Robinson L maintains a dreamwidth journal under the handle irreverent intellectual, although he hasn't been active in a few years. Reportedly crashed into an asteroid in late 2004 and died a fiery death. He got better. He aspires to be (in no particular order) a successful author, an activist, and a parent.
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2018-08-15 15:00 - A Successful Audition for the Darwin Award -
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apart from that, and, y’know, the whole foot thing, Aoyama is none the worse for wear
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2018-08-03 00:00 - Why Perfect Blue is Terrifying: An Addendum -
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As I understand it that's actually a goof in the English dub
That also explains how I missed it. I can't remember why, anymore, because it goes against my general preference and tendencies, but the one time I saw Perfect Blu... -
2018-08-02 22:36 - Jim Jarmusch Via Germany, Part 2 -
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Okay, been a little while, but I'm finally ready to follow up on some comments, starting with this one.
And while no-one would fault you for assigning finite purposes to inanimate objects, you should be careful not to extrapolate that ...
- 2018-07-11 00:00 - Why Perfect Blue is Terrifying: An Addendum - link Huh, I don't remember Mima ever literally switching places with Rumi. When did that happen?
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2018-07-10 22:36 - Jim Jarmusch Via Germany, Part 2 -
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Raymond: By violence I mean conflict, which can come in a variety of shapes and on a variety of scales, ranging from a full-blown war to simply a shitty boss or co-worker giving you grief.
Ah, okay, I can go along with that. I ... - 2018-06-28 18:06 - Why Perfect Blue is Terrifying: An Addendum - link I would've read the spoilers anyway, but strangely enough (considering my limited repertoire) I actually did watch this movie several years ago. It's been long enough that while I remembered all the main beats, many of the details were pretty fuzzy. I beli...
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2018-06-28 18:00 - 2 Samuel 6:14 -
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Seriously, there's so much amazing history and stories that came before the Western empires, but I feel like people either don't know it or bastardize it to suit their own ends.
I know, right? With very, very rare exceptions, W... - 2018-06-28 15:30 - Jim Jarmusch Via Germany, Part 2 - link Since I know so little about the Tao te Ching, I'll take you're sihing's word for it. However, since some of these arguments sound like your own, reasoning, rather just reports of what the Tao says, I have some feedback on those. In order to have ...
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2018-06-26 20:30 - A Few Non-Spoilery Things I Can Tell You About Solo (and One Minor Spoiler) -
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Overall it seems like they've decided the market wants New Star Wars, not Old Star Wars Reheated
Well, they've certainly read one particular member of their market with impeccable accuracy. There's so many interesting stories a... - 2018-06-26 20:15 - 2 Samuel 6:14 - link Never seen either Dances with Wolves or Black Robe, and probably never will. Even in contemporary times, I don't trust most non-Indigenous people, especially white people, to portray Indigenous peoples' with cultural and historical acc...
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2018-06-26 15:00 - Barakamon: The Hardest Part of Making Art -
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The annals of art are filled to the brim with one-hit wonders, people who captured lightning in a bottle but were unable to make that lightning strike twice.
This, and the discussion of Welles' filmography, reminds me of somet... - 2018-06-25 05:02 - Jim Jarmusch Via Germany, Part 3 - link Okay, that sounds like potentially a satisfying ending. At least like an event which extends naturally from the preceding narrative and gives some sense of closure to the story.
- 2018-06-20 20:30 - Jim Jarmusch Via Germany, Part 2 - link @Raymond: Huh. I've only ever read it once, in the le Guin translation, and I was under the impression that she, also, regarded it as a pacifist text. That's about the extent of my knowledge, though.
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2018-06-18 18:00 - Jim Jarmusch Via Germany, Part 3 -
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finally, we have Don’s return home, with few questions answered but still, perhaps, changed a little by the journey.
You describe all the movies as idiosyncratic takes on genre films, but this article brought up for me tw... - 2018-06-18 15:30 - Jim Jarmusch Via Germany, Part 2 - link Not much to add to this series: I'm only familiar with Jarmusch's filmography through Brows Held High, which covered both Dead Man and Ghost Dog. (Incidentally, the same guy also did both a vlog and a review of <a href="http://ferretbrain.com...
- 2018-06-04 22:30 - A Few Non-Spoilery Things I Can Tell You About Solo (and One Minor Spoiler) - link I think I read somewhere that the filmmakers were basically throwing the thing together up until practically the last minute, to make up for all the time lost when they switched directors. That's why they didn't release a trailer until only a couple of mon...
