tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-55968412024-02-08T10:52:33.771+00:00Humour MeIs this what it's going to be like ...?Padraighttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11304352310415121690noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5596841.post-1137362772309942362006-01-15T21:51:00.000+00:002006-01-15T22:06:12.350+00:00$ [Subject-Barred]Humour-Me has re-positioned in the Blogosphere as$"In this context, I'm delighted to announce the arrival of another high-quality, high-concept weblog. Subject Barred is the new blog of my long-time net pal and alt.movies.kubrick veteran Padraig L Henry. Padraig's consistently brilliant posts at amk, often corruscating, always ridiculously well-informed, reference-glutted and insight-heavy, but Padraighttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11304352310415121690noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5596841.post-1134780681416534252005-12-17T00:24:00.000+00:002005-12-17T00:51:21.446+00:00Kapital's [hysterical] Obstacles to the Impossible [I]"It is the world itself that resists domination.""This is the Lacanian wager: is not our culture, the way we structure the symbolic edifice of our culture, only an attempt to come to terms with some kind of traumatic impossibility? If we recognize our culture as an ultimately failed attempt to symbolize some antagonism, some real deadlock, this allows us to read the other's culture as an attempt Padraighttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11304352310415121690noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5596841.post-1134688457920971732005-12-15T23:14:00.000+00:002005-12-15T23:14:17.936+00:00Gap of the Real now sustained over at ... $Padraighttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11304352310415121690noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5596841.post-1063330749455267792003-09-12T02:33:00.000+01:002003-09-12T02:42:52.543+01:00Despotic Malcolm finally gets his Ruth Sobotka fantasyThough there's quite a diverse spattering of interesting films doing the cut-throat, mincing-machine rounds of recent international film festivals (Venice, Toronto, etc) - for instance, look out for Jane Campian's graphically explicit, lower Manhatten-set serial-killer thriller In The Cut [expected to be this season's "most talked about movie"], Stephen Fry's Bright Young Things [with its Padraighttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11304352310415121690noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5596841.post-1063166234344191832003-09-10T04:57:00.000+01:002003-09-10T04:57:14.200+01:00Protest Comparisons With VietnamAn anti-war activist recently wrote:
Soldiers like US marine Lance Corporal Stephen Funk who refused to report for duty in January and has since been sentenced to 6 months in jail, are speaking at anti-war rallies across the States. Obviously the situation is not identical to Vietnam where there was an organised national liberation struggle, but parallels are being drawn.
I can certainly Padraighttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11304352310415121690noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5596841.post-1062123487876218792003-08-29T03:18:00.000+01:002003-08-29T03:18:07.893+01:00Iraq Under OccupationThe bombing of the UN Headquarters in Baghdad last week has refocused attention on the fact that 4 months after major combat was declared finished, this war is by no means over.
Iraq under occupation is a bloody mess, with mounting civilian casualties and deaths, no functioning infrastructure and a growing resistance movement that threatens to force the US out. The men who took the world to Padraighttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11304352310415121690noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5596841.post-1060749174503452082003-08-13T05:32:00.000+01:002003-08-13T05:39:17.563+01:00What Next For Cuba
Cuba, for the current US Administration, is an easy target [and certainly if an article such as This, written by a former CIA Agent - an account of how the US infiltrates "civil society" to overthrow governments - has any credibility], a country even more devastated by forty years of trade embargos and US-provoked terrorism than was the case with sanction-weakened Iraq before last March. It Padraighttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11304352310415121690noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5596841.post-1060747275702474212003-08-13T05:01:00.000+01:002003-08-13T05:40:34.403+01:00Flatpanel [consumer sanitised] Po Mo Image Aesthetics
I [mistakenly] conjectured it might constitute a difference that would actually make a difference.
After imagining myself waking lazily onto an unhurried world, and then doing so anyway, I was recently, though once again, suddenly astounded by the [bargain-basement] realisation that, yeah, the world recession is indeed set to sink in even further its well-travelled, pock-marked teeth more Padraighttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11304352310415121690noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5596841.post-1059254741510285152003-07-26T22:25:00.000+01:002003-08-06T23:49:02.940+01:00Away from Kubrick Net...
And thanks here to ...
Mark at K-Punk for enticing me over to hereabouts. Geez, would you really like to know what its like being stuck in a room [whatever its cyberspacial status] with 20-plus "proud" Americans all intent on scapegoating you for their country's moral collapse? Really, don't try this at home, folks [now a naff word] ...Padraighttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11304352310415121690noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5596841.post-1059248084308131832003-07-26T20:34:00.000+01:002003-07-26T20:34:44.240+01:00Why I can't take US film "auteur" indies Seriously...
Fleshing Out The Treatment: Let The Fun Beginegangan.
Project Working Title: The End Of History, Bang! ©
"So, another mock epic is what we really now need. Its great
world-wide box-office now, and what with the critics and audiences
all behind us after Oh Brother, oh brother, hah! This postmodernist
racket is some great gig, ain't it! There's even that film theorist at
UCSB now doin' Padraighttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11304352310415121690noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5596841.post-1058737560153569502003-07-20T22:46:00.000+01:002003-07-20T22:46:00.323+01:00Oh shit, here I am re-emerging from yonder ho, to make no apologies for posting this latest missile from Chompy about the damage inflicted by collateral language hereabouts ...
Collateral Language
An Interview With Noam Chomsky, July 20, 2003
David Barsamian
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Noam Chomsky is Institute Professor in the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy at MIT. He isPadraighttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11304352310415121690noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5596841.post-1058697716982475802003-07-20T11:41:00.000+01:002003-07-20T11:41:57.016+01:00Test Blabber baby from Babel to BabylonPadraighttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11304352310415121690noreply@blogger.com