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Friday, June 7, 2013

Stuff I Wrote This Week

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Thursday, May 30, 2013

Weekly Round-up of Material I Wrote on a Professional-Type Basis

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Thursday, May 23, 2013

Weekly Round-up of Material I Wrote on a Professional-Type Basis

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Also catch Sean Burns on Epic, Gary M. Kramer on Scatter My Ashes at Bergdorf’s and Craig D. Lindsey on The English Teacher.

Also, forgot to do this last week. So here it is:

  • Noah Baumbach and Greta Gerwig’s Frances Ha
  • The seizure film Augustine
  • Katie Aselton and Mark Duplass’ indie horror-thriller Black Rock
  • Kim Ki-duk’s ugh Pieta
  • Aaron Eckhart and Liana Liberto are quite good in Erased

And read Sean Burns not like Star Trek Into Darkness.

Thursday, May 9, 2013

Weekly Round-up of Material I Wrote on a Professional-Type Basis

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Reviews

Interviews/Miscellany:

Also, check out Vadim Rizov on Peeples.

Friday, May 3, 2013
So, yeah, my comically old bike: 1990ish-2013. Got it when I was 12 or so, and dug it out of mothballs in 2007, after which I used it almost every day. I can’t even guess how many (thousands of?) miles I got out of it, but I used to bike to work with it, 8+ miles each way, back in Philly. It went on the Schuylkill river trail on numerous occasions, sometimes 25 miles each way to questionable suburban eateries. It was with me on drunk rides, like that one time, when I was slightly more foolish than I am now, when I rode it from Kensington to Roosevelt Blvd in the middle of the night without realizing I was going entirely the wrong way. I never much cared that it didn’t fit me, nor that I looked vaguely unappealing riding it. Trying not to guesstimate how much money I put into it in repairs, but by the end the only thing that hadn’t been replaced was the frame itself, which I just assumed would live into eternity. It didn’t. A nice crack finally formed at the rear tire hub, making it, after all these years, unsafe to ride. Sorry that a cartoonishly snooty bike shop repair dude had to do the final diagnosis — but then I have the amusingly awkward voicemail from said snooty bike shop repair guy, who obviously had no clue how to break the news to a stranger that his bike was totally dead. Anyway, end of an era, it’s been a blast and you’ve been replaced with a bike not originally intended for a growing boy. May it, too, last longer than some pets. (Yes, I eulogized a non-living object made of gears and grease.)

So, yeah, my comically old bike: 1990ish-2013. Got it when I was 12 or so, and dug it out of mothballs in 2007, after which I used it almost every day. I can’t even guess how many (thousands of?) miles I got out of it, but I used to bike to work with it, 8+ miles each way, back in Philly. It went on the Schuylkill river trail on numerous occasions, sometimes 25 miles each way to questionable suburban eateries. It was with me on drunk rides, like that one time, when I was slightly more foolish than I am now, when I rode it from Kensington to Roosevelt Blvd in the middle of the night without realizing I was going entirely the wrong way. I never much cared that it didn’t fit me, nor that I looked vaguely unappealing riding it. Trying not to guesstimate how much money I put into it in repairs, but by the end the only thing that hadn’t been replaced was the frame itself, which I just assumed would live into eternity. It didn’t. A nice crack finally formed at the rear tire hub, making it, after all these years, unsafe to ride. Sorry that a cartoonishly snooty bike shop repair dude had to do the final diagnosis — but then I have the amusingly awkward voicemail from said snooty bike shop repair guy, who obviously had no clue how to break the news to a stranger that his bike was totally dead. Anyway, end of an era, it’s been a blast and you’ve been replaced with a bike not originally intended for a growing boy. May it, too, last longer than some pets. (Yes, I eulogized a non-living object made of gears and grease.)

Weekly Round-up of Stuff I Wrote on a Professional-type Basis

Friday, April 26, 2013

Weekly Round-Up of All the Many Things I Wrote This Week Professionally

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Interviews

Tribeca Coverage

And check out my old Philadelphia Weekly comrade Sean Burns tearing apart Michael Bay’s Pain & Gain and Gary M. Kramer on No Place on Earth.

Friday, April 19, 2013

Weekly Round-Up of Professional-Style Writing I Wrote on a Professional-Like Basis

Friday, April 12, 2013

Weekly Round-Up of Shit I Wrote on a Professional Basis

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  • A rave of Terrence Malick’s To the Wonder sorry haters
  • Review of the Jackie Robinson picture 42
  • Review of Ken Loach’s The Angels’ Share
  • Review of the indie apocalyptic comedy It’s a Disaster
  • A “Repertory Round-Up” for NYC this weekend, including Medieval films at Anthology, 1957 ‘scope eyesores at Film Forum and rare Max Ophüls and Julien Duvivier films at MoMA
  • A piece on Philadelphia’s XPN Music Film Festival, which touts movies about the Flaming Lips, back-up singers, the Beatles’ secretary and Aimee Mann acting

Also be sure to check out Vadim Rizov on Disconnect.

Friday, April 5, 2013

Weekly Round-up of Writings I Wrote on a Professional Writing Basis

On the extreme off-chance that you’re wondering why I’m not playing much with this Tumblr anymore, it’s because I have a real person’s full-time job on top of a real student’s full-time workload. The fruits of the former, from the last week, can be found below:

Also check Vadim Rizov on Jurassic Park 3-D.

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