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Monthly Archives: April 2013
[XF/M] S3E10 & S6E10: “Borrowed Time” and “Tithonus”
Monday we took in the latest episode of ‘Mad Men’ (a men-vs-women episode featuring ketchup, a swinging couple married 18 years, and Harry being his terrible self) as well as our normal rotation of ‘Millennium’ and ‘The X-Files’.
Posted in X-Files / Millennium / Lone Gunmen
Tagged Mad Men, Millennium, Tennyson, The X-Files
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Exorcise your Prophecies … three bad movies for the price of one!
Ms. S. and I are both completists in a way. Once we start, we can’t stop. If there is a movie series and we begin it, we commit to it … of course, there are exceptions. This is just a … Continue reading
The Ebertvaganza Continues: “Cries and Whispers”
After a couple American films (“Five Easy Pieces”, “The Last Picture Show”, “The Godfather”), we returned Sunday afternoon to Europe and got the first of two back-to-back Bergman movies, “Cries and Whispers” (1972; Ebert’s top movie for 1973). I’ll keep … Continue reading
Q: Who invented integration by parts?
A: Brook Taylor. Online a friend inquired, “Do you know who invented integration by parts?” Off the top of my head I did not. Did I ever? I was not sure. Did I have suspicions? Sort of.
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Independent Mediocrity: When it’s not The Man keeping us down.
I love Mike D’Angelo’s review of “Future Weather“, which he gave a ‘B-‘ over at The A.V. Club. Love is, of course, an exaggeration, and it’s a shame that it is. Perhaps not in this case, but so frequently. That … Continue reading
Posted in Movies
Tagged Beasts of the Southern Wild, criticism, Hollywood, I Am Legend, Rust and Bone
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Dinner: Quick, Dirty, and Delicious
‘Top Chef Canada’ is back and we’re watching it; it was also our dinner time, and I decided to try something new (to me): oysters.
Good: Escher and Blog … an Infernal Golden Opportunity, or: Welcome to the Wonderful World of High Technology
The blog post is titled “3D Print the Impossible! Turning Escher Drawings into Read 3D Models“. As the first paragraphs states, “The researchers […] have used their own Objet 3D printer to re-create the impossible Escher Drawings as real, tangible … Continue reading
Posted in Various and Sundry
Tagged aesthetics, disgust, dissertation, Escher, Gödel, Kant, Lessing, paradox
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“Five Easy Pieces” (1970): Thoughts
Bobby works on oil rigs in southern California, hangs out with his girlfriend Rayette, and the two end up on a road trip to the Northwest to visit Bobby’s ill father. And while that’s the movie in a nutshell it … Continue reading
Posted in Movies
Tagged counter-culture, Jack Nicholson, New Hollywood, Nine Songs, Tieck, Wackenroder
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