July 2010
a bright wall in a dark room.: Le Samouraï (1967) →
by Edward Montgomery
“There is no greater solitude than a samurai’s, unless perhaps it is that of a tiger in the jungle.”
- The Bushido It’s the light of the opening scene that first attracts you: bright, yet cold, and illuminating a grey room with windows to a colorless world…
June 2010
bigcrush:
“Just Like Honey,” Jesus & The...
Poetry 365: Locking Yourself Out, Then Trying to... →
You simply go out and shut the door without thinking. And when you look back at what you’ve done it’s too late. If this sounds like the story of life, okay. It was raining. The neighbors who had a key were away. I tried and tried the lower windows. Stared inside at the sofa, plants, the…
Rill Rill - Sleigh Bells
If I had to guess right...
New Software Can Detect Depression in Blog Posts... →
psychotherapy:
A new software program can tell whether a blogger is depressed.
The program scans online text and blogs, identifying not only obvious keywords, but even subtle clues that can determine the blogger’s psychological state.
“The software program was designed to find depressive content hidden in language that did not mention the obvious terms like depression or suicide,” said...
What song should I learn, record, and post tonight?
1 tag
“Most of the writers I know are weird hybrids. There’s a strong streak of...”
– David Foster Wallace, 1996
Reasons - Built to Spill
You arrived and...
the post that started it all...
A year ago this week, I made a brief post about starting up a film site on tumblr. The only idea was that it had to not suck.
That idea/post - which eventually became Filmosophy for several months (before we were forced to change the name), and has now morphed into A Bright Wall in a Dark Room (BWDR for hipsters) - has grown into this thing that has become bigger than anything I could have ever...
WatchLaundry Room - The Avett Brothers (live at Bonaroo 2010)
“My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.”
– Susan Sontag
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David Lipsky, a contributing editor at Rolling...
So Bad They're Good: Osterman Weekend (1983) →
CRAIG T. NELSON’S MUSTACHE
by Christopher Cantwell
Craig T. Nelson has a great mustache in this. Did you realize it’s fake? Look closely! Now, when I say fake, I’m not presuming to say that the mustache is entirely fake—that is to say, synthetic hair and a cheap epoxy—this thing…
Worth reading for many, many reasons, not the least of which is a plethora of brilliant paragraphs like...
So Bad They're Good: The Core (2003) →
THE WORLD IS A PEACH
by Mike Rowe
In the Bible, it was an apple. In The Core, the crucial fruit is a peach. Unless Stanley Tucci stars in some part of the Bible I don’t know about, the similarities end there. One represents the allure of Christianity; the other is the Bible. Seriously, …
So Bad They’re Good Week got off to a wonderful start today over at BWDR with Erica (on Red...
It is officially the first day of Summer, but somebody forgot to tell Seattle.
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“Sherman made the terrible discovery that men make about their fathers sooner or...”
– Tom Wolfe, The Bonfire of the Vanities
More Adventurous - Rilo Kiley (live, Austin City...
From my music blog last night…a song you...
“If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should see sorrow and...”
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
And I can tell you this: this song will definitely...
I am making a Summer Mix that is so good that your face will fall off when you hear it.
