. One thing I learned during my lockdown Film Studies deepdive is just how subjective movies are. I know all art is subjective, but maybe film is the most because of how it’s every art form blended together and being experienced at once. Something I picked up from a Tarantino interview — that a book […]
An Autodidact Meets A Collaborative Form
July 31st, 2021 · 9 Comments · Movies
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Beat Versus Beatnik
March 3rd, 2021 · 28 Comments · Kerouac and The Beats
21st Century Beatniks versus Hieroglyphic Caricatures . There’s long been a debate about the word “beatnik” — originally coined by a sensationalist San Francisco gossip columnist in 1958, playing on the Yiddish suffix “nik” and the first Russian satellite launched in September ’57, colloquially known as “Sputnik.” Jack and Allen & company hated the word […]
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