and the Silent Porn Star recently discovered the Turtle Club. Anyone from Fairbanks, Alaska knows the Turtle Club has the best prime rib and crab legs in town.  "RUAT - YBYSAIA".

Relationships in a Paragraph

A wonderful challenge.  Reminds me of Felix Feneon's Novels in Three Lines.  My contributions follow:

1. We played tennis on a warm, dry afternoon. I missed every volley I returned. She gracefully conceded defeat and left with a wry smile.
2. She polished her blood-red boots with particular care. She didn't polish much else. Sometimes there really is nothing to say. But she said it so eloquently.
3. A drowsy turtle is a dilemma. To tap or not to tap? I did a bit of both. The turtle eventually arrived, but the hare was long gone.
4. The stars perform in the windshield and demand the same in return.  Our absent-minded kisses soon became inadequate. But she was a far more diligent performer than I.
5. At the time, I never wondered why she laughed. She smiled when I touched her, over and over. She smiled when she drew the line. And she smiled when I brought her roses. She knew they were wilted, even if I didn't.
6. Many are born administrators. Only a few realize it. She knew how to do things properly and gave careful instructions. There's no use pretending you can train the untrainable.
7. Wild-eyed, I followed her home. So ripe, so wrong. An open secret: the hypnotized always act on their desires.
8. She watched me laughingly in class, and I performed for her. I loved her best when she was gone, and I suspect she agreed. Exasperated, she dropped me once and then again. There won't be a third time.
9. As a writer, she found the film academic. As a writer, she found the article dull. As a writer, she didn't much care for him. As a writer, I was done writing.
10. Elegantly, she brushed out her hair. Daintily, she picked though her salad. Discreetly, she signaled her boredom. Quietly, I walked away.
    

Suggested by The Sheila Variations via From the Archives.

The Godfather of Avant-Garde Cinema

In September 2007, Senses of Cinema published my interview with Jonas Mekas, Me, I Just Film My Life.  This interview was a follow-up to another, also published by Senses of Cinema.  Yeah, I know the introductions are similar.  I had to write it really fast.  Anyway, I think the second is better, and that's what counts, right?

The avant-garde is about sex. Like it or not.

On October 17, 2007, the Stranger ran my review of Other Cinema DVD's release Xperimental Eros.  It's really a good disc.  I'm an especially big fan of Naomi Uman's Removed.

Is that a movie in your pocket?

Time to catch up with some old reviews, as I'm finally back in NYC.  On May 23, 2007, the Stranger ran Hey, Full Series Pass!, a column I wrote on the occasion of the Seattle International Film Festival, recommending websites presenting unusual internet videos.  Don't worry, it's pretty tame.