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ny times review of the early show!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

great line from it:
The first thing that strikes you in the work - Hunter plays three-minute clips from all the videos on a large screen; you can then choose what you want to watch on a monitor - is that people are having fun with art, fooling around, doing stand-up comedy, banging the camera ( Read more... )

does this article mean if you don't have a social networking profile, you don't exist?

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summer (post may 16) reading list:
woman on the edge of time by marge piercy
play it as it lays by joan didion
one place after another by miwon kwon
harriet the spy by louise fitzhugh
pastoralia and in persuasion nation by george saunders ( Read more... )

finally watched a decent copy of this, verdict: early pacino + "drug" movie + joan didion + sleazy nyc = best.


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joan didion and w.s. merwin are speaking this friday at the grad center for free. i haven't been there since my summer of hell last year, when for 3 days a week/3 hours a day, i practiced german with several other very unhappy people. the general temperament of 34th street combined with difficult german classes was really trying, but i'm willing to ( Read more... )

happiness is a clean apartment, trader joe's groceries, and pussy willows.

another recommendation:


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so if the american equivalent to this director is mike mills, japan wins. this is hands-down the best first movie i've ever seen. i want to move to the house in the woods in it as soon as possible. highly recommended!


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anton and annick herbert, i love you.
and
i can't wait.

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