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Joan Didion is a writer of stunning quality and heart breaking clarity. The Year of Magical Thinking is a novel about her dealings with the (sudden) death of her husband of forty years, John Dunne. It is a book about mortality and the inevitability of it happening to us all; and despite knowing this, our refusal and inability to accept it.
Read more, nephew.
Last night, I went to a screening of Banksy’s first film, Exit Through The Gift Shop. It was the talk of Sundance—the premier film of the festival. It was originally a documentary about street art but it became so much more. To even call it Banksy’s film is debatable, though he does have a huge part in turning it into what it is. I suppose in that way, that it mirrors much of Banksy’s art anyways—taking something and completely flipping it on its head.
I finally got around to watching Moon last night. It’s gotten pretty great reviews ever since it premiered at Sundance last year, and I was really excited about it when I saw the original trailer, (not to mention that the poster is amazing), but it just ended up being one of those things that just slipped through the cracks. I’m very busy, you see. Photoshopping captions onto cat pictures takes up a great deal of my time.
Last night, I went to James Cameron’s newest, most spell-binding, dynamic, change-the-world-and-alter-reality film, Avatar. I had been hearing about the movie for quite some time—about how it was going to change film making, the production costs, etc. Then I saw the trailer. Much to my chagrin, it looked like a video game. Cats mixed with Blue Man Group mixed with the Star Wars prequels. I figured I’d see it, but I wasn’t excited about it. When early reviews came in praising the film, I was a bit surprised. You mean the movie with the ten-foot smurfs that live in Fraggle Rock? That movie’s good? Either way, I went into the movie with reigned in hopes of it being good and at the least being able to just have great eye candy for my seventh grade inner self. Plus I was going to it in 3D. Maybe a fireball will fly at my face!
Clipse are my favorite hip hop group. The Virginia Beach duo just know how to do it. That being said, I was crazy excited for their latest, Til The Casket Drops, to… well… drop. It had been three long years since their last album.
