Armond White vs Gary Indiana on Christianity & Bresson

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there is no middle ground for Armond White. Every review discusses a film that is either a masterwork that no one else understands, or an overhyped piece of trash that everyone else likes. His ego is so gigantic that he needs to stand apart from the pack, and he just can't be taken seriously.

― gear (gear), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 22:06 (eighteen years ago) link

The Voice made Weather Man a 'pick.' I enjoy Armond (when he hates something you hate, he's thrilling) but Gear has a point.

I haven't seen any of those films yet though.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 22:12 (eighteen years ago) link

Both Gear and Morbius OTM. White can certainly be a great read and, on occasionally, he's insightful but most of the time it feels like he's reaching.

Has anyone read the journal he edits?

― C0L1N B... (C0L1N B...), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 22:36 (eighteen years ago) link

Everybody OTM. Let the new era of ILF love begin!

― k/l (Ken L), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 22:42 (eighteen years ago) link

actually i'll still take armond white over any music writer for the village voice.

― gear (gear), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 22:47 (eighteen years ago) link

three years pass...

http://img8.imageshack.us/img8/1897/armondwhiteisntinsane.jpg

― amateurist, Friday, 14 August 2009 19:19 (fourteen years ago) link

can't believe that list forgot 'torque', which he will simply not stfu about.

― omar little, Friday, 14 August 2009 19:21 (fourteen years ago) link

what can he say, he's a dork 4 torque

― if i have a child i will name it satan (latebloomer), Saturday, 15 August 2009 08:33 (fourteen years ago) link

ha, he liked The Foot Fist Way?

― if i have a child i will name it satan (latebloomer), Saturday, 15 August 2009 08:34 (fourteen years ago) link

who'd a thunk it, armond white and i have something n common

― if i have a child i will name it satan (latebloomer), Saturday, 15 August 2009 08:35 (fourteen years ago) link

other than us both being raving lunatics, obv.

― if i have a child i will name it satan (latebloomer), Saturday, 15 August 2009 14:13 (fourteen years ago) link

I saw Torque in the theater.

It was fucking stupid.

― Your heartbeat soun like sasquatch feet (polyphonic), Wednesday, 19 August 2009 06:27 (fourteen years ago) link

http://www.nypress.com/article-18530-hell-hath-obvious-limits.html

The Ting Tings offer a sassy refutation of ignominy and alienation—themes that ought to be at the heart of Hellboy's story of a housebroken miscreant (standing in for the formerly misunderstood teen). The Golden Army is too snarkily satisfied with its illusion of subversion to actually examine the issue of inherited cynicism (Hellboy fights a evil scion who wants to usurp his father's throne and command an underground army—"a harbinger of death, the unstoppable tide"). This idea was also handled better in Adam Sandler's 2000 Little Nicky, a sketch-comedy revue about an individual (the son of Satan) discovering his own morality. The Ting Tings' exuberance celebrates what Sandler's persevering half-demon/half-angel desired. Their cheekiness, like Nicky's irreverence, subtly reconsiders modern ethics and identity—themes Hellboy fails to accomplish.

― i have the new brutal truth if you want it (latebloomer), Friday, 21 August 2009 04:45 (fourteen years ago) link

six years pass...

anyone read any of gary indiana's fiction books? i just started horse crazy, enjoying it. also bought three month fever on a recommendation, the one about andrew cunanan.

― japanese mage (LocalGarda), Tuesday, 5 April 2016 21:58 (eight years ago) link

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