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danschank

ten good things returns (february 2007)

Mar 03, 2007 01:50

hi folks... so, i guess december and january's editions of this have bitten the dust. i'm gonna try to get back to doing this monthly again though, and i've been brainstorming things to mention for a while now (some of the following is old news in real life, actually)... anyway...

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if you're gonna be up and on a bus at 5:30 in the morning... danschank March 4 2007, 19:07:42 UTC

... you migthas well wear a cowboy hat.

(wakka wakka wakka)

man, out 1 is NOT the film to see on little sleep. i hope you got a cup of coffee. and yeah, that kid staring at the camera is one of the very best moments in the film. it took me like an hour to figure out that 2 of the main characters were never actually in the movie, btw... totally frustrating, and even more so with me because i can never get plots and character names sorted out. i'm the jackass who has to ask what's going on like 40 minutes into the spy movie, etc.

hogg isn't quite as high on the list as the madman, possibly because everything i've heard about it leads me to believe it's fucked up in a way where even i "might not wanna go there." i dunno. i have a lot to read right now, i guess. though if you keep mentioning the recognitions, it'll keep knawing away at me till i plow into it. seems like such a commitment though ( ... )

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Re: if you're gonna be up and on a bus at 5:30 in the morning... danschank March 5 2007, 00:43:10 UTC

i always feel weird reading stuff aloud, but doing it with your ladyfriend sounds very cute, regardless...

yeah, someday i'll undoubtedly read nightwood too. i don't even know much about it, other than it seems to be on the bookshelves of a lot of people who's opinions i take seriously.

and yeah, rivette is definitely doing something all his own, stylistically. i take it you've seen celine and julie go boating, correct? it's weird to think of him as opposed to the godard stuff of the time (i saw a screening of numero deux last night), because rivette is so light in a certain way, whereas godard (in that era at least) can be downright humorless (not that i don't enjoy him still).

brooklynnotes March 5 2007, 16:54:23 UTC

I am going to jump in here a little late and warn against Hogg. I am by no means a prude when it comes to literature, but that book is so unrelentingly violently sexual that it made me sick to my stomach. I had to stop reading it after thirty pages. If you want Delany porn, go with The Mad Man.

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brooklynnotes March 6 2007, 03:40:10 UTC

seriously, dude, you do not want to be ready for that!

danschank March 6 2007, 04:24:26 UTC

i think i remember you mentioning this in passage... some RL friends have sort of said the same thing...

out of morbid curiosity, is it worse than sade?

the mad man is definitely on my must-read list at this point, oddly enough.

brooklynnotes March 6 2007, 04:30:23 UTC

out of morbid curiosity, is it worse than sade?

I don't know Sade well, but from my limited experience, I'd say yes. Probably just because Delany is a better writer, therefore the horror of it is much more real.

murdermystery April 9 2007, 01:32:03 UTC

i've er, read about 20 pages sober and about 50 pages of it drunk from the complete middle of the book (don't ask) and what it felt most like to me was matthew stokoe's cows. so, completely different than sade. i need to actually read the whole thing in order before i have an opinion, but creation shipped my copy of the new peter sotos WAY EARLY and i got a new robbe-grillet book, so the delany goes on hold.

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