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Hey everyone, no surprises here, I wish I were as charismatic as Glenn O’Brien
TALK INTO YOUR TIE
Later I knew a bunch of underground filmmakers and cartoonists, I wanted to be part of something — and it happened. My ideal reader was me at 16.
“IN 1958 the writer and independent filmmaker Jonas Mekas contacted Jerry Tallmer, an editor and critic at The Village Voice and asked why the paper, which had started three years earlier, didn’t have a regular movie column. Mr. Tallmer invited Mr. Mekas to write one. He did. His first movie column that year inaugurated The Voice’s extraordinary, decades-long commitment to deeply personal, often political, always partisan, sometimes cranky and wonderfully crazed film criticism written by Andrew Sarris, Molly Haskell, Amy Taubin, Georgia Brown and David Edelstein, among many others, a tradition that effectively came to an end this month, when that paper’s longtime senior film critic, J. Hoberman, was laid off and told that his position was being eliminated.”
This is a fucking smart, gabby interview. I loled a few times
More letter formations as troop formations.
Flavius Vegetius. De re Militari. (8vo. No place, no publisher, 1523.)
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