March 2010
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“The very people who say they are the keepers of the Holy Spirit are stamping all...”
– Sinead O’Connor
Washington Post
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“Tell the Pope that he only deserve constipation and stoppage of water. He...”
– Lee Scratch Perry
Interview with Douglas Heselgrave
Women Without Men
My dear friend Shirin Neshat is screening her new feature film Women Without Men in New York City. Details below. There are also other screenings around the country in future months. See the website.
Dear Friends: We are happy to announce that “Women Without Men” is finally coming to the New York, as part of the New Directors/New Films , a program of MOMA and the Film Society of Lincoln...
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“On the night of the 13th day of the 9th month in the 4th year of Teikyo, there...”
– Yamamoto Tsunetomo from the Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai
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“At first it is an oppressive thing to run until one is breathless. But it is an...”
– Yamamoto Tsunetomo from the Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai
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“A certain Master Tokuhisa was born quite different from other people and looked...”
– Yamamoto Tsunetomo from the Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai
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“Yamamoto Kichizaemon was ordered by his father Jin’emon to cut down a dog...”
– Yamamoto Tsunetomo from the Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai
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“From ages past it has been considered ill-omened by samurai to be requested as...”
– Yamamoto Tsunetomo from the Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai
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“Noda Kizaemon said about the function of Kaishaku (beheading) “When a man...”
– Yamamoto Tsunetomo from the Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai
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“Feeling deeply the difference between oneself and others,
Bearing ill will and...”
– Yamamoto Tsunetomo from the Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai
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“The heart of a virtuous person has settled down and he does not rush about at...”
– Yamamoto Tsunetomo from the Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai
Edison's "Home Projecting Kinetoscope"
In 1912 Thomas Edison developed and introduced the Home Projecting Kinetoscope for domestic use. This machine was an early example of Home Entertainment, many many decades ahead of its time. Because film prints were so expensive to purchase Edison offered direct mail rentals of short films, shipped and returned through the post office, similar to Netflix. But the home projector failed due to the...
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'70's soft-core brought safe sex to cinemas -...
Interesting article by Ty Burr of the Boston Globe. From 1984-1989 he was a “film evaluator” at Cinemax vetting the ”Drive-In Saturday Night” and ”Friday After Dark” blocks. Which basically means he was the person choosing the exact films that I, as an adolescent, watched behind my parents’ backs with such glee. This article is also significant in that it...
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Lil B - O My God 66
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WatchThis was shot in Amsterdam on the way to a coffee shop where the international press junket for Tha Carter 3 was being held in August of 2008. Wayne had just landed on a private jet and checked into the Presidential suite at his hotel hours earlier. He brought his Playstation, some games (FIFA Soccer, MLB Baseball), his laptop/portable recording studio, and the infamous Louis V briefcase.
When we...
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WatchLil Wayne right after recording “Can’t Believe It” featuring T-Pain in a New York City studio, around the corner from Times Square.
I was probably one of the first people in the universe to hear this song. The same night he sang the elusive “Flower Song” (which is now called “Damn Damn”) prominently featured in The Carter. I was reluctant about following...
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WatchThis was one of my favorite moments from the original version of The Carter - the 2 hour rough cut that we eventually deleted 35 minutes out of. This was the hardest moment for me to cut but Andy Grieve wasn’t having it. I guess we had too many poetic music and slow-mo scenes already.
Listen to the lyrics carefully. Wayne is at the top of his game on this one
“Hollywood come through...
Feature Film Reel →
8 years in the making.
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Lil B - “Crazy 4 Da Mhanny”
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“At a glance, every individuals own measure of dignity is manifested just as it...”
– Yamamoto Tsunetomo from the Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai
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Like Dolphins in Your Bloodstream: An Essay on... →
The Corey Haim video is amazing. U cant write dialogue like that.
hunterstephenson:
Also: Slashfilm’s Poolside Chat with Corey H
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The Carter - Interview - abcdrduson.com →
A fascinating immersion in Lil Wayne’s everyday life, “The Carter” shows the rapper as a one-of-kind, harder-than-hard-work artist litteraly consumed by music. Director Adam Bhala Lough witnessed the phenomenom.
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The Carter - "What the Oscars Ignored" - Daily...
“It’s no surprise that Lil Wayne withdrew his support from the tour documentary “The Carter” - the director, Adam Bhala Lough, shines a hard light on Wayne’s self-destructive tendencies. But Lough’s cinema-verite approach to this young rapper isn’t a hatchet job. What the film gives us is a fascinatingly contradictory figure: a drug addict who writes and...
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Text Message Spam to my iPhone
L’Oreal Paris has been spamming my iPhone with text messages selling products. Obviously this is not coming directly from L’Oreal but they have hired an outside company to do it in the same way Reebok might hire graffiti writers under the table to spray logos on the sidewalk in the East Village.
Only the major difference is I am personally charged each time I receive a text. Even if I...
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“Shame and repentance are like upsetting a pot of water. When a certain friend of...”
– Yamamoto Tsunetomo from the Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai
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“At times of great trouble or disaster, one word will suffice. At times of...”
– Yamamoto Tsunetomo from the Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai
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The Carter - Review - Uniondocs
“The Carter is an urgent, important film, in another league entirely from anything else produced in the recent wave of low-budget music docs.”
The reviewer attended a screening in Brooklyn a couple weeks ago and was able to hear me speak afterward about the film for over an hour. His insightful review uses both my Q&A and multiple viewings of the film as the basis of his analysis....
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“It is good to carry some powdered rouge in one’s sleeve. It may happen...”
– Yamamoto Tsunetomo from the Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai
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“Whether people be of high or low birth, rich or poor, old or young, enlightened...”
– Yamamoto Tsunetomo from the Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai
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“Even if one’s head were to be suddenly cut off, he should be able to do...”
– Yamamoto Tsunetomo from the Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai
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“If one has no earnest daily intention, does not consider what it is to be a...”
– Yamamoto Tsunetomo from the Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai
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“A single year does not have just spring or summer. A single day, too, is the...”
– Yamamoto Tsunetomo from the Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai
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“There is surely nothing other than the single purpose of the present moment. A...”
– Yamamoto Tsunetomo from the Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai
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CNN - Intriguing People for March 2, 2010 →
Lil Wayne: The rapper, who was born Dwayne Michael Carter Jr., was to be sentenced Tuesday on gun charges, but a fire at a Manhattan courthouse delayed his hearing, a court spokesman said. A new sentencing date has not been set, the spokesman said.
Lil Wayne pleaded guilty to felony gun charges in a deal with prosecutors in October. He is expected to get a one-year prison sentence. His sentencing...
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Live Twittercast - Reflections of Evil
Last night I attempted a live Twittercast of the 224 minute original directors cut of Damon Packard’s masterpiece film REFLECTIONS OF EVIL. Unfortunately due to YouTube’s ridiculous copyright rules certain parts of the film were unavailable and I had to stop at part 12. Which makes me wonder, how come The Carter is available in its entirety on about 50 different YouTube users’...