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The Funhouse Journal: September 2014
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Sunday, September 28, 2014. Sight and Sound released a poll of the all-time best documentaries this summer so I decide to fill in some of the gaps. (The poll is here. But a warning that the website for this is poorly designed.). Is lower on the sex and violence than most mondo films. But even if that's mistaken Sans Soleil. Complete with an unedited musical performance towards the end (though I consider the Benning film a much stronger one). Saturday, September 27, 2014. Kingsolver - The Poisonwood Bible.
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The Funhouse Journal: May 2015
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Sunday, May 24, 2015. Avengers: Age of Ultron. Seems like every review opens with "I enjoyed it but." and who am I to toss aside a week-old tradition? Because Age of Ultron. Is entertaining in a loud-fast summer blockbuster way but lacks much of Whedon - where's the first film's humor and sense of real conflict? Where's the feel of character and that smart dialogue? By the end, we're shown a way for the franchise to move forward even if the current actors leave. Comics readers are familiar with frequ...
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The Funhouse Journal: May 2014
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Tuesday, May 20, 2014. The Cambridge Companion to Baudelaire. Somoza - The Athenian Murders. Bevington - Murder Most Foul: Hamlet Through the Ages. Boethius - Consolation of Philosophy (Norton Critical Edition). Sherwood Anderson - Complete Stories. Crispin - The Moving Toyshop. Woolf - Collected Essays Volume One (the 60s edition that's arranged thematically which is what I'm interested in - not the 80s also-four-volume edition that's chronological which seems like a snooze). Gravett - Comics Art.
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The Funhouse Journal: July 2014
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Tuesday, July 22, 2014. David O. Russell 2012) – Mystifying why this is so well-regarded since it’s a routine romantic comedy, not roughly but exactly. Not a revisionist romantic comedy or one that infuses the genre with new emotion or whatever critical blurbspeak you might prefer but one that’s absolutely by the rules and absolutely with nothing to say. Even a film like 27 Dresses. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Thoughts on film, music, books, comics, TV, etc. At least 10 posts a year, guaranteed!
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The Funhouse Journal: Library sale
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Saturday, January 31, 2015. Today's haul from the library sale:. Rube Goldberg vs the Machine Age. Koch - The Rise of Modern Warfare. Warren - All the King's Men. Oates - The Stoic and Epicurean Philosophers (Modern Library). Edel - Henry James: A Life. Williams - Henry VIII and His Court. Meyers - Great Martial Arts Movies (revised edition). Perelman - Swiss Family Perelman. Perelman - Westward Ha! But had been considering re-reading Lucretius before I read The Swerve. Check out my other blog.
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gregstroud – Marketing is the Message
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Marketing is the Message. Exploring the shifting world of marketing. Marketing lessons from submarines, carrots, and celery. August 11, 2016. August 11, 2016. The subs and I don’t mean sub sandwiches. Submarines are getting harder to find, says The Economist this week. Finding one at random in the wide blue ocean is so hard many warships are now in jeopardy. The one technique that could solve this? Once sighted, track the found sub forever. Are they listening to XM, podcasts or local radio? A friend and ...
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The Funhouse Journal: Some documentaries
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Sunday, September 28, 2014. Sight and Sound released a poll of the all-time best documentaries this summer so I decide to fill in some of the gaps. (The poll is here. But a warning that the website for this is poorly designed.). Is lower on the sex and violence than most mondo films. But even if that's mistaken Sans Soleil. Complete with an unedited musical performance towards the end (though I consider the Benning film a much stronger one). Check out my other blog. Arts and Letters Daily.
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The Funhouse Journal: June 2014
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Sunday, June 15, 2014. David Sax - The Tastemakers: Why We're Crazy for Cupcakes but Fed Up with Fondue. Is a book that touches on various trends offering little of substance about them. Michael Pollan - Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation. You know that’s a European thing that won’t explain other cultures right? Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Thoughts on film, music, books, comics, TV, etc. At least 10 posts a year, guaranteed! Check out my other blog. Arts and Letters Daily. Edward R. Hamilton.
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The Funhouse Journal: March 2014
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Saturday, March 22, 2014. Thor: The Dark World. Alan Taylor 2013) - The first film was slight but somewhat amusing - Ebert correctly pegged it as a kids movie. This is just a misfire with a somewhat unclear plot laden with Star Wars. Whedon at least knew how to use that to underline the character's not-of-this-world origins (and if nothing else that film didn't need more big personalities in it). But Portman? Dan Scanlon 2013) - Has it really been a dozen years since the original? This time there are two...
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The Funhouse Journal: Avengers: Age of Ultron (Joss Whedon 2015)
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Sunday, May 24, 2015. Avengers: Age of Ultron. Seems like every review opens with "I enjoyed it but." and who am I to toss aside a week-old tradition? Because Age of Ultron. Is entertaining in a loud-fast summer blockbuster way but lacks much of Whedon - where's the first film's humor and sense of real conflict? Where's the feel of character and that smart dialogue? By the end, we're shown a way for the franchise to move forward even if the current actors leave. Comics readers are familiar with frequ...
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