Friday, August 18, 2006

New blog here, over at Wordpress, update your links to jahsonic.wordpress.com.

Monday, August 07, 2006

Allez Clo, speciaal voor jou, een update van mijn Stendhal pagina.

Testing concluded: I will not be using blogspot as a blogging tool.

The writing experience is not satisfying: uploading slow, word identification before every post, convoluted html.

Jude the Obscure (1895) - Thomas Hardy

Jude the Obscure (1895) - Thomas Hardy
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Jude the Obscure is the last of Thomas Hardy's novels, begun as a magazine serial and first published in book form in 1895. Its hero Jude Fawley is a lower-class young man who dreams of becoming a scholar. The two other main characters are his earthy wife, Arabella, and his intellectual cousin, Sue. Themes include class, scholarship, religion, marriage, and the modernization of thought and society. --http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jude_the_Obscure [Aug 2006]

While the novel has been considered unfilmable, Michael Winterbottom adapted it in 1996.

See Jude

The Mexican (song) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: "'The Mexican' is a piece of heavy rock music on the album First Base by the 1970s British band Babe Ruth.

The song is based on the whistling from the music soundtrack by Ennio Morricone for the film For a Few Dollars More. It has been compiled, covered and mixed many times.

The song 'The Mexican' was covered in 1984 by John 'Jellybean' Benitez with vocals by the original singer, Janita Haan. 'The Mexican' was mixed into the third track of The Dirtchamber Sessions Volume One by Liam Howlett of The Prodigy in 1999."

More songs that inspired electro or electronic funk here.

The Observer | Review | The 100 greatest novels of all time: The list

I have problem with the term greatness, and while the phrase "must ... before you die" used in the recent spate of anthologies such as 1001 movies, 1001 books and 1001 novels carries the same urgency as 'greatest' I find it less value laden. Some cultural artifacts need to be experienced not for their level of 'greatness' but for their level of 'interestingness' and 'what-is-ness' relevant to the nature of that particular type of cultural production.

via babynox

See also:
greatness - novel - list of lists

Unfilmable.com presents: H.P. Lovecraft Cinema

Unfilmable.com: Dedicated to promoting, through news and reviews, the cinematic adaptations of H. P. Lovecraft and other Mythos and Weird Fiction authors...

Other novels or novelists which have been said to be unfilmable include Jim Thompson's Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Thomas Hardy's Jude the Obscure, Sterne's Tristram Shandy.

Word of the day: bleak

Gloomy, somber, depressing, cold and cutting, unsheltered and barren.

Bleak word count on Jahsonic.com: 90 pages

Glaring ommissions in Steven Jay Schneider's 2004 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die

Ken Russell (The Devils), Larry Cohen (Q, the Winged Serpent), Gaspar Noé, (Irréversible) Bertrand Blier (Going Places), Patrice Leconte (Mr. Hire), Radley Metzger (The Image), Roger Vadim (And God Created Woman), Alex van Warmerdam (Abel), Alex Cox (Repo Man), Joe Dante (Hollywood Boulevard), Marco Ferreri (La Grande Bouffe), Paul Bartel (Secret Cinema) and Michael Winterbottom (24 Hour Party People)

And here is a frequency listed tabulated to my list of directors:

# Hitchcock: 18
# Kubrick: 10
# Bergman: 10
# Spielberg: 10
# Scorsese: 10
# Bunuel: 9
# Coppola: 9
# Fellini: 7
# Altman: 6
# Bertolucci: 6
# Kurosawa: 6
# Antonioni: 6
# Renoir: 6
# Truffaut: 5
# Bresson: 5
# Welles: 5
# Eastwood: 4
# Lynch: 4
# Kieslowski: 4
# Dreyer: 4
# Visconti: 4
# Allen: 4
# Murnau: 4
# Eisenstein: 4
# Cameron: 4
# von Trier: 4
# Herzog: 4
# Polanski: 4
# Roeg: 4
# Fassbinder: 4
# Preminger: 4
# Wenders: 3
# Resnais: 3
# von Sternberg: 3
# Lang: 3
# Tarantino: 3
# Oshima: 3
# Almodovar: 3
# Cronenberg: 3
# Malle: 3
# Leone: 3
# Tati: 3
# Coen: 3
# von Stroheim: 2
# Cocteau: 2
# Burton: 2
# Bogdanovich: 2
# Gance: 2
# Carpenter: 2
# Demme: 2
# P.T. Anderson: 2
# Greenaway: 2
# Haynes: 2
# Van Sant: 2
# Haneke: 2
# Lee: 2
# Schroeder: 2
# Marker: 2
# Jonze: 2
# Bava: 1
# Breillat: 1
# Campion: 1
# Corman: 1
# Itami: 1
# Ferrara: 1
# Franju: 1
# Jodorowsky: 1
# Miike: 1
# Wiene: 1
# Chabrol: 1
# Cammell: 1
# Feuillade: 1
# Bava: 1
# Svankmajer: 1
# Sayles: 1
# Méliès: 1

The Willing Fare, or Anyway to Please by Thomas Rowlandson (1756-1827)

Via Rare Erotica: Thomas Rowlandson

Sunday, August 06, 2006

Once upon a time Clo said: imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.

The mind of man can imagine nothing which has not really existed. --Edgar Allan Poe, 1850

Thanks for the company and the generosity.

Tortured Artists 101

Clever montage of biopics of tortured artists. From the introduction: "I know it's a little redundant because most artists are tortured artists.". There is a part two which is just a montage of film clips without the commentary. This is by Evadeadbeat and Margot. Eva also has a documentary film on Brueghel which stresses Brueghel as one of the first artists bringing realism in the visual arts, presenting us with "snapshots" of peasant life in the 16th century. Margot has this persiflage of Jacques Lacan. Eva runs http://deadbeatdirt.blogspot.com/.

See also:
artist - stock character - Egon Schiele