Film about people gearing up for various events of different kinds. Maybe a la ronde, connecting each one. actor, business mtg, break-up etc.
Read moreBeggars
film about how philanthropy has been built into our system as the only way to mollify or correct wrongs. The best and brightest become beggars.
Read moreHart fed me
cereal at the SPAM party at Meghan Boody’s tonight. He was very insistent on putting the puffed kamut and corn flakes right in my mouth. First kind of interaction like this. He was also having a ball.
Read moreSYA 25th
Very moved by this reunion, though in the days following this took the form of a deep sadness. These people were the repository of so many memories that I can’t share with anyone else, and so little effort was made, or felt it seemed, on the part of others, to recapture them. This probably has…
Read moreBook: To the Finland Station
I was captivated by this book as, I guess, an antidote for the sorry state of the world. So much of the history of the idealism behind revolutionary movements has been conveniently overlooked in light of the ghastly history of the Soviet Empire. The equally ghastly conditions spawned by capitalistic empires run amok have been…
Read moreMovie: Crash
TV for the big screen. Some great performances, a few gems of scenes, but all shrink-wrapped to phoney formula. You feel the buttons being pushed and feel that the scenes themselves thrill to no consequence–it’s a hit and run by the filmmakers. Nothing breakthrough, nothing true. Pretty forgettable, Oscar notwithstanding. A Christmas Carol meets LA.
Read morecandle thoughts
I can’t hold a candle to you. It’d burn your hair. A woman reading “US” magazine in the subway. Poring over pictures of downy pears beading with condensation, she a melting candle.
Read moreMovie: Six Shooter
So this short film, which won the Oscar, is the best the world can do? A good actor pitted against a bad actor in a script that…what can I say, is just hollywood writ small. No life, no relevance, no mystery, humor that misses, a few gags. Just some phoney crap by a for some…
Read moreReptile Brain
I’m convinced that without awareness and applied effort to counter it, the typical human consciousness devolves throughout life AWAY from empathy and compassion and toward dogged self-centered survival instinct. Nearly everything that makes life valuable gets lost in that process, pruned away as inessential. You might cite the same thing in sex, where at first…
Read moreSevi & Hart
Sevi running to school this morning accidentally kicks her butt with her upflying foot. Immediately tickled to death by this and keeps repeating it intentionally.
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