Double Reading

What bothers me and worries me most (well, beside the obvious ethical implications) about this Jim West (mayor of Spokane, Washington; made some homophobic remarks; was caught in a pretty intense gay sex scandal [offering jobs to gay men via online chat, hounding those men for dates, etc.]) is that I’m guessing after this all [...]

I want to be the 1,000th blogger to direct everyone to The Huffington Post, the new web site/blog/news site created by Arianna Huffington. She’s totally great. She used to be really conservative and right-wing, then her rich husband came out of the closet and she got tons of money… then she became a super progressive. [...]

SIFF has this year’s schedule up, so everyone in Seattle should go see Wong Kar-Wai’s 2046.
I’m not sure which version this will be. The one that played at Cannes last year has apparently been edited a bit to make it make more sense. The version I got from Netflix lists the running time at 129 [...]

It’s no secret that I’m a huge Buffy and Angel fan. That said, I don’t really fall into that category of fan who thinks that Joss Whedon is the smartest and most talented man in the world. Yea, I love Buffy and Angel and I am one of the few people who don’t hate Alien: [...]

I’ve watched some pretty sexual, taboo-breaking movies in my day (The Dreamers, In the Realm of the Senses, Visitor Q, etc.), so I would say that I’m pretty used to explicit and strange sex on film. Now I can add Lies (Korean title: Gojitmal) to my list of sexually-intense movies.
I would also add that all [...]

So, who really loves me and wants to buy me The Wong Kar-Wai Collection??? Although the retail price is $76.96, it looks like you can find it used on amazon for under $70. I will love you forever and forever.
For real, though, I have to buy this. It contains the following movies:

As Tears Go By
Days [...]

More might come on this later, but this morning I was reading about the idea of the “presence of an absence” (in the Lost Highway section of Pervert in the Pulpit), which the author seemed to attribute to Hegel. I was reminded that this is one of my all-time favorite ideas, right up there with [...]

I’m debating whether I should try to take some of the posts from my old website and migrate them to this site. I realize that there are a few really good posts saved there that might be worth saving and sharing. Does anyone else have thoughts on this? Or does anyone who visited my old [...]

Here is the citation for the edition I am using:
Johnson, Jeff. Pervert in the Pulpit: Morality in the Works of David Lynch. North Carolina: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, 2004.
I’ll start by noting that I typically only read critical work that enhances or adds to my appreciation of something I already enjoy. Reading Pervert in [...]

This a follow-up to my 2046 post. I re-watched the movie and have had more time to process some things. This post may contain spoilers, so if you want some spoiler-free thoughts, checkout the original post.
I wish I could say that the movie made more sense the second time around. Or, wait, no I don’t. [...]