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Jordan said:
i didn't appreciate the fim, because i appreciated the novel, which, from what i've read of the film's director in the past, she did not. why make a film based on a novel you don't respect? it won't come out as anything but crap 
It appears you didn't read the interview either. Otherwise, you might have stumbled across this little gem:
I read the book in 1992 when it came out in England where I was living at the time and I felt that it had been very misunderstood. It had a lot of interesting things in it and it was very funny and it didnt deserve this terrible reputation it had. I felt that a lot of people who had attacked the book never read it. I didnt read it and think oh God make a movie out of this. I just really liked it.
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The work"American Psycho" in any form is simply pornography in its worst sense. When will this country get over its Puritan heritage enough to realize that sex is not obscene - VIOLENCE is?
Graphic descriptions of skinning a human being alive - Art? You can self-diagnose whether you have any grounding in reality left at all by answering that question. Camus did not just mean we should not literally "side with the executioners" - we should not in any way glorify or validate them, either.
Any creative effort that incorporates such material is morally, aesthetically, and humanly bankrupt. Any "artist" who needs to include such material to make a creation "work" should try to find another line of endeavor. Of course, I do not believe in banning such things - just shunning them.
Violence is part of life, but like other forms of evil, is BANAL. The Greeks understood this well, and had the violence and gore happen OFFSTAGE, so as not to distract from the point of the story. Too often in Hollywood and elsewhere these days, violence and gore ARE the point of the story. THAT is obscenity.
Hunh, that sounds oddly like the criticism levelled at the movie by people who haven't read the book... 'Cause if you'd read and really understood the book you'd see that it's not about violence for the sake of violence at all. Not to say that reading it didn't make me feel well, uneasy, at times. It did, that's exactly why it was used as it was. Read the book, then feel free to come back and lecture us about the pornography of violence.
Thanks.
Check out the official site for Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks
Daniel Robert Epstein: Hey Steve, how are you doing?
Stephen Malkmus: Good. Where are you?
DRE: Im in Manhattan.
Whats going on today?...
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kubrick5 said:
I never heard of the band Pavement until two days ago when I was reading about Isaac Brock (lead singer of Modest Mouse). He was talking about CDs that changed his life, one of them was a Pavement CD. I checked it out after reading about it. I liked what I heard soundclips. Plan on getting the CD sometime.
Awesome 
I grew up listening to Pavement, so I'm biased, but the first three full length lps are essential.
mr_gosh said:
Awesome I grew up listening to Pavement, so I'm biased, but the first three full length lps are essential.
Agreed, though all the LPs are worth getting. I have been recollecting the LPs with the 10 year re-issues of Slanted and Enchanted, and Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain. Though i do still have my originals.
Now all we need is an interview with Preston School of Industry.
Check out official site for Citizen Cope
Daniel Robert Epstein: What inspired The Clarence Greenwood Recordings?
Citizen Cope: I just wanted to make a record that I followed my first instincts on. Im just inspired by life, people...
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Buy Best Lesbian Erotica
Daniel Robert Epstein: How did you first get involved with Best Lesbian Erotica in the first place?...
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Check out the official website for The Randies
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Megan McCarter: Actually I just got...
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Big ol' gradual worse, rather then bigger, greater, omfg.
Blow my mind Chuck, don't appeal to my sensibilities.
You've got the ability to go all Doestovesky on me, fucking do it damn it.
Also: he won't personalize library books. I tried, and it didn't look like he appreciated it..
I was never a hey sign this.. proof that i've encountered someone important to me kinda guy.
Just a nice signature and a couple of stamps.. sitting in the local book hole.
I just joined up with www.chuckpalahniuk.net for his instructional essays and I'm finding them helpful.
Anyway, what's this "coming out of the closet" business? Was he exposed as gay? I missed something. If somebody wrote a piece on that and it wasn't Chuck, that's a real assholish thing to do.
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Keep it surREAL,
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Get The Angels of Light Sing Other People
Daniel Robert Epstein: How long have you been working on the new album?
Michael Gira:...
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Both Michael and Jarboe are very personable and approachable despite a worshipful fan base of geeks like me. Everything I've ordered off the Youg God site has arrived to me signed in silvery marker in an envelope clearly stuffed and mailed by them. They are totally self-produced and independent, undertaking a rather demanding task.
What's interesting to observe with these people's work is the difference in sound from one recording to the next. You'll get an album like Filth and compare it to something like the Burning World, and you'll swear this can't be the same band. Towards the end of Swans, with the Great Anhihlilator and Soundtracks For the Blind, the styles from the earlier years and later fused together in a style of art music both challenging and dangerous. A more mellowed out style was certainly welcome.
Angels is a project entirely different from anything Swans ever did. You can find similarities to stuff on White Light and Love of Life, but it's far more blues rock oriented... in many places even country-sounding. The performances are everything you'd want from a Swans show without going deaf for a week from blugeoning bass and brutal noise samples...
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might seem nit-picky of me to say this and i do not pretend to know this woman or her philosophy/ etc.
but the general gist is once an alcoholic, always an alcoholic. and that you're never, really "cured."
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Sean's mother [one of the thinly veiled characters in Armistead Maupin's bestselling Tales of the City] is a 1980s society-page staple, regularly entertaining movie stars in her penthouse. But when Sean turns nine years old, his father...
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A really interesting interview.