Quote of the Day – February 1 2016
“Monogamy is a way of getting the versions of ourselves down to the minimum.”
Adam Phillips, Monogamy
Top 10 Reasons Why Today’s Pop Music Sucks
From article:
Mozart never made much of a living from music while he was alive. History, though, has treated him well.
Here are ten great purveyors of pop music whose works are going to last decades longer while the likes of Miley and Bruno are long forgotten. It can’t happen soon enough.
1. The Everly Brothers – best […]
58 Books TED Speakers Say You Must Read
TED speakers can teach you a lot. They’re experts in their subject areas, of course, so the content of their talks are almost invariably valuable, but they’re also great examples of how to wow an audience. And as some of the top minds in the country, they’re also good for one more thing — recommending […]
Quote of the Day – January 30 2016
Jacques Rivette –
Since he passed away today, here are several quotes from a lifetime of pushing the envelope:
“People who go to, say, one film every two weeks and tell themselves, “I will see the great films, but not the others, not the commercial movies,” I think those people have no chance of really seeing cinema. […]
Jacques Rivette, French New Wave Director, Dies at 87
Director was known for experimental movies like “Celine and Julie Go Boating” and “L’amour fou”
Jacques Rivette, a leading figure in the French New Wave movement best known for experimental and challenging works, died Friday in Paris. He was 87.
The director, who had reportedly suffered from Alzheimer’s disease, was praised as “one of the greatest […]
What I’m watching… ‘Klute’ 1971 Dir. Alan J. Pakula
I revisit Klute often.
There’s much to admire, of course, but I often watch it with the sound down… just to study the cinematography by Gordon Willis
‘The Prince of Darkness’, a documentary of the work of Gordon Willis ASC, is in development at Alias Studio Sydney.
Why Women Love Romantic Threesomes
Movies and romantic novels which are targeted towards female audience often have an interesting plot twist, centering on a triangle where two men are in love with the same woman. This plot is incredibly common, and one can see it in the film Casablanca, where Humphrey Bogart and Paul Henreid both love Ingrid Bergman. Bergman […]
What I’m Watching – Lost In Translation
Visually I’m influenced and nudged by the work of others, sometimes in non-visual arts even. The debt Lost In Translation owes to La Dolce Vita (Fellini 1960) is pretty clear, of course. In one scene the main characters are watching it in a hotel room on television.
The very first shot of the film (see […]
15 sexual hang-ups we can blame on the Catholic Church
The Catholic Church is obsessed with sex: who does it, when, how, with whom, and for what purpose. In fact, I might argue that one of the most fundamental ways the Church hooks people is by creating deep psychological hang-ups about sex, for which it then claims to offer a solution.
Sexual intimacy and sexual pleasure […]
Porn stars reveal how the internet is changing their business
Fusion goes inside the world of South Florida’s booming adult entertainment industry, where a quarter of the porn in the U.S. is produced. We follow five independent producers, ranging from a couple making homemade porn to a young female porn star navigating the treacherous waters of launching her own paid site in the age of […]
