Anyone who likes to read must have read Catcher in the Rye – and loved it. Continue reading
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A Bad Case of the Holden Caulfields
Posted in Reading, Real Men with tags Allie, Bastille, Catcher in the Rye, David Copperfield, Dawn of the Dead, I Am Legend, OCD, Pompeii, Robert Neville, Robinson Crusoe on May 15, 2014 by Jarrod Boyle
Drag-Racing in the Desert of the Real
Posted in Film, Observation, Pretensions toward cultural theory, Reading with tags Baudrillard, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Cambodia, concentration camp, Dawn of the Dead, Dexter, George A Romero, Germaine Greer, Irreversible, Killer Joe, Matthew McConaughey, Naomi Wolf, Raders of the Lost Ark, Salo, Sam Peckinpah, Sergei Eisenstein, Straw Dogs, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The American Nightmare, The Exorcist, The Wild Bunch, Tobe Hooper, Tom Savini, Walking Dead, Wes Craven, Wliiam Freidkin on March 17, 2013 by Jarrod Boyle
I had an argument with some friends of mine recently about Dexter. Personally, I think that is a show for which the script is a poorly-written pretext for the violence. Continue reading
Theme Park at its Darkest 