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Who's still around?
Just installed the LJ app on my iPad. Haven't been on LJ for ages. I wonder how many of my flist are still active?
Posted via LiveJournal app for iPad.
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Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
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Random wikipedia Articles
List of interesting Wikipedia articles that have appeared when I clicked 'Random Article'.
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LJ / IJ
Everyone else is doing it. I have prepared an Insane Journal account: http://mysterbey.insanejournal.com/
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Archetypal Heroes and Villains
From Patrick Luciano, Them or Us: Archetypal Interpretations of Fifties Alien Invasion Films (Indiana University Press, 1987), pg. 7.
The most important characteristic of the horror film is its emphasis on an alternate state of the actual world. In the horror films produced over the past fifty years one finds a exotic, often European setting and ( Read more... ) -
Horror & Science Fiction / Chaos & Disruption
From Vivian Carol Sobchack, The Limits of Infinity (A. S. Barnes & Co., 1980), pp. 29-30.
One major difference between the genres lies in their sphere of exploration, their emphasis. The horror film is primarily concerned with the individual in conflict with society or with some extension of himself, the SF film with society and its institutions in ( Read more... ) -
It's About What's Not Happening
Nice little vignette on fishing, via the White Hat newsletter.
“G’day. How’s it going?” All around Victoria you will find people quietly dangling a line in the water in the process of drowning a worm. You look in their bucket and they haven’t caught a thing, but the air of serenity on their face indicates they are not too stressed by that. “Not ( Read more... ) -
Phenomena and Occurrences
I should write a full update soon. Briefly - I've finished my first week of official rounds. It's been fantastic. I actually can't wait for Monday.
In the meantime, here's a beautiful hauntological short film made by Julian House for the Ghost Box label.
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More things I dislike
Some more thinks I dislike (which everyone else seems to like):- the beach
- Arrested Development
- hot weather
- Microsoft Windows
- the beach
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Yellow Pages
Why is the Yellow Pages not considered junk mail? It's just advertising, after all ( Read more... )
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