HBO: Six Feet Under - Obituary
The last episode was one of the most heartbreaking and tender things I’ve ever seen.
Here, HBO has actual obituaries … well, don’t go looking if you haven’t seen the episode yet. But when I ran across them just now, I gasped.
It’s miraculous, when you can feel so close […]

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David Milch is my new hero. His incredible work on Deadwood is one of the great works of (literary? dramatic? cinematic?) art in the 21st century. And I’m not one who is normally given to such statements. Honestly, I think that extremely well-made “series” such as Six Feet Under and Sopranos that have a coherent […]

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This seems wrong on so many levels. The main one for me at the moment, though, is that all these people are using the word “architecture” but nobody’s talking about how the buildings are used. They’re fixating on the outer form.
If architecture is mainly about making wacky shapes on the skyline, then why can’t Brad […]

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Finster’s Poem

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The whole guitar.

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In 1987 some friends and I traveled out to visit the Rev. Howard Finster in Summerville, GA. You may have seen his artwork on albums by REM […]

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For the coolest plastic figurines ever, check out Parastone Mouseion collection. Guaranteed to turn your office cube into a conversation piece.
According to the site: “With the greatest respect for the original works of art the designers of the Parastone studios in The Netherlands have brought to live famous paintings by lifting images […]

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