Saturday, June 25, 2011
First Lines: Julius Caesar - The War in Gaul
All Gaul is divided into three parts, one of which the Belgae inhabit, the Aquitani another, those who in their own language are called Celts, in ours Gauls, the third.
Hostage (2005)
A failed police negotiator turned small town cop, must save the lives of a family held hostage, which draws him into a much more dangerous situation.
Hostage drama thriller with a twisted double plot, tailor-made for its star.
Friday, June 24, 2011
First Lines: Herbert Marcuse - One-Dimensional Man
(ph: Fritz Lang's Metropolis (1927))
A comfortable, smooth, reasonable, democratic unfreedom prevails in advanced industrial civilization, a token of technical progress.
Beauty Shop (2005)
A hairstylist opens up a beauty shop full of employees and customers more interested in speaking their minds than getting a cut.
Very light comedy with a a recognizable plot that lives solely through the star's performance.
Thursday, June 23, 2011
William S. Burroughs: My Education. A book of Dreams
I am in my pajamas at a discontinued subway stop.
Now with James Grauerholz rushing through subway stations with inhuman speed and agility. Jumping across tracks, down stairways, floating through turnstiles...and here we are at Johnson's store, open-air booths with counters on four sides.
New Stuff: Korg Monotron (Analogue Ribbon Synthesizer)
Nice little thing, can make all kinds of noise!
Wednesday, June 22, 2011
First Lines: Arthur Schopenhauer - The World as Will and Representation
"The world is my representation": this is a truth valid with reference to every living and knowing being, although man alone can bring it into reflective, abstract consciousness.
The Assignment (1997)
An American naval officer is recruited for an operation to eliminate his lookalike, the infamous terrorist Carlos The Jackal.
Fairly entertaining thriller with a very improbable plot.
Monday, June 20, 2011
First Lines: Adam Smith - An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
The annual labour of every nation is the fund which originally supplies it with all the necessaries and conveniencies of life which it annually consumes, and which consist always either in the immediate produce of that labour, or in what is purchased with that produce from other nations.
