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Slavoj Žižek on WikiLeaks

Every lefty’s favorite Slovak philosopher looks into the WikiLeaks story and knocks it out of the park.

First he dissects The Dark Knight movie in a way that basically seconds the general thesis of my Wild West script about … Read more

January 14, 2011 by Fred Gooltz

Against Ambient Awareness

“Our suffering comes from the fact that we are attached to the outer form that something assumes in a given instant rather than the movable conversation that stands behind it. Keeping up with what is occurring rather than lagging and … Read more

September 6, 2010 by Fred Gooltz

“Litany” by Billy Collins

You are the bread and the knife,
the crystal goblet and the wine.
You are the dew on the morning grass
and the burning wheel of the sun.
You are the white apron of the baker,
and the marsh birds … Read more

August 26, 2010 by Fred Gooltz

When I see a bankster shilling on the teevee for his crime boss overlords’ right to break laws, I think about Robert Penn Warren’s image of the clammy, sad little fetus that cowers inside industrialists:

It was like the second … Read more

June 3, 2010 by Fred Gooltz

Performance

The 'Do It For The Fat Lady' scene from Franny & Zooey by J.D. Salinger "I'll tell you a terrible secret — Are you listening to me? There isn't anyone out there who isn't Seymour's Fat Lady. That includes your Professor Tupper, buddy. And all his goddam cousins by the dozens. There isn't anyone anywhere that isn't Seymour's Fat Lady. Don't you know that? Don't you know that goddam secret yet?" Read more

April 16, 2010November 26, 2013 by Fred Gooltz

Tim Sheridan is obsessed with Doctor Who

I used to watch this show on PBS with my big brother in the early 80s.

Tim Sheridan is obsessed with Doctor Who on itsasickness.com.

The Second Coming by W.B. Yeats

Bumped back to the top. I was trying to think of something to write about the election until I remembered that I already said what I wanted to say back in January. I’ll merely add that the number of voters … Read more

January 20, 2010 by Fred Gooltz

With Apologies to The Onion

this is something i keep wanting to quote:

Soulless Cultural Wasteland ‘On The Grow’ In Southern California Desert

Los Angeles to Be Hellish Megalopolis by 1950

LOS ANGELES, Calif. – The soulless cultural wasteland in the California desert, considered one … Read more

December 14, 2009 by Fred Gooltz

NYE 2007 In Rainbows

January 4, 2009 by Fred Gooltz

The Thicket of the Law

Something about Alberto Gonzalez and James Comey made me think of this scene from A Man for All Seasons. Who would Sir Thomas More be?

ALICE – He is! Arrest him!

MARGARET – Father, that man’s bad.

MORE – … Read more

October 29, 2008 by Fred Gooltz

Paul Newman, 1925 – 2008. My hero.

Thank you, Paul.

September 27, 2008 by Fred Gooltz

Contemplative Prison Films As Zeitgeist

Socio-political Film Studies was one of my favorite things from College. Here is the newest of my regular series.

There were so many Prison Dramas in the 70s that are of a certain similar flavor, it bears noting how and … Read more

December 13, 2006 by Fred Gooltz

The Final Shot of Three Days of the Condor – NSA Considered

In 2004 The New York Times sat on a bombshell story about George W. Bush’s warrantless NSA wiretapping until AFTER his reelection. Why? Because the criminal who was exposed in the story (President Bush) asked them not to print the … Read more

August 31, 2006November 25, 2025 by Fred Gooltz

The Final Shot of The Conversation – The Third Man considered

Strangely, it wasn’t the recent NSA ruling by a Federal Court smacking down Bush’s illegal spy ring that got me to netflix one of my old favorite Watergate-era films.

What got me going back to my favorite time in film … Read more

August 26, 2006August 11, 2016 by Fred Gooltz

Socio-Political Film Studies: America 1970s

The late 1960s was a time of radical change in the world of film. The Hollywood studio system was in decline, while the European art film movement created a new aesthetic standard for filmmaking. This industry transformation, encouraged by the … Read more

April 27, 2005March 11, 2016 by Fred Gooltz

Memory, Alienation, History

The play Mnemonic begins with a monologue about the location of memory processes in the brain and continues on to contemplate the genealogy of humankind:

“Anyway, our job, the job of remembering, is to reassemble, to literally re-member, put the … Read more

January 14, 2004 by Fred Gooltz

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