Wednesday, January 25, 2012
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
The Sanducky Mall and my dreams of monsters
I returned to the center of the universe last week-The Sandusky Mall. Large malls were a novel phenomena in the heartland of the 1970s. These local edifices were both brothels, where the sins of lust and conspicuous consumption were fanned to fever pitch, and cathedrals that provided expiation and atonement. This was an irresistible, sensual experience a dissatisfied, alienated teenager. I devoted countless hours to searching behind the mall's garish facades, prowling its promenades, perusing the emporiums and boutique,s and spending my quarters in the meretricious arcade, hoping to find that one thing that would bring gratification.
Hardcore, Paul Schrader (1979)
Paul Schrader's Hardcore, 1979, is a dark, postlapsarian fable showing America's rapid and irresistible decline into debauchery and decadence. As the family of staunchly religious busnessman Jake VanDorn unravels, the forces of darkness move in to entice his teen-age daughter into their subterranean culture.
Tuesday, January 3, 2012
Happy New Year-ish
WIWLN is going on hiatus. Writing this blog i one of m y favorite things to do, but I have a couple of time crunches that are interfering with my watching movies and writing times. It is sad that this is happening now because there are lots of cool things that I want to see and write, especially now that so many of my favorite blogs are putting up their end of the year lists.
We are stuck between housing right now; we have one house that we can't move into and one house that we have to vacate very soon. This little apartment is already crammed full of moving boxes, but no definite date when the bank will let us move into the new place. The present delay has to do with Bank of America LOSING some of the paperwork. I won't bore you with the details, most of which I don't understand myself.
And also, my grand daughter is visiting us now. She is a riot, but exhausting too. Here is a video of the little angel, asleep in the car on the way home from the beach we went to on New Years Day.
We are stuck between housing right now; we have one house that we can't move into and one house that we have to vacate very soon. This little apartment is already crammed full of moving boxes, but no definite date when the bank will let us move into the new place. The present delay has to do with Bank of America LOSING some of the paperwork. I won't bore you with the details, most of which I don't understand myself.
And also, my grand daughter is visiting us now. She is a riot, but exhausting too. Here is a video of the little angel, asleep in the car on the way home from the beach we went to on New Years Day.
Anyway, I hope I can get back to the blog soon.
Sunday, December 18, 2011
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (Guy Ritchie, 2011)
That pretty much describes my reaction to Guy Ritchie's latest film, the sequel to 2009's Sherlock Holmes. Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law are re-united as Holmes and Watson, Aurther Conan Doyle's Victorian crime stopping odd-couple.
Friday, December 16, 2011
Neat Neat Neat
Monday, December 12, 2011
More from Beyond the Valley of the Dolls
The Rock and Roll stylings of The Carrie Nations from Beyond the Valley of the Dolls.
Sunday, December 11, 2011
Thirsty for Love-Sex and Murder Online!
I wrote about Thirsty for Love-Sex and Murder ( in its native tongue, Aska Susayanlar) before (read about it here). It is available at Google Video. Loads of fun and only an hour long, I highly recommend it. Subtitled.
Saturday, December 10, 2011
The Commune (Elisabeth Fies, 2009)
Despite a shocking opening that turns Sophocles on his head, 2009's The Commune quickly turns itself into a family melodrama that seems too familiar, but is also too alluring to dismiss. Spotlighting pretty, blonde Jenny (Chauntal Lewis), an adolescent in full "You just don't understand" mode who doesn't want to spend her 16th birthday away from her best buds. Mom (played by writer-director Elisabeth Fies) has had enough of her daughter's hormonally charged, emotional hemorrhaging and needs some time to herself. So off Jenny goes, to visit her visit her estranged father at his commune in the mountains.
Saturday, December 3, 2011
Sometimes my mind wanders
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