My RSS reader of choice is Google Reader. I like it because it allows easy flagging of posts for later perusal. The main problem is that I rarely go back to them. In an effort to clean things up, I present a glimpse of how my mind works, 10 articles at a time:
The End Of The Road via Scanners
The Devil and Miss Cody via Edward Champion’s Reluctant Habits
Alton Brown Pizza Dough Videos via Slice
Power Moby Dick
Steampunk via The Little Professor
French Novel Of The Decade via Conversational Reading
Det Turm In English Via Conversational Reading
The Jewish Thomas Pynchon via Conversational Reading
100 Films For The Ideal Cinematheque via Alternative Film Guide
Unlocking The European Film Vault via Open Culture
Tag Archive for 'Cormac McCarthy'
Along with he soon-to-be-released The Road and the Todd field helmed Blood Meridian, I see there are two more Cormac McCarthy film adaptations on the way. The first, Outer Dark, is by first time director Stephen Imwalle. You can see some stills here. According to IMDB, it’s only 15 minutes long.
The other is an adaptation of Cities of The Plain, due out in 2012 and directed by Andrew Dominik (The Assassination of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford).
The BBC has a segment on the film adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s The Road. Included is some of Nick Cave’s soundtrack work. Link.
Ben Nichols (of Lucero) talks about and plays songs from his album, The Last Pale Light In The West, on NPR. The album is based on Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian.
Zak Smith, probably best known for his illustrations of Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow, is now working with five other artists to illustrate Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian.
If ever there was a book that deserved the moniker “The Great American Novel,” it’s Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West
Blood Meridian has proved imposing for many a reader. Many give up early on, not being able to deal with the wave after wave of gore. There is a point to all the senseless violence though. After awhile, what is at first shocking, becomes numbing, and then expected. The reader is transported into the hearts of these renegade men, and begins to see things through their eyes.
One of the more remarkable things about Blood Meridian is McCarthy’s prose. McCarthy is a exceptional prose stylist. Much like the austere language of his most recent book, The Road
About a year ago, I was surprised to see that Blood Meridian was going to be made into a film. It had been described to me as an unfilmable book (which I don’t believe to be true). What surprised me even more was that Ridley Scott was going to direct it. Now I’m guessing the average Ridley Scott movie has a hundred million dollar budget and a film version of Blood Meridian doesn’t exactly seem like something that would recoup that type of cash. Then again, after reading the book, maybe only someone like Ridley Scott could do justice to the epic scope of the book. Now, however, it looks like it is set to be writtern and directed by Todd Field (In the Bedroom
On January 20th, Ben Nichols of Lucero will release The Last Pale Light In The West
, a mini L.P. of songs based on Blood Meridian. Check out the title track.
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The Road’s release date has moved to next year…no official date yet.
The two movie posters have me drooling.
