Issue 148
News: State of the site.
Well, after spending four weeks on a particularly intense interim Chemistry Course, I'm finally back, and here's hoping that I'll be able to update more frequently than I've been doing in the past few months. Finally, I'll be able to work on the blog, finish my play (since the movie that it's based upon has just been re-released on an unusually cheap Criterion DVD today [for Criterion, $30 for a 2-Disc set is extremely cheap, especially when, sometimes, one-disc sets can cost $40]), and maybe I'll be able to get some work done on the "Once and Future Princess" novella [the one where the director goes insane while doing a film that is pretty much loosely based upon the "Princess Diaries" series, and makes it stranger and stranger]. "To Myself and Others" has been put on hold until I can figure out some ways to pad it to a full novel length. Of course, there will be some changes to the format of each entry, with two sections being temporarily eliminated. The first one "Band NAme of the Day," will be eliminated primarily because I'm lacking in new ideas. The second section, "The Link of the Day" will be eliminated for the same reason, but also for another reason; soon after the last entry was published, I was informed that this site was briefly flagged as a spamblog. Fortunately, I requested a review, and it appears that the scare is over, and my dad surmised that the links had something to do with the flagging. However, for the time being, I have decided to suspend the posting of new links. Here's hoping that I can post something next week that doesn't have to do with how I'm not finding time to write!
Film Idea of the Day: Death to America. The idea for this, as I intend for it, is that it is to be a film about a man who names himself "Ape Rape," and, stricken by a case of Ennui surrounding the funeral of his uncle, decides to run for office in the most surprising way possible; by commandeering a tank (his legacy from his uncle), and handing out flyers while blowing sh*t up, running on a campaign promise of "Death to America," and generally behaving in antisocial ways that many would find unbecoming of a political candidate. Music I intend for it: Creedence Clearwater Revival, some Russian Orthodox church music, a Morricone-ized version of Phil Ochs' "Crucifixion," and, for the rest of the music, duelling cellists. The film, to add to the strangeness, will have all of its dialogue in Esperanto (the idea of a language created to foster world peace being used in a film that is, in essence, a celebration of Anarchy like "V for Vendetta" should have been should be nothing short of bizarre), and, it ends as he dies in a shootout, and wins the election.
Film Review of the Day: The good, The Bad, and the Ugly. I spent a lot of the previous Saturday morning watching this movie for the first time, and I have to say that Sergio Leone's directing ability floors me. Indeed, the fact that this, possibly the real masterpiece of the Western genre that was and really is so peculiar to America, was originally made in Italy for an Italian audience, floors me, especially in its attempts to accurately recreate the era that were so unsuccessful in American films, although, of course, postwar Italy never had a Hays office to deal with in the same way that America did.
Quote of the Day: "Everyone in the world is Christ and they are all crucified. "
_______________Sherwood Anderson.
Well, after spending four weeks on a particularly intense interim Chemistry Course, I'm finally back, and here's hoping that I'll be able to update more frequently than I've been doing in the past few months. Finally, I'll be able to work on the blog, finish my play (since the movie that it's based upon has just been re-released on an unusually cheap Criterion DVD today [for Criterion, $30 for a 2-Disc set is extremely cheap, especially when, sometimes, one-disc sets can cost $40]), and maybe I'll be able to get some work done on the "Once and Future Princess" novella [the one where the director goes insane while doing a film that is pretty much loosely based upon the "Princess Diaries" series, and makes it stranger and stranger]. "To Myself and Others" has been put on hold until I can figure out some ways to pad it to a full novel length. Of course, there will be some changes to the format of each entry, with two sections being temporarily eliminated. The first one "Band NAme of the Day," will be eliminated primarily because I'm lacking in new ideas. The second section, "The Link of the Day" will be eliminated for the same reason, but also for another reason; soon after the last entry was published, I was informed that this site was briefly flagged as a spamblog. Fortunately, I requested a review, and it appears that the scare is over, and my dad surmised that the links had something to do with the flagging. However, for the time being, I have decided to suspend the posting of new links. Here's hoping that I can post something next week that doesn't have to do with how I'm not finding time to write!
Film Idea of the Day: Death to America. The idea for this, as I intend for it, is that it is to be a film about a man who names himself "Ape Rape," and, stricken by a case of Ennui surrounding the funeral of his uncle, decides to run for office in the most surprising way possible; by commandeering a tank (his legacy from his uncle), and handing out flyers while blowing sh*t up, running on a campaign promise of "Death to America," and generally behaving in antisocial ways that many would find unbecoming of a political candidate. Music I intend for it: Creedence Clearwater Revival, some Russian Orthodox church music, a Morricone-ized version of Phil Ochs' "Crucifixion," and, for the rest of the music, duelling cellists. The film, to add to the strangeness, will have all of its dialogue in Esperanto (the idea of a language created to foster world peace being used in a film that is, in essence, a celebration of Anarchy like "V for Vendetta" should have been should be nothing short of bizarre), and, it ends as he dies in a shootout, and wins the election.
Film Review of the Day: The good, The Bad, and the Ugly. I spent a lot of the previous Saturday morning watching this movie for the first time, and I have to say that Sergio Leone's directing ability floors me. Indeed, the fact that this, possibly the real masterpiece of the Western genre that was and really is so peculiar to America, was originally made in Italy for an Italian audience, floors me, especially in its attempts to accurately recreate the era that were so unsuccessful in American films, although, of course, postwar Italy never had a Hays office to deal with in the same way that America did.
Quote of the Day: "Everyone in the world is Christ and they are all crucified. "
_______________Sherwood Anderson.
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