Studio8 - Uniting the Arts

greetings Studio Eighties, (this is my suggestions for a nickname for the participants) i have just returned to my region after having done the roadtrip across America, a journey that i have been longing to do but had not done, ever since i read On the Road many years ago. went thru California, Neva...

really a damn good band, or at least the album i've heard is.

i have thought that Desolations Angels is one of his best. but though the whole is somewhat too confused, like formally, to be a whole, there are passages of Visions of Cody that are among the best writing Kerouac produced, in my opinion.

As the Olympics are the most politicized of sporting events, so are election campaigns the most sporty that politics gets. the coverage of party conventions is as meaningless and jovial as sportscasters' coverage of rival teams. issueless idenitifications with established groups, violence and strugg...

the Scream was stolen long ago, when the silly movie Scream was made which used the image of the screaming face in the mask of its murderous character. stupid flick. good painting. the thiefs might have tried to get a ransom or something. selling it would be too risky. maybe some fanatic wants it in...

Let's say you've married a rather dull but dedicated guy who doesn't quite turn you on sexually. He works a lot with his hands and you don't like the feel of them on your smooth soft, skin, say; or maybe you had some traumatic memories of watching your parents copulate in the moonlight. Anyway, one ...

check out Democracy Matters, coming soon to a book stop near you. Cornell West's newest book. the first chapter is essential reading for anyone looking for thoughtful commentary and reflections on the state of American politics and society. lays out with exceptional clarity and eloquence the thesis ...

if you've ever doubted that what is sane or insane is entirely relative then reflect on this thought and actio experiement. if you walk around a few city blocks in a big circle, your activity is considered perfectly normal and even admired as a healthy thing, exercise. if you walk around your apartm...

and to think! i had thought that Cooper's tune "Feed My Frankenstein" was a bold critique of multinational capitalism!

been reading some of his poetry recently, truly gifted poet genius. though also read some strange rumours about his later adult life. does anyone know if it is reliably true that in his merchant days he was involved in human trafficking, i.e. slave trading? i have heard this said but also have heard...

An aesthete

is like an athlete

except

no stinky feet.

i've begun pestering Litkick's to put up a notice / link to this Studio so as to alert more ole Litkickers to its existence, as i myself only found out about this place recently, after suffering from Litkicks withdraway so to speak! i am sure there are plenty 'kickers who do not know where if anywhe...

realized my list was all male directors. so how about: lina Wertmueller's Swept Away (ca. 1975); Pasqualino Settebelleza (ca. 1970s); Love and Anarchy (ca. 1970s) all the rest were fiction so here's some non-fiction. documentaries: ken Burn's Jazz (sorry, cannot remember the names of the directors o...

(hey that sounds like Queerie.) anyway,

how did ye arrive at the name "studioeight" and what does the "tv" signify?

but here are some of my favorites, grouped in no particular ranking but by director. bernardo Bertolucci's The Dreamers (ca. 2003); Partner (ca. 1968) frederico Fellini's 8 1/2 (ca. 1960s) ingmar Bergman's The Seventh Seal (ca. 1957); Persona (ca. 1961); Wild Strawberries (ca. 1958) richard Linklate...