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with thanks to Cheryl Wilgren Clyne, who showed this to me.

Does anyone know of a good piece of writing on subtlety in cinema, or in art generally? It seems like subtlety is this elusive quality that is taken to be a virtue. But it's so culturally specific.

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I'm thinking, particularly, of Videodrome, and how that movie has changed for me over the years. Its relationship to subtlety is complex. It is, in ( Read more... )

I just posted an entry to the visual arts blog that I sometimes write for. It took a long time and my eyes feel strained, my soul feels sucked out.

One of my friends here posted about his mother in Colorado. I remember Steamboat Springs, Colorado as this place with dynamic, cosmopolitan, independent women and the Mountain Men who were their second husbands. Weird ( Read more... )

Yesterday, in the mail, I received my notice about being included in a Class Action Settlement regarding my photo-cop ticket from 2005. I feel vindicated ( Read more... )

I hadn't yet enrolled at the school, but I was checking it out. Luckyhoss was there and was showing me around. I was pretending that I was enrolled, even though I had only been accepted. It was graduate school, the sociology and public policy program. But it wasn't at the University. It was a small Catholic college down the road a bit. Hoss led me ( Read more... )

i started writing my dreams when i wake up in the night ( Read more... )

anyone in mpls want to come to the fleet foxes show this saturday night?