Media Analyses I Made Two Playlists of Beautiful Italian Film Compositions 10 Apr 202110 Apr 2021 It may be a stereotype but man did those Italians know how to make beautiful music. The soundtracks for a lot of these films I've been watching lately just blow…
Media Analyses Feminine Sexuality in Cinema (2/4) The Libertine (1968) aka La Matriarca 17 Jan 20214 Mar 2021 In my limited experience thus far, I've seen four spectacular Italian films about BDSM: Femina Ridens, Check to the Queen, The Libertine and Devil in the Flesh. Each one explores…
Media Analyses Feminine Sexuality in Cinema (1/4) Intro & Barbarella 19 Dec 20204 Mar 2021 Cannabis is a miraculous substance which I credit for giving me a greater appreciation towards certain works of art. In my experience, to witness a film or album while stoned…
Media Analyses In Defense of DVD Audio Commentaries (& Sharing A Modest Collection of Them) 16 Oct 2020 I've been really interested in DVD audio commentaries lately after listening to Peter Hyams' for Running Scared and John Hughes' for Ferris Bueller's Day Off (the only time he ever…
Media Analyses Additional Recommendations for Lesser-Known Music 11 Oct 20204 Mar 2021 You can consider this a companion piece to my other "playlist" of semi obscure music which I feel deserves a wider audience. To reiterate, I know modern election seasons are…
Media Analyses… Another “Playlist” of Lesser Known Music I Strongly Recommend 8 Oct 20204 Mar 2021 Here's something else to subside some of the dreariness out of the last two days' depressing uploads. One of the very first blog posts I ever made was a giant…
Media Analyses The Most Iconic Song from the Summer of Love 1 Oct 2020 Usually, I prefer to give the spotlight to lesser known people and art on this site when I can. Frankly, I find the articles which just reiterate the same ten…
Media Analyses The Delicate Beauty of Bonnie & Wendy Flower 29 Sep 20204 Mar 2021 One of the first posts on this blog was a list of lesser known albums. In that early series, I talked about classifying old music into different categories of rarity…
Media Analyses… I Finished My Final, Long-Promised, SMiLE Mix (Plus A Special Bonus Project!!) 21 Aug 20204 Mar 2021 We've reached another milestone here at the Carbon Freeze--post #270! If you'll recall, 27 is my favorite number and as a result, it's tradition that I celebrate 27-related anniversaries by…
Media Analyses… Lost Media (2/3) My “Holy Grails” (Audio-Visual) 25 Jun 20204 Mar 2021 So, in the last section, I discussed what lost media means to me, how I came to be acquainted with the topic and works which I've helped save or at…
Media Analyses… Lost Media (1/3) Intro & Searches I’ve Taken Part In 13 Jun 20204 Mar 2021 I have been fascinated by the concept of lost media since I was 16. I was a film buff for years even up to that point, had just gotten around…
Thoughts & Memories My Idea for a Rock Opera 28 May 2020 I was listening to some concept albums and rock operas lately and by the time I was finished, the most overwhelming feeling which came to my mind was exhaustion. Why…
Media Analyses To Kill in Silence (1972) New Developments in an Ongoing Treasure Hunt 26 May 20204 Mar 2021 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 26 May 20204 Mar 2021 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… My Favorite Works of Art Across Multiple Forms of Media 19 Mar 20204 Mar 2021 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… The Overlooked Brilliance of Femina Ridens (1969) 9 Feb 202024 May 2021 I’ll just come right out with it; Femina Ridens (translation: The Laughing Woman) is an absolute masterpiece. Not merely a magnum opus among soft-core erotica, or of Euro-exploitation movies, of Italian “sleaze,” nor…
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…
Thoughts & Memories Post-Modern Religion (1/3) Examining Poly-, Mono-, A- & Pantheism 14 Dec 201922 Dec 2019 This series will delve into my thoughts on religion and its continuing relationship to our lives in a changing world. I'm sure this will lead to a very well-tempered and…
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…
