Amanda Shires is a poet.
A Crow Looked at Me
A sparse, poetic, gorgeous, shattering, and autobiographical album from Phil Elverum, aka Mount Eerie, about the death of his wife at a young age.
A First-Rate Madness
Over the years, I’ve learned that my bipolar disorder brings me certain gifts. But those gifts often come with a serious cost
“The depressed person is mired in the past; the manic person is obsessed with the future. Both destroy the present in the process. In the worst-case scenario, the depressed person takes her life, the manic ruins hers. In manic-depressive illness, one suffers from both tragic risks.
Yet for all its dangers, mania can confer benefits that psychiatrists and patients both recognize. A key aspect of mania is the liberation of one’s thought processes … the emancipation of the intellect makes normal thinking seem pedestrian.”
Shooting Midnight Cowboy
A seriously detailed study of the making of Midnight Cowboy, a highly-controversial film. Winner of the 1970 Academy Award for Best Picture, this is the kind of intense movie that probably wouldn’t get made in today’s repressive and tremulous culture. It certainly wouldn’t be made by a mainstream studio.
