Media Analyses… My COVID-19 Experience (& Also Thoughts on Shantae) 6 Jun 20206 Jun 2020 So, obviously I've been impacted by the coronavirus pandemic the same as everyone. There were plans I was looking forward to that got cancelled and I had to do without…
Media Analyses… Radley Metzger & the Artistry of Golden Age Porn 29 May 202029 May 2020 I truly cannot emphasize enough how much Femina Ridens has influenced me over the past year. That one perfectly bizarre film, which I only discovered by complete chance, has expanded…
Media Analyses… Reviewing “Presidential Media” (Portraits, Campaign Slogans & Signs, Etc.) 28 May 202028 May 2020 Purely for fun, I decided to take a quick look at all the other uniform aspects of a Presidential campaign and legacy. Here are some quick thoughts about each... Presidential…
Media Analyses My Favorite Episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation 27 May 202027 May 2020 Over the last six months or so, my boyfriend and I have been watching Star Trek TNG off and on. [Have I given him an astrology-inspired pseudonym yet? Fuck it,…
Media Analyses To Kill in Silence (1972) New Developments in an Ongoing Treasure Hunt 23 May 202024 May 2020 Even though I've already got a copy, I've still been holding out hope these last two weeks for a cleaner print of Uccidere in Silenzio to make its appearance. Yesterday…
Media Analyses To Kill in Silence (1972) Fractured, Forgotten & Flawed 10 May 202017 May 2020 It all began with Stelvio Cipriani's beautiful compositions and the algorithms dictating YouTube's music playlists. That's what introduced me to Femina Ridens nearly a year ago, and that film in…
Media Analyses… Beautiful Easter Fantasy 5 Apr 20205 Apr 2020 Easter Beagle was always my favorite Peanuts special. I love how Snoopy, a dog with no understanding of Easter itself or why the eggs matter, is just so taken in…
Media Analyses… My Favorite Works of Art Across Multiple Forms of Media 19 Mar 202027 May 2020 It was one year ago today that I registered the domain name for "theCarbonFreeze.com" and started posting! It's been a lot of fun uploading some of my old essays which…
Media Analyses… My Reaction to Bojack Horseman (1/?) What the Show Means to Me 19 Mar 202019 Mar 2020 So, Bojack Horseman. This is a really special show to a lot of people, myself included, and I've been meaning to put my thoughts to paper for a long time.…
Media Analyses Femina Ridens (1969) Addendum: Novelization & Alternate Cuts of the Film 18 Mar 202027 Mar 2020 So this post will be like an unofficial "sequel" to my earlier analysis of Femina Ridens (aka The Laughing Woman). I hadn't originally intended to do a follow-up but by…
Media Analyses… The Overlooked Brilliance of Femina Ridens (1969) 9 Feb 202027 May 2020 I'll just come right out with it; Femina Ridens is an absolute masterpiece. Not merely a magnum opus among soft-core erotica, or of Euro-exploitation movies, or of Italian "sleaze," nor…
Media Analyses… Disney Star Wars’ Problems Began with The Force Awakens (& I Called it in ’15) 5 Jan 20209 May 2020 I have been skeptical of Disney's acquisition of Star Wars ever since they jettisoned the EU and hired JJ Abrams as director for the first installment. I discussed this, and…
Media Analyses How Casablanca Builds Up Rick Blaine to the Audience 4 Jan 20204 Jan 2020 You know a movie is great when it's not just the "big scenes" but the little ones which gives the audience something to think about. This is the first time…
Media Analyses The Godfather Part II is the Most Profound Story Ever Told (2/2) 29 Dec 2019 [You'll have to forgive all the shuffling around and editing in real time that's happened to this post. It grew so large to where I needed to divide it in…
Media Analyses The Godfather Part II is the Most Profound Story Ever Told (1/2) 29 Dec 201929 Dec 2019 [You'll have to forgive all the shuffling around and editing in real time that's happened to this post. It grew so large to where I needed to divide it in…
Media Analyses… Beautiful Christmas Fantasy 15 Dec 201915 Dec 2019 Off-off Broadway is far from the best Louis Theroux film, but still a great watch. If you click the video, it begins at Louis' strained audition for a role in…
Media Analyses Thoughts on Brian Wilson Solo Material 8 Dec 20198 Dec 2019 I always had this idyllic picture of Brian's solo career before I started delving in. I imagined that surely, these must be great works of art that he'd always wanted…
Media Analyses SMiLE (Appendix) Sources for Further Reading 24 Nov 20198 Dec 2019 I hope you enjoyed my "thesis" on SMiLE, 4 years in the making if we start from '15 when the first essays which would go on to become part of…
Media Analyses SMiLE (14/14) Symphony of the Stars 24 Nov 20198 Dec 2019 Recently, I decided to take the concept of astrology and look further into SMiLE for connections. I'll confess outright that it probably wasn't Brian's intention that every track embody an…
Media Analyses SMiLE (13/14) Mute Muses 23 Nov 20198 Dec 2019 In this section, I'm going to outline Brian's New Age philosophies which he was into during the SMiLE sessions. This is ordered by how much I think each ideology was…
Media Analyses SMiLE (12/14) The Gospels of Siegal & Hutton 23 Nov 201923 Nov 2019 Jules Siegal's Account ("Goodbye Surfing, Hello God") 1) So...did Brian actually destroy the master of Fire? Vosse, Anderle, and now Siegal all agree on that. So if that's the case, how…
Media Analyses SMiLE (11/14) The Gospel of Anderle 23 Nov 201923 Nov 2019 These are my musings on Part I of the interview that David Anderle had given to Crawdaddy magazine. The "up arrows" indicate a related piece of evidence which appeared later…
Media Analyses SMiLE (10/14) The Gospel of Vosse 23 Nov 201923 Nov 2019 In these next four essays, I'm going to analyze what the members of the so-called Vosse Posse have said about the album in editorials or interviews. Initially, these commentaries were…
Media Analyses SMiLE (9/14) Psychedelic Sounds Disc 2 Commentary 10 Nov 201923 Nov 2019 Continuing from our last installment, this is my "commentary track" for the Psychedelic Sounds, now reacting to the tracks on Disc 2. 1. Taxi CabberWe know this was an impromptu…
Media Analyses SMiLE (8/14) Psychedelic Sounds Disc 1 Commentary 10 Nov 201923 Nov 2019 The Psychedelic Sounds bootleg is an invaluable peek into the themes running through Brian's mind during the height of the SMiLE Era, and in my opinion contains some rough working…
Media Analyses SMiLE (7/14) The Elements & Other Leftovers 10 Nov 201923 Nov 2019 The Elements Fire makes me feel scared and stressed out. Apart from sounding like fire engines speeding towards a raging inferno, it also sounds like a perfect representation of dread. It's an…
Media Analyses SMiLE (6/14) The Innocence Tracks 10 Nov 201923 Nov 2019 Continuing off from last time, these are my observations on the SMiLE songs I believe would have fit on Side 2, all centering on a theme of childhood innocence and…
Media Analyses SMiLE (5/14) The Americana Tracks 10 Nov 201923 Nov 2019 In these next three sections of my SMiLE "thesis" I will examine the individual tracks which comprise the album according to their common themes (or in the final essay, the…
Media Analyses… SMiLE (4/14) My Fan Mixes 28 Oct 201914 Mar 2020 I'm going to continue my in-depth dissection of all things SMiLE with a look at my changing understanding of it as the years have gone by, mix by mix. (I'm…
Media Analyses SMiLE (3/14) The Structure of the Lost ’67 Album 20 Oct 201923 Nov 2019 Let this "chapter" of my SMiLE analysis serve as the outline for what I think the project would have been if finished on time. The future installments of this series…
