One Movie

So I was tagged in a meme. I’m fixing to be graduated in a few days, so its probably time to start blogging again.
1. One movie that made you laugh
Big Daddy
2. One movie that made you cry
Million Dollar Baby
3. One movie you loved when you were a child
Back to the Future, Part [...]

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Gunny Hartman on Church and State

In light of a few recent heated discussions on the blogs of Halden and Christian, I thought I’d call on the trusty Gunnery Sergeant Hartmant for some assistance in shedding light on some assumptions that few would want to fess up to, while continuing to reason on the basis of them. I just couldn’t resist [...]

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A Zizekian Reading of a Few Portland Neighborhoods

I’ve been thinking about how Zizek’s promiscuous appropriation of Lacan’s notion that “each universality is grounded in its constitutive exception,” is useful for thinking about all sorts of things.
One thing that comes to mind is a scenario that my brother John has often told me about from his time spent in the Marines. [...]

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Slate.com: Politically Correcter Than Thou, Wes Anderson!

There is an article that I read a while back that I can’t get out from under my skin. It’s written by Jacob Weiner at Slate.com, and title is “Unbearable Whiteness: How Wes Anderson Mishandles Race,” and it is not good. I am by no means an expert on Wes Anderson (I haven’t [...]

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Menomena Short Film

This is a short film (not a music video) acted by the band Menomena (a favorite of your’s if you live in Portland), and set to the tune of their song “Wet and Rustling.” It is so very sweet. Check it –>

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An Hilarious Interview of Wes Anderson and Noah Baumbach

I’m planning on seeing The Darjeeling Limited tomorrow, so I headed over to youtube because I was curious about what Wes Anderson is like in real life. I found an interview by this painfully pretentious Italian cinema professor. Noah Baumbach is with him, just after the release of the Life Aquatic. [...]

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Why Hillary Swank Is My Favorite Actress

Ok, first of all, it needs to be clear that what I am arguing for is not that Hillary Swank is the best actress alive. I do not share the American idolatry of success, performance, popularity, bigness, and all the rest, and therefore my decisions about what I like are not based on whether [...]

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Why Hilary Swank Is Not Adam’s Favorite Actress

Adam and I had a discussion in Loretta’s basement a little while back that (probably) left Adam more frustrated than I. Upon his perusal of my latest issue of Esquire (which my fiance purchased for me when her brother was participating in a magazine sale), Adam stated, as he has before, that Hilary Swank is [...]

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Mean Creek Review

“You must know that verily each of us is guilty before everyone, for everyone and everything. …Let me be sinful before everyone, but so that everyone will forgive me, and that is paradise. Am I not in paradise now?”
- Markel, in The Brothers Karamazov, by Fyodor Dostoevsky

“Operant conditioning – a cold prase for [...]

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Kicking and Screaming at Will Ferrell

“And I must say, Lewis, and I’m paraphrasing myself here but, I have said before that if Plato is a fine red wine, then Aristotle is a dry martini.”
As much as I loved Talladega Nights (which is immeasurable), I must stress that the film that I plan to recommend (at Adam’s recommendation) has nothing to [...]

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