Jandy’s Meanderings

I liked doing the liveblog last night, so I’m doing it again.

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Tagged:American Idol

We read Roland Barthes for our Critical Theory class this week. And I have learned stuff. For instance, from this quote from Image-Music-Text:

Narrative thus appears as a succession of tightly interlocking mediate and immediate elements; dystaxia determines a ‘horizontal’ reading, while integration superimposes a ‘vertical’ reading: there is a sort of structural ‘limping’, [...]

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Tagged:Image-Music-Text, Roland Barthes

I’m going to try a new live-blogging thing tonight, just for kicks. If you’re reading during the show, you should be able to keep watching this page and see the post update without having to reload the page. You can also submit comments at any time, which I can display inline. It [...]

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This video made the blogosphere rounds many months ago, but it’s worth pulling out again (I don’t think I ever posted it). Film clips + GoogleEarth + on-location photography = a stunning exploration of famous movie locations in and around Los Angeles. The music is great, too. Really wonderful job by creator [...]

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This post is part of a project to watch the Film Bloggers’ 100 Favorite Non-English Films. See my progress here. Note: I have skipped #97 on the list, Satantango, because I have been unable to get it to watch and decided to move on. When I have the opportunity to see it, I [...]

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Tagged:FBTop100, Luis Bunuel, The Exterminating Angel

So, according to this clip from major news outlet Fox News (which I have no overarching gripe about), Mass Effect is chock-full of graphic violence and sex and should be rated Adults Only and kept out of the hands of most gamers, since virtually all gamers are prepubescent boys. And this they know because [...]

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Tagged:Mass Effect, video

This post is part of a project to watch the Film Bloggers’ 100 Favorite Non-English Films. See my progress here.

The Gospel According to St. Matthew
Italy 1964; dir: Pier Paolo Pasolini
starring: Enrique Irazoqui, Settimo Di Porto, Giacomo Morante
screened 12/30/07; VHS
Previous Viewing Experience: I have tried to watch this film, unsuccessfully. I think I made [...]

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Tagged:FBTop100, Pier Paolo Pasolini, The Gospel According to St. Matthew

Kristin Thompson gathers together perhaps the most complete Aardman Animation filmography to date. I had no idea they’d been around so long! Fascinating.

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