This was so fucking fun to read... I gotta say I think the heart of this conversation is super important to me (the zombie like nature of most cultural and asthetic criticism, i.e. why Tarantino's book would be addicting by deviating from that formula. [haven't read it yet]). I love that this post iself actually expresses the life and vitality that so is exciting to me and that I so rarely encounter..
Have you read Denis Johnson's novel The Resuscitation of Hanged Man? I ask because it takes place mostly in Cape Cod (a place I've never been i live in Montana!) and while it has its flaws I think it is pretty great novel. Also... Curious about your thoughts on Porcile/Pigsty!? Maybe you've written about it before. It's one of my favorite films. I love your dialogue with Emmalea about 70's films... For me Salo is almost in a class of it's own for that era... I think kind of hovers over everything else as a cinematic masterpiece. Texas Chainsaw is probably close behind though. But Salo is like an impossibility, it rips through the fabric of social reality. It is not at all just about it's transgressive imagery and conceps, it is truly a work of poetic genius and style. I absolutely love pasolini's poetry... 'Lament of the excator'. i am really excited to have discovered your blog. I've seen your writing before but i have not read some of the pieces here and what I've read so far is incandescent.
This was so fucking fun to read... I gotta say I think the heart of this conversation is super important to me (the zombie like nature of most cultural and asthetic criticism, i.e. why Tarantino's book would be addicting by deviating from that formula. [haven't read it yet]). I love that this post iself actually expresses the life and vitality that so is exciting to me and that I so rarely encounter..
Have you read Denis Johnson's novel The Resuscitation of Hanged Man? I ask because it takes place mostly in Cape Cod (a place I've never been i live in Montana!) and while it has its flaws I think it is pretty great novel. Also... Curious about your thoughts on Porcile/Pigsty!? Maybe you've written about it before. It's one of my favorite films. I love your dialogue with Emmalea about 70's films... For me Salo is almost in a class of it's own for that era... I think kind of hovers over everything else as a cinematic masterpiece. Texas Chainsaw is probably close behind though. But Salo is like an impossibility, it rips through the fabric of social reality. It is not at all just about it's transgressive imagery and conceps, it is truly a work of poetic genius and style. I absolutely love pasolini's poetry... 'Lament of the excator'. i am really excited to have discovered your blog. I've seen your writing before but i have not read some of the pieces here and what I've read so far is incandescent.