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Minor Key Music 86: The Watersons – The Good Old Way
My Minor Key Monday picks mostly fall into three categories: weird shit I listened to as a kid, music used in movies, and youtube autoplay…
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My Favorite Movies 78: Pat Garret and Billy the Kid (Sam Peckinpah, 1972)
I’ve never been the biggest Sam Peckinpah fan. He’s just a little too revisionist, a little too obvious, and a little too over-reliant on slow-motion…
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Cinema Scripture School 4: David and Bathsheba (Henry King, 1951)
Though I have no formal religious education, I have actually learned a fair bit about Christianity over the years, both via apophatic deduction applied to my…
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KOVID Movie-watching Kumite
15 years ago, after heading back home to hang with the family over Christmas, I decided to have all the random movies I watched over…
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15 Lessons Learned in Cooking over the Last 15 Years
A while back (15 years ago to be exact–I’ve been writing this blog for a bit) I did a post on the various lessons I’d…
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Travels in Middle-earth 75: The Three-farthing Stone
Long ago, in an Age of the Sun far removed from our own, our world was a place of enchantment and lure undreamed of to…
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My Favorite Movies 77: The Red Shoes (Powell & Pressburger, 1948)
There are many movies “about” the creative process. Sometimes they can be indulgent (“key word here is ‘indulgent’”) self-referential films about making a film like…
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An Open Letter to Mythical Meats RE: Your Woefully Uninspired Fantasy Meat Sticks
Hello Mythic Meats, Eugene Pendergrass here, you might know me from such pedantic protestations as AN OPEN LETTER TO WWW.ISLEYUNRUH.COM RE: YOUR COMICALLY INEPT ATTEMPTS…
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RTfISP 10: Yearbook Photobombing
I was never big on jumping through the “looks good on your college application” hoops in high school. I remember as a Freshman and Sophomore…
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Minor Key Monday 85: Boy Harsher – Pain
As the years go on and I descend further into the depths of problematically unlistenable problematic black metal in the search for something that can…
