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	<title>Liz Brown</title>
	<link>http://www.killfee.net</link>
	<description>Articles, essays, blog</description>
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		<title>Kill Fee, 2005-2009. Queerantino, 2009-</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I started Kill Fee in 2005 as a kind of clearinghouse for writing clips and blog musings, and now four years later I’ve decided to retire the site’s blog aspect. I’m still planning to maintain the homepage as a static site with links to reviews and updates for new articles—so please do check back—but my [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.killfee.net/2009/12/27/kill-fee-2005-2009-queerantino-2009/</link>
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		<title>at the bookstore</title>
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Observed without comment.
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		<link>http://www.killfee.net/2009/10/23/at-the-bookstore/</link>
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		<title>diagramming sentiments</title>
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From an article in today&#8217;s New York Times about the emerging field of sentiment analysis:
a preponderance of adjectives often signals a high degree of subjectivity, while noun- and verb-heavy statements tend toward a more neutral point of view.
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		<link>http://www.killfee.net/2009/08/24/diagramming-sentiments/</link>
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		<title>Museyon interview</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have a short Q&#038;A over at the Museyon Guides website about film and travel, and earlier this week Tom Beer also talked about some of his favorite film moments. 

(Tech rehearsal for In the Air screening.)
In the Q&#038;A I mention the last film I saw, which was Liza’s new film In the Air. This [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.killfee.net/2009/08/14/museyon-interview/</link>
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		<title>Baedaker goes to the movies</title>
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Last month Museyon Guides launched three extremely handsome guidebooks about film and travel. The New York Times recently ran a short piece about the series. 
I contributed articles about film locations in San Francisco and Italy, which made for a highly enjoyable research process: The Conversation, Dirty Harry, The Birds, Bullitt, Invasion of the Body [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.killfee.net/2009/07/08/baedaker-goes-to-the-movies/</link>
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		<title>Biography and music</title>
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One of my recurring frustrations with entertainment biographies is overdocumentation. Concert dates, recording sessions, studio memos pile up as if the profusion of unmediated data will ultimately transmit a deeper understanding of the performer. Usually, though, all that minutiae just ends up obscuring the subject. That you learn a singer took a fifteen-minute break during [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.killfee.net/2009/07/07/biography-and-music/</link>
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		<title>More Michael Jackson</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The other day Liza pointed out this passage in Mary Gaitskill’s Veronica:
A car rolled up and got stopped in traffic in front of us. Music poured from the radio, carrying a voice that was all smooth and elegant, except burps and grunts kept popping out of it like a baby trying to talk. “She says [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.killfee.net/2009/07/05/more-michael-jackson/</link>
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		<title>Love and theft</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Since reading Susie Boyt&#8217;s memoir, I&#8217;ve been thinking a lot about Judy Garland and Michael Jackson&#8211;as have others&#8211;and I found this clip on YouTube. It&#8217;s Michael Jackson doing Fred Astaire&#8217;s moves while singing “Get Happy,” one of Judy Garland&#8217;s signature songs, and it&#8217;s totally riveting. The melody is so decidedly hers, but the voice is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.killfee.net/2009/07/03/love-and-theft/</link>
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		<title>Memoir and music</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Forty years ago a massively popular performer died from a drug overdose. Judy Garland was 47 at the time. Her fan base was enormous. Some 20,000 people lined up to view her body at the Frank E. Campbell Funeral Chapel on Madison Avenue. 
Susie Boyt, who was born a few months before Garland’s death, has [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.killfee.net/2009/07/03/memoir-and-music/</link>
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		<title>Michael Jackson, King of Pop</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My grandmother was born in 1905 and I don’t remember her having much interest in the popular culture of my childhood. I just don’t think she paid that much attention to a lot of what was on television and the radio in the 70s and 80s. But she always loved to watch Michael Jackson move.
Here [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.killfee.net/2009/06/25/michael-jackson-king-of-pop/</link>
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