Archive for the 'Movies' Category


Nomadland

Streaming TV could save independent cinema. Assuming purveyors decided to go directly to the platforms and outlets paid for exhibition. The indie movie model is broken. You make a film, tour it to film festivals for years trying to build buzz so that a distributor will purchase the rights so they can exhibit it in […]

The Rock Camp Movie

https://www.rockcampthemovie.com I couldn’t turn it off. Rock and roll is a religion. It’ not taken seriously, but to a certain segment of society, it’s everything. We’re not talking about people who go to the show to hear the hits, we’re talking about people who know all the album tracks, who don’t talk during the show […]

Homeland Elegies

https://amzn.to/3n46JHX 1 This is the best book of the year. But it’s not that easy to read. Readability. It’s the number one criterion for a good book. Oftentimes that which is lauded is all about style, plot is secondary, it’s like the self-congratulatory publishing industry, and the graduates of the writing factories, can only anoint […]

The Bee Gees Documentary

https://spoti.fi/37hz74o 1 I tried to see every movie. There was a time when I went every night of the week. I think the most I’ve seen in a day is four, I liked slipping into an alternative universe where I was accepted, into story, back when movies were movies, if you know what I mean. […]