Hmm

My buddy Ben is moving to California next week and he's coming over tonight for dinner. Alas. :/

Week End...

...is one of my favorite Godard movies, second perhaps only to Contempt. So I had a frickin hilarious dream. Me and some friends were out and somehow we got asked to play. I asked if anyone had any requests, being mockingly cocky, and someone wanted Band of Horses. I immediately launched into Ode to LRC. Hah. It was rad.

This is a totally random post. We watched Taxi to the Dark Side for our Survey of Documentary final and I ended it (the reflection paper we had to write) with some cheese:

If the first casualty of war is truth, then the war documentary must act as a sort of resurrector and should shake the foundations of Heaven and Hell and raise the dead.

Cleaning day.

Final in Survey of Documentary Class, various other things

Final in survey of documentary class today at 7pm. I have questions for a take-home final, an essay to write, and I'm hoping to make up a couple of the missing reflection papers from throughout the term. I'm watching Fast, Cheap, & Out of Control by Errol Morris right now, and it is quite good.

I missed an appointment with my neurologist last week, which kinda sucks, but I'm too busy with this final now to worry about it much. Look for my essays at my other blog --

Monday, 3/16/09

Still working my way slowly through Ozu's films. I'm on Early Spring now, which is his last black and white film before his transition into color with Equinox Flower. Ranking my top 5 Ozu films goes a little something like this:

1. Floating Weeds
2. Late Spring
3. Tokyo Story
4. An Autumn Afternoon
5. I Was Born, But...

I have just three to go and I've seen everything readily available in the states (region 1, at least).

Tuesday morning

I'm working on getting through a few different books. The graphic novel Swamp-Thing, which is really excellent, and a couple of "true crime" books on Jack the Ripper, who may or may not be real it seems. I was out and about at the pawn shops perusing their collection when I stumbled across From Hell. Ever since V for Vendetta, I've been curious about Alan Moore.

"I find film in its modern form to be quite bullying. It spoon-feeds us, which has the effect of watering down our collective cultural imagination. It is as if we are freshly hatched birds looking up with our mouths open waiting for Hollywood to feed us more regurgitated worms. The Watchmen film sounds like more regurgitated worms. I for one am sick of worms. Can't we get something else? Perhaps some takeout? Even Chinese worms would be a nice change." - Alan Moore, Los Angeles Times, 9/18/08.

I am also still working my way through the short stories of Dave Eggers.

The Ide(a)s of March

So Sunday with Ozu was extraordinarily intense. The three films we saw, Late Spring, Floating Weeds, and Tokyo Story, were all very powerful and I'm grateful to have experienced them. My friend Jenny came along, and we had pizza and a good time was had by all.

April brings 4 films by Henri-Georges Clouzot, often touted as the French Hitchcock. I've only seen Wages of Fear and I'm excited to see a few of his others, and to see that one again.

I see my neurologist on Wednesday.