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This is the best Taxi video

Didn't see a thread on this, so... Let's talk about some of your favorite Magical Realism or Weird fiction stories or writers or both. I'll talk about why I love these genres to start this thread off l LOVE the idea the weird, the unknown, of the unreality that sometimes enters our lives in inexplicable ways that can change us; sometimes we're conscious of these weird or magical encounters and at other times, we're not. I'd like to think there's this veil in our reality, that there's something more underneath, that we gain small peaks at times. I think that's just amazing to think about; there's something erotic, undefinable, grotesque about it, and the atmosphere it creates and the thrill which surrounds it. There's also something infinitely sad about it because we might never be privy to what is ultimately behind that veil. For those confused about what is weird, Thomas Ligotti does a nice job dividing the two (I think). http://weirdfictionreview.com/2011/11/exclusive-interview-thomas-ligotti-on-weird-fiction Jeff Vandermeer--Weird fiction writer/editor and one part of the Weird Fiction Review--wrote for the Atlantic about the power and attraction of the Weird: http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2014/10/uncanny-fiction-beautiful-and-bizarre/381794/ And for interested in Magical Realism, let me post SickNotes's comment from the Twin Peaks Episode 3 thread; SickNotes does a good job summarizing magical realism:

And Bush dodges everything

Disagree completely!

Whiplash aside, the best podcast on film turned 100!!!! http://www.factualopinion.com/the_factual_opinion/2015/01/100-kazoos.html

There's a good amount of people around me. Hah

Wakka wakka wakka!

My 2 cents on the matter: The only thing I really hate about weed: Weed culture. I hate it as much as I hate wine culture.

Well, hopefully by April or Summer, my girlfriend and I are going to be moving in together.

Beautiful book. What I first thought was a before, during and after of the Death Railway shifted into a love novel that explored love in all it's infinite forms. Love is the glue that holds the story together. It's the various loves holds and help the POWs in the Japanese death railway; it's also a love that destroys our main character: because he such a creature of love. Flanagan is an amazing writer of love, especially in the first part of the book when our main protagonist falls in love. There's no unnecessary adverbs and adjectives, no baroque descriptions of falling in love, no purple prose: it's straightforward, but open to our experiences. It's hard for me to describe how much that part of the book affected me. I think because I was also falling in love--now in love--with my girlfriend and reading that matched what I was going to. Narrow also explores the cosmic damages that occur from such illogical things like the death railway; how those cosmic damages settles on the characters after the death railway and how those damages transfers to their children, and society as a whole.The madness that seeps into the characters, the tragic but ultimately useless and pathetic deaths that happen to them. There are other things Narrows explores, but I'll let that up for you to discover, if you want to read it. Also, Ferrante is one of the best writers. Shitty how she has to deal with the sexism in Italy.

Started writing again for my comic blog: http://the9thblog.blogspot.com/2015/01/eel-mansions-derek-van-gieson.html http://the9thblog.blogspot.com/2015/01/gliding-through-past-and-future-and.html Going to do Gilbert's Bumperhead and Urawasa's Pluot

Since I've arrived in Cincinnati, I've been sick. I've been fighting a terrible sinus infection for almost a week now and had to go to Walgreens, pay some mula (89 for visit, 59 for pills) to see a doctor and get some antibiotics. Things are getting better, but what a somewhat shitty first week in cinny. Oh well.

Ha, I see those dudes at the coffee shop I go to regularly.

Whiplash is fucking great.Funny, tho they both have amazing soundtracks, the editing between the two films couldn't be any more different. The long take of Birdman vs the fast paced editing of Whiplash. I think it would be interesting to see the films back-to-back; two different schools of thought on film.

I met my ex online. Hell, I moved to California to be wtih her. At the time, people thought I was weird and making a mistake, but I would do it again, knowing how it would end. I had a wonderful time with her. Also, I used to think online dating was for weirdos (i thought myself as one), but I started meeting more people who've done it. A good amount of my California friends do it and have seen them on OkCupid, Hahah.

On a sillier, lighter note: Someone remixed Serial's Theme with Biggie Small's Someone's Gotta Die http://www.theverge.com/2014/12/19/7425227/listen-to-this-incredible-serial-remix-featuring-the-notorious-b-i-g I dig it

Than I'm as lost as you are.

May I also recommend this podcast http://www.factualopinion.com/the_factual_opinion/2014/05/seventy-four-seventy-five-1.html They talk about Under and have a more critical view on it. Starts at 0:29:00 I'm in-between with that film: both the cast and Horrock ring true to me; I need to re-watch the film again to get a better standing on it.

always thought it as a genre of music to describe simple, sweet pop music that was occuring in Britian during the 80s

I really enjoyed Sarah Horrock's take in Under: http://mercurialblonde.tumblr.com/post/90441248533 More about transgender and gender politics.

I think the best album of the year is Jungle's self-titled. Liars's Mess was pretty damn good too.

Yeah. My phone added a g. I liked when Hannibal took over the show. On another point: the crème de le crème of movie podcasts has a new episode out http://www.factualopinion.com/the_factual_opinion/2014/12/jughandle-earlobes.html#more

There's a tie for favorite hip-hop album of the year: Freddie Gibbs & Madlib - Piñata and Killer Mike & El-P - Run The Jewels 2. Damn, don't know who to pick... Other hip-hop albums I thoroughly enjoyed: Isaiah Rashad - Cilvia Demo Blu - Good to be Home Clipping - CLPPING Oxymoron Big K.R.I.T. - Cadillactica Deniro Farrar - Rebirth Shabbaz Palaces - Lese Majesty QuEst - Searching Sylvan Ratking- So It Goes Father - Young Hot Ebony Cyhi- Black Hystori Project