Seeing Mike Leigh’s “Kiss of Death” was a great surprise–one I’d long ago missed and didn’t know existed, but with all the elements and the feel of 70s haplessness. The caricatures that nonetheless aren’t hiding nothing. Resolved in a more shaggy way but with much the same placidity as the last scene in “Life is…
Read moreRoberta at 80
Apt strewn so I could note each trip she’d made over the past weeks by the discarded piles.
Read moreCorporate character
with the sunny phoney uncomprehending ruthless disposition of a corporation.
Read moreEmbattled
It’s clear we’ve been born to sleepOr battleBut I’ve been reluctantHow to battle without destroying one’s selfIn the very effortAnd even fretting too much overOne’s fine filamentsIs a blunting.
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Talking Heads
This distaste with “talking heads” as handed down by corporate wonks reviewing film work, is just indicative of the corporate mindset, which has no faculty for understanding what is not explicit or unquantifiable. Rather than see a face talking, conveying as it does the thousand clues and wordless intimations–a feast of emotion and knowledge for…
Read moreElitist dreams
about walking down Parisian boulevards thinking about history drenched places and ways to have sex in them.
Read moreAssociations
Poor with associations, humans. I see boxes around the apartment that say “Poison-Free” and of course the message conveyed is “Poison”. At construction projects along 4th avenue, likely respectable union men sit on folding chairs beside their colossal inflatable rat, dirty stubbly with a cigarette out its mouth. They are the keepers of the rat,…
Read moreI could never be a capitalist
It’s repugnant to me. But that doesn’t mean capitalists are repugnant to me. Some of my best friends are. You see, it’s not a principled stance, it’s a visceral one.
Read moreJacqueline Tern
jack o’ lantern
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