The American Friend
Before the film even begins, the title of The American Friend is deeply fascinating. Wim Wenders adapted Patricia Highsmith’s Ripley’s Game for the film, and both the book and the billing order suggest Dennis Hopper as Tom Ripley is the protagonist (Yes, that Tom Ripley). Introducing him as a friend predicates his existence on dependence.…
Loveless
There are plenty of ways to build tension in music. Dissonance, unresolved harmonies, repetition, and crescendo have been skillfully deployed over the many years that music has been written. The response to the build up is more challenging. Many fall into the same harmonic traps, and many more fail to place anything worth remembering in…
The Big Sleep
The Big Sleep is a Philip Marlowe film. As a novice film noir fan, I was excited for my first foray into the film output surrounding the hard boiled icon, hoping for the ideal film noir. Closing in on seventy years removed from the genre’s hay day, much of the cream that has risen to…
You’re Living All Over Me
The first twenty-five seconds of Dinosaur Jr.’s second album are furious. A drum fill announces the alien, soaring guita,r and three wails (courtesy of Sonic Youth’s Lee Ranaldo), before this cerebral beauty concedes to an excellent indie rock song. Evident from this moment and later experiment Poledo, Dino Jr. could’ve made an incredible and unique…
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