Runaway Horses is the 2nd book of Mishima's Sea of Fertility tetralogy. Although, I know it stands well on its own, you will get much better insight into Mishima by reading all 4 books. Speaking of his suicide, he wrote the last page of the fourth book on the morning of his last day.

I'm still trying to unsee the other Lars von Trier films I've made myself see (specially the Willem Dafoe rusty bolt, Gainsbourg girl rusty scissors, you know the one I mean). I'll cut to the chase this time and not let my eyes anywhere near this one.

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Frost is an excellent read. Bernhard's particular style is quite evident from this first novel. Outwardly, it is one character observing another's endless rant. But it is so rich with dark philosophies and hypnotic prose, not to mention festering sores, you'll love it I'm sure.

Yeah, I can tell I'm going to be obsessed with Bernhard and will end up reading all his books. It looks like Woodcutters is part of a trilogy starting with Losers which sounds like a winner to me.

Perhaps . . . check out this essay on slow cinema, http://www.16-9.dk/2008-11/… Names a lot of directors known for long takes which come across as a narrative-stalling tactic.

"signature long takes, which come across as a narrative-stalling tactic"
Sounds like my kind of movie. I love long, slow films with not much story. May have to check this out.

I've scored a bunch of Thomas Bernhard books (yay, local used bookstore) and have read his last book, Extinction and his first book, Frost. I'm now on Gargoyles. It took me a couple of books to get a handle on Bernhard but I found reading aloud some of his odd repetitions helped to find his particular writing rhythm.
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GEB is a tough read but extremely rewarding. I had a feeling Bach was some kind of genius but this book gave me an appreciation for what a unique genius he was. And there's always those fun Escher drawings to lighten things up a bit.

I always thought George Harrison should have done an album with John Entwistle and Dave "Death of a Clown" Davies and other "secondary songwriters that get 1 or 2 songs on an album" band members. Call themselves the "Also-ran's" or something like that.

No, I think he meant "New York, which doesn't exist anymore".  That would make more sense.

After all the build up I was somewhat disappointed to find that infamous scene featured a rather small dog, maybe a terrier?  Now, if Divine had happened upon a strapping lab or well-fed mastiff, that would've been impressive.

Max Richter did the soundtrack so don't know if I'll see this but I'll definitely listen to it.

Yeah, he aced that one.

Love his books.  Besides the ones already mentioned, The Nothing Man, is worth a read.  Dripping with sarcasm "Kay cooked with mayonnaise; it was her rod and staff, kitchen-wise.  Mayonnaise was to Kay as can opener is to Newlywed.  I felt reasonably sure that she had whole hogsheads of the stuff concealed in the…

Definitely not Phish or Grace Potter or even Gogol Bordello (one of Eugene's Hutz's homes - his folks still live here).  Captain Beefheart did a wicked, awesome cover of "Moonlight in Vermont" so that's my choice.

Howard Da Silva as Chickamaw is one of cinema's greatest bad-asses.  Up there with William Talman in The Hitchhiker.

Musashi is super fun!

The Cinema of Bela Tarr: The Circle Closes by Andras Balint Kovacs - Very interesting, fairly in-depth analysis of Tarr's movies.  Fleshes out the working relationship with writer Lazlo Krasznahorkai and with his cinematographers.  This book gave me some new insights into Tarr's philosophies.  Recommended
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Sad to lose one of our famous Sephardim.  We still have Neil Sedaka, though.  Go, Sephardi!