°2005, press alt + delete
The end of year trash posting, bin 2005.
Favourite films of 2005
The Proposition
Batman Begins
Land of the Living Dead
Mysterious Skin
Crash
The Woodsman
Favourite TV series
Battlestar Galactica
Carnivale
Shameless
Arrested Development
What’s in / What’s out
Aleatory materialism / Multitudes
Precarious Politics / Precarity
Jean-Luc Nancy / Alain Badiou
Undercommons / The Commons
Mario Tronti / Toni Negri
You’re tagged.
Leave it to me to start reading Badiou just as he’s becoming out. Maybe if I stick with him a while it’ll become retro? That’s the plan w/ Commons as well (don’t know what undercommons means) Glad to see I’m solidly on the In side w/ the last (I think I can claim “oh, yeah, his first record’s great, newer stuff’s a little overproduced but you know, major label release’ll do that” indie-cred, which is wicked awesome) and am just starting to get into the first, just on the In curve I suppose.
hope you have a lovely new year.
Nate [December 30, 2005 @ 3:29 pm]
Gasp! Alain Badiou is out? Whatever will I do now? I’m feeling a bit…precarious. But how is aleatory materialism in and Badiou out? Oh yeah, he’s of “aleatory rationalism“…is that out too? Well, Nate and I will be ringing in the New Year with outmoded Pauline fidelity, and I for one am braced to be out of style. (I suspect a Feb. retro with the man of math).
Happy New Year.
Keith [December 30, 2005 @ 4:57 pm]
Movies -
Land of the Dead
erm, that’s about it for me. I suppose Good Night and Good Luck is an exceptionally well put together liberal movie. Silly politics, amazing execution.
I thought Crash was, without doubt, the worst movie I saw last year. Worse than War of the Worlds, which was godawful, or that ridiculous Sean Penn thing I stumbled across on video. What were they thinking? It’s holliwood buddhism does race, and it is probably the most racist movie I saw last year. Puke! Maybe it was actually a clever commedy and there was a great punch line at the end, but I walked out before that. It was unendurable. I actually tried to write a review, but it just made me angry.
Arrested Development is like a transmission from another dimension. Aqua teen hunger force rocks, but 24, although not as intellectually accomplished as hunger force, still rules supreme as the ultimate in office melodrama.
Ghost of the Machine [December 31, 2005 @ 11:38 am]
heh heh.
Have a good and unforseeable new year all.
Btw, Nancy and Badiou will both be in Melbourne in September - I think it will be less an event than an inoperative community. But, really, all this reminds me is that I haven’t seen as many films as I’d have liked. Wolf Creek, for one.
s0metim3s [December 31, 2005 @ 1:13 pm]
Where are my manners? A good year to you all.
btw. The Difference Machine will probably begin operations again shortly.
Ghost of the Machine [December 31, 2005 @ 6:17 pm]
Films:
I just watched Unbreakable and The Village with my younger brother, liked them a lot. Especially the former as it’s about comic books…
take care
Nate
Nate [January 1, 2006 @ 12:48 pm]
I still love the Pachabel side of Eno’s Discreet Music LP the best - the way the whole thing slowly unravels. Have you listened to that lately?
After watching Good Night and Good Luck this afternoon, I’d second the Ghost’s brief summation …
Steve [January 2, 2006 @ 2:51 pm]
Not that recently Steve, but there are tracks on Here Come the Warm Jets that are just sublime. Good Night + Good Luck will have to wait. There’s a long list.
But if anyone wants a really strange experience in film, there’s always King Kong. Not only does it restage the black hordes scene from Black Hawk Down (which was also replayed in Serenity), but it uses actors in - I have no idea what to make of this - BLACKFACE!!!
s0metim3s [January 3, 2006 @ 11:03 am]