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This month, Mick sat down to watch the 2008 Coen brothers hit Burn After Reading. Centering around a low-level CIA agent, his poorly written memoirs, and a cast of incredibly famous people. Burn After Reading is a wonderful comedy of errors.
For more trailers: http://TheTrailerSite.com Plot: A disk containing the memoirs of a CIA agent ends up in the hands of two unscrupulous gym employees who attempt to sell it. Director: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen Cast: George Clooney, Frances McDormand, John Malkovich, Tilda Swinton, Richard Jenkins, Brad Pitt
Of course, one can't expect anything less from Joel and Ethan Coen than a tightly wound plot full of insanely talented actors. Sporting a big cast, it's difficult to say who the main character is. We first meet John Malkovich as he gets sacked from his job at the CIA. Tilda Swinton plays his ice-cold wife. George Clooney, a sex-crazed US Marshall, soon joins the mix. Brad Pitt and Frances McDormand play two gym employees trying to strike it big through any means necessary, including blackmail.
Like another Coen brother's movie, Burn After Reading also centers on a MacGuffin. Instead of a rug that really ties the room together, it's a stolen disk containing a low-level CIA agent's memoirs. It gets lost, stolen, and passed around as everyone believes that it contains sensitive government intelligence. While the disk is the main driver of the plot, the story is centered around the relationships between the many characters, as everyone is sleeping with everyone else. Especially George Clooney.
The thing that makes Burn After Reading so entertaining is that every scene is saturated with dramatic irony. We, as viewers, see two people meet and have a conversation under one pretext, but know that there are other things happening. Time and time again, the characters make mistakes and missteps, thinking they have the upper hand. Eventually, tensions reach a tipping point and everything flies completely off the rails.
The movie closes with a hilarious recap featuring J. K. Simmons as trying to make sense of everything that unfolded over the film's tight 90 minutes. Don't be fooled by the relatively short runtime, it is very dense and you'll be hanging on every line as you try to figure out where the plot is going.
Definitely give this a watch if you like your comedies with a little more substance.
You may remember seeing some of Shaunda's work from a few weeks back when Mick and Willie visited the New Haven Open Studios. Shaunda was kind enough to share more of her work here on ALSO THAT.
It’s a privilege to be an artist and a great responsibility. The materials dictate the outcome for me. Working with tactile items like wood, bogolanfini (mudcloth), linen, and other fabrics gives a unique texture and character to my prints.
As a painter wood is much more satisfying to paint on. Sometimes the grain comes through in the piece which provides excitement. As a printmaker textiles offer tremendous possibilities—every fabric has its own story to tell.
Using both oil paints and printing ink, it is my effort to express the things many wish to say: I am here, here I am, and I have been here.
-SH
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When the King of the Corgis asks for a favor, you're pretty much obligated to help.
John Bomber sat down with Mick and regaled him with stories of punk rock past and present as he goes into detail about The Anthrax, Dumpster Dive, and his current band, Sonic Supercharger 66.
JB: In the seventies, I got into all the bands that were popular like Black Sabbath, Van Halen, Ted Nugent, Led Zeppelin, of course,The Beatles, and The Grateful Dead. Towards the end of high school, I started becoming aware of different kinds of music. I used to get Cream magazine. They would have all of the heavy metal bands, but they would slip in pictures of popular punk rock bands, like the Sex Pistols and The Clash. I would always kind of gravitate toward that because it was an interesting new thing. I ended up becoming friends with these two brothers that had this idea to start this art gallery and have punk shows in the basement of this art gallery, they called it The Anthrax. They rented this storefront in this old part of Stamford and I was kind of their right-hand man in terms of helping them out and building the place up. For a year or so, they put on some really great shows and got some unbelievable bands.
JB: I got into playing because I was friends with all these people in bands. Finally, I said, “I gotta start a band.” I had fooled around with playing acoustic guitar and I would take some lessons, but I wasn't great. I still don't think I'm great, actually. But, I decided to start a band and started getting people together. The first person I found was named Jeff Coleman, and I actually still play with Jeff, he's the drummer in Sonic Supercharger 66. So, we've been playing together for well over 30 years together. Then we found some other people. We had a bass player named Brian and a guy Nick Lewis was singing, but Nick didn't last long. There were a couple of other guys at The Anthrax and I became friendly with them. One of them was named Carl, and he knew a ton about punk rock. He was friends with a guy named John and he was really into hardcore. And we all decided to start a band together and we called ourselves Seizure and that was the beginning of my band for most of the old Anthrax days.
JB: Me and my friend Jack started the zine as a way to promote our own bands at first. Then we started doing interviews with all of the bands that were playing The Anthrax. Our zine grew and we started doing reviews, too. We would send the zine out to record labels and we would get promo stuff. After a certain point, we were getting deluged with promo stuff. Even major labels would send us promo stuff. Then we started parlaying that into getting onto the guest lists for shows. And that gave us the key into the entire underground music world. We were getting on the guest list and getting into shows for free and meeting with bands for interviews. Diana, my wife, would take pictures for us and help us out with the zine. We were working day jobs, so we would use the mail room to make the zine and make hundreds of copies to give away and sell. We ended up having to get a post office box to get all the crap we got sent from all the labels all over the place. We had correspondents all over the world, but it still felt like a small thing.
JB: We interviewed all of our heroes. The stand-outs off the top of my head had to be Johnny Ramone. The record labels were weird. They didn't want us to interview Joey and I guess they were worried he would say something controversial or something. Lemmy from Motorhead was a big one too. Diana was there too. It gets me choked up. The thing about Lemmy was if you meet the guy, he was a sweetheart. And he did an interview with us and even after the interview he opened up and talked about his personal feelings.
JB: I had seen this one band called Elvis McMahon and our guitar player James was in that band. I liked them a lot, but I didn't think James was pulling it off as a solo guitar player and they needed to beef up their sound with a second guitar player. So I had this idea that me and him playing guitar together would be a pretty good thing. When they broke up and James started a new band, I asked if I could play with them. That band didn't last too long either, so I approached James and I asked if he wanted to start our own band. So we got a place in Stamford to practice and they had all kinds of equipment for us to us. It was this guy Brian and this guy Mike. Mike played guitar and decided, since we already had two guitars, that he would try playing bass. I gotta give him credit for taking that step because I don't know if I would be able to do that. We knew we needed a singer if we were gonna cut it as a band, so one of our friends hooked us up with Big Jim. So we asked him and he jumped at the chance to sing with us. Brian eventually fell on hard times and had to leave the band. So I said “lemme give my old friend Jeff a call” and Jeff came on board. So we've been playing for a while and we've got a CD out. Every month or so we play a local show. We get to play with some other really great bands around here, too, a lot of bands that I've seen for years and really respect.
JB: Just play music and do art and whatever makes you feel good. Keep that as what drives you. Always have fun. Fun is the big word. All these local bands I've been talking about, back in the day we put out an album and called it Connecticut Fun. I actually wrote a song called Connecticut Fun. I think I get it from my dad, the idea of doing something for the fun of it. Money isn't always a factor. If you want to be a musician or an artist, you might want to forget about the money thing and just let it happen. I think it makes people not as genuine if they're just shooting for the money.
Has Steve Harvey lost his soul? The Family Feud host has been having a hard time playing the game lately. His standard comedic outrage has been replaced with pure existential torture every time a contestant says something a little too hot for TV. Video by Vic Berger.
Look at his eyes. He's dead inside. There's nothing left.
For a very long time, Mick has wanted to start a podcast. Today, that dream is finally realized as he and his dear friend Jesse started Don't Watch This Shit.
The basic premise of Don't Watch This Shit is Mick and Jesse pick a movie they have never seen before and anticipate to be a pile of steamy sweaty doo-doo. They then each construct lists of things they hope and expect to happen, watch the movie, and discuss whether or not the movie met their expectations before ultimately giving the movie a rating in the form of modern hieroglyphs known as emojis. Listen to the podcast below in addition to a written version of their lists and ratings.
Based on the satanic nursery rhyme, "Hot Cross Buns".
The recorder is such an underrated instrument.
Mick had the pleasure of visiting the Yale University Art Gallery located in downtown New Haven, Connecticut. Free to the general public, this gallery is home to art ranging from classical Greek sculptures and traditional African masks to more contemporary artists like Van Gogh and Picasso. (Not surprising when you got that Yale $$$$.)
There's something for everyone in this gallery. If you're interested in Iconography, they've got a whole section of Early Christian frescos and icons. If you keep it old school with English Portraiture, they have a whole section of that for you, too, complete with creepy eyes that follow you across the room! If your tastes are more avant-garde, they've got Warhols, Basquiats, and Rothkos for your perusal.
Take a look at the photos Mick took on his little outing and stop by for a visit.
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This month's feature is the Netflix original program Easy. On first glance, it seems as though Easy is just another comedy. But do not be fooled by the trailer's upbeat music and editing. This show provides a candid and realistic examination of actual problems that people face when in relationships of all levels of commitment and complexity.
Easy is an anthology series from creator Joe Swanberg that explores diverse Chicago characters as they fumble through the modern maze of love, sex, technology and culture. The eight-episode series, written and directed by Swanberg, features Orlando Bloom, Malin Akerman, Jake Johnson, Marc Maron, Dave Franco, Hannibal Buress, Emily Ratajkowski, Michael Chernus, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Aya Cash, Jane Adams, Elizabeth Reaser, Evan Jonigkeit, Aislinn Derbez, Mauricio Ochmann and more.
Netflix has pulled out all the stops for Easy, as the lineup is chock-full of famous names. The reason they are able to load the show with so many celebrities is because each individual episode is a self-contained story of its own. However, if you pay close attention, you'll notice a continuous narrative thread spanning across these eight stories. It's not enough to bring them toward any larger point, just a little something to reward dedicated viewers for their attention.
The thing that is most striking about Easy is how accurately the relationships are depicted, especially the sex lives of the characters. They don't try to glam it up with fancy angles or romantic music. The directors work to show average, everyday sex, which can be uncomfortable if you aren't mentally prepared to see such a thing.
The relationships between the characters are emphasized to the point where they are at the center of all of the action. Many of the episodes do not have a conflict. They merely serve as character studies for when one type of person gets involved with another. The plots tend to be understated at best and nonexistent at worst, with most episodes ending as abruptly as they started. While this does break typical convention for television, it is not a bad thing at all.
The thing that makes Easy such a great show is that it depicts the mundanity of modern living without being mundane itself. It shows real relationships between people who could plausibly exist and it shows real sex without being vulgar or embarrassing.
Give this one a watch if you're in the mood for something different.
You might remember Steve Sangapore from the New Haven Open Studios. He was kind enough to share some more of his paintings here on ALSO THAT. His work is striking and surreal and usually painted on unconventional canvases and panels. It branches out across walls or bulges in three dimensions, toeing the line between painting and sculpture. The level of detail in his work is astounding and can only be fully appreciated in person.
It is the duty of the 21st century artist not to represent the world as mankind already sees it, but rather how we feel and think about it. Instead of directly representing life, it is the painter’s obligation to represent what a setting or object subjectively feels like in that moment. In the digital age of science, technology and reason, I can think of no grander creative subject than exploring the nature of reality and conscious experience. I dub my work as Sci-Surrealism; a contemporary take on the surrealist approach while fusing themes in science and philosophy. The mysterious and inherent duality between consciousness and matter is the direct subject of my latest work. Using metaphor to convey relationships between identifiable objects and forms, I illustrate a sense of universal oneness: connectivity between matter and the conscious experience in contexts of micro and macroscopic spaces. Using a hard-edged and illustrative style, these dense themes demand a disciplined technique and great attention to detail. Each painting connects the tangible impermanence of matter with transcendental, spiritual unity through shape, depth, texture and arrangement. As a result, the works will rouse the audience to unearth and illuminate mankind’s indelible state of unknowing and curiosity for what we experience as life and reality.
-SS
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Mick had the chance to sit down and speak with the eminent Indian poet T. Vasudeva (T.V.) Reddy. A retired professor of literature, T.V. Reddy is a renowned poet, novelist, and critic of literature. He is the author of 10 collections of poetry, with his most recent collection Thousand Haiku Pearls released in 2016. Read the full interview and select poems below:
Originally published in Melting Memories
Originally published in Pensive Memories
TVR: It was toward the close of my school career I began writing poetry. It was during my 10th and 11th class. We call it the SSLC- the Secondary School Learning Certificate. First I was trying to write poetry in my mother tongue, Telugu, one of the popular Indian languages. Right from the beginning I was very much interested in poetry. When my teachers were teaching poetry, I was totally absorbed into it. That's why I first started writing in Telugu, but then toward the end of my school career I started writing in English. My father was a source of inspiration for me. He was a school teacher and he taught me English. He also taught me how to write poetry. In college, I used to write poems for magazines. Once I completed my MA in English, I became a lecturer in English. For a few years, I only taught and read poetry. Later on, I began reading established Indian-English poets and felt their poetry does not convey the right spark of poetry. I thought I could write better poetry. And that was how my first book of poetry got published.
TVR: Mostly I'm inspired by rural sights and scenes and situations. The pastoral life. The country life, so to say. Because farmers and peasants are there. Their problems and afflictions are there. I'm just moved by their problems and whatever difficulty and sufferings those people are faced with, I try to paint them in the form of poems.
TVR: We can consider a poem really good when it is able to move us. You should have an appeal to the heart. Otherwise, it cannot be a great poem at all. It becomes dry, dull, matter-of-fact prose. We can call it a verse, but not a poem. Poems should appeal to us, they should appeal to the heart and not simply to the mind.
TVR: Wordsworth, Keats, Shelley, Byron, Milton. The Romantics are very good. You can consider them as classical poets. They remain as unforgettable immortal poets. One thousand years from now they will be remembered in the same way.
Originally published in Pensive Memories
TVR: Poetry is the best medium to express one's feelings and emotions. That's why we name poetry as the first and foremost literary genre in the history of an literature. Poetry has the ability to make a deep impression on the mind itself. It's not like a piece of prose. There is little durability with prose. Poetry is the expression of imagination. Of the deepest feelings of the heart. And that's why poetry has an everlasting quality.
TVR: Everyone should try to cultivate minimum ethics and morality. Everyone should be tuned in moral thinking itself. And that should be the main force behind your writing. Reasonable importance should be given to morality. Otherwise, human beings become something like robots. They become totally mechanical.
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On Sunday, October 16, Willie Scaife and I got a chance to check out some art through the City Wide Open Studios in New Haven.
There was a ton of talent filling the old New Haven Armory and it was blast to walk and talk with all of the artists in attendance.
As I visit with these artists, I asked them to choose their favorite piece of work they had on display and to give a brief statement explaining why it was their favorite. Click on the photos below to go to each artist's personal web page to see more of their work!
"There's a lot of motion and movement in it. It tells a story."
"This one makes me think of how it would feel to be on a different planet and look at the night sky."
"This started as a Christmas tree and I changed it for Halloween."
"I like the motion of it."
"This one best communicates my message."
"It's me observing her observing this landscape."
"It's dreamlike. I like the hummingbird because you don't see it right away."
"These are about how industry has changed. I'm trying to capture a lost era."
"He's got a good personality."
"I put a lot into this one."
"It's my non-verbal response to what was happening to the black community in 2014 and 2015."
"It was my first color drawing."
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Complicated Creation is a song off of Cloud Cult's 2013 album Love. It's a powerful track that focuses on coping with the pains of everyday existence. Listen to the song below and then take a look at a close read of the song's lyrics:
Track: Complicated Creation Track Number: 3 Artist: Cloud Cult Album: Love Year: 2013
I called up the moon for a little consultation.
Yes, you know that I'm a happy man, but something in me is burning.
I gotta push it, push it out, (x2)
So much frustration.
The moon called me back
And said "I'll give you some advice: You gotta live a little lighter,
You gotta breathe a little deeper
You gotta suck it, suck it in. (x2)
There's your medication."
If you pray to God for rain,
don't you complain about the lightning.
If you're asking for directions,
don't you moan about the distance.
Must you lose it, lose it all? (x2)
To find your appreciation.
If you rid of all your baggage you will likely float away.
But you can't know beauty if you don't know pain
Gotta feel it, feel it all. (x2)
There's your meditation
You know you are as small as the things you let annoy you.
And you know you are gigantic as the things that you adore.
Some days you give thanks.
Some days you give the finger.
It's a complicated creation.
The song begins with the singer addressing The Moon, which can serve as a stand in for God, The Universe, or The World. He states he's a happy man, but still feels dissatisfaction with his life and needs guidance to address his frustration.
The Moon responds to the singer's question with the advice to not take things so seriously. "Live a little lighter" and "breathe a little deeper" can be understood to mean that the singer needs exercise his patience in order to achieve any sense of peace.
The following verse can be read as a continuation of The Moon's advice, as it goes into specifics. These lines hone in on the idea that beggars can't be choosers, specifically in the context of providence. The Moon states here that if one is asking the universe for a favor, they need to be prepared to accept the bad with the good.
The fourth verse serves as a continuation of the point set down in the lines preceding it, which is that there needs to be contrast between fortune and misfortune, or "beauty..." and "pain" in order for either to exist.
The song wraps up with a haunting reminder of agency. The fact that a person is "as small as they things [they] let annoy" them illustrates that annoyance and frustration are things that people opt in to. This is to say that you can choose to not be bothered by certain things, or at least the extent to which you are bothered. On the flip side, the line of being "as gigantic as the things that you adore" is an affirmation that if a person chooses love and positivity, that is what will ultimately define them as a person. The song concludes with a reminder of how unpredictable life can be, how some days it's easy to be grateful and positive and other days there is only bitterness and negativity.
On the whole, this track is a beautiful reminder of the complexity of life and how people need patience in order to suffer through the inevitable misfortunes that ultimately make life more beautiful.
The whiskey on your breath
Could make a small boy dizzy;
But I hung on like death:
Such waltzing was not easy.
We romped until the pans
Slid from the kitchen shelf;
My mother’s countenance
Could not unfrown itself.
The hand that held my wrist
Was battered on one knuckle;
At every step you missed
My right ear scraped a buckle.
You beat time on my head
With a palm caked hard by dirt,
Then waltzed me off to bed
Still clinging to your shirt.
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