The telos of this website, its abiding purpose, is a record of the things that I have read and watched. For the reasons undergirding this project see comments on cultural consumption.
11/28
— Adrian Johns, The Science of Reading, Introduction
11/29
— Pusher (199?)
— Desert Fury (1947)
— George Eliot, Silas Marner, Ch 3-7
11/30
— Django Unchained (20??)
— Silas Marner, 40 pp
12/1
— Science of Reading, 25 pp.
— Silas Marner, 15 pp.
12/2-3
— Silas Marner, Finished Part 1
12/5
— Die Hard (1988)
Noticed a joke that I’d never seen before. One of the sub-themes of this film is that the black buddy cop has never been able to draw his gun again after accidentally killing a young man with a cap gun. At the end of the film he’s offered the chance to redeem himself by killing the somehow undead Karl. After Karl has been dispatched, Argyle drives the limo through the security gating in a way that looks like another threat. But McClane stops buddy cop before he makes the same mistake a second time and kills another kid. It’s actually hilarious.
— Silas Marner, 25 pp.
12/6
— Silence of the Lambs (198?)
Did you notice all of the close-up/medium close-up shots? I mean the film is silly with them.