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House, a 1977 film by Nobuhiko Obayashi « Hong Kong In The 60s

Toho’s decision to let this outsider direct a feature demonstrated the crisis facing Japan’s traditionally rigid film industry at the time. Obayashi was asked by desperate Toho executives to deliver “the Japanese Jaws“, and House (Hausu) is what he came up with.

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july 2010 by WIZARDISHUNGRY

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UbuWeb Sound - Bidoun Magazine - Art & Culture from the Middle East

Electronic Music and Films from the Middle Eastern Avant-Garde (1959-2001) In collaboration with Bidoun Magazine, UbuWeb is pleased to bring you the first installment of a trove of rarely heard and seen Middle Eastern culture. We begin by featuring six historic electronic musicians and sound poets: Dariush Dolat-Shahi Electronic music, Tar and Setar (1985) and Otashgah (1986) ; Halim El-Dabh Leiyla Visitations (1959) ; Forough Farrokhzad Radio Tehran Sessions (1962-1964) ; Ali Reza Mashayekhi Electronic Music (1970-2001) ; Bijan Mofid Shahreh Ghesseh (1967); and Ilhan Mimaroglu Electronic Music (1964-1983). We are also pleased to present three films: Forough Farrokhzad's The House is Black / Khaneh Siyah Ast (1962); Albert Lamorisse's Baadeh Sabah / The Lovers' Wind / Vent Des Amoureux (1970/1978); and Ali Akbar Sadeghi's Malek Khorshid (1975). Keep checking back for future installments: there's much more to come.

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june 2009 by WIZARDISHUNGRY

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Links that stink on news sites. - By Jack Shafer - Slate Magazine

The real sin here is how extraneous links induce link shyness: When the time comes that the reader will benefit from clicking on a link, he'll not bother because the site has taught him its links are worthless.

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april 2008 by WIZARDISHUNGRY

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Ulli's Roy Orbison in Cling-film site

Hello, and welcome to my homepage. My name is Ulrich Haarbürste and I like to write stories about Roy Orbison being wrapped up in cling-film. If you have written any stories about Roy being completely wrapped in clingfilm please send them to me and I may

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october 2007 by WIZARDISHUNGRY

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I’d Twit It at Like It Matters

Note to press release copywriters — see if you can do this too. Imagine that someone like me would cut and paste directly from the press release into a Twitter tweet if only there were 140 characters in the release that adequately summed things up

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august 2007 by WIZARDISHUNGRY

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Goodbye to All that by Joan Didion

all the movies I had ever seen and all the songs I had ever read about New York, informed me that it would never be quite the same again. In fact it never was.

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may 2007 by WIZARDISHUNGRY

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