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High Fidelity failing the Bechdel test is at least half the point, whether its creators know that or not (and I think, given John Cusack’s general awesomeness and Stephen Frears’ other movies, they probably do). High Fidelity the film is about a group of self-centered, stuck manchildren. The film knows this is what they are.
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Filed by shaun at September 5th, 2008 under indifferenthonest
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Really, I don’t know what it means, but I seem to spend so much metaphor time lost at sea, in thick fog, a whirlpool, in strange waters. I’ve never been in strange waters. Aside from half a dozen trips on the ferry near Galveston and one cruise in Lake Michigan, I’ve never been in a […]
Filed by shaun at August 30th, 2008 under indifferenthonest
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Isn’t it amazing, sometimes, all of the petty things we can get annoyed by and worry about?
To limit it to kiosk foods alone, Dippin’ Dots’ mere existence annoys me. I go to the zoo, and there are Dippin’ Dots stands all over, and I think to myself, who the hell buys these? They taste like […]
Filed by shaun at August 26th, 2008 under indifferenthonest
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But what do you do when all you have is words and phrases and they don’t won’t make a narrative?
An anchor can hold you in place, but that place could be the bottom of the sea.
Murky, frayed, buoy, eddies, pressure. All my metaphors seem to be nautical, but I’ve never even been on a boat, […]
Filed by shaun at August 17th, 2008 under indifferenthonest
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This is somewhat confused from being written in several sessions. I was going to put a lot of work into editing and clarifying it, but I’m not sure it will stand up to that, so I’m going to pretend it’s just a thinking-out-loud examination of some related topics without any intended point. Like a low-rent […]
Filed by shaun at July 22nd, 2008 under indifferenthonest
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I’ve been reading a lot of Dumas lately. He wasn’t paid by the word either.
Filed by shaun at July 18th, 2008 under indifferenthonest
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Even though visual construction metaphors have mostly defined the way I (and lots of other people, possibly you) think (or at least talk, which is about the same thing for me) about writing (the dimensionality of characters, polishing prose, etc.), I think that the kinds of attention required to create a new verbal or visual/physical […]
Filed by shaun at July 18th, 2008 under indifferenthonest
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Last night I had a dream I was at a tea stand that stuck out into the main concourse of a mall. It was Japanese — not the mall, I don’t think, or the rest of the dream, just the tea stand. I was excited, since it seemed a comfortable place to practice the little […]
Filed by shaun at February 6th, 2008 under indifferenthonest
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