Monthly Archives: July 2014
Robert Altman Project #4: That Cold Day in the Park (1969)
That Cold Day in the Park is Robert Altman’s fourth film. Here is the IMDB description: A rich but lonely woman, Frances Austen, one day invites a boy from a nearby park to her apartment and offers to let him live there. As this post’s title suggests this is #4 in my Altman chronological viewing […]
It’s all because of you…
It’s not because of you… I’ll let you off on that… But you have to admit, you kinda — You kinda fucked my shit right up… You kinda took our lives in a certain direction It’s not because of you… I could never blame you… I could never…well… Now I wonder… It’s not because of […]
Robert Altman Project #3: Countdown (1968)
What can I say about Countdown? Not a lot, I don’t think. I’m all for films with a slow burn pace, but this one is a bit ridiculous. Here is the IMDB synopsis because I really don’t want to write one: Desperate to reach the moon first, NASA sends a man and shelter separately, one-way. […]
schmandmade handmade, my psyche was effected
The Amazing Story of Handmade Films! This book makes you realize that George Harrison was brilliant at accidentally making a lot of money, trusting someone to help him with his money, getting screwed by someone helping him with his money, losing the money he was being helped to deal with, then spending a lot more […]
The joy of cleaning up disasters – Wild Things by John Workman
I’ve been going through my comics the last couple of days. They’ve been a complete disaster since we moved into our new place at the beginning of the year. I’ve had hundreds laying about for months. I’m sure I’m not the only one who has done this to themselves. It’s a complicated disaster that has […]
The Husky Idler 