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nice folks---thanks so far.
the last few times i went to my favorite dvd place, i stood in front of a bookshelf of tv shows saying "wtf" over and over to myself--i picked out something at random--the joanna lumley series "class act"--which sucked so thoroughly that i figured this picking things at random thing was no longer viable. and as the lovely amira is enduring art school at the moment, and so finds herself in the space of Total Information Overload, having a tv show around to see can serve important therapeutic functions in slowing the information flow.
random reactions to stuff that i happen to have seen that was mentioned above:
the office (us)--i dunno. i liked the acting but didn't like the decision made going into season 2 to morph the show into a sitcom and move away from the fake-documentary framework--it seems to have lost an edge then---so i prefer the uk version. particularly the ending of it, which made me cringe (in a good way...the way bruno or borat can...btw because the borat character was able to [1] impose 10 minutes of silence on the oklahoma city council in memory of an imaginary massacre and [2] was able to create that appalling sequence around "throw the jew down the well" i have reached the conclusion that the good mr. sbc is a genius.)
i have seen a season of extras and find it really funny. ricky gervais is the shit, in the parlance of our times.
i dont know who hugh laurie is, but it sounds like i should find out. which is good. field work.
and i had forgotten about battlestar galactica.
arrested development: i love jeffrey tambour--hank (from larry sanders) was one of the great characters ever (up there with john candy's william b.)--so i watched alot of arrested development, well past the point where it seemed to jump the shark.
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there is supposed to be an hbo series that was described to me as a "shakepearean western" which i took to mean written like "my private idaho" without the dutch girl sequence (which was my favorite part of the film)--but i forgot the title--any idea?
i will write down titles in my notebook, which i carry around to fill in the holes in my memory...more recommendations?
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
-kamau brathwaite
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