Random Frame (Barry Lyndon)

When I was a teenager I had the flu and I woke up during the night, right about two in the morning, and I went downstairs to watch a little TV. I thought I’d sit there for a bit and then go back to bed. My brother, whose bedroom was…

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Random Frame (Paths of Glory, Lolita, Dr. Strangelove)

I’m not so sure people listen to music nowadays. (I hope this isn’t one of those “getting old” rants, but it surely is.) When I was young I used to play an album, especially what I expected to be a “serious” album, with the lights dimmed and all of my…

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Browsing Broadens the Mind

As I said yesterday, I don't have the collecting gene. I don't collect photographs, I don't collect cameras, I don't collect books. I do have a collection of books, I'm just not a collector. That's an important distinction. There's also an important distinction between a collection (a bunch of books,…

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