The Checkout Counter #27
January 2025
Decalogue I
Holy Feast and Holy Fast
Cria!
Film
- Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl, 2024fun! loved to see the return of the silent and expressionless penguin that scared me shitless when i first watched the wrong trousers as a kid. like all stop motion films, it's easy to forget how much craft and painstaking process went into each frame.
Animation, comedy, adventure. Wallace invents a gnome that seems to develop a mind of its own. An old foe uses this to his advantage. - Decalogue I (Dekalog, jeden), 1989this film's use of the lime-green light that emits from a computer screen is incredible. really haunting imagery to compliment an equally haunting story.
Drama. A professor and computer hobbyist raises his young son to look to science for answers. - A Short Film About Killing (Krótki film o zabijaniu), 1988
Drama, crime. Follows a taxi driver, a lawyer, and a young delinquent as their lives cross paths. - Cria! (Cría cuervos), 1976
Drama. Three orphan sisters are raised by their aunt in a stately home in Madrid. After seeing both of her parents die, the middle child becomes obsessed with death.
Games
- 31st March, Midnight, Prof. Lily
Visual novel. A game developer works on a new spinoff for an up-and-coming studio. - BLUEJEWELED, brandonhare
Puzzle. A mod for Bejeweled 3.
Books
- Holy Feast and Holy Fast, Caroline Walker Bynumsuch an incredible wealth of research and historical analysis here, packed into a dense read that took some dedication to get through. it lost me a bit in the last section; when the author draws conclusions and considers contemporary times, it's harder to follow and feels pretty outdated (it was published nearly 40 years ago!).
i highlighted so many sections of this book, so it's difficult to pick out the things that stood out to me: but what i remember most is that medieval people really loved slime and goo, and some methods of self-inflicted religious suffering were truly grotesque, and that women saints were very similar to the idea of the witch.
Nonfiction, history. Thoroughly examines the religious significance of food to medieval women, drawing from accounts of women saints.
Articles & essays
- On First Looking into Brand’s Whole Earth Catalog, Damon Krukowski
- Casual Viewing, Will Tavlin
- Phone Too Big, Rachelle Hampton
Blogs
- Another Planet, bcj pics
- david lynch, surasshu
Around the web
- Everyone's a Syndicate
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