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Blog Announcement, a Canon of Sophian Films & “Epistle to the Apostates”

5 Nov 20212 May 2022
I just wanted to make a quick post to reassure everyone that I'm still alive and still plan to add to theCarbonFreeze going forward. (I have a dozen unfinished essays…
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Free Britney! (Britney Spears as an Aquarian Icon + A Call For Sanity)

21 Jul 202122 Jul 2021
So, I'm late addressing this issue, and thankfully, at the time of writing, it looks like there may already be a light at the end of the tunnel for Britney…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Beautiful Christmas Fantasy

15 Dec 20196 Jul 2021
This post is part of a series of tongue-in-cheek streams of consciousness inspired by the holidays. Off-off Broadway is far from the best Louis Theroux film, but still a great…
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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…

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