Senselessness (New Directions Paperbook)

Senselessness (New Directions Paperbook)

Author: 
Horacio Castellanos Moya
Date read: 
Mon, 08 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0800
Review: 
Moya is one of the great world contemporary novelists. This book is like candy with an iron fist wrapped around it, or something. What I mean by that is that it's very funny and entertaining in one sense, as we follow a narrator who is a somewhat cynical and sex-obsessed horndog writer from a nearby country who has taken a unique copy-editing job: he's working for the catholic church in Guatemala (the country is never named but I recognize names, like Rios Montt, the dictator who presided over some of the worst crimes against humanity during Guatemala's civil war) to look over their huge report on the massacres against the indigenous peoples during the recently ended civil war there. On his time off he's chasing tail, with mixed success, and drinking lots of beer.

josie and pete! - 03

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josie and pete! - 03

Josie has discovered an advantage.

josie at the dog park! - 19

The Invisible Cut: How Editors Make Movie Magic

The Invisible Cut: How Editors Make Movie Magic

Author: 
Bobbie O'Steen
Date read: 
Sat, 06 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0800
Review: 
This book would probably have been more useful if I didn't already have as much experience as I do editing. However, it was great review and reinforcement of general concepts, and it was really good when it went through specific scene examples from well-known films, like Chinatown, Body Heat, The Big Chill, etc, breaking it down cut by cut and explaining why the cuts were made the way they were. In many cases this was interspersed with interviews by the directors and editors of these films, providing even more insight into why the edits were made they way they were. Definitely worth looking at for any but the already most accomplished editors and filmmakers.

Rally For Adult Education - 08

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Root Causes!

I've started following the blog of John Carlos Frey on Huffington Post lately and I'm surprised that even there on HuffPo there are some rather conservative people who are anti-immigrant and who are not very deep thinkers.  And there's the same kind of tired old arguments that fail to address the real reasons for things.  Even Frey's writing seems to miss  (or avoid?) the big elephants in the room.  After writing a long comment to his latest post and realizing there was a word limit that I went past, I decided to put my thoughts in full here. Read more>>>

New awesome pasteups at BICAS/Citizen Studios - 10

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New awesome pasteups at BICAS/Citizen Studios - 10

I heard these were done by a crew from the Navajo res. there are others around town, apparently.

New awesome pasteups at BICAS/Citizen Studios - 06

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New awesome pasteups at BICAS/Citizen Studios - 06

I heard these were done by a crew from the Navajo res. there are others around town, apparently.

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