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		<title>machete \/\/ too much/not enough</title>
		<link>http://theavantguardian.org/2010/09/07/machete-too-muchnot-enough/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Sep 2010 12:00:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tyler re</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[danny trejo]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As our intrepid author heads off to Seattle for a spell, he checks in briefly about Robert Rodriguez's newest cinematic effort, Machete.]]></description>
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		<title>welcome back, jonny quest</title>
		<link>http://theavantguardian.org/2010/09/01/welcome-back-jonny-quest/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 12:00:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tyler re</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[pop cult]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our intrepid author, upon forgetting his column deadline while moving to Chicago, bumps into an old friend, Jonny Quest.]]></description>
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		<title>the avantguardian&#8217;s summer movie marathon!</title>
		<link>http://theavantguardian.org/2010/08/11/the-avantguardian-summer-movie-marathon/</link>
		<comments>http://theavantguardian.org/2010/08/11/the-avantguardian-summer-movie-marathon/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Aug 2010 16:00:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tyler re</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[a room with a view]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[aguirre the wrath of god]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[brazil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dirty dancing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[foreign correspondent]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[northfork]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[romantico]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[summer list]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[the man with a movie camera]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[the matrix]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It's summer. That means vacations. So carve out about 20 hours of quality viewing time to soak in these AvantGuardian-approved flicks. From the blockbuster to the obscure, auteurs and class actors get the nod in our Summer Movie Marathon.]]></description>
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		<title>the avantguardian&#8217;s summer playlist!</title>
		<link>http://theavantguardian.org/2010/07/30/the-avantguardians-summer-playlist/</link>
		<comments>http://theavantguardian.org/2010/07/30/the-avantguardians-summer-playlist/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jul 2010 16:21:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tyler re</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fire up your barbecue and drown out Mother Nature's pleasant murmuring with this AvantGuardian summer-flavored playlist. Shut up cicadas! Shut up hoot owls! Rip the lame-ass earbuds out of your iPod and plug in some speakers, sucka, because these warm days won't last forever.]]></description>
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		<title>theavantguardian&#8217;s summer reading list</title>
		<link>http://theavantguardian.org/2010/07/19/theavantguardians-summer-reading-list/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jul 2010 21:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tyler re</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[poetry/ lit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[blake butler]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[colum mccann]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[david mamet]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dubravka ugresic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[haruki murakami]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[jack pendarvis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[jim dodge]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[list]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[norman doidge]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rory raven]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[summer list]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[w.g. sebald]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[We here at the avant guardian like to read books. Or Kindle files. Or graffiti scrawled on the cinderblock walls of gas station restrooms.  Oh really, that&#8217;s what you think of Obama? And thanks for giving me your girlfriend&#8217;s phone number&#8211;maybe I will give her a call. Does she happen to like French cinema? Anyway, here&#8217;s the first of our three summer lists. Stay tuned for our Summer Playlist and Summer Movie Marathon. These are, definitively, the books you&#8217;ll want to read while you&#8217;re in gridlock traffic on your way to an oil-covered beach. Or to a LeBron jersey burning party. Or to lay a bouquet of moonflowers on NASA&#8217;s grave. Awesome by Jack Pendarvis tyler re: says: &#8220;Pyrotechnic funnyman Jack Pendarvis poops out a short-ish novel about a giant named Awesome who goes on an absurd full-throttle quest to recapture his outlandishly glorious human-sized love, Glorious Jones. One of the few books I wish I&#8217;d pooped out; full of profane adventure, the buggering of other giants, the removal of genitals, and a robot butler named Jimmy.&#8221; Fup by Jim Dodge chicken flava says: &#8220;True American Northwest spiritual philosophy in the form of a novella about a duck brimming with humanity [...]]]></description>
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		<title>summer sounds\/\/bark bark bark</title>
		<link>http://theavantguardian.org/2010/07/14/summer-sounds-bark-bark-bark/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jul 2010 12:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tyler re</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[dogs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[to listen with one ear to each summer sound]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[First, let’s exercise our vocabulary muscle, the third most important muscle of all*. &#8220;Noisome&#8221; is a booby-trapped word. It doesn’t mean &#8220;noisy&#8221; for that’s how it ensnares the amateur wordsmiths who would deign to misuse it. Much like &#8220;crapulence&#8221; has nothing to do with actual crap. And much like crapulence**, the definition is much more satisfying. Noisome = noxious, offensive, most often pertaining to smell. Of course, noisy and noisome can be intertwined. Think greasy farts ricocheting off a hard plastic surface.  I call those &#8220;crowd-pleasers.&#8221; Anyway, now that I’ve covered my fart quota, let’s get down to business: dogs in film.  There’s a better segue somewhere*** but we must charge ahead onward forward, like a shark that hunts other sharks. Bulb-nosed early screen actor W.C. Fields once opined: &#8220;Never work with animals or children.&#8221; Sage advice because both are furry, short-legged scene-stealers. They’re shortcuts to the audience’s empathy, there to generate the “ha-ha” or the “aww” moment without any real work. Lazy lazy. But effective. Ignoring starring roles, cinema canines typically fill two roles: joke-fodder and heartstring-tugger.  In I Love You, Man, Jason Segel’s pooch pops up to generate two weak chuckles: his resemblance to his namesake, Anwar Sadat, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>this week on the avant guardian \/\/ blockbuster</title>
		<link>http://theavantguardian.org/2010/07/05/this-week-on-the-avant-guardian-blockbuster/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jul 2010 12:00:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tyler re</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[themes]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The top twenty-five highest grossing movies worldwide. Happy Summer Studio Franchise/Tentpole/Blockbuster Movie Season! 1 Avatar $2,730,182,903 2 Titanic $1,843,201,268 3 The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King $1,119,110,941 4 Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man&#8217;s Chest $1,066,179,725 5 Alice in Wonderland $1,021,778,566 6 The Dark Knight $1,001,921,825 7 Harry Potter and the Philosopher&#8217;s Stone $974,733,550 8 Pirates of the Caribbean: At World&#8217;s End $960,996,492 9 Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix $938,212,738 10 Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince $933,959,197 11 The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers $925,282,504 12 Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace $924,317,558 13 Shrek 2 $919,838,758 14 Jurassic Park $914,691,118 15 Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire $895,921,036 16 Spider-Man 3 $890,871,626 17 Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs $884,784,626 18 Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets $878,643,482 19 The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring $870,761,744 20 Finding Nemo $867,893,978 21 Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith $848,754,768 22 Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen $836,297,228 23 Spider-Man $821,708,551 24 Independence Day $817,400,891 25 Shrek the Third $799,958,162]]></description>
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		<title>me me me and pixar</title>
		<link>http://theavantguardian.org/2010/06/16/me-me-me-and-pixar/</link>
		<comments>http://theavantguardian.org/2010/06/16/me-me-me-and-pixar/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jun 2010 13:00:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tyler re</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[film]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pixar]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[the creative life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[writing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I am a creative lifer.  I’d prefer not to spend this life sentence in solitary confinement, which is why I have screenwriting ambitions as well as heavy literary ambitions.  To me, screenwriting smacks of collaboration: actors, directors, TV writing rooms, craft service, audiences silencing their cell phones in the dark, meddling producers, budget constraints, on-the-fly fixes.  Conversely, I’m well aware of what writing my book is like: headphones on, pen to paper, perhaps a grimace. Of course, I’m lying to you there.  Craft service and meddling producers don’t have anything to do with my scriptwriting.  Not yet at least.  Right now I’m the lone shark chewing my way through pages alone. But it takes a team to turn pages into a movie.  A squad.  Compadres.  Gaffers and best boys oh my. What turns pages into a book?  Glue. I like to collaborate and I also like to say &#8216;fuck-off-and-leave-me-alone.&#8217;  That’s why I harbor both ambitions. Hmm, I’m sort of rambling now, so let’s cut quick to the quick: I like Pixar.  A lot. Here’s why (excluding Wall-E&#8217;s nearly silent film bravado and Dug the dog): they work as a cohesive team to put out incredible movies with clockwork consistency.  Even [...]]]></description>
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		<title>this week on the avant guardian \/\/ simplify the universe</title>
		<link>http://theavantguardian.org/2010/03/15/this-week-on-the-avant-guardian-simplify-the-universe/</link>
		<comments>http://theavantguardian.org/2010/03/15/this-week-on-the-avant-guardian-simplify-the-universe/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 13:00:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tyler re</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s the raw truth: simplification involves destruction.  The world is place of clutter and sprawl.   To simplify is to kill the clutter. Back in 1985, the DC comics universe was a case study in clutter and sprawl.  An expansive roster of characters inhabited a number of parallel universes.  Earth 1!  Earth 2! Earth 3!  Earth B!  Earth X! and so on.  Different Supermen with their own storylines?  Batman has a daughter?  Lex Luthor is a hero on a different Earth? The kahunas at DC were concerned, rightly, that potential readers would be turned off by having to navigate a fictional universe choked with a half-century of comic jetsam.  So they masterminded a 12-issue story arc that would, in the words of writer Marv Wolfman, &#8220;simplify the universe&#8221;.  This meant constructing a narrative that would compress the out-of-control multiple universes into a single neat one.  So, from the brain of Wolfman sprang the &#8220;Crisis on Infinite Earths&#8221; and in an epic comic cleansing, billions of fictional people were scoured from the pages until just a single accessible Earth remained. To show their dedication to this simplification, some fan favorites had to get killed off too, most notably Supergirl and Barry [...]]]></description>
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		<title>what&#8217;s on my list? \/\/ a d.i.y. film festival</title>
		<link>http://theavantguardian.org/2009/12/09/whats-on-my-list-a-d-i-y-film-festival/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 14:00:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tyler re</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[a christmas story]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[diy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[flip]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[jim carret]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[white christmas]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Growing up amidst the maize fields of the great Midwest, I volunteered at a restored movie theater on weekends: single screen, ‘30s era art deco interior, concession stand inside the theater.  The Normal Theater in Normal, Illinois.  My old man took me to see Vertigo when I was ten.  A few months later I worked my first movie: Gone with the Wind.  I worked there for the next thirteen years, until I moved down to Baton Rouge.  That theater is one of the things I miss most about my hometown, especially this time of year, when they have their annual showings of Christmas Vacation, A Christmas Story, It’s a Wonderful Life, and of course, White Christmas.  The packed-to-the-ceiling crowds never fail to sing “White Christmas” at the end of Bing’s Technicolor explosion.  If that doesn’t get you juiced up for mistletoe and eggnog, may a CGI Jim Carrey pull a stocking over your head and kick you down a flight of icy stairs. But the Normal Theater is much more than cozy holiday traditions.  Here’s a sampling of movies I missed in October and November alone: Waltz with Bashir, Moon, Bright Star, The Tingler, The Shining, Young Frankenstein, A Hard [...]]]></description>
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