Video reblogged from a bright wall in a dark room. with 33 notes
A six-minute short film that Martin Scorsese made at NYU for a film production class he was taking called ‘Sight & Sound Film’.
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A clip from one of my favorite shows currently on television. I saw Louis C.K. do his set in Moncton, NB and he killed. The episodes of this series really come from all those jokes, and it’s great to see them made into a show. Look up his stand-up if you haven’t already
The Man in the High Castle - Philip K. Dick
I don’t much feel like writing a review on this, other than to say it was really good. If you like sci-fi fiction, WWII, alternate history fiction, fiction-within-fiction, alternate reality hypotheses, or philosophy questioning the realness of reality, you might want to check out this book. A Scanner Darkly is still my favorite of Dick’s writings that I’ve read.
Cosmopolis - Don DeLillo
Reading through reviews of this novel, a major complaint was that the plot doesn’t develop or ‘it doesn’t go anywhere’. For reviewers piqued by this aspect of Cosmopolis: This novel is far from traditional, and it’s purpose is not to further the plot, nor to vivisect or unravel the persona of its main character. To be frank, from what I’ve read by Mr. DeLillo, his characters are usually somewhat flat and unrealistic; they seem to more so serve as conduits for aspects of his voice. The prose is beautifully done, and if time is taken, there are multitudes of thought-provoking moments and phrases to parse. This is the third novel of DeLillo’s novels I’ve read, and I highly recommend it (it’s a very quick read). Hoping to take a look at The Falling Man next (saving Underworld for when I can allocate the deserved time).
“I do not know if it has ever been noted before that one of the main characteristics of life is discreteness. Unless a film of flesh envelops us, we die. Man exists only insofar as he is separated from his surroundings. The cranium is a space-traveler’s helmet. Stay inside or you perish. Death is divestment, death is communion. It may be wonderful to mix with the landscape, but to do so is the end of the tender ego. The sensation poor Pnin experienced was something very like that divestment, that communion. He felt porous and pregnable.”
- Pnin by Vladimir Nabokov
Photo reblogged from sometimes a great notion. with 15 notes
“In preparation for his role in Taxi Driver, Robert DeNiro got an actual taxi driver’s license and drove it nights around New York City.”
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King of Comedy - Martin Scorsese (1983)
Check this movie out. I’m not sure how I’ve been overlooking it. Starring Robert De Niro and Jerry Lewis; Sandra Bernhard also does a great job, with a fantastic monologue scene near the end of the film.
Bear Boy from The Perry Bible Fellowship comics by Nicholas Gurewitch
(click on comic for his website with many other hilarious strips)
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