This Hour of Lead
I watched Before Sunset last night. It was totally refreshing because it was all talk and no action. In fact, talking is foregrounded in the movie. There is strictly speaking no plot at all, and that is so refreshing sometimes. I guess because the director wanted to have a conversational feel to the whole movie, he adopted very long shots throughout. For example, a shot may typically last maybe 4-5 min? And that is a long time in cinematic terms, for that's about 5 pages of script you have to memorise, and not screw up! And Julie Delpy is so good! I love the show.
The weather has been rather cool these couple of days and there's something about weather like this that makes you think, contemplate, reminiscence whatever. I don't know if I'm sad thinkng about the past; there's some inkling of pain left but I don't want to go too deeply into that. I guess I just want to be numb to things for a while.
I've dug out some of my old notebooks and I'm really surprised to see that I'm still feeling the same way about a lot of things 5 years ago. My handwriting has really changed quite a bit though. Hmmm.
RIP John Peel (1939-2004)
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i haven't seen that movie - i am embarassed over my last rental (raising helen) haven't watched it tonight - perhaps later...
anyhow rip peel indeed - i listened to his show sometimes via the internet. what a great musical attitude he had - finding beauty all over the musical map. the world needs folks like him. isn't in amazing that a man, who, although himself made no music (that i know of) could touch people worldwide...
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