July 2009
6 posts
The Best Has Savageness
Fight Club is easily the best film I have ever seen. Today I mentioned 4 novelists, poets and playwrights as “my favourite writer (singular, non-plural)” in a tute. But Fight Club is my perfect piece of cinema. It’s so perfect on every level; visually, audibly, orally Fight Club is as close to my ideal theatrical experience as can ever, from the night I first saw it, be...
“We shed as we pick up, like travellers who must carry everything in their arms,...”
– Tom Stoppard
“Day after day, day after day,
We stuck, nor breath nor motion;
As idle as a...”
– Samuel Taylor Coleridge, poetic Jesus and creator of the closest thing in literature to Neopolitan ice-cream except with 60 wizardly flavours that all taste great together
“The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human...”
– H. P. Lovecraft, writer and Prince of Madness
“The future is already here - it is just unevenly distributed.”
– William Gibson, author of Neuromancer (that book that used the word “cyberspace” before all the others) and Pattern Recognition, possibly my favourite novel.
Love The Proxy
Ergo Proxy is to Lost, as I, Robot is to Castaway.
The English dubs are insane and very appropriate, especially because you don’t want to be drawn away from the ace vis.u.alz BUT the Shinsen subs have informative highbrow stuffs at the end of each ep.
Why did Lost fail me in this way? Researching statues with 4 toed feet is really not something people should be doing in their spare time....
