MadInkBeard | Derik A Badman

In a search for the title and author of a particular book I remember reading about, I ended up in my copy of Everyday Life and Cultural Theory: An Introduction by Ben Highmore (Routledge, 2002), where my skimming turned to pages on Surrealism (always a favorite for me): “Surrealism is about an effort, an energy, [...]

Quiet Country Café. A translation of Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou [literally: Record of a Yokohama Shopping Trip] by Ashinano Hitoshi. From Afternoon magazine, Kodansha, 1994-present. For scanlations (that is translated and scanned copies of the original) see: http://ykk.misago.org/ (the first 11 or 12 volumes); http://tadpol.org/ykk/ ; http://www.cafealpha.org/ (the most recent, the former in zip form, the [...]

(1962) Directed by Bernardo Bertolucci. Criterion recently released this dvd of Bertolucci’s first film. He co-wrote the screenplay from a story by Pier Pasolini. It’s a Rashomon structured story involving the police interviewing a number of individuals about a murdered prostitute. The movie is divided into segments showing us (with sometime contradictory voiceover) what the [...]