tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10161060.post115222905121654794..comments2023-11-05T04:31:48.615-05:00Comments on Elusive Lucidity: Floating Hats: A Mere Diversion?ZChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10211734319629732065noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10161060.post-1152300833179751512006-07-07T15:33:00.000-04:002006-07-07T15:33:00.000-04:00Zach, I used to be a Bond fan a long time ago (in ...Zach, I used to be a Bond fan a long time ago (in my early teens!), but after I read about Bresson liking <I>Goldfinger</I>, I had to watch it again. <BR/><BR/>It surprised me in some ways--it's a well-composed and -staged film. In its visual conception, it's a sort of "art-thriller."girishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05079328617099035797noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10161060.post-1152285484060741052006-07-07T11:18:00.000-04:002006-07-07T11:18:00.000-04:00Girish--I'm not a Bond fan, so I don't even think ...Girish--I'm not a Bond fan, so I don't even think of Oddjob (I've never seen <I>Goldfinger</I>), but instead his spoof in <I>Austin Powers</I>. There, he throws a shoe.<BR/><BR/>Jen, the Richter stuff is available at UBUWEB, an amazing resource. I am pretty sure that it is also available on YouTube, along with some other hit-and-miss avant-garde stuff.<BR/><BR/>Gabe, the struggle's not over yet! What I try to do on this blog, sometimes anyway, is productively fuse discussion of things that seemingly nobody wants to talk about but which provide vital discussion (e.g., Hans Richter), with things I think people should talk about (politics), and things people are supposed to talk about ("politics," that is, the stuff we see on TV as such), and the things people really do talk about (celebrity).ZChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10211734319629732065noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10161060.post-1152284261394220792006-07-07T10:57:00.000-04:002006-07-07T10:57:00.000-04:00Floating hats . . . a mirror diversion . . . Ghos...Floating hats . . . a mirror diversion . . . Ghosts Before Breakfast was made for us . . . resist your resistance . . <BR/><BR/>Where are you finding these films online?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10161060.post-1152249314407902242006-07-07T01:15:00.000-04:002006-07-07T01:15:00.000-04:00One of the nice things about our generation is tha...One of the nice things about our generation is that we can intermingle Hans Richter and the Tara Reid tit video (much to the befuddlement of our seniors).<BR/><BR/>First, to deny the very things that take up a large part of our cultural sphere-- supremely stupid as some of those things may be -- is to be ignorant. On the other hand, to analyze the larger cultural meaning(s) of said things from an intellectually enlightened point of view can can be boring (i.e. academic).<BR/><BR/>The culture industry has already taken meta-entertainment to create mass-cultural articulations of stories we read in celeb rags. Films like RUMOR HAS IT, THE BREAK UP, MR. AND MRS. SMITH, etc. etc. ...<BR/><BR/>After they're released in theaters, these packaged goods can be purchased in the checkout aisle next to your entertainment mags, candy bars, hangover medicine, and cigarettes. At this point the targets of your disgust, who have failed to convince you purely on a consumer level, have already made a killing with their target share of the market.<BR/><BR/>For the last year or so I've lived in a wealthy, predominately white neighborhood of Chicago. The local chatter you'll hear at bars -- though I'm hardly what you'd call a "patron" -- is mostly about baseball or celebs. I guess it's still impolite to talk about art and politics.<BR/><BR/>We're not even close to the goal, Zach. Sincerity is sadly out of fashion. I have a fantasy that, before corporations find a way to control internet content, we'll be completely free, at least at the economic level, of the entertainment industry. And by "we" I mean everyone, including all those f*ckin idiots who live in my neighborhood. (Hey, it's already happened in Asia....)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10161060.post-1152234625310401562006-07-06T21:10:00.000-04:002006-07-06T21:10:00.000-04:00When I hear "floating hat," I think of Oddjob's (l...When I hear "floating hat," I think of Oddjob's (lethal) one in <I>Goldfinger</I>.girishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05079328617099035797noreply@blogger.com