15 August 2010
By StephenTorrence
In Podcast
For the past couple of decades the indomitable Kevin Smith has proudly distinguished himself as a maker of funny, poignant, and outrageously vulgar cinema. We at BF are huge fans of Smith’s work and felt that it was high time to devote an episode of our show to discussing the facets of his genius. Appropriately [...]
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Army of Darkness, Askewniverse, Ben Affleck, Chasing Amy, Clerks, Clerks II, comics, Cop Out, Dilbert, Dogma, Dude Where's My Car?, Fred Phelps, furries, gender, God, Good Will Hunting, graphic novels, Green Hornet, Hollywood, homosexuality, hype, J. J. Abrams, Jay and Silent Bob, Jeffrey Combs, Jersey Girl, Joss Whedon, Just a Geek, Kevin, Kevin Smith, Kickass, Kiki, larping, Lord of the Rings, Mallrats, Matt Damon, movies, Plato, profanity, Red State, religion, Rosario Dawson, Sam Raimi, Scott Adams, Scott Pilgrim, Scott Pilgrim vs. The World, Sean William Scott, Seth Rogan, Smodcast, Spiderman, Stephen, The Avengers, Watchmen, Westboro Baptist Church, Wil Wheaton, Zack and Miri Make a Porno
30 July 2010
By StephenTorrence
In Podcast
Recently the wild and brilliant imagination of Christopher Nolan brought forth a true gem of a movie, Inception. It’s been making good money and getting rave reviews all around, and for good reason. It’s a heady and philosophical and hence right up our rabbit trail. This time Kevin Saunders and Kiki Canon joined me to [...]
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Alamo Drafthouse, allegory of the cave, Batman Begins, Brick, CGI, Christopher Nolan, consequentialism, David Fincher, dreams, emotion, epistemology, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, ethics, Fight Club, Groundhog Day, happiness, Hollywood, ideas, Inception, Insomnia, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Kevin, Kiki, Leonardo DiCaprio, LOST, lucid dreams, M. Night Shyamalan, Memento, movie pickles, movies, perception, phenomenology, Plato, reality, Rifftrax, Spiderman, Stephen, The Dark Knight, The Matrix, The Prestige, The Sixth Sense, The Social Network, US Postal Service, zombies, zombocalypse
28 November 2009
By StephenTorrence
In Podcast
Have you ever been sitting in a horror movie and right after that moment when the bad guy leaps out and you spring about four inches off your seat, turned to yourself and gone “Why did I do that? I know this isn’t real.” If so, then you’ve most definitely experienced the Paradox of Fiction. [...]
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aesthetics, Batman, belief, Blair Witch Project, children, Cloverfield, Colin Radford, comics, Dan Arieli, Dr. Hick, emotion, epistemology, fear, fiction, Gran Torino, Guitar Hero, Harry Potter, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, horror, Jackie Chan, Kevin, make-believe, meta, Michael Myers, movies, paradox of fiction, Plato, Predictably Irrational, rationality, Saturday Night Live, Saw, sharks, Sherlock Holmes, Stephen, Superman, theatre, zombies
22 October 2009
By StephenTorrence
In Podcast
We hear a lot of talk these days about “Integrity,” and how it’s all good to have and such. But what does it even mean to have integrity? In this episode BF took a trip to Curzertown (the realm of Texas Tech philosophy professor Dr. Howard Curzer) to find out the answer. Ad-hoc philosopher Michael [...]
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acting, Aristotle, authenticity, Barbie, Bernard Williams, Cheshire Calhoun, consistency, counter-culture, democracy, espionage, ethics, existentialism, generalism, healthcare, Hegel, honesty, Howard Curzer, identity, integrity, James Joyce, leadership, love, marriage, meta, Michael H, Nietzsche, Plato, politics, power, rational anarchy, Rene Descartes, sci-fi, Socrates, Star Wars, Stephen, StrengthsQuest, Texas Tech University, truthfulness, virtue, Wikipedia
06 October 2009
By StephenTorrence
In Podcast
Input, Achiever, Restorative, Deliberative… to many these are but a few odd-sounding words, but to those of us here at BF they are the vocabulary of success and self-knowledge itself. They are Strengths, as defined by the Gallup Organization’s StrengthsFinder assessment. This past weekend Jay Killough of Texas Tech University Career Services joined us to [...]
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beer, Chip Anderson, Don Clifton, Facebook, Gallup, hope, horoscopes, Jay Killough, Jediah, Kevin, Martin Siligman, mathematics, nature, Ning, nurture, Plato, psychology, Punk IPA, Rackspace, skill, sociology, Socrates, statistics, Stephen, StrengthsQuest, success, talent, Texas Tech University, Warren Ellis, weakness
