“Lynch’s best films have a creepy mixture of privet-fenced normality and psychosexual violence. There isn’t much of either in Tillim’s photograph. Lynch must have just liked it. But then things get very Lynchian indeed.”
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How The Hell Did Ang Lee Adapt Life Of Pi?
“I thought it would be not only technically almost impossible but just the nature of the material. It should be made cheaply and it could not be. It was very hard to crack it.”
Barnes and Noble Doesn’t Sell Amazon Books, But That’s Far From Book-Banning
“The disruptors who do speak out for Ferriss won’t be risking personal harm. They won’t be standing up against free speech. Ferriss approached Amazon for a book deal and in four days, it will be published. That’s not exactly censorship.”
Is That Random, Lucky, Or Skillful?
“People often use the term luck and randomness interchangeably. I like to think of randomness operating at a system level and luck at an individual level. If I gather 100 people and ask them to call coin tosses, randomness tells me that a handful may call five correctly in a row. If you happen to be one of those five, you’re lucky.”
We Can’t Notate Away Improvisation (Why Would We Want To?)
“Playing music interpreted from even the most detail-oriented notation includes elements of improvisation (especially when sight reading). So improvisation is ubiquitous; it always comes down to a matter of degree.”
Rejoice, And Prepare To Tremble: Early Hitchcock Work Is Streaming
“The footage is believed to be the earliest surviving work credited to Hitchcock, as well as the earliest surviving production the filmmaker worked on with Alma Reville, whom he married in 1926.”
No, We’re Not Getting Hoverboards
Not ever going to happen. And here’s why.
Have You Always Wanted To Adopt A Milanese Gargoyle?
Well, lucky you! Now you can do just that (and help restore a cathedral in the process).
This Is Your Brain On Spiritual Channeling
“Each medium entered a trance state and began writing. After 10 minutes, the scientists injected them with a radioactive tracer that traveled to the brain, where it essentially got locked in place, reflecting how blood was flowing to various parts of the brain at the moment of injection.”
At Long Last, A Post-Sandy Closing Weekend
The Kitchen is still storm-ravaged (even its phones don’t work), but the theatre will produce a final closing weekend for Richard Maxwell’s Neutral Hero, which was up when Hurricane Sandy hit.