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Los Angeles, California I'm a twentysomething white male with ambitions to be a professional film critic and generally spend my days getting paid to watch movies and write about it. I try not to think too hard about how I want to build my life around talking about other people's creations and not mine. A compulsive reader and stubborn cineaste, I take an often contrary stance to my more fundamentalist peers and upbringing by celebrating the pursuit of the good, and the Good, in life, love, art and film. If you watched enough episodes of a few TV shows ("The Hungry and the Hunted," "The Cut Man Cometh," "The Body," "Waiting in the Wings," "Out of Gas," "April is the Cruelest Month," "20 Hours in America," "Colonial Day" for starters), you would understand me completely, and you'd also realize that much of my worldview and philosophical insights are heavily influenced by fictional works/programs, and many of the good things I've said in my life are just a regurgitation of someone else's imaginings. I guess I was made to be a film critic. This Month
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Dan Carlson
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PopMatters' Best TV of 2006
[link goes to PopMatters.com] The Best Films of 2006 The Best Documentaries of 2006 The Dead Girl Smokin' Aces Monday, December 25
December 2006
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Dan Carlson
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The Oh in Ohio
"Nightmares & Dreamscapes" [link goes to PopMatters.com] Lady in the Water A look at Rushmore Wednesday, June 28
June 2006
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on Wed 28 Jun 2006 04:56 AM PDT
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May 2006
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Dan Carlson
on Tue 30 May 2006 02:42 AM PDT
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April 2006
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Dan Carlson
on Fri 28 Apr 2006 05:13 PM PDT
Brick
Lucky Number Slevin Friends With Money "Patton Oswalt: No Reason to Complain" [link goes to PopMatters.com] Hard Candy Kinky Boots "Dave Attell's Insomniac Tour" [link goes to PopMatters.com] The Sentinel Stick It Monday, March 6
March 2006
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Dave Chappelle's Block Party
The Libertine "The Apprentice" [link goes to PopMatters.com] Ask the Dust Thank You For Smoking Inside Man Slither Tuesday, February 21
February 2006
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Dan Carlson
on Tue 21 Feb 2006 07:37 PM PST
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January 2006
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December 2005
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Dan Carlson
on Fri 02 Dec 2005 05:35 PM PST
Syriana
Memoirs of a Geisha King Kong Brokeback Mountain [links back to Slowly Going Bald] The Producers Munich Friday, November 4
November 2005
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Dan Carlson
on Fri 04 Nov 2005 05:37 PM PST
Chicken Little
Jarhead [links back to Slowly Going Bald] Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire Yours, Mine & Ours Saturday, October 8
October 2005
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Dan Carlson
on Sat 08 Oct 2005 05:38 PM PDT
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September 2005
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August 2005
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Dan Carlson
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July 2005
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Yes
War of the Worlds [links back to Slowly Going Bald] Murderball March of the Penguins Hustle & Flow Friday, June 10
June 2005
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Dan Carlson
on Fri 10 Jun 2005 05:42 PM PDT
Essay on Ocean's 12 and John Barth
[link goes to www.metaphilm.com] Batman Begins [links back to Slowly Going Bald] Rize Tuesday, May 10
May 2005
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Dan Carlson
on Tue 10 May 2005 05:43 PM PDT
CD Review: Hacienda Brothers, Hacienda Brothers
[link goes to AmericanaRoots.com] Star Wars: Episode III—Revenge of the Sith [links back to Slowly Going Bald] Sunday, April 10
April 2005
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Sin City
[links back to Slowly Going Bald] Essay about editing/censorship [links back to Slowly Going Bald] Monday, March 7
March 2005
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Dan Carlson
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The Jacket
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Remembering speechlessly we seek the great forgotten language, the lost lane-end into heaven, a stone, a leaf, an unfound door. Where? When?
O lost, and by the wind grieved, ghost, come back again. — Look Homeward, Angel, Thomas Wolfe Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives. — John Stuart Mill We are all under the same mental calamity; we have all forgotten our names. We have all forgotten what we really are. All that we call common sense and rationality and practicality and positivism only means that for certain dead levels of our life we forget that we have forgotten. All that we call spirit and art and ecstasy only means that for one awful instant we remember that we forget. — G.K. Chesterton We were, for the briefest of moments, something greater than the sum of our uncertain parts; we were youth itself, in all its painful glory and sharp joy. — August Van Zorn There is a time in the lives of most writers when they are vulnerable, when the vivid dreams and ambitions of childhood seem to pale in the harsh sunlight of what we call the real world. In short, there's a time when things can go either way. — Stephen King Los Angeles, give me some of you! Los Angeles come to me the way I came to you, my feet over your streets, you pretty town I loved you so much, you sad flower in the sand, you pretty town. — Ask the Dust, John Fante |
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