Wednesday, August 30, 2006
Fear of the Dark
The bite ain'
t bben up to it's normal whitty banter as archives represent; I have learned from media studies that modern journalism is greatly influenced by the reporters tendancy to wrap things up in a convienent package, complimented by convienent moralistic apprasial at the end which compromises the story. Thats the practice. The Bite isn't news-but the realizationstrikes close to home. It'll be a moment till I recover.
Sunday, August 27, 2006
In team news-
Summertime BBQ's, transient rumored to have disappeared, one gay dog, motorcycles, text messages, booze, editing, school, laughing, rocknroll,-
-blues festival, trouble, rewards, harmonicas, quitting jobs, blue skies, friends, shitheads, night bus, Night Train, street drinking, filming, 40's, hipsters-
-swimming, travel, trendy copycats, gas money, guitars, girls, guys, walking places, beards, mice in the house, sketchy hard drives, drugs, daags, daags on drugs-
-festivals in the parks, bicycles, whiskey, new friends, new videos, visitors, sunshine, fog, beach, cigarettes, freeways, fire, Russia-
-Internet gambling, summer school, pool, comedy club, crybabies, pizza mountain, The Pig, cold coffee, etc, and forever onward---
-enjoying our summer. Horsebite Cafe.
-blues festival, trouble, rewards, harmonicas, quitting jobs, blue skies, friends, shitheads, night bus, Night Train, street drinking, filming, 40's, hipsters-
-swimming, travel, trendy copycats, gas money, guitars, girls, guys, walking places, beards, mice in the house, sketchy hard drives, drugs, daags, daags on drugs-
-festivals in the parks, bicycles, whiskey, new friends, new videos, visitors, sunshine, fog, beach, cigarettes, freeways, fire, Russia-
-Internet gambling, summer school, pool, comedy club, crybabies, pizza mountain, The Pig, cold coffee, etc, and forever onward---
-enjoying our summer. Horsebite Cafe.
Thursday, August 24, 2006
Inbreed the witches and worship the dogs. . .
Wednesday, August 16, 2006
After some good jokes and a six-pack:
Tuesday, August 8, 2006
Blue Cheer-Cafe Du Norde
Got to see Blue Cheer the other night. Seeing any band play who have been around for over 40 years is a unique experience especially when they are back in their element. They played in a small venue in the heart of S.F. to a good crowd with psychedelic drugs goin' round.
Here they are on the Beat Club in 1968.
Here they are on the Beat Club in 1968.
Sunday, August 6, 2006
Methuselah
Movie Review
Dziga Vertov's Man With a Movie Camera (1929) is an avant-garde, documentary meta-narrative which celebrates Soviet workers and filmmaking. The film uses radical editing techniques and cinematic pyrotechnics to portray a typical day in Moscow from dawn to dusk.
His film opens with a manifesto, a series of intertitles telling us that this film is an "experiment," a search for an "absolute language of cinema" that is "based on its total separation from the language of literature and theater." This manifesto echoes an earlier one that Vertov wrote in 1922, in which he disavowed the films of D. W. Griffith and others as psychological dramas--cliches, copies of copies, films overly indebted to novels and theatrical conventions.
Vertov desired to create cinema that had its own "rhythm, one lifted from nowhere else, and we find it in the movements of things." For Vertov an emphasis on the psychological interfered with the worker's "desire for kinship with the machine." And as a peoples' artist, Vertov felt that the peoples' cinema must "introduce creative joy into all mechanical labor" and "foster new people."
His film opens with a manifesto, a series of intertitles telling us that this film is an "experiment," a search for an "absolute language of cinema" that is "based on its total separation from the language of literature and theater." This manifesto echoes an earlier one that Vertov wrote in 1922, in which he disavowed the films of D. W. Griffith and others as psychological dramas--cliches, copies of copies, films overly indebted to novels and theatrical conventions.
Vertov desired to create cinema that had its own "rhythm, one lifted from nowhere else, and we find it in the movements of things." For Vertov an emphasis on the psychological interfered with the worker's "desire for kinship with the machine." And as a peoples' artist, Vertov felt that the peoples' cinema must "introduce creative joy into all mechanical labor" and "foster new people."
Thursday, August 3, 2006
Ghosts of War
Tuesday, August 1, 2006
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