Watchings

20 January 2012 • watchings
tags: cinema, control, death, dystopia, fantasy, fiction, humour, love, politics, television, tv series

• Drive (2011)
Nicolas Winding Refn

• Sherlock, Season 2 (2012)
Mark Gatiss & Steven Moffat

• Black Mirror (2011)
Charlie Brooker

• The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (1970)
Billy Wilder

• Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010)
Edgar Wright

• The Pillow Book (1996)
Peter Greenaway

• Point Blank (1967)
John Boorman

• Kick-Ass (2010)
Matthew Vaughn

• The Last Enemy (2008)

Watchings

8 October 2011 • watchings
tags: capitalism, cinema, comedy, documentaries, drugs, economy, humour, love, music, noise, perception, politics, sound, television, tv series, vampires

• Half Nelson (2006)
Ryan Fleck

• Lars and the Real Girl (2007)
Craig Gillespie

• Sound of Noise (2010)
Ola Simonsson, Johannes Stjärne Nilsson

• The Shock Doctrine (2009)
Mat Whitecross, Michael Winterbottom

• How I Met Your Mother, Seasons 1-6 (2005-2011)
Carter Bays, Craig Thomas

• Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008)
Nicholas Stoller

• True Blood, Season 4 (2011)
Allan Ball

• The IT Crowd, Seasons 1-4 (2006-2010)
Graham Linehan

• Drive (2011)
Nicolas Winding Refn

Fiction and paper on a summer’s day

5 July 2011 • readings
tags: books, drugs, fantasy, fiction, humour, life, murder, novels, politics, religion, sex

[just ten, in no particular order]

The Toy Collector, James Gunn.
The Buddha of Suburbia, Hanif Kureishi.
The Monk, Matthew G. Lewis.
Vurt, Jeff Noon.
Tales of the Unexpected, Roald Dahl.
Notes from Underground, Fyodor Dostoyevsky.
On Murder Considered as one of the Fine Arts, Thomas De Quincey.
The Cutting Room, Louise Welsh.
If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler, Italo Calvino.
Leviathan, Paul Auster.

That’s either John Cage’s 4’33” or your batteries are flat

15 February 2011 • out of context
tags: comics, death, humour, music, silence, sound

Emily The Strange #1: The Boring Issue
Cosmic Debris

Mis problemas con Amenabar

28 January 2011 • readings
tags: cinema, comics, humour

Nunca he sido mucho de leer cómics, pero “Mis problemas con Amenabar” lo tenía pendiente desde hace tiempo por una razón muy simple, pero como no soy muy dada a soltar improperios contra nadie que cada cual saque sus conclusiones. Hacía tiempo que no me reía tanto yo sola…

Los autores del susodicho son Jordi Costa y Darío Adanti y está editado por Glénat.

Watchings

26 January 2011 • watchings
tags: anguish, apocalypse, chaos, comedy, conscience, death, documentaries, drugs, electricity, fiction, humour, television, tv series, uncertainty, zombies

• Arduino The Documentary (2010) [watch]

• Dead Set (2008)
Charlie Brooker

• Misfits, Season 2 (2010)
Howard Overman

• Sherlock, Season 1 (2010)
Mark Gatiss and Steven Moffat

• Dexter, Season 5 (2010)

• Breaking Bad, Seasons 1-3 (2008-2010)
Vince Gilligan

• Sons of Anarchy, Season 3 (2010)
Kurt Sutter

• How I Met Your Mother, Seasons 1-5 (2005-2010)
Carter Bays and Craig Thomas

• The Big Bang Theory, Seasons 1-3 (2007-2010)
Chuck Lorre and Bill Prady

Readings

8 August 2010 • readings
tags: aesthetics, analysis, books, death, history, humour, murder, perception, religion, senses, situationism, suicide, zen

• Panegírico
Guy Debord

• Del asesinato considerado como una de las Bellas Artes [read in English]
Thomas de Quincey

• Consciousness and Perception: The Point of Experience and the Meaning of the World We Inhabit [read]
Sérgio Roclaw Basbaum. Revista Eletrônica Informação e Cognição, v.5, n.1, p.181-203, 2006.

• Preguntes a un mestre Zen
Taisen Deshimaru

Watchings

25 July 2010 • watchings
tags: civilization, comedy, documentaries, fiction, humour, psychogeography, space, television, tv series, video, walking

• Nip/Tuck (2003 – 2010)
Ryan Murphy

• London (1994) [watch]
Patrick Keiller

• The IT Crowd. Series 4 (2010)

Self Portrait as a Drowned Man

25 July 2010 • outer
tags: body, capitalism, criticism, death, fiction, humour, politics, ruin, statements, truth

“This photograph, shot in 1840 and titled Self Portrait as a Drowned Man, is not of a drowned man, and if it had been it would be far less interesting or important. This humble image, so far as anyone knows, can claim all of the following honorifics- First instance of intentional photographic fakery. First photographic practical joke. First use of a photograph as propaganda / protest. And, quite possibly, a result of the world’s first reliable photographic process, direct positive or otherwise.” [read complete text at the nonist]