Bulletin Board of the Brain

Ah…the Pleasures of Juxtaposition

From Joshua, the consummate minimalist

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(Un)Common Denominators of the Last Six Films I’ve Watched…

Kelly Reilly and Rupert Friend.

Out of this list…

Sherlock Holmes (2009)
Lars and the Real Girl
The Darjeeling Limited
Pride & Prejudice (2005)
The Libertine
The Young Victoria

…Two films of which they were in together.

Just noting a pattern.

Also, a shout out to Rosamund Pike for appearing in 3 of the last SEVEN movies I’ve watched. I feel as though I’ve been [...]

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2010 Pop Culture Conference Rundown

4 days, hundreds of professors, PhD/Grad/Undergraduate students and very short food breaks = the Southwest/Texas Popular and American Culture Association’s annual conference.

Ian Klein joined me in Albuquerque for another year of frying our brains with academic discourse on popular culture. We heard about 50 papers and drank a lot of smoothies. It was indescribably delightful.
Here’s [...]

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And Tonight Makes Four

Seriously, people. Go see it.

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New Record: One Film, Three Onscreen Viewings, Three Days in a Row

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Talking Twilight, or am I…?

Powerpoint sneak peaks from my presentation for this year’s Southwest/Texas American & Pop Culture Association’s conference. Best week ever kicking off next Tuesday!

Oh the power of correlation

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In Search of Lost Time

I’ve been feeling pretty chaotic inside lately- both overwhelmed and un-tethered–trying to find strucutre and a rhythm, but just sort of floating, ever more anxiously, into the vacuum of dark outer space. Basically, it’s my usual Jan-March challenge when Intiman goes off season and 35 hours of my week float away into the ether. I [...]

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One Meal to Feed Them All, One Meal to Find Them, One Meal to Bring Them All Where Watching Movies Binds Them

For the second year in a row, I spent the first day of the year going “There and Back Again” with friends, watching all three Lord of the Rings films. Last year we watched the theatrical cut of Fellowship and Return of the King, with the extended Two Towers in the middle (in my opinion, [...]

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The “Roller-mance of the Library” Scarf for:

Name: Erin M. Blakemore
Location: Boulder, CO

Occupation: Writer and Director/Marketing/Social Media Consultant at the company I co-founded and co-own, VOCO Creative

A significant difference between California and Colorado: In California, I cry and curl up under massive blankets when the temperature hits 55. In Colorado, I laugh and go bare-legged. Also, rockabilly is [...]

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The List 2009

“This List” Guide.
1. My List criteria changes a bit every year: 2006, 2007, 2008. This list is literally every film I watched in 2009. Thus, my best and worst are limited to what I personally saw and when I saw them—so it includes 2008 movies I didn’t see until 2009 and does not [...]

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