December 2010
JULIA'S TOP MOVIES OF 2010
The life of a film critic (or, its less ballsy counterpart, the film student) is a hard one. Over time film critics seem to lose their ability to lose themselves in films— take the bad along with the good, the campy and ironic along with the wholeheartedly genuine. Instead, we seem to nitpick away even the best of the best. Which is why this top 10 list isn’t a top 10 list at...
“I thought about soccer in history, the inspiration for wars, truces, rampaging...”
– Don DeLillo, “Hammer and Sickle,” Harpers, Dec 2010.
“Ultimately I had to confess to myself that I do not care for these patients,...”
– Sigmund Freud on schizophrenics, quoted in Rachel Aviv, “Which Way Madness Lies: Can Psychosis Be Prevented?” Harpers, Dec 2010.
...how...?
Apparently I have seen approximately 82 **new** movies in the past year, and that’s just the ones I rated on Netflix.
“The real irony was that you never met a kid who wanted a girl so fucking bad. I...”
– Junot Diaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, 173-4
(loveloveloving this book)
10 favorite songs of 2010
10. Gogol Bordello- “Immigraniada (We Comin’ Rougher)”
9. The Books- “Cold Freezin’ Night”
8. The Black Keys- “Tighten Up”
7. Chromeo- “Don’t Turn the Lights On”
6. Vampire Weekend- “Giving Up The Gun”
5. Ke$ha- “Tik Tok”
4. Cee-Lo Green- “Fuck You”
3. The National- “Bloodbuzz...
Obsessed with this song lately.
Children are...
“Manic pixie dream girl (MPDG) is a stock character in films. Film critic Nathan...”
– Wikipedia
Welcome, all
This is my first tumblr post.
I come as a voluntary exile from the world of blogspot. In the days of old, blogspot was a idyllic Elysian Field of procrastination fodder. It cooperated with the other regimes— wordpress, livejournal, tumblr. But unfortunately, this utopian system cruelly evolved into its more terrifying dystopian incarnation, where pictures were unable to be resized, and...