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war cinema
Despite the insane workload I do love my current situation. The best thing is that I have an excellent excuse to watch movies. The worst part is that I have to watch movies. Particularly war movies. And if you’ve suspected that there are a lot of bad war films out there then I can assure you that this suspicion is correct ( Read more... ) -
Royal cartography
It's possible its all the work but several things have amused me greatly recently:
1. The Norwegian royals. They used to be boring and rather predicable, and the most exciting thing that happened was that stuff like Old King Olav taking the tram during the 1970's petrol crisis, so that he could go skiing. ( Olav on tram ) -
Films people, films
I’ve watched a ton of films lately, but I haven’t posted about any of them - and I’ve pondered a bit why that is. Today, after finishing a far too thick and comprehensive anthology about film criticism I struck upon a possible answer. It’s all the film theories fault.
For instance this is what one theorist said in regards to romantic films (or ( Read more... ) -
Hoffspace
The net is a beautiful thing. It brings people together. It presents us with such wonderful opportunities.
First of, the House of Lords are blogging: Lords of the Blog They should get some sort of prize for the name at least.
Secondly David Hasslehoff has created Hoffspace (also a prize for that name I think.), which is nothing less than David ( Read more... ) -
Mad Men and Generation Kill
So, lack of inventive titles aside, I've finally had time to watch some tv - and thankfully the series available have been great.
Mad Men
This is odd, but I’m four episodes in and I’m not yet sure if I actually like Mad Men. Fascinated, yes definitely - but like it? I don’t know. What I do know is that I keep wanting to see more episodes, which ( Read more... ) -
While you wait
In 1928 there was a huge fair in this city, and part of the attractions of this fair was a photograph stand. It was called Pictures while you wait, and was literary that. In its time it was cutting edge technology, and people flocked to have their photos taken - and took the images home with them ( Read more... )
