El Topo (The Mole) is the cult western directed Alejandro Jodorowsky in the early 70s. I will side step the whole “is it a Surrealist film” by saying that I thoroughly enjoyed the movie.
I thought it would be too slow and too cryptic, but had a great balance of elements that kept me […]
I found this interesting cache of character drawings by Moebius while looking for details on Alejandro Jodorowsky’s attempt to make a film version of Dune.
And for the record, I killed many of them, but I have many bug bites to prove the worthiness of my insect opponent.
WeekEnd - If you think Peter Greenaway was treading new ground with The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover, Jean-Luc Godard had done it all 20 years earlier in Weekend, and got himself banned in the process for political and sexual subversion.
John Richards: Have a terrible weekend everyone! Everyone says have a […]
Tomorrow, after going into Seattle to eat lunch with a friend, Patty and I going to head for the hills and a little camping. We didn’t camp at all last summer, so we are looking forward to some relaxation around the campfire.
I am not sure what is so exciting about a tent and an […]
Getting back into film viewing with my Surrealism and Cinema class has led me back to the delima of PAL only dvds. However, after debating about buying a code free, region free dvd player (a Daewoo) that would play any dvd on any tv (the downside is that the PAL stuff is interpolated to […]
eBooks a go-go!
The best thing about my Pocket PC for me is reading eBooks. I can take 3 or 4 extra books with me when I travel in addition to a few hardbound originals or paperbacks.
I read ebooks in the Microsoft Reader format, which is ok. Some of the graphics suck […]
I updated the blog to Movable Type 3.0 today.
All seemed to go well.
I have been trying to do some automatic writing for my Surrealism and Cinema class.
Here are the bits I found interesting from the first attempts:
Willful misinterpretation of the end of the century over the beer.
Scratching leads to bleeding when you don’t know what you are doing on a Friday. Next to the […]
