It seems that criticism on Todd Haynes has rather exploded since the last time I looked (while writing my thesis, in 2004). At the time, I was able to find less than a handful of academic articles to reference, and had to resort to quoting interviews and movie reviews. Now not only are there multiple articles on all his works, but even an entire ( Read more... )

Sometimes teaching ancient philosophy that you know nothing about can be quite difficult ( Read more... )

Mika watched Labyrinth and then made a music video.

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Where's Jareth, Mika?

Apparently, people either love or hate the 80s cheesy-ness. I am for it, I guess, though I do far prefer the beginning to the end (and wish there'd be a bit less smiling and a bit more emotiveness going on). But I had said that his videos need more "creepyness and ( Read more... )

Listen! 14 year old Mika singing the Woodcutter's Boy part in the Pilgrim's Progress opera. And people think he sings high notes now.

And on a completely different... um... note...

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If any of you haven't seen this masterpiece of David Bowie's and Mick Jagger's, you must.

My favorite comment about this video:

"i can now rest easily knowing ( Read more... )

Can my livejournal have too many posts on glammy sexually ambiguous British boy pop singers? No, it cannot.

Anyway, so here's Patrick Wolf and the cover of his last album, The Magic Position.


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Okay, the last entry was getting too long, so I had to break it down. Picking up where I left off, then ( Read more... )

Our third day in London, being now a bit acquainted with the general layout of the city, we decided to visit the museums. The closest one to us was the British Museum, so that was where we embarked first off, intending to spend maybe two hours there, take a break for lunch and to stop by a vintage clothing store, then visit the Victoria and Albert ( Read more... )

The second day, we got up (fairly) early, and decided to start off our London experience by taking one of those bus tour guide trips. The original plan was to get off whatever stops interested us on the way, but we ended up more or less following the whole tour in one go ( Read more... )

Ah, but he is wonderful, wonderful, wonderful! Can I ever express enough just how marvelous he is ( Read more... )

I finally saw "The Hours" this Friday. I identified rather a lot with Virginia Woolf. Except that in my case, the voices have recently left me alone. For this whole past week, I've been entirely sane ( Read more... )