I’ve recently had the lovely pleasure of reading an incredibly smart, crafty and erudite book, Masters of the Grotesque: The Cinema of Tim Burton, Terry Gilliam, the Coen Brothers and David Lynch. This is the kind of book that most of us want to write, but very few of us could actually write. Schuy Weishaar […]
I’ve always found it interesting that the Simon and Garfunkel reference to Daniel Berrigan (in Me and Julio Down By the Schoolyard) is about Berrigan bailing the boys out of jail. Seems like it should be the other way around, right? Anyway, let it be known that if the powers-that-be would allow it (TOJ, I love you), I […]
I’m a bit peeved. It’s always been a dream of mine to write a book on the most brilliant anti-war film of all time. No, I’m not talking about All Quiet on the Western Front, The Thin Red Line or Pauly Shores’ In the Army Now. I’m talking about the greatest, quite possibly never-to-be-topped, most […]