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– UNDERSTANDING POSTMODERNISM –
Will be posted today at around 7 PM, EST.

– JULY – is Foreign Languages month.
– TODAY – is Rat Catchers Day.
– HAPPY BIRTHDAY – Cody!

– QUOTE OF THE WEEK –
“Woe is me of the shilling of the armpit… It is of the form of an apple, like the head of an onion, a small boil that spares no-one.

In the end, I liked Round Two of Discussion at lot more than Round One. There’s something sexy and exciting about being challenged, to say nothing of being schooled, but nobody enjoys being dismissed. So I’m ready now to give some ground.

This project is an informal discussion of modernism and postmodernism, ultimately to be applied to the larger Gothic Funk debate. A more detailed description of the project is available here. PLEASE ADD YOUR COMMENTS AND JOIN THE DEBATE:

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If the image really conveys a distinctive reality, if collage articulates a poetic logic unencumbered by discursive rationality, and if the activity of the work somehow establishes an ethos with the power to reform society, it makes perfect sense to devote oneself to the unconscious to cultivate startling, apparently random connections among particulars, to experiment with automatic writing or other strategies for disclosing aspects of that authorial presence occluded by common sense, and to insist on art as the theatrical disruption of bourgeois hopes and conventions.

– WEATHER – Yeah, it’s either hot and scorching or a riot of thunderstorms. Pretty much everywhere. Except here in New York. Where it’s nice. We had a weekend of rain, but I wasn’t complaining.

– TIGERS – Last Monday I predicted that the Tigers would have to starting beating ace team or their best-records-so-far wouldn’t amount to much.

Disclaimer: There are spoilers.

Okay. So I’m essentially willing to throw in the towel and give my opinion a vote of no confidence with regard to The Squid and the Whale. That is, I’m unmoved: I still hate the film.

This project is an informal discussion of modernism and postmodernism, ultimately to be applied to the larger Gothic Funk debate. A more detailed description of the project is available here. PLEASE ADD YOUR COMMENTS AND JOIN THE DEBATE:

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Each in its own way took literally claims that were intended metaphorically and thereby managed simultaneously to parody modernist idealism and to open new imaginative territories in which formal energies were inseparable from unrepresentable forces in dizzying contradiction with one another.

– YESTERDAY – I indulged a lovefest for Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest and a hatefest for the Squid and the Whale. I’m interested to hear what you think.

– JULY – Is Culinary arts month.
– TODAY – Is World Kissing Day.

There are spoilers.

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest may just about be the most important and wonderful film I’ve ever seen. In order to say that I’d have to split some hairs amazingly fine, but I still find it difficult to be too superlative in my praise.

A surprising number of people have asked me to back up my opinion on The Squid and the Whale and now, knowing that I’m somewhat in the minority, I’ll plead my case.

There are a few spoilers here…

I’m going to be a bit of a traditionalist for a moment.

This project is an informal discussion of modernism and postmodernism, ultimately to be applied to the larger Gothic Funk debate. A more detailed description of the project is available here. PLEASE ADD YOUR COMMENTS AND JOIN THE DEBATE:

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First, there occurred the astonishing interpretation of modernism provided by surrealism and dada.