Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Iguana (1988)
A grotesquely disfigured harpooner called Iguana is severely mistreated by his fellow sailors on a whaling ship in the 19th century, escapes and takes up residence on a remote island declaring himself ruler of the island and declares war on mankind.
Obviously intended as an existentialist essay disguised as a B movie, it is unfortunately rather silly with some wooden performances to top it all off. The director has done much better in previous works.
Monday, October 12, 2009
Bits from Infinite Jest #1
You have to love old-fashioned men's rooms: the circus scent of deodorant disks in the long porcelain trough; the stalls with wooden doors in frames of cool marble; these thin sinks in rows, basins supported by rickety alphabets of exposed plumbing; mirrors over metal shelves; behind all the voices the slight sound of a ceaseless trickle, inflated by echo against wet porcelain and a cold tile floor whose mosaic pattern looks almost Islamic at this close range.
David Foster Wallace
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