http://unitedmentalforce.com B and Cult cinema, Punk rock, Good reads and more... Wed, 01 Sep 2010 19:20:57 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en It's been a long time since my last post. A lifetime of things have happened between frigid January and these sultry, humid days of Summer. I have a baby (born in May) and have been settling in with parental leave/parenting. I'm still reading and watching movies, although not as frequently ... http://unitedmentalforce.com/?p=62 Wow - that was a long break between posts! I blame vacation, an overinduglence in sleep and the cold slap of too much work when it all came to an end. Anyway, I did end up finishing the Sarah Waters' book a couple of days after I posted about it ... http://unitedmentalforce.com/?p=55 Yesterday I picked up two new (or new-ish) releases: Sarah Water's The Little Stranger and Amitav Ghosh's Sea of Poppies. Both of these of books were Man Booker Prize Finalists. That's a pretty solid accolade (last year's winner was Aravind Adiga for The White Tiger - an AMAZING book), but ... http://unitedmentalforce.com/?p=50 I have a crush on a dead man, his name is was John Cassavetes and he made movies. Many people are familiar with his acting work in such classics as Polanski's Rosemary's Baby - he played Mia Farrow's husband (devil pimp) or Paul Mazursky's 1982 Shakespeare adaptation Tempest where he ... http://unitedmentalforce.com/?p=47 This weekend I hunkered down and read A.S.Byatt's newest release The Children's Book. I like Byatt in general - loved Possession and Angels and Insects - this one, not so much. That's surprising to me especially given the content. The book basically follows the intersecting lives of a series of ... http://unitedmentalforce.com/?p=44 I was at my niece's birthday party today and saw this amazing giant clown head hanging off of an indoor play area wall. Actually, the clown was hanging over the kids climbing apparatus/slide...! How many people do you know with "Clown Fear"? Personally, I've been spared clown anxiety - they ... http://unitedmentalforce.com/?p=29 "Rorschach. The critics who attacked it were afraid of their own erotic impulses or the stunning lack of them; those who applauded the film were driven by their fantasies, haunted by their darknesses..." - Milton Moses Ginsberg from "How To Fall Into Oblivian and Take Your Movie With You" Milton Moses Ginsberg's ... http://unitedmentalforce.com/?p=16 I referenced my interest in Bollywood in this site's inaugural post. So I figured I would get the ball rolling by clarifying (for the YouTube cruising masses) the distinctions that exist in Sub-Continental film. Often, people see a movie clip with South Asian folks and automatically assume that makes it ... http://unitedmentalforce.com/?p=7 United Mental Force is a pop culture blog filtered through my interests (B and cult cinema, books, punk rock, Bollywood etc.) and occasionally my friends' as well. Prepare to read entries that will cruise through music, film, books and more. Some entries will be funny, some will be nerdily informative ... http://unitedmentalforce.com/?p=3