“Are you thinking what I’m thinking?” “That if Franz Kafka was here his head would explode?” “Actually, yeah.” It’s difficult to discuss a film like John Dies At The End without having read the book, seeing as the book is a kind of mash-up parody of so many disparate influences, having its own cult following. […]
Tag Archives: Naked Lunch
September
12
John Dies at the End – Don Coscarelli takes on David Wong. (Sydney Underground Film Festival Review)
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November
20
Is Genre Fiction Art? Pt 3: Genre as morality and defender of truth.
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This post has multiple parts. For part one, please go here. Before I launch into my defence of the strange suggestion that genre fiction is the defender of truth and morality and therefore the very opposite of what art is meant to be, let me make a quick statement. By genre fiction, I mean fiction […]
Books that make you undatable
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The H Post ran an article today called “9 Books that make you undatable” that set my mind to wondering. Is there a book that, if seen on a potential lovers night stand, would have me running for the hills? I mean books are very important to me. Are they are worthy barometer for those I want […]
More than Interesting: The Tumours of Matthew Revert.
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In the film ‘We Need to talk about Kevin’ a debate rages (following on from the book) about the nature of Kevin’s psychopathy and his relationship to his mother. Kevin is bad. His mother struggles with his ‘bad-ness’. I‘ve heard this book (and now film) described as the lamentations of the middle class housewife. […]
Lisa Thatcher 