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mtmurmur: June 2009
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As of February, Film Pieces will appear at murmurandshout, see link. Sunday, June 7, 2009. Chekhov and Marx: the Riddle of "A Woman's Kingdom". Many of Chekhov’s titles appear at first to highlight in a literal sense some obvious aspect of what the stories describe. Afterward, the seemingly straightforward title can be understood as a contradiction and comment on the previous understanding and its inherent assumptions, becoming the instantiation of an entirely new and different point of view. In this sen...
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mtmurmur: April 2009
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As of February, Film Pieces will appear at murmurandshout, see link. Saturday, April 11, 2009. 8220;… angels have no memory. 8221; “Margaret, he has no eyes, no eyes! 8221; “They’re closed.” “Do they have feet; do they need them; his wings don’t move; how will he get around to do his miracles? How will he know where to go if he can’t see? 8221; “Roberta, they’re angels; they just know.” “Why isn’t there a button to bring back the color? How could it never have color? 8221; "… to us there is no evil.
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mtmurmur: January 2010
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As of February, Film Pieces will appear at murmurandshout, see link. Saturday, January 30, 2010. I love the forest—the smell of eucalyptus, the sound of bird wings rustling into silence like a deck of cards shuffled in one hand, and the scattered shimmer of light: long, bright blind fingers reading their way across the moss-covered floor. She is at my side, or I at hers—either way we are together. Here I can be myself,” she calls out to me from the center of the darkness below. Her shadow rolls across th...
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mtmurmur: February 2009
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As of February, Film Pieces will appear at murmurandshout, see link. Monday, February 2, 2009. Pitch black darkness. I wake up. Vast, warm darkness. Blue tint overhead. Cellphone’s dead. Clock is broken. I simply awaken. No trill binging. No shouting buzzer. No radio rattling. A restful awakening. Eyes close again. Fingers amble closer. Sweet, soft darkness. Phone rings. (Landline still works.) Stretching into darkness. 8220;It’s Rob.”. 8220;Hmmmm.”. 8220;Meet me there.” Not a question. A Night in Chile.
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mtmurmur: January 2008
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As of February, Film Pieces will appear at murmurandshout, see link. Wednesday, January 16, 2008. Film/ Pasolini: Teorema; Porcile; Salo'. Pasolini- A Proposed Trilogy. Part One, Teorema. Cut to a contemporary documentary-style Interview in which a journalist questions the workers at an Italian factory that has just been “given” to them by the owner: Will it, by default, make them all into bourgeois capitalists? No Comment, the reply. The recollection of this prologue echoes at the end of the film cr...
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mtmurmur: A Night in Chile / Roberto Bolano
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As of February, Film Pieces will appear at murmurandshout, see link. Sunday, May 9, 2010. A Night in Chile / Roberto Bolano. For me, “A Night in Chile” is extremely resonant with Azuela’s “The Underdogs” in its overt and complex statements about a particular historical situation and its participants, real and fictional (though certainly, Borges’ “Deutsches Requiem” and Carpentier’s “The Chase” must be included). Posted by Michael Tyson Murphy. Labels: 20th century Latin American Literature.
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mtmurmur: Pedro Paramo / Juan Rulfo
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As of February, Film Pieces will appear at murmurandshout, see link. Monday, March 22, 2010. Pedro Paramo / Juan Rulfo. Notes on “Pedro Paramo”. Posted by Michael Tyson Murphy. Labels: 20th century Latin Literature. A native of southern California, Michael attended the San Francisco Art Institute and currently lives and works in New York City. View my complete profile. Venice Re-Configured, Garden. Old Cypress" digital photo collage. 20th century Latin American Literature. 20th century Latin Literature.
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mtmurmur: The Invention of Morel / Adolfo Bioy Casares
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As of February, Film Pieces will appear at murmurandshout, see link. Sunday, February 28, 2010. The Invention of Morel / Adolfo Bioy Casares. Posted by Michael Tyson Murphy. Labels: 20th century Latin American Literature. The Invention of Morel. A native of southern California, Michael attended the San Francisco Art Institute and currently lives and works in New York City. View my complete profile. Venice Re-Configured, Garden. Old Cypress" digital photo collage. 20th century Latin American Literature.
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mtmurmur: Recipes
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As of February, Film Pieces will appear at murmurandshout, see link. Saturday, January 30, 2010. Perhaps she should have been a lion-tamer, a white-collar criminal, or a card-shark in an old frontier town. A small, comfortable life in southern California had allowed her only to be bossy, and invariably correct—if not also often wrong. 8220;A million years ago, I used to cook lobsters. Finally, I couldn’t stand the noise.”. For Julie, cooking was also little more than a bothersome concept: she subsisted o...
