megmogandog

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by megmogandog 4y ago
Just a small point, and I might be mistaken on terminology, but isn't English one of the least phonetic alphabets? afaik most other languages have much more consistent pronunciation, and one of the biggest complaints of English langu
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by megmogandog 4y ago
I have no idea, the whole thing's pretty opaque. You'd think they'd all want to be on all the 'aggregator' sites. Sometimes I've been able to get a better deal going directly to the site of the bookseller. Bibl
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by megmogandog 4y ago
I've been using biblio.com for the last year or so. I don't really know how it works, but lots and lots of independent bookstores sell books through it.
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by megmogandog 4y ago
In that case, here's what I'd say: Tarkovsky, the director, is considered one of the greatest ever. He's not just some random Russian director, or some random 70s director. And he only made seven movies. Based on those facts
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by megmogandog 4y ago
If that's your attitude going in you're probably going to hate it. Why bother?
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by megmogandog 4y ago
Personally I don't find his films boring at all. They are definitely slow-paced, but are totally engrossing for me. I have to assume a lot of the people who praise Tarkovsky so highly also don't find his films "astonishingly
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by megmogandog 4y ago
Sure, these types of critiques have been around since the Frankfurt School, but I think that just shows how ahead of their time the members of the FS were. Adorno gets criticized for painting with too broad a brush, but I feel like he was j
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by megmogandog 4y ago
because your childhood is still ongoing lol
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by megmogandog 4y ago
if you just play around a little bit it's not that hard to figure out
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by megmogandog 4y ago
Presumably that's where the rich students who "don't test well" come from
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by megmogandog 4y ago
"bloody Hampstead" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vYAyq5l2Bs&t=2661s
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by megmogandog 4y ago
It's a shame that any time anyone talks about Underground, they only talk about the cover art and not the music. I think it's one of his best albums, the last by his longest-running quartet, and with a few excellent late tunes — U