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The Sounds of Silence
“Silence is impossible. That is why we desire it.” –Maurice Blanchot “The sound experience which I prefer to all others is the experience of silence. And the silence almost everywhere in the world now is traffic…if you listen to traffic you see it’s always different.” –John Cage When I was a kid I went to … Continue reading
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There are a lot of valid criticisms of 127 Hours. Some of the pieces don’t really work, for instance, and some of the cutting is a bit too quick. But when you get to the ending, with Sigur Rós playing over Franco’s withered body, it’s still hard not to just weep. Somewhere in this mash-up of … Continue reading
A human being arrives suddenly on alien world, befriends a savage but honorable native tribe, hooks up with a badass native woman, and saves the day with his superior abilities and noble courage. So, John Carter has the same plot as Dune. And Stargate. And Avatar. And any other number of stories from that particular … Continue reading
I may not have agreed to begin this project if I had thought it through completely. My friend Matt Cici has written, produced, and directed his own feature-length film titled Lambent Fuse, and in October, Cici and Video Word Made Flesh decided to collaborate. I was excited to work on this project, both as a … Continue reading
I was sitting in the small Italian, brick-oven restaurant down the block, with the dirty floors and the amazing food, when I saw my soul reflected back at me. A little boy, no more than five, although he had the haircut of a sixty year-old, stood engrossed in front of a plain white wall. He … Continue reading
