http://www.mograbs.com/mograbs/blog The Free Market of Signs & Signifiers Mon, 23 Aug 2010 01:58:25 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://www.mograbs.com/mograbs/blog/index.php/the-vhs-stack-serial-1980-bill-persky-rented-lips-1988-robert-downey-sr/ http://www.mograbs.com/mograbs/blog/index.php/the-vhs-stack-serial-1980-bill-persky-rented-lips-1988-robert-downey-sr/#comments Wed, 10 Jun 2009 06:54:36 +0000 admin http://www.mograbs.com/mograbs/blog/?p=1835 Martin Mull, the comedic persona, plays best the sardonic professional whose common sense is tyrannized by an unruly, nonsensical world. In Serial that world is the New-Age ethos turning everyone into Esalen zombies; in Rented Lips it is Hollywood, a stand-in for all forces that apparently stifle creative expression. Mull does not countenance idealism and [...]]]> http://www.mograbs.com/mograbs/blog/index.php/the-vhs-stack-serial-1980-bill-persky-rented-lips-1988-robert-downey-sr/feed/ 0