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Matt Hanson

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Arts critic: moviesbooksmusicpolitics. Masshole newly established in the land of dreams. Cont. ed at The Arts Fuse and American Purpose. Byline all over the place. Website: www.hansonmatthew.com

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Big Rhymin' and Stealin' fan. That sample!

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www.americanpurpose.com/articles/spr...

The Boss, Whitman, Emerson, the intentional fallacy, the death of the working class, Elvis, Dylan, Vietnam, unemployment, Courtney Cox, Paul Schrader, and the many different ways that you can pump your fist.

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"If Kafka hadn't existed, the post-structuralists would have had to invent him."

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That's right! That's where I knew him from!

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Becca Rothfeld goes big: lit crit, the soul death of Marie Kondo, how the flesh makes you crazy, why it's understandable to eat three plates of pasta in a row, sex for its own sake, wanting to BE a particular novel, and why screwball comedies are sex.

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Very gratifying to finally knuckle under and get some deadlines done. Not complaining, since it was my own fault for letting them go, but still. You get 'em done, and you keep moving forward. Quite a few things coming up soon, and I'm looking forward to sharing them.

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Oscar Wilde's Art of Disobedience. Wilde was one of the wisest people to ever live.

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For me, I can't sit down and say to myself "I am going to write now." It just doesn't work. Instead, I start with something I'm sure of that I want to say and then I just get busy typing. Then the writing is in the rewriting.

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www.bookandfilmglobe.com/film/the-enduring-legacy-of-to-die-for/

My take on the great Gus Van Sant movie which went admittedly went over my head in 1995 and has been recently given the Criterion rollout.

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Sometimes stoicism can be radical.

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I'll say this for the Greatest Generation: there was an assumption of self sacrifice for the greater good. Maybe the Great Depression forced that, I don't know. But I think this gets overlooked. It's a powerful rebuke to the right's Rand-like obsession with selfishness.

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this is part of the problem-- lots of people immediately need to point out the flaws of the ND (and liberalism generally) and they are absolutely right to, and they need to be acknowledged, and then we can say ok so when we try it all over again we will not do that again.

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it's true, and it's something ND liberals should admit, acknowledge, and work to make sure doesn't happen again.

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Massive federal investment under probably the most left wing admin of the 20th C, who won 4 elections in a row by good margins (and yes absolutely did some terrible things as well) beat fascism, saved us from the Depression, and laid the groundwork for midcentury prosperity.

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A point I was really glad to be able to finally get to make in print.

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Guarantee this is a better read than any of the 1,000 purely speculative and deeply stupid "What Trump's Conviction Means for November" pieces that every major media outlet seems intent on grunting out today.

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specifically, falsifying business records in order to cover up a story of him coercing a woman into sex, which he didn’t want coming out because he had just been caught on tape talking about committing sexual assault habitually, that’s important to add

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I personally want to congratulate Donald Trump for finally winning a popular vote

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I think L'Eclisse is the best of his work. I've only seen it once but I couldn't shut up about it for weeks afterwards.

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The 1947 version of The Killers is way better than the original story. Which is one of the better of Hemingway's stories.

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Is there support for the number of Bernie to Trump voters?

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the strategy says a lot about the candidate-- it's not 'this guy has amazing ideas' or whatever it's 'hey don't like the guys running? sign here! don't worry about who it's for'

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Matt Hanson writes that "Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots" was the only record of the Flaming Lips he knew in any real depth; it turns out that the band’s live show was heartwarming, a buoyant and visually exuberant experience. artsfuse.org/291304/

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Steve Provizer on "At the Vanguard of Vinyl: A History of the Long-Playing Record in Jazz" (Duke University Press. Other readers may be more sympathetic to this informative book’s broader conclusions about the rise of LP’s and the “erasure of black bodies and black aesthetics.” artsfuse.org/291337/

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According to Peter Keough Ryûsuke Hamaguchi's "Evil Does Not Exist" is a lucid but dreamlike fable about the often fraught confrontation between humanity and nature. artsfuse.org/292090/f

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I hope the chasmic differences between Trump and Biden's judicial appointees reenters the 2024 conversation soon because I personally think we should, as a voting public, spend much more time thinking about the judges who will effectively rule us for the next 30 years.

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Safe states, either red or blue, aren’t safe as a fact of the universe. They’re safe because people get out there and actually do the thing. California isn’t a blue state because it is decreed, it’s a blue state because a shitload of people vote blue.