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Todd
Grimson
Contributing Writer
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1.
the last 16 minutes of LA PASSION BEATRICE [dir.
bertrand tavernier] in which julie delpy sees a little
boy eat dirt, her older brother dressed like a girl and
humiliated, the witch she hired to murder her father is
burned, the two boys who stole from the castle are found
dead hung from a tree, her birds have been killed, and
when she goes in to see her father he sees the knife she's
carrying and points at his heart, says: "Right here."
2.
"Tend My Garden" by the James Gang [1969], those
handclaps atop the organ riff. More 1969: "Oh Well" by
Peter Green's brand of Fleetwood Mac. James Gang [same
album] "Funk#49."
3. Codeine
is legal in Canada. 8mg per pill vs 30mg in the well-known
but going-out-of-fashion Tylenol 3. You have to ask the
pharmacist and act like you know what you're doing.
Codeine cough syrup will really get you off the first
night [just ask "The Basketball Diaries" Jim Carroll],
but if you try a repeat performance the next day true
euphoria's hard to find. Codeine is great for heroin withdrawal
["the Danish cure"] because you can wean yourself and
scientifically reduce the dose each day without so
much trauma to the opiate receptors in your brain.
4.
boobjobs
5. tan-lines
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6.
"Contempt" and "The Conformist" by
Alberto Moravia, two novels which arern't bad but were
translated into much better films, the former with Brigitte
Bardot and Jack Palance directed by Jean-Luc Godard [with
orders to show more ass], the latter the best film by
Bertolucci with Dominique Sanda and Jean-Louis Trintignant
and a much better ending than the book.
7.
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8. other novels better than
"The Magic Mountain" but in same league: "The Sleepwalkers"
by Hermann Broch [which even has lady wrestlers in 1920s
Berlin]; "The Man Without Qualities" by Robert Musil [which
everyone thinks is a tough read but it's not after yeah
a slow start, it has a serial killer and some very cool
incest on the verge]; "Berlin Alexanderplatz" by Alfred
Doblin [the story of petty criminal and pimp Franz Biberkopf
with chapter titles like 'Franz Biberkopf Buys a Veal
Cutlet' -- of course you know Fassbinder did a 15 hour
TV version, but the conversational stream-of-consciousness
here cannot repeat could not ever be filmed]; "The
Radetzsky March" by Joseph Roth [okay, scratch this one].
better than "Buddenbrooks" and if you want anything else
about Austria pre-WWI read "Wittgenstein's Vienna" ---
Joseph Roth's "Confessions of a Murderer" is also good]
9. "My name is Jerry Fred
McCoy," he said, and I believed him. Why?
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