run run revolution

quality control

2007-01-28T02:52:00.000-08:00

so, there's this guy i know who does >30% of the graduate education for an internationally famous film program. after 7 years, his masters decided that he had “no ‘acknowledged record of successful teaching.’”

children of men

2007-01-11T15:08:00.001-08:00

children of men isn’t the first over-rated commercial piece of wanna be hollywood shit directed by rich-fuck alfonso cuarón, but is is by far the most offensive, servile and christ-loving. in the summaries of the pd james novel we read, there seems to have been some sort of class critique, at the level of bothering to wonder who would collect the garbage in a world with a labor shortage cause by infertility . alfonso decided that shit didn’t belong on screen. even if in 1992, the novels publication date, james was too dumb to account for cloning as a way of making more people to exploit , alfonso’s movie came out in 2005! there’s no way for you to know whether this blog entry was written by rrr or a clone there of. surely there was a production meeting about this at universal. was no one taking notes? and how did the infertility epidemic get rid of cell phones?

2007-01-08T11:28:00.001-08:00

marie antoinette: not sofia coppola’s first film about a sexually troubled girl, but surely her emptiest and most conservative . although only a developmentally challenged 6 year old would see this film as a history lesson, we still object to the glorification of a hapsburg insect who fed on the blood of the french people for most of her life and plotted actively against the revolution with citizen capet ‘s exiled brothers. if sophie’s going to listen to gang of four she might get a better lesson in historiography from “it’s not made by great men” instead of “natural’s not in it.”

2006-10-29T10:41:00.000-08:00

The Prestige
Not Christopher Nolan's first film with an M Night Shyamalanesque twist, but surely the most predicable, though we like Rick Jay a lot for a capitalist. Nicola Tessla so hot right now, probably because we are running out of power and still have to plug in you laptops.

The Science Of Sleep
Not the first French film about a relationship to over motivate formal devices, thus depriving them of any value as thought, but surely one with the most cardboard sets, though Charlotte Gainsbourg makes us want to smoke.

The Last 20 Minutes of Short Bus
Not the first film to rip off Ken Anger, Jack Smith, and Pasolini, but surely the most self congratulatory. It’s main fantasy isn’t about sex, but about the east village still mattering.

Summer Palace
Not the first movie by a Chinese director who tries to use politics to sublimate his desire for his actress, but surely the flimsiest. Marketed as the first cinematic representation of the events at the gate of heavenly peace, it in fact marks the final stage of the mainland’s adoption of bourgeois ideology.

the departed

2006-10-14T14:59:00.000-07:00

The Departed isn’t Martin Scorsese’s first return to form, but it is his weakest. Nonetheless, we are reassured that Marty can still reach the level of Harold Becker’s City Hall (Columbia,1996).

The illusionist/the black dahlia/hollywodland

2006-09-17T21:33:00.000-07:00

These movies bank on the sort of cinematic self awareness of which The Player and The Matrix are our favorite recent examples, favorite recent example, unfortunately they work more like the moment at the beginning of Charlie’s Angels when L.L. Cool J acknowledges that one can always walk out of stuff like the T J Hooker movie playing on the plane.

crank

2006-09-15T21:30:00.000-07:00

The dream of perpetual motion foundered by the beast with two backs.

2006-09-15T21:27:00.000-07:00

We don’t feel like running with an inguinal hernia. We grow old and fat.

2006-08-21T10:07:00.000-07:00

start: 10:00 am
dodge and fairchild to brown to dubuque to taft speedway road to last right to foster rd past gross peninsula development onto peninsula across new footbridge to first street, to irc trailhead behind taco bell to lower finkbine trail to melrose to irc to park drive to brown to dodge.
temp: 76
wind: vrble 5
humidity 60%
p's:0
prerun intake: 2 cups tea

2006-08-16T11:47:00.000-07:00

start: 10:00 am
dodge to brown to dubuque to park drive to irc to lower finkbine trail to melrose to irc trailhead behind taco bell tofirst street to new footbridge to peninsula tup to gross development to foster to brown to dodge.

temp: 76
wind: s 6

p's:0
prerun intake: 3 cups coffee

2006-08-15T13:31:00.000-07:00

route: brown to dubuque to the iowa river corridor to napoleon park to Benton to back the same way

temp 78
wind: NW 6

p's: 2 CLEAR
pre run intake:
3 cup coffee
sleep 5 hours

2006-08-14T18:55:00.000-07:00

start: 9:00 am
dodge to brown to dubuque to park drive to irc to lower finkbine trail to melrose to irc trailhead behind taco bell tofirst street to new footbridge to peninsula tup to gross development to foster to brown to dodge.

temp: 75
wind: nw 14 gusts 18

p's:0
prerun intake: 2 cups coffee

2006-08-11T16:10:00.000-07:00

route: brown to dubuque to the iowa river corridor to napoleon park to Benton to back the same way

temp 72
wind: e 6

p's: 0
pre run intake:
3 cup coffee
sleep 4 hours

Channeling la Pucelle

2006-08-10T18:31:00.000-07:00

Scanner Darkly and Miami Vice aren’t very accurate diagnoses, but they are pretty good symptoms. A dementedly blurred distinction diseases those of us who live in a society where the difference between work and time off is rapidly disappearing. Vice and Scanner are movies about work that looks like hanging out. In Vice, Sony and Tubbs have no lives outside of their work which is basically to jet-set around occasionally wasting a drug lord, and in Scanner the main character’s work as a nark contradicts the junkie life he has had to embrace to do his job. The two films cover the two dominant responses to what old folks still call alienated labor: total identification with work or radical dissociation and psychological disintegration. In Vice, Sony and Tubbs don’t exist outside of what the cops on NYPD Blue used to call THE job. In Scanner the contradiction between the main character’s life and his job is so extreme that he spies on himself for a living. Our fantasy about post-industrial society only involves three kinds of jobs: managers of money or symbols, gangsters, and cops. These professions blur together, and in both Vice and Scanner gangsters and cops are also quite literally moviemakers who make tapes and holographs to keep an eye on each other. We need a fix just to see straight.

2006-08-05T17:00:00.000-07:00

start:12:00

route: brown to dubuque to the iowa river corridor to napoleon park to Benton to back the same way

temp 73
wind: se 10

p's: 1
pre run intake:
3 cup coffee 1 cliff bar
sleep 8 hours

2006-08-04T11:17:00.000-07:00

according to jodi foster, who has been trying to amke a redemptive bipic about leni refenshtahl for years, mel gibson is just a drunk, not an antisemetic drunk.

2006-08-04T10:09:00.001-07:00

august 3
start: 12:00 am
dodge to brown to dubuque to park drive to irc to lower finkbine trail to melrose to irc trailhead behind taco bell tofirst street to new footbridge to peninsula tup to gross development to foster to brown to dodge.

temp: 80
wind: n 16 gusts 21

p's:0
prerun intake: 2 cups coffee

2006-08-02T14:33:00.000-07:00

start:10:00

route: brown to dubuque to the iowa river corridor to napoleon park to Benton to back the same way

temp 88
wind: sw 13
humidity: 60%
p's: 0
pre run intake:
1 cup coffee
sleep 4 hours

2006-08-01T10:05:00.000-07:00

start: 10:00 am
dodge and fairchild to brown to dubuque to taft speedway road to last right to foster rd past gross peninsula development onto peninsula across new footbridge to first street, to irc trailhead behind taco bell to lower finkbine trail to melrose to irc to park drive to brown to dodge.
temp: 88
wind: sw 5
humidity 55%
p's:0
prerun intake: 2 cups coffee

2006-07-30T13:53:00.000-07:00

superman returns (warner brothers/dc comics 2006)

i said by the way baby what's your name
said i go by the name of Lois Lane
and you could be my boyfiend you surely can
just let me quit my boyfriend called superman
i said he's a fairy i do suppoose
flyin through the air in pantyhose
he may be very sexy or even cute
but he looks like a sucker in a blue and red suit
i said you need a man who's got finesse
and his whole name across his chest
he may be able to fly all through the night
but can he rock a party til the early light?
he cant satisfy you with his little worm
but i can bust you out with my super sperm

2006-07-30T13:33:00.000-07:00

the fast and the furious: tokyo drift
to this we would only add that we spent the month after seeing it trying to make our bicycle drift. it works best in the rain.

2006-07-30T13:04:00.000-07:00

the devil wears prada (20th century fox,2006)

a movie “directed” be hbo hack david frankel an d shot the previously b-unit leading follorian ballhaus son of once great sell-out michael, devil struck us as ingularly inept at shooting clothes. while the film emplots a redemptive tail of the fashion industry, and not fashion, we were still annoyed though not surprised. we would have been happier with either beautiful garments or garments filmed badly as a form of critique, but could not accept poorly shot dull clothing presented as alluring. it made us sad that, due to their deaths, neither mizoguchi kenji
or joseph von sternberg

were available to helm the film.

2006-07-30T10:37:00.001-07:00

pirates of the caribbean dead man’s chest (disney, 2005):

no doubt it would be possible to continue the analysis of the trilogy’s allegory of global capital, but since the narrative and dialogue was largely improvised by verbinsky, depp, and harris in the spirit of fun, (and a $225,000,000 investment should be fun) we prefer imaging the palpable retardation of the moment when johnny said, “lets put me on a fruit kebab, it’ll be like the state fair!” now, if you'll excuse us, dear reader, we've got to go play our sea organ with our face tentacles.

chinchilla in the heat

2006-07-30T09:34:00.001-07:00

start: 9:00 am
dodge and fairchild to brown to dubuque to taft speedway road to last right to foster rd past gross peninsula development onto peninsula across new footbridge to first street, to irc trailhead behindtaco bell to lower finkbine trail to melrose to irc to park drive to brown to dodge.
temp: 86
wind: se 6
humidity 70%
p's:0
prerun intake: 2 cups coffee

2006-07-29T07:50:00.000-07:00

start: 8:30 am
dodge and fairchild to brown to dubuque to taft speedway road to last right to foster rd past gross peninsula development onto peninsula across new footbridge to first street, to irc trailhead behindtaco bell to lower finkbine trail to melrose to irc to park drive to brown to dodge.
temp: 80
wind: calm
humidity 76%
p's:0
prerun intake: 3 cups coffee

2006-07-28T07:39:00.001-07:00

start: 8:30 am
dodge and fairchild to brown to dubuque to taft speedway road to last right to foster rd past gross peninsula development onto peninsula across new footbridge to first street, to irc trailhead behindtaco bell to lower finkbine trail to melrose to irc to park drive to brown to dodge.
temp: 82
wind: w 6
humidity 72%
p's:0
prerun intake: 2 cups coffee

2006-07-28T07:39:00.000-07:00

start: 8:30 am
dodge and fairchild to brown to dubuque to taft speedway road to last right to foster rd past gross peninsula development onto peninsula across new footbridge to first street, to irc trailhead behindtaco bell to lower finkbine trail to melrose to irc to park drive to brown to dodge.
temp: 82
wind: w 6
humidity 72%
p's:0
prerun intake: 2 cups coffee

2006-07-27T12:07:00.000-07:00

start: 8:30 am
dodge and fairchild to brown to dubuque to taft speedway road to last right to foster rd past gross peninsula development onto peninsula across new footbridge to first street, to irc trailhead behindtaco bell to lower finkbine trail to melrose to irc to park drive to brown to dodge.
temp: 88
wind: e 3
humidity 66%
p's:0
prerun intake: 2 cups coffee, 1banana

2006-07-26T08:00:00.000-07:00

start: 12 PM

dodge and fairchild to brown to dubuque to taft speedway road to last right to foster rd past gross peninsula development onto peninsula across new footbridge to first street, to irc trailhead behindtaco bell to lower finkbine trail to melrose to irc to park drive to brown to dodge.

temp: 73

Humidity 87%

p's:0
prerun intake: 3 cups coffee

2006-07-25T11:35:00.000-07:00

start: 12 PM

dodge and fairchild to brown to dubuque to taft speedway road to last right to foster rd past gross peninsula development onto peninsula across new footbridge to first street, to irc trailhead behindtaco bell to lower finkbine trail to melrose to irc to park drive to brown to dodge.

temp:88
wind: s 9 g 17
Humidity 52%

p's:0
prerun intake: 2 cups coffee

the greatness of billy jack

2006-07-23T23:44:00.000-07:00

1) the city council scene
2)"from the moment i was was born until now, life has been one big shit brick." barbara

2006-07-21T16:14:00.000-07:00

start: 10:45 am

dodge and fairchild to brown to dubuque to taft speedway road to last right to foster rd past gross peninsula development onto peninsula across new footbridge to first street, to irc trailhead behindtaco bell to lower finkbine trail to melrose to irc to park drive to brown to dodge.

temp:69
wind: s 5
drizzel

p's:0
prerun intake:
3 cups coffee

2006-07-20T14:33:00.000-07:00

most everything that was worth something was originally ripped off anyhow; it indicated the piece had value.

phillip k dick
a scanner darkly

2006-07-20T14:26:00.000-07:00

start: 12:00

dodge and fairchild to brown to dubuque to taft speedway road to last right to foster rd past gross peninsula development onto peninsula across new footbridge to first street, to irc trailhead behindtaco bell to lower finkbine trail to melrose to irc to park drive to brown to dodge.

temp:81
wind: ne 8
humidity 60%

p's:0
prerun intake:
3 cups coffee

2006-07-17T18:13:00.000-07:00

start: 12:00

dodge and fairchild to brown to dubuque to taft speedway road to last right to foster rd past gross peninsula development onto peninsula across new footbridge to first street, to irc trailhead behindtaco bell to lower finkbine trail to melrose to irc to park drive to kimbal to loren glasses house on fairchild.

temp:92
wind: sw 8

p’s:0
sleep:7 hours

2006-07-12T13:34:00.000-07:00

start: 10:00

dodge and fairchild to brown to dubuque to taft speedway road to last right to foster rd past gross peninsula development onto peninsula across new footbridge to first street, to irc trailhead behindtaco bell to lower finkbine trail to melrose to irc to park drive to kimbal to loren glasses house on fairchild.

loren glass has a strong kick and i am jealous of it

temp:74
wind: ne 8

p’s:0
sleep: 3 hours

2006-07-11T12:52:00.000-07:00

start:11:00

route: fairchild to dubuque to the iowa river corridor to napoleon park to Benton to governor to ronalds to lucas to brown to dodge

temp 80
wind: NE 6
humidity: 69%
p's: 4 light yellow +clear
sleep 6 hours

2006-07-10T13:39:00.000-07:00

start: 9:30

dodge to brown to dubuque to taft speedway road to last right to foster rd past gross peninsula development onto peninsula across new footbridge to first street, to irc trailhead behindtaco bell to lower finkbine trail to melrose to irc to prak drive to kimbal to dodge
w/ intervals

temp:76
wind: e 6
humidity 70%

p’s:0
sleep: 5 hours

2006-07-08T18:54:00.000-07:00

start:12:00

route: dodge street to fairchild to brown to dubuque to the iowa river corridor to napoleon park and back the same way
temp 80
wind: sw 9

p's: 0
sleep 5 hours

2006-07-07T13:01:00.001-07:00

start: 11:45
watchless

dodge to brown to dubuque to taft speedway road to last right to foster rd past gross peninsula development onto peninsula across new footbridge to first street, to irc trailhead behind jack in the box to lower finkbine trail to melrose to irc to prak drive to brown to dodge

temp: 81
wind: sw 8

p’s:0
sleep: 5 hours

2006-07-06T11:07:00.003-07:00

start: 11:45
watchless

dodge to brown to dubuque to taft speedway road to last right to foster rd past gross peninsula development onto peninsula across new footbridge to first street, to irc trailhead behind jack in the box to lower finkbine trail to melrose to irc to prak drive to kimbal to dodge

temp: 83
wind: calm
humidity 33%

p’s:0
sleep: 5 hours

JULY 5

2006-07-06T07:36:00.000-07:00

start:11:00

route: fairchild to dubuque to the iowa river corridor to napoleon park governor to brown to dodge fairchild
w/loren glaSS
temp 78
wind: NE 6
humidity: 74%
p's: 1 yellow
sleep 6 hours

2006-07-04T10:50:00.001-07:00

thanks to luther moss for pointing out that our jack in the box is a taco bell.

July 3

2006-07-04T10:39:00.000-07:00

start: 10:45
watchless

dodge to brown to dubuque to taft speedway road to last right to foster rd past gross peninsula development onto peninsula
across new footbridge to first street, to irc trailhead behind jack in the box to ower finkbine trail to melrose to burlington to washington to linn to brown to dodge

temp: 84
wind: sw 6

p’s: 1 yellow
sleep: 5 hours

july 2

2006-07-03T00:16:00.001-07:00

start: 10:30 am
watchless

start: 10:30 am
watchless

route: dodge street to kimbal to prairie du chine
to the loop by the water treatment plaent along trail to elks golf course past gross peninsula development onto peninsula across new footbridge to first street, to irc trailhead behind jack in the box to rocky shore to park to kimbal to dodge

temp: 73
wind: nw 8
humidity 62%
p’s: 1 yellow
sleep: 5 hours

2006-07-01T09:54:00.000-07:00

start: 10:30 am
watchless

route: charlie and dianne’s house on jhonson above brown (where i was returning a shop vac) to brown to dubuque to taft speedway road to last right to foster rd past gross peninsula development onto peninsula across new footbridge to first street, to irc trailhead behind jack in the box to rocky shore to park to brown to dodge

temp: 81
wind: sW 10
humidity 54%
p’s: 0
sleep: 5 hour

2006-06-30T12:06:00.000-07:00

start:12:00

route: dodge street to fairchild to brown to dubuque to the iowa river corridor to napoleon park governor to brown to dodge

temp 78
wind: sw 8
humidity: 74%
p's: 1 yellow
sleep 5 hours

2006-06-29T11:26:00.000-07:00

start: 11:00 am
watchless
route: dodge street to brown to dubuque to city park to normandy street to rocky shore dr. to lower finkbine trail to melrose to irc trail to naromandy to manor to city park dubuque to kimbal and back to dodge
temp: 81
humidity 45%
wind: s 5

p’s: 1 clear
sleep: 5 hrs

2006-06-28T09:22:00.000-07:00

start:10:00
w/ loren glass
route: dodge street to fairchild to brown to dubuque to the iowa river corridor to governor to brown to dodge

temp 77
wind: 8
humidity: 43%
p's: 1 clear
sleep 5 hours

& one of those honey cigarillios too, please

2006-06-27T20:44:00.001-07:00

not being rock critics or anything, the main thing we learned from our friend's list is that hyphie continues the west side tradition of listing stuff one bought at the 7-11 (see yo-yo and n 2 deep )

2006-06-26T10:42:00.000-07:00

start: 11:00 am

route: dodge street to brown to dubuque to city park to normandy street to rocky shore dr. to lower finkbine trail to melrose to irc trail to dubuque to kimbal and back to dodge
temp: 66
humidity 78
wind: n 8
low gray skies

p’s: 0
sleep: 7 hrs

then it's one foot then the other as you step out onto the road
how much weight? how much weight?
then it's how long? and how far?
and how many times before it's too late?
(jane silberry & kd lang)

2006-06-25T13:07:00.000-07:00

start: 10:30 am
watchless

route: dodge street to ronalds to dubuque to taft speedway road to last right to foster rd past gross peninsula development onto peninsula across new footbridge to first street, to irc trailhead behind jack in the box to rocky shore to park to kimbal to dodge

temp: 73
wind: nw 8
humidity 62%
p’s: 0
sleep: 5 hours

2006-06-24T09:31:00.000-07:00

start: 11:30 am
watchless

route: charlie and dianne’s house on jhonson above brown (where i was returning a shop vac) to brown to dubuque to taft speedway road to last right to foster rd past gross peninsula development onto peninsula across new footbridge to first street, to irc trailhead behind jack in the box to rocky shore to park to brown to dodge

temp: 80
wind: s 7
humidity 56%
p’s: 0
sleep: 5 hours

2006-06-23T11:11:00.000-07:00

start: 11:30 am
watchless

route: dodge street to ronalds to dubuque to taft speedway road to last right to foster rd past gross peninsula development onto peninsula across new footbridge to first street, to irc trailhead behind jack in the box to rocky shore to park to kimbal to dodge

temp: 76
wind: w 5
humidity 52%
p’s: 0
sleep: 5 hours

2006-06-22T11:49:00.000-07:00

start: 11:00 am
watchless

route: dodge street to ronalds to dubuque to taft speedway road to last right to foster rd past gross peninsula development onto peninsula across new footbridge to first street, to irc trailhead behind jack in the box to rocky shore to park to brown to dodge

temp: 72
wind: w 5
humidity 66%
p’s: 1 yellow/clear
sleep: 6 hours

6 21 06

2006-06-22T11:45:00.000-07:00

start:12:00
watchless
route: dodge street to brown to dubuque to the iowa river corridor to napoleon park back to clinton to the ped mall to debuque street to iowa ave to linn to brown to dodge

temp 80
wind: sw 9
p's: 1 yellow/brown
sleep 5 hours

2006-06-19T20:43:00.000-07:00

the omen (twentieth century fox, 2006) isn’t the first film less compelling than the average hour of end times radio, but it is one of the few to be based on the same passages in scripture. part of the problem is that it doesn’t seem creepy that the devil is born into the family of a us consular official, it seems redundant, like the movie itself. In the all-too-faithful remake’s only significant variation on the 1976 version, the popes and his Vatican friends read the coming of the antichrist in slides of current events. At least when pentecostal preachers do similar things on the radio, they take the catholic church as one of the signs of the apocalypse.

2006-06-19T20:13:00.000-07:00

start: 9:30 am
watchless

route: dodge street to ronalds to dubuque to taft speedway road to last right to foster rd past gross peninsula development onto peninsula across new footbridge to first street, to irc trailhead behind jack in the box to rocky shore to park to brown to dodge

temp: 83
wind: w 13
p’s: 0
sleep: 5 hours

2006-06-15T11:32:00.001-07:00

the da vinci code isn’t the first film to blaspheme against our lord jesus christ, but, even at a paltry $125,000,000, is the most expensive. in the good old days of heresy, when god still had enough twizum to close major markets to players who had offended him, blasphemy tended to be cheaply produced. in hollywood, where god has just enough clout help to green-light the chronicles of narnia and the passion of the christ, finance capital opens all markets to those who can pay the entry fee. as a result, sony and friends, pleased with dan brown’s literary sales, invested a few more than thirty pieces of gold in the film. in order to receive a return on its investment, sony made the da vinci code so as to minimize the risk that the film might offend anyone. one can’t tell if anyone in the film believes that jesus fathered children with mary magdalen. god, in his infinite wisdom, has made heresy impossible, not only through his own inexistence, but also by transubstantiating blasphemy into a financed product in a global market.

2006-06-06T13:55:00.000-07:00

start: 2:30 pm
watchless

route: dodge street to ronalds to dubuque to taft speedway road to last right to foster rd past gross peninsula development onto peninsula across new footbridge to first street, to irc trailhead behind jack in the box to rocky shore to park to brown to dodge

temp: 81
wind: s 10
humidity 69%
p’s: 0 clear
sleep: 5 hours
prophylactic knee brace

i like being read. the way you do that is by having a lot of words, a lot of syllables, different types of words._
rakim

6-5-06

2006-06-06T00:28:00.001-07:00

start: 11:30am
watchless

route: dodge street to ronalds to dubuque to taft speedway road to last right to foster rd past gross peninsula development onto peninsula across new footbridge to first street, to irc trailhead behind jack in the box to rocky shore to park to brown to dodge

temp: 83
wind: s 10
humidity 31%
p’s: 1 clear
sleep: 7 hours

2006-06-03T16:54:00.000-07:00

start: 5:30 pm
1:01:57

route: dodge street to ronalds to dubuque to taft speedway road to last right to foster rd past gross peninsula development onto peninsula across new footbridge to first street, to irc trailhead behind jack in the box to rocky shore to park to brown to dodge

temp: 86
wind: ne 8
humidity 27%
p’s: 1 yellow
sleep: 5 hours

2 6 06

2006-06-03T16:51:00.000-07:00

start: 12:30 pm
1:05:31

route: dodge street to ronalds to dubuque to taft speedway road to last right to foster rd past gross peninsula development onto peninsula across new footbridge to first street, to irc trailhead behind jack in the box to rocky shore to park to brown to dodge

temp: 86
wind: ne 7
p’s: 1 clear
sleep: 5 hours

2006-06-01T13:11:00.001-07:00

despite the presence of this guy,
x men the last stand isn’t the most allegorically queercore of the trilogy, but it does offer the most obvious undergraduate film interpretation thesis not about sexuality.

the film reflects itself as an unlovable imago, as those films it hopes to defeat in the baatle for children, in the figure of juggernaut, who says the only thing blockbusters can: “i’m the juggernaut, bitch.”

2006-06-01T13:11:00.000-07:00

despite the presence of this guy,
x men the last stand isn’t the most allegorically queercore of the trilogy, but it does offer the most obvious undergraduate film interpretation thesis no about sexuality.

the film reflects itself as an unlovable imago, as those films it hopes to defeat in the baatle for children, in the figure of juggernaut, who says the only thing blockbusters can: “i’m the juggernaut, bitch.”

2006-06-01T12:58:00.000-07:00

start: 2:00 pm
1:05:12

route: dodge street to ronalds to dubuque to taft speedway road to last right to foster rd past gross peninsula development onto peninsula across new footbridge to first street, to irc trailhead behind jack in the box to rocky shore to park to brown to dodge

temp: 85
30% humidity
wind: ne 8
p’s: 1 clear
sleep: 5 hours

2006-05-26T14:04:00.000-07:00

start: 3:00 pm
watchless

route: dodge street to ronalds to dubuque to taft speedway road to last right to foster rd past gross peninsula development onto peninsula across new footbridge to first street, to irc trailhead behind jack in the box to rocky shore to park to brown to dodge

temp: 85
wind: svrbl 3
p’s: 1 brown
sleep: 5 hours

2006-05-25T05:32:00.000-07:00

start: 6:00 am
watchless

route: dodge street to ronalds to dubuque to taft speedway road to last right to foster rd past gross peninsula development onto peninsula across new footbridge to first street, to irc trailhead behind jack in the box to rocky shore to park to bown to dodge

temp: 65
wind: sw 7
p’s: 1
sleep: 0 hours

“i am just a modern guy” dragging no sleep and 8 weeks of winter & spring’s bullshit behind me

2006-04-10T17:06:00.000-07:00

start: 12:30 am
watchless

route: dodge street to ronalds to dubuque to taft speedway road to last right to foster rd past gross peninsula development onto peninsula across new footbridge to first street, to irc trailhead behind jack in the box to rocky shore to park to kimbal to dodge

temp: 65
wind: s 13
p’s: 0
sleep: 07 hours

2006-04-09T18:58:00.000-07:00

Best version of “the aristocrats” yet

2006-04-09T17:35:00.000-07:00

2006-04-08T15:15:00.000-07:00

start: 11:00 am
watchless
route: dodge street to ronalds to dubuque to taft speedway road to last right to foster rd past gross peninsula development onto peninsula across new footbridge to first street, to irc trailhead behind jack in the box to rocky shore to park to debuque to brown temp: 44
wind: N 9
p’s: 6
sleep: 07 hours
w/ j clover

2006-04-08T07:13:00.000-07:00

Lucky Number Slevin (Weinstein Company, 2006) isn’t the worst movie rrr has ever seen, and that makes us sad.

2006-04-07T10:29:00.000-07:00

start: 11:00 am
watchless
route: dodge street to ronalds to dubuque to taft speedway road to last right to foster rd past gross peninsula development onto peninsula across new footbridge to first street, to irc trailhead behind jack in the box to rocky shore to park to debuque to brown temp: 48
wind: ne 15
p’s: 4
sleep: 07 hours
w/ j clover

2006-04-04T21:11:00.000-07:00

2:30
Watchless
route: dodge street to prairie du chine to linder to debuque to the park by he treatment plant on the outside loop trail to faoster foster rd past gross peninsula development onto peninsula across new footbridge to first street, train tracks to irc trailhead behind jack in the box to rocky shore to park to kimbal to dodge

2006-04-01T22:38:00.000-08:00

the manias of explosion, evaporation or deconstruction

there are several barriers that prevent
the implementation of deconstruction,
for one thing, potentially highly toxic and
radioactive debris hung so wonderfully over the body.

viktor vorobyev came and took fellow soldiers all the more easily.
it became possible to make anything
based on actual people, aloof analyses, events and remanufacturing companies:
a deconstruction of the political and ethical forces driving the war.

mr. craven, author of “pornography: the deconstruction of human sexuality,” is no different,
reusing components and building materials,
derivatives of the surgical gown in "anatomy," toxic mess and
a vigorous system where structures are dismantled with cut-out panels in the lining under gauzy fabric.

2006-03-23T13:00:00.000-08:00

start: 12:56 am
time 1:09:43

route: dodge street to ronalds to dubuque to taft speedway road to last right to foster rd past gross peninsula development onto peninsula across new footbridge to first street, to irc trailhead behind jack in the box to rocky shore to park to kimbal to dodge

temp: 44
wind: nw 15
p’s: 0
sleep: 07 hours

interesting analysis mr woerth

2006-03-21T21:19:00.000-08:00

"the prime minister was very closed last week, but was more open to the idea of amending the law today," said éric woerth, a party legislator who attended the meeting. "almost everyone agrees that we must do something, not because of the mobilization of the unions, but because the battle of explaining the law has been lost with the young."
….
"the problem is that it will kill the c.p.e.," said mr. woerth, using the french abbreviation for the first employment contract. "the more we modify the law, the less attractive it is for companies."

speaking the french to power

2006-03-18T23:16:00.000-08:00

this photo answers the spinners of spectacle who want us to believe that the current riots in paris are only about the “first employment contract” and unrelated to the riots that started on october 27, 2005.

give denise miranda's money

2006-03-18T15:13:00.000-08:00

our good friend and mistress of found footage, denise kaufman asked requested reviews of miranda july’s you and me and everyone we know and caveh zahedi’s i am a sex addict. rrr would like to point out that ms. kaufamn could write the reviews herself and post them somewhere, perhaps even here.

further, rrr would like to express it’s lack of interest in those movies as texts. in fact, the only film that rrr has blogged so far that we have had any textual interest in has been the player (altman, 1992.)

what interests us are social relations and while we are just as capable of deconstructing the difference between textuality and social relations, we would only like to note for the moment that the player is a movie about the social relations involved in hollywood filmmaking and that at least attempts a certain cinematic self-consciousness.

while cz has made some work of interest to us, i am a sex addict sounds as if it merely extends his usual and sometimes amusing trick of inappropriate self-revelation in any case, we haven’t seen it and would rather go for a run than go out of our way for it. it has the serious flaw of being an ifc project. perhaps we will be more interested in his forthcoming remake of the black dahlia featuring a bondage model in a major part.

unfortunately, rrr did wait through you and me and everyone we know, praying to a god who doesn’t exist that it would end soon. fortunately, we watched it at home on computer, so we could openly kiss for diversion from the movies flat camera work, poor acting, hipster cliche writing, bad costumes, and, somewhat surprisingly given july’s history, uninteresting sound.

what rrr loves to hate are the relations imposed on us by the social formation, or what in happier days we might have called “the class,” of movie makers who live a life of obscene privilege and goody bags by virtue of having made the world open wide and cramming unimaginative, foul ideology into screens in every territory ‘round the globe. we love to hate those who have been raping our eyes and ears for our entire lives and that includes the bollywood and hk industries.

you and me and everyone we know was made for a small budget, though rrr has yet to find even an approximation of its cost. in its limited first run release, it made just under $4 million. while the film seems to be of a different economic order than the films we love to hate, it is clearly a steppingstone on the way to making truly detestable work, as is betrayed by july’s choice of distributor, ifc.

one can see the direction that its makers want to head in the male lead, john hawkes, who plays sol star, the “jew” merchant, on hbo’s deadwood, appeared on the practice and 24, was in the perfect storm and will even have a small role in miami vice. in short, hawkes is a low level industry player who does artistic projects to ease his conscience and to keep working. the producer gina kwan has made a name for herself shoveling “indie” shit like chuck and buck and the good girl (a film that clearly shows that poor folks are unhappy because their love lives aren’t right.) much of the cast and crew consists of hacks trying to sell their lack of creativity as artistry.

of course miranda wants to sell herself to us as an outsider untalented artist. the character she plays in me and you and everyone we know works for a car service that specializes in transporting the elderly and she feels has to hand deliver bring her videotape to a museum in order to get the curator to look at it. in real life, july ahs claimed rick moody as a family friend in interviews (nyt 6/19/05). by definition if one claims rick moody as a family friend, one is an insider in the world of contemporary aesthetes. the same hypocrisy can be felt in july use of the kill rock stars record label to get her career started and then becoming one. clearly her highest value is her own fame.

me and you and everyone we know was the first film shown at the new ifc theater in new york city, a facility operated by non-union projectionists. during the opening, the theater was picketed by the nyc union . strike-breaking is the film’s truth, along with that of ifc. as picketers said to a certain mr. weinstein "ifc hates workers. harvey." july hates workers too.

burn it fucking down

2006-03-18T11:44:00.000-08:00

despite the fact that they have been continually purged from the city and replaced by strangers from elsewhere, by the likes of haussmann and im pei, the peoples of paris continue to rise against their masters. it’s the second gallic intifada in the past few months!

hungover on st p's day

2006-03-17T19:26:00.000-08:00

start: 11:06 am
time 58:22!

route: dodge street to ronalds to dubuque to taft speedway road to last right to foster rd past gross peninsula development onto peninsula across new footbridge to first street, to irc trailhead behind jack in the box to rocky shore to park to kimbal to dodge

temp: 40
wind: nne 7
p’s: 0
sleep: 07 hours

before the sleet

2006-03-16T11:28:00.000-08:00

start: 12:18 am
time 1:01:13

route: dodge street to ronalds to dubuque to taft speedway road to last right to foster rd past gross peninsula development onto peninsula across new footbridge to first street, to irc trailhead behind jack in the box to rocky shore to park to kimbal to dodge

temp: 43
wind: ne 14 g 22
p’s: 1
sleep: 10 hours

watchless

2006-03-15T10:35:00.000-08:00

start: 11:30 am

route: dodge street to ronalds to dubuque to taft speedway road to last right to foster rd past gross peninsula development onto peninsula across new footbridge to first street, to irc trailhead behind jack in the box to rocky shore to park to kimbal to dodge

temp: 45
wind: e 3
p’s: 0
sleep: 7 hours

felt slow, was quick

2006-03-14T10:33:00.000-08:00

start: 11:18 am
time 59:13

route: dodge street totonalds to dubuque to taft speedway road to last right to foster rd past gross peninsula development onto peninsula across new footbridge to first street, to irc trailhead behind jack in the box to rocky shore to park to kimbal to dodge

temp: 40
wind: w 15
p’s: 0
sleep: 8 hours

rrr finds genre film allegory not worth pursuing!

2006-03-12T10:55:00.000-08:00

ultraviolet (1006, screen jems/ sony) is not the only incoherent action movie staring milla jovoich, but it is the most recent. nothing about this film interested me, except of the possibility that the narrative meant to ask the question: what if today’s terrorists where aids patients? confronting audiences with this question in amore precise manner than the film is capable of might shift our affect slightly with regards to current events. as it is the film seems to have a certain nostalgia for aids as a more treatable condition than that driving contemporary terror. even worse, that allegorical strain makes us think that aids has passed. (if one really wanted to spin one’s wheels, one might make remarks on the fact that the narrative seems to concern the toppling of a religious state (the “archdiocese”) which attempts to make everyone sick in order to sell them a drug to manage the illness thus profiting and maintaining social control. one might rev up a tale of biopolitics. one might really do donuts with one’s system up at 11 and the windows rolled down if one then read ultraviolet’s genetic variant eon flux (2006, mtv)the same way.)

instead of pursuing various allegorical readings or critiquing what little technique there is in the film, we will merely report a phrase of debord’s that one of us read while trying to go to sleep after the film. one might easily deturn ultraviolet to express it:

“the si is a specter haunting the world.”

to which we would only add: “now more than ever.”

the si has passed, but its ghost constantly reminds us that our only possibility for a future lies in absolutely rejecting the forces of wage and commodity that degrade and regulate our lives. our negation can only happen through the deliberate construction of situations allowing us to actualize our desires, rather than the “desires” of our oppressors.

how do you live? are you satisfied? don’t be intimidated by the advertisements telling you are happy because of god, sonicare toothbrushes, or a position at a university.

comrades, fuck shit up!

2006-03-11T18:17:00.000-08:00

start: 12:23 am
time 1:01:15

route: dodge street totonalds to dubuque to taft speedway road to last right to foster rd past gross peninsula development onto peninsula across new footbridge to first street, to irc trailhead behind jack in the box to rocky shore to park to kimbal to dodge

temp: 66
wind: calm
p’s: 0
sleep: 10 hours

2006-03-09T12:08:00.000-08:00

start: 12:43 am
time 1:10:09

route: dodge street totonalds to dubuque to taft speedway road to last right to foster rd past gross peninsula development onto peninsula across new footbridge to first street, to irc trailhead behind jack in the box to rocky shore to park to kimbal to dodge

av hr: 153 85%
max hr: 168 94%
temp:49
wind: n 8
p’s: 0
sleep:7 hours

babylon system is a vampire

2006-03-08T21:44:00.000-08:00

in his monograph on the film, joshua clover demonstrates that the matrix (1999, time warner) projects a marxist image of the world within which the dominant class extracts surplus value directly from the bare life of the oppressed.

vancouver paraphrase

2006-03-08T16:37:00.000-08:00

In biopolitical regimes, a vague and largely unthought concept of life, pricelessly outside of any economy, confers worth on all other values.

2006-03-08T16:34:00.000-08:00

start: 8:25 am
time 1:07:04

route: dodge street to brown to Dubuque to taft speedway road to last right to foster rd past gross peninsula development onto peninsula across new footbridge to first street, to irc trailhead behind jack in the box to rocky shore to park to kimbal to dodge

av hr: 159 89%
max hr 177 99%
temp:43
wind: se 7
p’s: 0
sleep:7 hours

vancouver thesis

2006-03-07T17:23:00.001-08:00

if one could ask what role the cinema has played in contemporary thought, one might discover a complex struggle over the concept “life” fought on the terrains of movies and philosophy.

2006-03-03T14:43:00.000-08:00

start: 11:12 pm
time 1:04:17

route: in vancouver for scms from the sheraton to the sea wall and along said sea wall.

high 40s
no wind

p’s: 1
sleep:8 hours

2006-03-03T02:58:00.000-08:00

2-3-06

start: 5:02 pm
time 1:04:51

route: in vancouver for scms from the sheraton to the sea wall and along said sea wall.

temp:51
wind: N 1

p’s: 2
sleep:8 hours

2006-02-27T19:44:00.000-08:00

start: 3:09 pm
time 1:13:25

route: dodge street to brown to Dubuque to taft speedway road to last right to foster rd past gross peninsula development onto peninsula across new footbridge to first street, to irc trailhead behind jack in the box to rocky shore to park to kimbal to dodge

av hr: 159 89%
max hr 177 99%
temp:51
wind: N 1
p’s: 0
sleep:8 hours

2006-02-23T10:14:00.000-08:00

start: 11:03 pm
time 1:04:44

route: dodge street to brown to Dubuque to taft speedway road to last right to foster rd past gross peninsula development onto peninsula across new footbridge to first street, to irc trailhead behind jack in the box to rocky shore to park to kimbal to dodge

av hr: 171 96%
max hr 222 124%
temp:39
wind: N w 16
p’s: 0
sleep:8 hours
pre-run intake: 3 cups coffee

2006-02-20T09:44:00.000-08:00

start: 10:35 pm
time 1:01:49

route: dodge street to brown to Dubuque to taft speedway road to last right to foster rd past gross peninsula development onto peninsula across new footbridge to first street, to irc trailhead behind jack in the box to rocky shore to park to kimbal to dodge

av hr: 160 89%
max hr 173 97%
temp: 32
wind: sw 10
p’s: 0
sleep: 5 hours
pre-run intake: 5 cups coffee

2006-02-11T17:01:00.000-08:00

start: 1:14 pm
time 1:19:24
route: dodge street to brown to Dubuque to taft speedway road to last right to foster rd past gross peninsula development onto peninsula across new footbridge to first street, to irc trailhead behind jack in the box to rocky shore to park to kimbal to dodge
temp: 39
wind: nw 10
p’s: 0
sleep: 8 hours
pre-run intake: 3 cups coffee,
hot jam: jerk out (the time)

2006-02-10T18:12:00.000-08:00

start:12:53
time: 1:22:31
route: dodge street to brown to dubuque to the iowa river corridor to napoleon park back to clinton to prentice to bowery street to governor to brown to dodge
temp: 37
wind: nw 10 mph
gray
sleep: 8 hours
pre-run intake: 3 cupsofcoffee
p’s: 0
hot jam: considering running bay to breakers

2006-02-08T17:35:00.000-08:00

start:5:50pm
6 1/2 minute mile on treadmill + 1 hour spin class