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Monday, December 16, 2013

The Grapes of Wrath is a 1939 novel by John Steinbeck

Then she hoisted her tired body up and drew the comforter about her. She moved slowly to the corner and stood looking down at the wasted face, into the wide, frightened eyes. Then slowly she lay down beside him. He shook his head slowly from side to side. Rose of Sharon loosened one side of the blanket and bared her breast. 
— Beginning of the last paragraph

Wednesday, December 5, 2012

Sons of Anarchy is a 2008/- television series by Kurt Sutter

I love you.
Everyone


Tells the tale of an outlaw motorcycle club operating in a fictional Californian town, whose main form of expression and most repeated words are the ones quoted. They spit those three words more times in one only season of the series than in the whole Twilight Saga. Makes you want to puke. Another thing, they still refer to the Northern Irish capital as the war-torn Belfast. Great.

Friday, September 21, 2012

Hate to Say I Told You So is a 2000 song by The Hives

Hate to say I told you so.
I do believe I told you so.
 —  Swedish garage rock band

Friday, September 14, 2012

Mary and Max is a 2009 clay-animated film by Adam Elliot

Mary Dinkle's eyes were the colour of muddy puddles. Her birthmark, the colour of poo.
Omniscient narrator describing Mary in the film's first words


Adam Elliot is an independent stop-motion animation writer and director from Australia. His films have a bittersweet nature to them. Based loosely on his family and friends, Elliot calls each of his works a Clayography – clay animated biography. Utilising a large team of animators and modelmakers each film takes several years to complete. He is noted for his use of traditional 'in-camera' techniques, which means every prop set and character is a 'real' miniature handcrafted object. Elliot does not use digital additions or computer generated imagery to enhance his visual aesthetic. His films have collectively participated in film festivals around the world and have received many awards, including an Oscar for the animated short Harvie Krumpet.

Wednesday, September 12, 2012

Deadwood is a 2004/06 television series by David Milch

Get a fuckin' haircut. Looks like your mother fucked a monkey.
Al Swearengen, Season #01 Episode #10 – “Mr. Wu

Strange Fruit is a 1939 song performed by Billie Holiday

Southern trees bear a strange fruit,
Blood on the leaves and blood at the root,
Black body swinging in the Southern breeze,
Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees.

Pastoral scene of the gallant South,
The bulging eyes and the twisted mouth,
Scent of magnolia sweet and fresh,
And the sudden smell of burning flesh!

Here is a fruit for the crows to pluck,
For the rain to gather, for the wind to suck,
For the sun to rot, for a tree to drop,
Here is a strange and bitter crop.
— Poem written by writer, teacher and song-writer Abel Meeropol and most famously performed by Billy Holiday



Fort Lauderdale, Florida, 19 July 1935 (Photograph by Associated Press)

On July 19, 1935, a woman named Marion Jones in Fort Lauderdale, Florida made a complaint against a black man who had appeared at her door.In no time, Rubin Stacy was picked up by authorities and while he was being escorted to the Dade County jail in Miami, Florida, he was forcibly taken by a white mob. The mob returned the thirty-two year old man to Fort Lauderdale and hanged him outside Jones’ home. However, the investigation revealed that Stacy was nothing more than a homeless tenant farmer who had gone to the Jones home, asking for food. When Marion Jones saw him, she became frightened and screamed. The white mob had never even given Stacy the chance of discovering the facts before he died at the end of a rope.

Saturday, September 8, 2012

Of Mice and Men is a 1937 novel by John Steinbeck

Never you mind. A guy got to sometimes.
— Slim understands and approves George's choice


It tells the tragic story of George Milton and Lennie Small, two displaced migrant ranch workers, who move from place to place in search of new job opportunities during the Great Depression in California, USA. They have a plan: earn enough dough to buy a place for themselves and live of the land and, principally, the rabbits. Big, guiltless and harmful Lennie has hulkian powers which can euphemistically hurt even if not intended. Small, witty and clever enough George, torn between constant feelings of love and hatred towards Lennie, knows his lifelong friend can't control his actions.


The Great Depression became of worldwide affectation with the U.S. stock market crash of October 29, 1929 (known as Black Tuesday).

Tuesday, August 28, 2012

The Catcher in the Rye is a 1951 novel by J. D. Salinger

That depressed the hell out of me.
— Holden Caulfield

Monday, August 6, 2012

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