http://bartleby.rambleschmack.net You'll Get The Fear Too! Tue, 29 Apr 2008 06:17:19 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Blog-girls post "Behind These Hazel Eyes" in earnest;  Stew finds a relatively obscure poem and finds that everything, everything is Illuminated, right here, summed up, immortalised in a Tarot archetype, the sum of the Postmodern world and his own paranoid place in it: "there is nothing inside me but a large ... http://bartleby.rambleschmack.net/2008/04/29/everything/ The latest episode of New Artland should be shown on international aircraft;  it should be put on repeat.  It's a perfect summation of our weird, bumbling, transitional culture.  An effeminate artist returns to his humble birthplace in Christchurch to install a plaque to commemorate his early life.  He meets the ... http://bartleby.rambleschmack.net/2008/04/26/new-artland-and-ronnie-van-hout/ I hesitate to comment on music, given my previous post, a gushing note on the Mars Volta album that I was astonished by for two hours, and haven't listened to since. Meshuggah's new album "Obzen" is what I was trying to say before.  Bleed is astonishing.  The other day, when some ... http://bartleby.rambleschmack.net/2008/04/25/a-musical-review/ So I thought I might as well give it a go at some point. I didn't have anywhere really appropriate, like an altar or anything, but I do have a beautifully framed print of Caspar Friedrich's "Tree of Crows" which I have yet to hang up, so I laid ... http://bartleby.rambleschmack.net/2008/04/10/it-was-an-hour/ Auckland yesterday offered itself in beauty. Twilight was eerily sepia toned. Slipping out from under The Quad stairs, I noticed Rod Serling, who said "I put it to you that freak atmospheric conditions in conjuncture with convenient positioning of the Sun created a brief zone of illusion - ... http://bartleby.rambleschmack.net/2008/04/02/its-that-brief-zone-of-illusion-once-again/ The present is 88 miles per hour, not a second faster or slower.  Question is:  how can long can you maintain the DeLorean, balancing on that precipice between past and future? When one slight itch of the gas pedal leads you into some interminable trajectory away from either? http://bartleby.rambleschmack.net/2008/02/13/reflections-on-the-metaphoric/ Read this article. Then tell me whether it is paranoid of me to suggest that we start up a trust fund to buy and distribute 24,000 copies of "1984". Or that the parallels between Himmler's "SS" - basically a secretive Army within an army - would be a ... http://bartleby.rambleschmack.net/2008/02/11/a-tinfoil-hat/ Theroux's Weird Weekends is some of the best, and most fucked, TV I've seen.  I've watched all the ones I can find, and would have to say in order of fucked, these are the ones to watch: 1. Thai Brides 2. Westboro Baptist Church 3. Swingers 4. San Quentin 5. Neo Nazis 6. Vegas 7. Porn Industry 8. ... http://bartleby.rambleschmack.net/2008/02/11/reflections-on-theroux/ What we have here is half a thought.  It's critically hailed as a literary text, poetically told.  The lingering shots, the lighting, scenery, weather.  It's pretty and interesting and reflective and moody.  Good things.  But it is not extended, and seems kinda... nailed down by it's narrative.  It wants to ... http://bartleby.rambleschmack.net/2008/02/05/reflections-on-the-assassination-of-jesse-james/ Juno suffers from hyper-conformity, a condition which affects hipsters who struggle with their desire for individuality, but conform anyway.  Don't fight it.  Just turn the pretentiousness down from 11 and stop thinking so hard.  Be the calm ocean! http://bartleby.rambleschmack.net/2008/02/05/reflections-on-juno/