Not exactly a useful comment,but your channel is my favorite book channel in UA-cam and is really important for my mental health/changed my life in the sense of presenting some authors I did not know. Thank you very much and keep the great work in both channels
You're definitely the best book reviewer on UA-cam. I don't trust those other guys, most of them don't seem to have great taste. You definately have taste, and I respect that.
Seriously, Cliff isn't just unique for the quality of fiction he reviews,but, for the quality of the video he post overall. Over the course of the channel, the videos have gotten better and better.
you mentioned Moroccan mint tea, i am from Morocco and i would be glad to meet you in case you came sometime. Just discovered your channel lately, and you succeeded by putting your touch on it, truly it's a very noble job you do. Thank you !
I appreciate your honest book reviews. They are delicate, watchable and enlightening. It is clear that you are thoroughly passionate about reviewing and "deciphering" high-class litterature. You are a talented person. I am a huge fan of yours. -andy. keep it up my man
well, youtube could be summarized in your channel for books, fantano's for music (still...), and stuckman's for films. we like your film reviews too, but they are not as frequent as we would like them to be. cheers!
Horrible Reviews is a much less known movie review channel but IMO beats every other movie review channel on UA-cam. He talks a lot about older horror movies, so if that's not your thing maybe he wouldn't be for you, but he also talks about many, many other genres and is a really funny, informative guy, highly recommended
I picked up 'Story of the Eye' late one evening recently, thought I would read a few pages and hit the sack.. Wrong! With fevered brow and sweaty palms I finished it in one sitting, savoring every word. Most Excellent! Many Thanks for bringing it to my attention. Will be reading more Georges Bataille and soon. Also, want to read Nick Land's 'The Thirst for Annihilation' after I rob a bank to purchase it. Yukio Mishima's 'Sun and Steel' is next. I was lucky enough to obtain an old paperback copy online. There is a superb doc. on here that I thoroughly enjoyed. Thanks again for all Your recommendations and reviews. And Fuck Yes 'Birthday Party' especially LIVE. 'Drunk On The Pope's Blood' scared the shit out of me when I was a kid.
Has great taste in literature + listens (used to?) to black metal & experimental music + watches Greg Sadler + drinks mint tea (our national drink, not tea bags though) ... the coolest reviewer on yt. Keep up the good content, it is appreciated.
This guy is my favorite. I've got a man crush on him, he's the best. He's introduced to me so many great books, that I never would have discovered otherwise, like "Epitaph of a Small Winner" which I am reading now, and my God, incredible.
Cliff, 29:02 through 29:13 is to my fragile eggshell mind, one of Your Finest moments among the plethora of Fine moments I have experienced here at the only Book Reviews that matter (w/ apologies to whomever created the catch phrase for THE CLASH that I stole & slightly modified that from). I will now play 'Chainsaw Gutsfuck' in Your honor Good Sir while I lift and fantasize that a perfect morph of Camille Paglia and Mercedes Carrera is my spotter.. Salute!
I've seen a fair few book review videos on youtube, but other than yours none have really grabbed my attention. Though I predict/hope as you gain popularity it might encourage readers of heavier novels to do something similar to this channel.
Well, having just caught a coupla of these vid-diaries, I'm shocked! This chap vibes pretty hard with my own private enthusiasms! (Like Favourite Author: J G Ballard (and,, for me, also William S Burroughs) ..........Most, special beloved bands *The Birthday Party* and the mighty *The Fall* etc WOW! '@.@' Deffo be watching more of these.....See if I can find some special secret-squirrel hot-tips for fresh cultural fun-times that I haven't found myself yet! Niiiiice! Cheers, man! :D
A sincere thanks back to you! I look forward to every video and appreciate all the time and effort you put into sharing your passions with others. It's rad as fuck. Do you have any thoughts on John Barth or Rainer Maria Rilke? They both seem like they'd be right up your alley.
I don't know if you're a fan, but when I saw St. Vincent on her Strange Mercy tour, she surprised me with a cover of She's Beyond Good and Evil that blew my socks off. So. Good.
Have you ever read James purdy? Judging by your taste and overall video feed I think you would really enjoy him. He is one of our “quickly ignored” American gothic writers. I would love if you reviewed “Malcolm” or “the house of the solitary maggot”. It would be miraculous to get him some notoriety even post death.
“It” was (is) my favorite King novel. Still affects me years after reading the novel. However, I’d say the most important novels in my life are Siddhartha (of which I’ve read different translations), and Candide. Slim novels, but deep.
used to be big into stuff like Bestial Warlust, Revenge and Blasphemy until i heard My Bloody Valentine's Loveless and got into drone, you should definitely dig a few of your old tacklists/radio shows up.
It is amazing. In this video you noted movies that were even better than the books and two that you noted, A Clockwork Orange and Fight Club were exactly two novels I suggested to two young, and in that manner, naively pedantic readers when they suggested that the book is always better than the movie. It is not to criticize them for this approach since it is a cliche understanding and therefore gets traded about like foregone conclusions, but I just loved that you came to the same conclusions that I had. I would add another two novels (although of course illimitably more could be added) to this list, which I did that night, Children of Men and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, in that vein. You said in your Ligotti Conspiracy review that you were on your way to China following the publication of the video. I currently reside in China and have done so for the past 4.5 years. I am curious as to where you went and to what purpose? You also noted, with more than a good bit of sadness, that you were helping your father in his last days with Stage 4 Cancer, which is also something that dovetails with my own personal narrative. But instead of reading at that time, I had given it up for a spell in lieu of listening incessantly to Radiohead albums. Albeit, there was one book that my father, being more a newspaper reader than a novel reader, spoke about with glowing regard. That book held a magical charm for me and I believed at the time that my father would live until the leaves of that book closed on its final page on my first read, its aged binding all but holding its threadbare skeleton in place. Well, the charm that held my father's life in check, I finished late on a moonlit night only hours before his final repose, while a feverish delirium of pain rendered him senseless to the outside world in the adjacent room with no longer any recourse to lessen his suffering. I unbeknownst, fell asleep in my anguish, and woke, in what felt like only moments later, to the terrible quiet of my father's room and the fog of sadness at finding a discarded mortal shell with the morning buzz of bees knocking themselves senseless against the mirror picture-window beside my father's hospice bed. The white-noise show was the only channel available in my head that day, though with the staticky backtrack of an incessant song on loop faintly, though clearly defined, in the background that played like a eulogy for my desolation. I am also curious about doing literary reviews and all that you say resonates with my own thinking, with the exclusion of your love of metal. By no means a criticism, but I digress. Thank you for the video and your time if you endeavored to read this longish comment. And btw, I have been watching UA-cam videos forever but your's is the first that I have ever commented on.
I watch a few _trendy_ book reviewers on YT, and boy do they read a lot of crap. So much of what they read is nothing short of empty contemporary rubbish. That's why you're the best. You review actual literature, not kitsch kindle written to sell.
Based on your taste of books (which is somewhat similar to mine), I can recommend Lize Spit 'it melts'. I don't know if it is already translated in English, but if it is, you should definitely check it out. Love to hear your thoughts about it.
Have you ever seen "Black Robe"? In one seen a Jesuit explains and demonstrates reading to an Algonquin in the 18th c. The Algonquin assumes sorcery in awe. It's a most powerful demonstration. Good but sad movie.
I’ve only recently discovered your channel. From what I can tell, you seem to prefer dark literature, tragic or perhaps tragi-comic. You may have already answered this- do you have a single favorite ?
I have no idea what it is about this video. Something just really struck me, it hit a chord or some shit, I don't know... Completely unrelated but would you consider reviewing Azzerad's Our Band Could Be Your Life?
So basically you were a fan of Anthony Fantano before he turned himself into a meme. Makes sense. Unbelievable Nirvana story! I started playing bass because I wanted to be Krist. I don't know if you know this but Kurt's favourite book was Perfume by Patrick Süskind, wondering if you've read it? My ex introduced me to Nick Cave's music and yeah, The Birthday Party, along with Scott Walker, changed my music taste overnight.
Also, speaking of The Needle Drop, are you aware of the UA-camr Myke C-Town? He does the occasional album review, but his channel consists mostly of Vinyl Update videos and most of the records he collects are Black Metal.
I've watched Needle Drop since. 2009. I wouldn't say that much have changed. It could've changed much more. The meme-parts are not really part of the reviews themselves.
Finally! You've been a mystery man, man. Have you seen The Neon Demon? Thoughts on Refn? Love that bit on Werner Herzog, staring into the abyss of death ahahah
Has Cliff ever reviewed a Stephen King book, or does he stick to authors with more literary merit? I think books like Different Seasons and IT are worthy of an in-depth review by him.
You're amazing and we know it :) Have you read Julian Barnes' England England? it's about "everything is a copy of a copy" :p Maybe you should tell us what are difficult books according to you? any contemporary ones? some recommendations?
Kinda guessed you were a filmmaker. Someone doesn't just pick up there camera after doing straight into the camera vlogs and create those really quite beautiful videos you've made when traveling.
The Godfather the movie is way better than the book. But I agree that some of the best movie directors are masters at adapting books. Guys like Kurosawa, Fincher, Scorsese, Kubrick (Even if Stephen King would disagree).
Man..ur reviews r just great......i just wish u may do more film reviews....because other than stuckmann i haven't seen a reviewer worth referring to for films.......anyway would u pls review Hermann Hesse or Philip k dick or Haruki Murakami.......?......
But do you see them as copies of copies, or, more like generative off-springs? there is a lot of stuff out-there put out by capital as media that does the opposite to breed ignorance. So, that if I read Dostoevsky carefully I come to an understanding of how people relate, feel, certain personalities react in certain ways. You come to know, or, are equipt to empathize with others in real life better. But corporate capital as media stuff is not like that. It is not mean to accomplish this. I play electric guitar, and listening to the places people go to study it formally you can tell how the teachers insist on turning them into almost de-skilled propagandists rather than craftsmen or women of culture. They are very explicit about it.
You lost me with the Tilda Swinton quote. Filmmakers have the right to adapt any book they like. And I do agree with you assessment that you can't ruin the book with a bad adaption - however, for every "In Cold Blood," there's a dozen "Blade Runners." It is, of course, a beautifully shot movie that removes most of the book's content and even adds a love story with Ford and Young.
Not exactly a useful comment,but your channel is my favorite book channel in UA-cam and is really important for my mental health/changed my life in the sense of presenting some authors I did not know. Thank you very much and keep the great work in both channels
J.J Jameson I have pictures of spider man.
You're definitely the best book reviewer on UA-cam. I don't trust those other guys, most of them don't seem to have great taste. You definately have taste, and I respect that.
Most book reviewers that I've seen on UA-cam read YA novels and that's pretty embarrassing.
Seriously, Cliff isn't just unique for the quality of fiction he reviews,but, for the quality of the video he post overall. Over the course of the channel, the videos have gotten better and better.
+Alfonso Jimenez Agreed. real professional.
Jesse Tamayo He is great and possibly the only exception to be honest
Paper bird is good as well.
you mentioned Moroccan mint tea, i am from Morocco and i would be glad to meet you in case you came sometime. Just discovered your channel lately, and you succeeded by putting your touch on it, truly it's a very noble job you do. Thank you !
I appreciate your honest book reviews. They are delicate, watchable and enlightening. It is clear that you are thoroughly passionate about reviewing and "deciphering" high-class litterature. You are a talented person. I am a huge fan of yours.
-andy. keep it up my man
You don't review a book, you give us the emotion of reading it.
I could listen to you talk all damn day man. As always, love your stuff
Literature + lifting weights... feeling some Mishima vibes :D .... > sun and steel.
I really enjoy your channel and content, man. The hard work you obviously put into it is much appreciated.
well, youtube could be summarized in your channel for books, fantano's for music (still...), and stuckman's for films. we like your film reviews too, but they are not as frequent as we would like them to be. cheers!
You make me want to speak Portuguese. Thank you for watching.
Stuckman..? RLM all the way
BentonSurvive Mark Kermode the apex of UA-cam film critics
Horrible Reviews is a much less known movie review channel but IMO beats every other movie review channel on UA-cam. He talks a lot about older horror movies, so if that's not your thing maybe he wouldn't be for you, but he also talks about many, many other genres and is a really funny, informative guy, highly recommended
I picked up 'Story of the Eye' late one evening recently, thought I would read a few pages and hit the sack.. Wrong! With fevered brow and sweaty palms I finished it in one sitting, savoring every word. Most Excellent! Many Thanks for bringing it to my attention. Will be reading more Georges Bataille and soon. Also, want to read Nick Land's 'The Thirst for Annihilation' after I rob a bank to purchase it. Yukio Mishima's 'Sun and Steel' is next. I was lucky enough to obtain an old paperback copy online. There is a superb doc. on here that I thoroughly enjoyed. Thanks again for all Your recommendations and reviews. And Fuck Yes 'Birthday Party' especially LIVE. 'Drunk On The Pope's Blood' scared the shit out of me when I was a kid.
Has great taste in literature + listens (used to?) to black metal & experimental music + watches Greg Sadler + drinks mint tea (our national drink, not tea bags though) ... the coolest reviewer on yt.
Keep up the good content, it is appreciated.
I never make it in bags. I do it traditional Moroccan way. Gunpowder, Leaves, Sugar. Thanks for watchin.
There's no other project I'm interested to see right now than Yours. I wish You the best.
Thank you. You're gonna love it. More soon.
i wonder, what do you think of graphic novels? do you have some favorites?
great video, thanks for making this and all of your other ones
Thanks for watching
You deserve an upvote for your profile picture
This guy is my favorite. I've got a man crush on him, he's the best. He's introduced to me so many great books, that I never would have discovered otherwise, like "Epitaph of a Small Winner" which I am reading now, and my God, incredible.
I hope you review more Mishima soon. I read The Temple of the Golden Pavilion a couple months ago and it was the best thing I've read in awhile.
Thanks for continuing to make great videos, Clifford.
Man I am eagerly awaiting your Story of the Eye review
Would you please do a review of a Saramago novel (Blindness, The Double, Death With Interruptions, etc.)?
One of the first things I searched for on his channel was a saramago review...
Anthony Fantano or Cal Chuchesta?
This was really good. Bien hecho, compadre.
Cliff, 29:02 through 29:13 is to my fragile eggshell mind, one of Your Finest moments among the plethora of Fine moments I have experienced here at the only Book Reviews that matter (w/ apologies to whomever created the catch phrase for THE CLASH that I stole & slightly modified that from). I will now play 'Chainsaw Gutsfuck' in Your honor Good Sir while I lift and fantasize that a perfect morph of Camille Paglia and Mercedes Carrera is my spotter.. Salute!
Man - you and I are on the same page, huh? Thanks for watching. I should do some Paglia soon.
Love your work man. Keep the videos coming
Could you review William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying or The Sound and the Fury?
Absalom, Absalom!
seymour_glass I recently read as I lay dying and I thought it was genius
zach anderson I read it last year and it's easily top 15. I can't wait to read more Faulkner. It really reminded me of The Grapes of Wrath.
I've seen a fair few book review videos on youtube, but other than yours none have really grabbed my attention. Though I predict/hope as you gain popularity it might encourage readers of heavier novels to do something similar to this channel.
Well, having just caught a coupla of these vid-diaries, I'm shocked! This chap vibes pretty hard with my own private enthusiasms!
(Like Favourite Author: J G Ballard (and,, for me, also William S Burroughs) ..........Most, special beloved bands *The Birthday Party* and the mighty *The Fall* etc
WOW! '@.@' Deffo be watching more of these.....See if I can find some special secret-squirrel hot-tips for fresh cultural fun-times that I haven't found myself yet!
Niiiiice! Cheers, man! :D
I am pretty sure that Tilda Swinton quote was in reference to the adaptation of Orlando which she starred in. It's an awesome movie!
have you heard of Deathspell Omega? a french black metal band who's substantially influenced by Bataille, at least thematically
You've led me onto some great fucking books man. Love the style of your vids, keep it up!
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Hey I am born and raised in Oregon, mostly Beaverton/Corvallis(OSU) and now Im back in PDX :)
I would recommend "The Street of Crocodiles" by Bruno Schulz.
love your reviews! splendid!
A sincere thanks back to you! I look forward to every video and appreciate all the time and effort you put into sharing your passions with others. It's rad as fuck.
Do you have any thoughts on John Barth or Rainer Maria Rilke? They both seem like they'd be right up your alley.
And fuck yeah, The Birthday Party! Them and The Pop Group were as good as it got, in that era of post-punk.
'Y' was big for me too
I don't know if you're a fan, but when I saw St. Vincent on her Strange Mercy tour, she surprised me with a cover of She's Beyond Good and Evil that blew my socks off. So. Good.
Have you read Paul Virilio's "The Logistics of Perception" by Paul Virillo. Very slim volume. You might be able to find it in genesis library.
Not HUGE on King, but IT is in my top ten all-time favourites; so gorgeously demented and weird.
You ARE the best!
Have you ever read James purdy? Judging by your taste and overall video feed I think you would really enjoy him. He is one of our “quickly ignored” American gothic writers. I would love if you reviewed “Malcolm” or “the house of the solitary maggot”. It would be miraculous to get him some notoriety even post death.
“It” was (is) my favorite King novel. Still affects me years after reading the novel. However, I’d say the most important novels in my life are Siddhartha (of which I’ve read different translations), and Candide. Slim novels, but deep.
ikr it is so good
I wonder if anyone has told you, you look like Arthur from The Peaky Blinders
used to be big into stuff like Bestial Warlust, Revenge and Blasphemy until i heard My Bloody Valentine's Loveless and got into drone, you should definitely dig a few of your old tacklists/radio shows up.
Mbv is the best. Isn't Anything is a personal soundtrack for some very hard times.
It's one of those albums that has everything in it.
+paradiceislost9 very true
It is amazing. In this video you noted movies that were even better than the books and two that you noted, A Clockwork Orange and Fight Club were exactly two novels I suggested to two young, and in that manner, naively pedantic readers when they suggested that the book is always better than the movie. It is not to criticize them for this approach since it is a cliche understanding and therefore gets traded about like foregone conclusions, but I just loved that you came to the same conclusions that I had. I would add another two novels (although of course illimitably more could be added) to this list, which I did that night, Children of Men and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, in that vein. You said in your Ligotti Conspiracy review that you were on your way to China following the publication of the video. I currently reside in China and have done so for the past 4.5 years. I am curious as to where you went and to what purpose?
You also noted, with more than a good bit of sadness, that you were helping your father in his last days with Stage 4 Cancer, which is also something that dovetails with my own personal narrative. But instead of reading at that time, I had given it up for a spell in lieu of listening incessantly to Radiohead albums. Albeit, there was one book that my father, being more a newspaper reader than a novel reader, spoke about with glowing regard. That book held a magical charm for me and I believed at the time that my father would live until the leaves of that book closed on its final page on my first read, its aged binding all but holding its threadbare skeleton in place. Well, the charm that held my father's life in check, I finished late on a moonlit night only hours before his final repose, while a feverish delirium of pain rendered him senseless to the outside world in the adjacent room with no longer any recourse to lessen his suffering. I unbeknownst, fell asleep in my anguish, and woke, in what felt like only moments later, to the terrible quiet of my father's room and the fog of sadness at finding a discarded mortal shell with the morning buzz of bees knocking themselves senseless against the mirror picture-window beside my father's hospice bed. The white-noise show was the only channel available in my head that day, though with the staticky backtrack of an incessant song on loop faintly, though clearly defined, in the background that played like a eulogy for my desolation.
I am also curious about doing literary reviews and all that you say resonates with my own thinking, with the exclusion of your love of metal. By no means a criticism, but I digress. Thank you for the video and your time if you endeavored to read this longish comment. And btw, I have been watching UA-cam videos forever but your's is the first that I have ever commented on.
a film adaptation of House of Leaves would be.... interesting
A movie about a journal about a book about a movie about a house
I would love to hear your opinion/review on some of George Orwell's works, or some more Steinbeck.
Are you a Bolaño fan? I think the Savage Detectives or 2666 would be excellent movies!
Havent read 2666, but i think Savage Detectives would be a tough movie to do. Especially trying to adapt part II, to film.
I watch a few _trendy_ book reviewers on YT, and boy do they read a lot of crap. So much of what they read is nothing short of empty contemporary rubbish. That's why you're the best. You review actual literature, not kitsch kindle written to sell.
Yeah, there's alot of book related channels. I have to agree most people don't read difficult books. Each to their own though.
Was kind of worried you'd have shitty taste in music, but hearing you talk about getting into Berghain, twice, was very heartening.
That Tilda Swindon quote definitely applies to Inherent Vice.
Cloud Atlas
Your reviews are great
I live in Portland and was just up to Astoria and Cannon Beach just last week! Keep up the Great Work! How about a Tom Robbins or John Irving?¿?
Age 16 in theater after a joint it was great circa 85
Your Great keep it up
ps: love that your a needledrop fan pre death grip like me
Old school
Dude you're freaking awesome! Could you make a review of Ulysses?
I wonder if you have read Sometimes a Great Notion considering you are from the pacific north west, IMHO it's probably the most northwestern of books.
I need to do read that - thank you for reminder
Based on your taste of books (which is somewhat similar to mine), I can recommend Lize Spit 'it melts'. I don't know if it is already translated in English, but if it is, you should definitely check it out. Love to hear your thoughts about it.
I didn't get a chance to ask a question but, what is the worst book you had to read for school?
Satantango is the perfect book to film adaptation.
Mmmmh partial to Werckmeister Harmonies, but Satantango is great too, if you have the endurance.
Have you ever seen "Black Robe"? In one seen a Jesuit explains and demonstrates reading to an Algonquin in the 18th c. The Algonquin assumes sorcery in awe. It's a most powerful demonstration. Good but sad movie.
Have you ever checked out "The Great War" channel on UA-cam? It's in my top three along with your own channel and School of Life.
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What would the death grips of books be tho🤔
I’ve only recently discovered your channel. From what I can tell, you seem to prefer dark literature, tragic or perhaps tragi-comic. You may have already answered this- do you have a single favorite ?
Portland, eh? You ever dig Greg Sage and the Wipers?
Melvin Melvins never met him but we knew some of the same folks. Thanks for watching
I have no idea what it is about this video. Something just really struck me, it hit a chord or some shit, I don't know... Completely unrelated but would you consider reviewing Azzerad's Our Band Could Be Your Life?
Have you watched 'The grand Budapest hotel'?
Hit up the master of Hungary - Lazlo Krasznahorkai
The sarge listens to black metal and 80's hardcore. Nice.
So basically you were a fan of Anthony Fantano before he turned himself into a meme. Makes sense.
Unbelievable Nirvana story! I started playing bass because I wanted to be Krist. I don't know if you know this but Kurt's favourite book was Perfume by Patrick Süskind, wondering if you've read it?
My ex introduced me to Nick Cave's music and yeah, The Birthday Party, along with Scott Walker, changed my music taste overnight.
Also, speaking of The Needle Drop, are you aware of the UA-camr Myke C-Town? He does the occasional album review, but his channel consists mostly of Vinyl Update videos and most of the records he collects are Black Metal.
I've watched Needle Drop since. 2009. I wouldn't say that much have changed. It could've changed much more. The meme-parts are not really part of the reviews themselves.
How many hours per week do you read books?
Finally! You've been a mystery man, man. Have you seen The Neon Demon? Thoughts on Refn? Love that bit on Werner Herzog, staring into the abyss of death ahahah
How did you manage to get into Berghain?
We looked dirty and like we were there for the music. It was 8am.
Fuck yeah Celtic Frost! Monotheist is still in my top 10.
Has Cliff ever reviewed a Stephen King book, or does he stick to authors with more literary merit? I think books like Different Seasons and IT are worthy of an in-depth review by him.
Jesse Day cliff thinks you're right. Thanks for watching.
Stephen King spearheaded a genre man... Literary merit?
great video!..
So who won the race you or your teacher?
Teacher.
where is your twitter account?
Do you have a degree? Did you formally study literature? Any tips for someone who wants to start getting more out of the books he reads? Great videos.
I have a worthless bfa. I studied film, literature is all my own interest.
What camera do you use to record the video?
You're amazing and we know it :) Have you read Julian Barnes' England England? it's about "everything is a copy of a copy" :p
Maybe you should tell us what are difficult books according to you? any contemporary ones? some recommendations?
so.... dont you think its time for "story of the eye?" or "My mother"? ;) . gran trabajo viejo!
Soon Carlos, gracias
best 'booktuber'
Berghain! Great! Greetings from Germany :)
I was like, "Fuck, rain, coffee". :D
He's so gorgeous, tho
another fan from gujarat, IN here
Kinda guessed you were a filmmaker. Someone doesn't just pick up there camera after doing straight into the camera vlogs and create those really quite beautiful videos you've made when traveling.
Nice. a film project!
Can you review The Man Without Qualities by Robert Musil?
What are you gonna do once you hit 10k?
Get a real job.
o:~)
Work is for suckers .
Please review Khaled Hosseini - Kite Runner
The Godfather the movie is way better than the book. But I agree that some of the best movie directors are masters at adapting books. Guys like Kurosawa, Fincher, Scorsese, Kubrick (Even if Stephen King would disagree).
Man..ur reviews r just great......i just wish u may do more film reviews....because other than stuckmann i haven't seen a reviewer worth referring to for films.......anyway would u pls review Hermann Hesse or Philip k dick or Haruki Murakami.......?......
any advice on getting in to the Berg'?
Yukio Mishima? I am in awe of your good taste: Yukio Mishima is my favorite novelist.
I should check out Georges Bataille...
amazing
Hell yeah Techno!! Tommy Four Seven discovered from Love Sex Robots
But do you see them as copies of copies, or, more like generative off-springs? there is a lot of stuff out-there put out by capital as media that does the opposite to breed ignorance. So, that if I read Dostoevsky carefully I come to an understanding of how people relate, feel, certain personalities react in certain ways. You come to know, or, are equipt to empathize with others in real life better. But corporate capital as media stuff is not like that. It is not mean to accomplish this. I play electric guitar, and listening to the places people go to study it formally you can tell how the teachers insist on turning them into almost de-skilled propagandists rather than craftsmen or women of culture. They are very explicit about it.
You lost me with the Tilda Swinton quote. Filmmakers have the right to adapt any book they like. And I do agree with you assessment that you can't ruin the book with a bad adaption - however, for every "In Cold Blood," there's a dozen "Blade Runners." It is, of course, a beautifully shot movie that removes most of the book's content and even adds a love story with Ford and Young.
i listen to electroswing :)
bro, I'm from Oklahoma too!!!