From the monthly archives:

January 2009

Irreversible Thriller

January 22, 2009
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On New Year’s Eve this year, I got into a heated discussion about the film Requium for a Dream. The guy I was talking to was a 20-something privileged kid who works at an opera company, and asserted that the film had absolutely no artistic merit simply because it “manipulated” him and made him feel “horrible”. I argued that maybe that’s exactly WHY it has merit, but he was stating his opinion as obvious artistic FACT.

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Angry Bob with Rick Sanchez on CNN

January 11, 2009
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I always love it when I see art stars break beyond the walls of Bowery Poetry Club and other downtown art holes and into the world at large.  Recently, perennial LES ranter Angry Bob has been making talking head appearances performing “political satire” on CNN with Newsroom anchor Rick Sanchez.   In the first (from Friday [...]

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Reviv

January 10, 2009

I am resurrecting inc.ongruo.us.  I woke up one day last month – just before Christmas when I had no work or school and found myself with a little time to realize things – and remembered that I had left various abandoned blogs carelessly strewn about the internet.  When I left Oxygen in summer of ‘07 [...]

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