April 2009
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7 Brilliant But Cancelled TV Shows
1. Twin Peaks
2. Freaks and Geeks
3. Deadwood
4. My So-Called Life
5. Firefly
6. Carnivale
7. Wonderfalls
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“Some goddamn point a man’s due to stop arguing with his-self and feeling...”
– Wild Bill Hickok (Deadwood, 2004)
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7 Essential War Movies
1. Apocalypse Now
2. Full Metal Jacket
3. Schindler’s List
4. Der Untergang
5. Paths of Glory
6. Das Boot
7. Platoon
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“Private Pyle I’m gonna give you three seconds; exactly...”
– Gunnery Sergeant Hartman (Full Metal Jacket, 1987)
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Camus’ L’Étranger post-punk’d
The...
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7 Cures For An Existential Crisis
1. Turn on the bright lights. Get organized. Eat healthy. Go out. Socialize.
2. Explore new music. Watch movies; explore foreign cinema.
3. Get your Nietzsche, Camus and Sartre right.
4. Call home. Accept facts. Kill cognitive dissonance.
5. Create! Make! A lot of great art came out of profound personal crises.
6. Go see a doctor. Clinical depression can be cured.
7. Suicide can be a way out...
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“There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide. ...”
– The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus
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“Music is a higher revelation of science and philosophy.”
– Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
7 Great Films About Music
1. Amadeus
2. Spinal Tap
3. I Am Trying To Break Your Heart
4. Hilary and Jacky
5. Stop Making Sense
6. Almost Famous
7. Shine
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“Take music, for instance. Less than anything else, it is connected to reality,...”
– Stalker (1979)
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7 Reasons Why You May Abstain From The Indian...
1. INC
2. BJP
3. NCP
4. BSP
5. CPI(M)
6. CPI
7. RJD
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“Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they’ve told you what...”
– Alan Coren
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Bunuel’s Un Chien Andalou always reminds me...
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7 Silent Films That Are Totally Awesome
1. Nosferatu
2. City Lights
3. The General
4. Metropolis
5. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
6. The Passion of Joan of Arc
7. The Battleship Potemkin
note: It’s impossible to talk about silent films without even a passing nod at Bunuel’s surrealistic short, Un Chien Andalou!
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7even
me: this blog 5ives is a neat idea http://www.5ives.com/ i want to start something like this. you will never be out of ideas for this... maybe 7evens?
vivek: yeah that would be pretty cool. i had a good idea once...