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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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Nice Goin’ Netflix

May 22, 2008

On Tuesday of this week, in an attempt to out-Apple Apple, Netflix announced that they are offering a $99 set-top box with the uninspired-but-functional name of “The Netflix Player”. The device, manufactured by Roku, is similar to AppleTV in that it hooks to your television and allows you to download movies and [...]

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