January 2011
5 posts
a brief history of forgetting: my 2010 in music
“ …(with) downloads … you can listen infinitely without knowing often what you’re listening to.” (Brian Eno, from an interview in Pitchfork)
At it again. More music is being made and put out there now than there’s been at any other point in history and unlike any other point in history,too, you can have them all, if you have the stamina and the appetite and...
somewhere in the world there's a cowboy smiling
Paramount will never have the balls to use this to market the film but the chances the general American public will find this enough reason to go watch are nil. Poster of the year? Just about.
past lives and the beauties summoned: my 2010 at...
“My function is to make whoever sees my films aware of his need to love and to give his love, and aware the beauty is summoning him.” - Andrei Tarkovsky
In a way, a catalogue of downfalls, having missed out on most of the Cinema One Originals and Cinemalaya and the “indie” section of the MMFF and some of Cinemanila and the stray Star Cinema fluke or two, and on the polar...
knives out
Scott Pilgrim was fun, not as fun as the comic, much as the pee bar was a riot. Oh, but our Ms.Chau totally owns the piece.
after this my exile
December 31. 2010. Time flies even when you’re not having fun. Same time last year I was on my bed, having had a little too much to drink, and trying, with a borrowed laptop that has since died on me, to decrypt and possibly mitigate or at least metabolize this chronic sense of loss that had come over me the only way I knew how: by making a blog post out of it. In its own way, it is both regimen...