Word: couchful
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About halfway through “Blade Runner,” Harrison Ford sits down on a couch with a glass of liquor and inserts a photograph into a machine that looks like the bastard child of a dishwasher and a used VCR. It’s called an “Esper.” Its purpose? To vividly zoom in on any given portion of a photo, revealing clues to those who seek them. If there’s a metaphor for the experience of watching “Blade Runner,” this scene...
...come across a YouTube link for Tegan and Sara’s video for “The Con.” The meek opening chords, when coupled with successive shots of a nervously-jiggling, Converse-clad foot, followed by Tegan draped melancholically on a therapist’s couch, set the angst factor rather high. The ashy tones and urban feel just ooze somberness. The girls betray just enough tongue-in-cheek sensibility, however, that we’re willing to stomach some lonesome bed-writhing. The story is simple and possibly symbolic (more on that later). Sara goes...
...competitors, from World of Warcraft to that Miss Teen USA chick on YouTube, writers may need to dial down their expectations, and executives, their arrogance. Like news anchors and magazine writers, they no longer have the captive audiences or exalted places they once had, when Americans sat on the couch for prime time as though it were mandated in the Constitution. If they close down Capistrano for too long, the swallows might not all come back. The danger isn't anger; it's apathy...
...been very useful to accommodate human guilt and a human lifestyle to think, "Well, that's just a stationary object that can take care of itself." In fact, while they aren't a pack animal, they're very sociable. Cats who sit on the back of a couch and don't even look at you when you come into the room and stare out the window - what they really are is depressed and lonely, and they've learned how to survive in a highly understimulated environment. To me, that's not very kind...
...first time I watched “The Nightmare Before Christmas,” I hid under the couch and then locked the video in the closet. I also slept with a baby blanket until middle school. But in my later and wiser years, I realized there’s a lot more to his film than the average seven-year old can appreciate. Tim Burton brings to the otherwise staid genre of holiday films a freshly twisted execution, even though Santa saves Christmas in the end. That’s not to say that I don?...