Pulling from my ever dwindling cellar tonight’s fetch revealed a New World First Growth (according to Bad Man’s (that’s me) classification) from Leonetti Cellars – their Walla Walla Valley 2007 Merlot, 14.3% abv, approx. $80.00 USD. Good luck finding it – fortunately (as you’d guess) I’m tight with the local merchants so I always tap [...]
Archive > July 2009
A.D.D. movie review – Taken (2008)
The other night I watched Taken, Pierre Morel’s 2008 film starring Liam Neeson. I’ve seen a lot of bad movies in my time but this one achieved the honorable achievement of advancing into my top 20 worst films of all time list. I see that Mick LaSalle of our local San Francisco Chronicle gave it [...]
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So tonight I’m organizing yet another petulant interest; my art/math/anarchy literature library. I have tomes by all the heavy-hitters – Nietzsche, Sarte’s girlfriend, Freud, Marquis de Sade, Shakespeare, Hunter S. Thompson, Plato, Vonnegut, Kafka, Kant, William S. Burroughs, J.G. Ballard, Ken Russell; all fabulous trite.
And then there is the “art” wing. The focus there is [...]
A.D.D. musings about Tarsem Singh’s “The Cell” and “The Fall”
Last month, after waxing poetic about the just viewed movie “MirrorMask” from 2005 (Dave McKean & Neil Gaiman) recommended to me by our very own BadMan, he shot back an emailed list of movies that also fit this theme (and I quote):
“Grotesque post-apocalyptic futurism rooted in baroque-art-deco architecture dripping with film-noir acid-greens following an AIW [...]
Silver Nitrate
Movies Tier I (in alphabetical order)
Apocaplypse Now – Francis Ford Coppola (1979)
Blade Runner – Ridley Scott (1982)
Blue Velvet – David Lynch (1986)
Brazil – Terry Gilliam (1985)
La Cité des enfants perdus – Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Marc Caro (1995)
A Clockwork Orange – Stanley Kubrick (1971)
The Cook, the Thief, His Wife, and her Lover – Peter Greenaway (1989)
Eraserhead – [...]
Film directors
Here we go – l’ll show you mine if you show me yours.
Directors (the first three in order)
01. Peter Greenaway
02. Alejandro Jodorowsky
03. David Lynch
Michel Gondry
Michael Haneke
Jan Svankmajer
Ken Russell
Hal Hartley
Tom Tykwer
Olivier Assayas
David Cronenberg
Terry Gilliam
Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Stanley Kubrick
Pedro Almodóvar
E. Elias Merhige
Takashi Miike
Kim Ki-duk
Darren Aronofsky
Todd Solondz
Akira Kurosawa
Wim Wenders
Pier Paolo Pasolini
Krzysztof Kieslowski
Atom Egoyan
Luc Besson
Lars von Trier
Federico Fellini
Robert Rodriguez
Jean-Luc Godard
François Truffaut
Quentin [...]
A.D.D. film thoughts about Jan Svankmajer’s 1988 “Alice”
This weekend, upon recommendation from the BadMan, I watched the 1988 film “Alice” by Czech director Jan Svankmajer; a surreal, live action/stop motion retelling of Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland (AIW). Imagine, if you will, Peter Greenaway, Tim Burton and Veit Helmer co-directing this classic AIW tale, with Hieronymus Bosch and Salvador Dali helming the cameras as [...]
New word – Disenbandonment
Disenbandonment.
noun, the state of being in which a band once performing music together, through death of a member or Yoko Ono, comes into being no longer a band. Disenbandonment. Not to be confused with disbandment, disenbandonment connotes the abandonment and disenchantment (with perhaps some disemboweling thrown in for good measure) felt by the remaining members [...]
Wine vocabulary additions
cabmospheric, adj., noun, etc.
To be in a state of synergy with any of the Cabernet varietals, including Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet Franc, Petite Verdot, Merlot, and Malbec.
cablimated, adj., noun, etc.
The process by which your olfactory and gastronomical chambers are adjusted to the correct cabmospheric (see above) pressure to accommodate proper quaffing of some vino of the [...]
Aural Artists
There are now only three living aural artists still capable of putting out complete art. These artists’ mediums span song, theatre, film, soundtrack, video game, fashion, and beyond. If you don’t own their entire back catalogues you need to run, don’t walk, to your nearest illegal download kiosk and fill up an arsenal of flash [...]
