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Watched: Christmas day edition
20 January 2012
It's Christmas time, and I've been spending it staring at the TV. I'm currently locked into a weird existence where I've been staying up past 4 AM, and then sleeping through any small bits of daylight we might be granted here. It's an easy pattern to fall into when you don't have windows anyway. And now that I'm on Christmas holiday from the day job, there's...
Watched: Frost/Nixon, Unreported World, Milk, Americathon, The Possibility of Hope, Amos Vogel
20 January 2012
When he has finished speaking I can never remember what he has said. there remains only an impression of strangeness, darkness … On television, his face clouds when his name is mentioned. It is as if hearing his name frightens him. Then he stares directly into the camera (an actor’s preempting gaze) and begins to speak. One hears only cadences.
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