Tag Archives: documentary film

Werner Herzog… eating shoes, fearing chickens, and exploring the desolation of mankind with hypnotised actors

By Mark | May 6, 2014

It’s not at all how I intended to spend this evening, but, thanks to stumbling on an epic Metafilter post about Werner Herzog, I’m now jumping around between the 43 of his films which can be found streaming online. At the moment, I’m knee deep in Herz aus Glas (Heart of Glass), Herzog’s 1976 film […]

Posted in Art and Culture, Uncategorized | Also tagged aimlessness, art film, chickens, desolation, Film, glassblowing, Heart of Glass, Herz aus Glas, hypnosis, Joaquin Phoenix, John Waters, Klaus Kinski, murder plots, Roger Ebert, sense of purpose, shoe eating, shoes, Werner Herzog | 10 Comments

The Untold History of Zines…. Robert Helms on Guinea Pig Zero

By Mark | February 23, 2014

In an attempt to better document the American underground press, or at least the sharp, rusty sliver of it that infected me 20-some years ago, I’ve given myself the task of interviewing all of the zine folks that I respected back in the day, during the period which many of us still consider to be […]

Posted in Art and Culture, Special Projects, Uncategorized | Also tagged Abbott Labs, abortion, Agent 355, alcoholism, Alexis Buss, Alexis St. Martin, Alison Lewis, Ameoterone, American revolution, Anarchism and the Black Revolution, anarchists, anarchy, atheist, Auschwitz, Betsy Ross, Big Cheese, bioethics, bossicide, Brew Squat, Bruce Orr, cats, Centereach, cheese, cheese money, chocolate, clinical trials, death penalty, digestion, Dishwasher, Donald McCabe, Donno Layton, drug development, Edgar Allan Poe, Eva Mozes Kor, experiments, France, Free Voice, freethinker, fuck, gene therapy, Guinea Pig Zero, Harper’s, health care, Hershey’s Kisses, human guinea pig, human test subjects, Indianapolis, International Workers of the World, IWW, James Bond, Jeff Kelly, Jesse Gelsinger, Johnson Space Center, Jonestown, Josef Mengele, Keffo, Kenosha, Kinko's, labor law, Lehigh Valley, liver, Long Island, lying, Mackinac Island, medical experimentation, Mumia Abu-Jamal, Nazis, Neptune, New Jersey, New York Times Magazine, Off Label, ornithine transcarbamylase deficiency, patient zero, Paul Gelsinger, Pennsylvania, Pete Jordan, pharmacokinetics, Phil Buchanan, Philadelphia, placebos, printing, Prozac, psych drugs, Randall Phillip, Ritalin, Robert Helms, scams, secret agents, sleep deprivation, SmithKline Beecham, squats, stomach, syphilis, Temp Slave, The Age of Reason, The Untold History of Zines, This American Life, Thomas Paine, Tuskegee syphilis experiment, twins, underground press, union organizing, unions, University of Pennsylvania, vasovagal syncope, William Beaumont, Wisconsin, Wobblies, Wooden Shoe Books, workplace violence, Wyeth-Ayerst, zines | 13 Comments

Davy Rothbart on following hunches, being persistent, ceding control, and beating David Duchovny to the punch: The story of Medora

By Mark | December 11, 2013

This Thursday night, the documentary Medora will be making its Michigan debut at Ann Arbor’s historic Michigan Theater. The film, which is the most recent production of Found Magazine’s Davy Rothbart, is ostensibly about a small town basketball team’s seemingly impossible struggle to break a two-year losing streak. As you quickly realize when you watch […]

Posted in Ann Arbor, Art and Culture | Also tagged 8 Ball, American dream, Andrew Cohn, Bain Capital, basketball, Beachside Films, Byron Case, Chaz Cowles, Cory Booker, David Duchovny, Davy Rothbart, deindustrialization, Dylan McSoley, ESPN, Film, Found Magazine, Gummo, high school, Hoop Dreams, Hoosiers, Indiana, John Branch, Kansas City, Kickstarter, Little Miss Sunshine, manufacturing, Mary Manhardt, Medora, Medora Hornets, midwest, My Heart Is an Idiot, New York Times, Perry Street Tavern, poverty, Rusty Rogers, Safety Not Guaranteed, school consolidation, Stanley Tucci, Street Fight, The Farm: Life Inside Angola Prison, underdogs, Zach Fish | 14 Comments

Talking boudin, crawfish and Burger King milkshakes with Southern Foodways Alliance oral historian Amy C. Evans

By Mark | March 16, 2013

I had the occasion a few months ago, when doing some research into “the ham of my people” (country ham with redeye gravy), to stumble onto the work of Amy C. Evans, the award-winning, Mississippi-based oral historian of the Southern Foodways Alliance. On a whim, I sent her a random collection of questions, and, as […]

Posted in Food, History, Mark's Life, Other | Also tagged A. L. "Unk" Quick, Alisa Lay, Allan Benton, American Studies, Apalachicola, Atlanta, Bacon, barbecue, Bill Tinker, boudin, Burger King, Caju, Center for the Study of Southern Culture, chicken, Collins Oyster Company, country ham, crawfish, Crawfish Shack Seafood, Down the Bayou, Edna Stewart, Florida, Florida’s Forgotten Coast, fried chicken, Georgia, Gloria Quick, gumbo, Gus’s World Famous Fried Chicken, ham, Hieu Pham, Hurricane Katrina, Joe York, John Saucier, Kentucky, Leann Hines, Levee Run Farm, Liberty, Louisiana, Memphis, Mimi Gladys, Mississippi, New Orleans, Oral History Association, pork, remoulade, satsumas, Saucier’s Sausage Kitchen, sausage, SFA Founders’ Oral History Project, Souther Foodways Alliance, Southern Boudin Trail, southern food, Southern Studies, Sugarcane, tamale, Tennessee, the south, University of Mississippi, Vietnamese food | 14 Comments

Anecdotal evidence from Ohio would seem to indicate not only that Obama will lose, but that humans are not long for this earth

By Mark | November 3, 2012

Yesterday, I posted some encouraging anecdotal evidence that, in the wake of Romney’s lie about Chrysler closing down Jeep manufacturing facilities in Ohio, the electoral tide in the Buckeye State might be turning toward Obama. Here, in the interest of journalistic integrity, is some equally anecdotal evidence that would seem to indicate otherwise. The following […]