Contempt
Archive for the 'Culture' category
Miller’s Crossing
Can you tell I like the Coen Brothers? This is my favorite movie scene of all time.
Movie Screencaps
Lately, I’ve gotten into the habit of taking screens of movies that i find particularly beautiful. Can any of my three readers figure out what movie these are from?
The “Long Neck Women” of Thailand
For tourists, it seems like the adventure of a lifetime — riding in a jeep through the snake-infested jungle to see the exotic “long-neck women” of the Kayan tribe. But now Zember has removed her coil — in protest of her captivity. She no longer wants to keep Thailand’s shameful secret: that the [...]
The Various Covers of “On The Road”
If you know me in real life or inferred from the previous entry, I enjoy the idea of road trips. That is not to say I don’t like going on road trips, I actually thoroughly enjoy them, but I find the idea of a road trip to be so much more fun. Imagining driving into [...]
Road Movies
I assume the hypothetical Road Movie I was not involved with would have been built on the most elementary of Road Movie clichés: where you’re going doesn’t matter as much as how you get there. But that philosophy raises at least three questions, some of which are equally cliché but all of which [...]