January 2012
14 posts
If, after watching the trailer for Moonrise...
towerofsleep:
You do not:
1) Know that you will see the film.
2) Feel embarrassed for Wes Anderson and yourself.
3) Feel mildly disgusted by the inevitability of it all.
You probably do not have a lot in common with me.
WatchAaron Huey: America’s native prisoners of war
Aaron Huey’s effort to photograph poverty in America led him to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, where the struggle of the native Lakota people — appalling, and largely ignored — compelled him to refocus. Five years of work later, his haunting photos intertwine with a shocking history lesson in this bold, courageous talk from...
December 2011
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November 2011
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“Every work of art is one half of a secret handshake.”
– Michael Chabon Manhood for Amateurs
October 2011
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September 2011
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August 2011
14 posts
8 reasons American youth don't fight back against... →
“It seems to me that the intellectualization and aestheticizing of principles and...”
– — David Foster Wallace
July 2011
13 posts
“the awakened, lips parted, the hope, the new ships”
– TS Eliot, Marina
Perhaps a bit ambitiously, I have picked up The Recognitions for a month of bare-limbed road- and canoe-trip reading.