Komikwerks.com is a web comics site that has been successful enough to launch a print anthology. A wide range of comics well worth a look for comics fans the world over.
I saw this show a few years ago (Wang Center, Boston), and it is definitely worth seeing. The
print of the film was a little dirty, but overall the experience reminded me of the magic I felt when I first saw the film. Thanks, Brad!
My first experience seeing Koyaanisqatsi was on opening night in 1982, with no idea what to expect. I got tickets to a sneak preview from the college radio station--about the only benefit of all the time I put in there. The film was showing at the glorious Uptown theater in Washington, DC, which I think is still the best screen in town.
The film completely blew my college freshman mind--one of the most powerful movie experiences of my life.
A good friend recently gave me a copy of Baraka on DVD, which is also a great movie. At my friend's insistence, I watched it with my children (7 and 9). We had to pause the
movie about a dozen times because the conversations initiated by the film were quite interesting. Thanks, Sean!
I recommend watching all these movies with your children. Ask them (don't tell them) what they see and what it means. They sure won't learn critical thinking from Nickelodeon.
Brian
"It" according to Peter Gabriel
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What is 'IT'?
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When its cold, it come slow
it is warm, just watch it grow
- all around me
it is here. it is now.
Just a little bit of it can bring you up or down.
Like the supper it is cooking in your hometown.
it is chicken, it is eggs,
it is in between your legs.
it is walking on the moon,
leaving your cocoon.
it is the jigsaw. it is purple haze.
it never stays in one place, but it's not a passing phase,
it is in the singles bar, in the distance of the face
it is in between the cages, it is always in a space
it is here. it is now.
Any rock can be made to roll
If you've enough of it to pay the toll
it has no home in words or goal
Not even in your favourite hole
it is the hope for the dope
Who rides the horse without a hoof
it is shaken not stirred;
Cocktails on the roof.
When you eat right fru it you see everything alive
it is inside spirit, with enough grit to survive
If you think that its pretentious, you've been taken for a ride.
Look across the mirror sonny, before you choose de cide
it is here. it is now
it is Real. it is Rael
'cos it's only knock and knowall, but I like it...
Peter Gabriel / The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway / 1974
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Komikwerks.com is a web comics site that has been successful enough to launch a print anthology. A wide range of comics well worth a look for comics fans the world over.
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My first experience seeing Koyaanisqatsi was on opening night in 1982, with no idea what to expect. I got tickets to a sneak preview from the college radio station--about the only benefit of all the time I put in there. The film was showing at the glorious Uptown theater in Washington, DC, which I think is still the best screen in town.
The film completely blew my college freshman mind--one of the most powerful movie experiences of my life.
A good friend recently gave me a copy of Baraka on DVD, which is also a great movie. At my friend's insistence, I watched it with my children (7 and 9). We had to pause the movie about a dozen times because the conversations initiated by the film were quite interesting. Thanks, Sean!
I recommend watching all these movies with your children. Ask them (don't tell them) what they see and what it means. They sure won't learn critical thinking from Nickelodeon. Brian
Peter Gabriel / The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway / 1974
Here's a link with more speculation on who Dr. Strangelove might have been, from the
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