gogorama.blogspot.com
Go-Go-Rama: The Best American Sports Writing 2014
http://gogorama.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-best-american-sports-writing-2014.html
I can resist everything but temptation." - Oscar Wilde. Saturday, August 01, 2015. The Best American Sports Writing 2014. That's Jay Caspian King, in his piece on the declining years of boxing promoter Don King, "The End and Don King," one of the stronger pieces in The Best American Sports Writing 2014. The volume also challenges us on on what constitutes a sport. There's a fascinating article by Raffi Khatchadourian, "The Chaos of the Dice," about a backgammon champion. I think some of us would ...It's ...
gogorama.blogspot.com
Go-Go-Rama: Help!
http://gogorama.blogspot.com/2015/08/help.html
I can resist everything but temptation." - Oscar Wilde. Thursday, August 06, 2015. Today is the 50th anniversary of the release of the Beatles fifth LP, Help! Which was in turn a soundtrack album of their second film, also called Help! In this post, I'll discuss both the record and the movie. First I need to clarify which Help! But in the U.K. it was on Help! For the purposes of this blog, and since my CD Beatles' collection is of U.K. versions, that's the one I'll write about. To me, Help! The Beatles h...
gogorama.blogspot.com
Go-Go-Rama: Slackers
http://gogorama.blogspot.com/2015/08/slackers.html
I can resist everything but temptation." - Oscar Wilde. Tuesday, August 04, 2015. Not to be confused with the far superior Richard Linklater film, Slacker, Slackers. Is a 2002 college comedy directed by Dewey Nicks, which I believe is his only film, a good thing. The college comedy started pretty much at the top, with National Lampoon's Animal House,. And has floundered since then. Slackers. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Las Vegas, Nevada, United States. View my complete profile. The other night I ...
gogorama.blogspot.com
Go-Go-Rama: August 2015
http://gogorama.blogspot.com/2015_08_01_archive.html
I can resist everything but temptation." - Oscar Wilde. Monday, August 31, 2015. It starts with one beat of a snare drum, then the organ kicks in. "Once upon a time, you drank so fine, You threw the bums a dime in your prime, didn’t you? So begins one of the most important rock albums of all time, Bob Dylan's Highway 61 Revisited. Released fifty years ago this week. You’ve gone to the finest school all right, Miss Lonely. But you know you only used to get juiced in it. He’s not selling any alibis. Establ...
gogorama.blogspot.com
Go-Go-Rama: July 2015
http://gogorama.blogspot.com/2015_07_01_archive.html
I can resist everything but temptation." - Oscar Wilde. Friday, July 31, 2015. The House of Yes. A few days I flashed back to the '90s writing about Ed Burns. Well, Parker Posey was also a mainstay of indie films that decade. There was a joke that once she was in every film that the Angelika, a Greenwich Village art house, was screening. I don't think that's true, but it might have been possible. She had several indies in the '90s, including The House of Yes. I suppose that film's lackluster response was...
gogorama.blogspot.com
Go-Go-Rama: November 2014
http://gogorama.blogspot.com/2014_11_01_archive.html
I can resist everything but temptation." - Oscar Wilde. Sunday, November 30, 2014. The Best American Comics 2014. I really enjoyed this year's volume of The Best American Comics. And that's due not only to the comics themselves but to the guest editor, Scotdt McCloud, who helpfully assembled the book by theme and wrote some very informative introductions. McCloud also includes a section of Chris Ware's Building Stories. Which I wrote about last year. Links to this post. Saturday, November 29, 2014. Essen...
gogorama.blogspot.com
Go-Go-Rama: February 2015
http://gogorama.blogspot.com/2015_02_01_archive.html
I can resist everything but temptation." - Oscar Wilde. Saturday, February 28, 2015. Woman in the Dunes. Woman in the Dunes. A Japanese film from 1964, is one of those films that has so many layers that its almost mentally exhausting. I can imagine people back puzzling over its meaning, and fifty years later I don't think that meaning is any clearer. Directed by Hiroshi Teshigahara, and based on a novel by Kobo Abe, Woman in the Dunes. Woman in the Dunes. Episodes, where characters are trapped in a night...
gogorama.blogspot.com
Go-Go-Rama: June 2015
http://gogorama.blogspot.com/2015_06_01_archive.html
I can resist everything but temptation." - Oscar Wilde. Tuesday, June 30, 2015. Ain't Them Bodies Saints. Ain't Them Bodies Saints. Is a typical American indie- bleak, about downtrodden people, with occasional bursts of violence just to keep us awake. It is visually poetic, and reminds one of Terence Malick, although that is a double-edged sword. Ain't Them Bodies Saints. The film was written and directed by David Lowery, and I would be interested in seeing what else he does. Ain't Them Bodies Saints.
gogorama.blogspot.com
Go-Go-Rama: January 2015
http://gogorama.blogspot.com/2015_01_01_archive.html
I can resist everything but temptation." - Oscar Wilde. Saturday, January 31, 2015. The National Book Award winner this year for young people's literature was Brown Girl Dreaming. I'm hard pressed to think of any cataclysmic that happens in this book. Just the stuff of life, but she renders it so beautifully that it reminds us that the stuff of daily life is cataclysmic- every day brings a new surprise, and our lives are like flowing rivers, branching and eddying. In the stores downtown. Even though the ...
