Category Archives: Artsy-Fartsy Culture Stuff

Nineteen Eighty-Four

Posted on July 16, 2011 by Sabina Becker

Courtesy of Roger Ebert, a gem from the past. The BBC’s original adaptation of George Orwell’s classic novel. Enjoy!

The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test

Posted on July 3, 2011 by Sabina Becker

A Canadian documentary that starts with the CIA’s failed, lame attempt to develop LSD as a truth serum/mind-control agent. Instead, it became the catalyst for thousands of old beatniks and young hippies, formerly staid scientists and political activists to all … Continue reading →

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Looking for something to do tonight?

Posted on June 17, 2011 by Sabina Becker

Broadway: It’s not just for gays anymore! (And look! Doogie Howser can SING! And so can Stephen Colbert and Brooke Shields!)

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Some beautiful bedtime reading for all you parents out there

Posted on June 15, 2011 by Sabina Becker

And I think you’ll agree that they picked the perfect narrator: Well played, sir.

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“Don’t keep looking for your brother, they threw him from a helicopter”

Posted on June 13, 2011 by Sabina Becker

Pura Soto Rojas points to a headline: “SHOT”. It refers to the deaths, by secret firing squad, of leftist guerrillas during the “democratic” years of the Fourth Republic. Years which were not so democratic in fact, as the tragic story … Continue reading →

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Music for a Sunday: Might be a brave new world…

Posted on June 12, 2011 by Sabina Becker

…but it’s really not my home: For me, this is the song that started a lot: my love for the music (and social justice activism) of Tom Cochrane, and oh yeah: my interest in Neruda, for whom the album that … Continue reading →

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Quotable: Irving Layton on Canadian poets

Posted on May 28, 2011 by Sabina Becker

“In this country the poet has always had to fight for his survival. He lives in a middle-class milieu whose values of money-getting, respectability, and success are hostile to the kind of integrity and authenticity that is at the core … Continue reading →

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Kurt Vonnegut dissects storylines

Posted on May 27, 2011 by Sabina Becker

One of my all-time favorite authors, the late (and sorely missed!) Kurt Vonnegut, whips out the chalk to show us just how simple (or not!) a basic plotline can be: Of course, his own novels tend to be a lot … Continue reading →

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Valley of the Wolves: Palestine

Posted on May 22, 2011 by Sabina Becker

A Turkish action film with English subtitles. According to the description on the We Are All Vittorio Arrigoni Facebook page, it is “about a Turkish commando team which goes to Palestine to track down the Israeli military commander responsible for … Continue reading →

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Mario Vargas Llosa, concern troll

Posted on April 28, 2011 by Sabina Becker

Ye Gods. Just when you thought he couldn’t get more repugnant, crabby, fuddy-duddy or racist, Peru’s most tragic export to the First World has piped up again…and surpassed himself in a show of sheer subhuman backwardness that makes me want … Continue reading →