An Introduction

This is a place for me to write about movies I've seen and books I've read.

Why Acid Western? I first saw the phrase used by Chicago Reader film critic Jonathan Rosenbaum. He described Jim Jarmusch's movie, "Dead Man" (1996) as an "acid western" because of the film's "inability to distinguish between inner consciousness and external reality," but also because the movie exhibits an artistic and political sensibility that took root in the 1960s and '70s which proposed "the replacement of capitalism with alternative models of social exchange."