A look at the week ahead #2

Nothing too monumental going on. Tonight I need to do a bunch of organizing. I always need to do a bunch of organizing!
Time to stop writing betimes and start writing all the time. I need to work my way through all of Muriel and I need to start my second book on Woody Allen.
Maybe hoops? Reading, growing, learning. Make steps toward change. Mensch werden sit eine kunst.

"Sex here is sterile, breeding not life and fulfillment but disgust, accidia, and unanswerable questions. It is not easy today to accept the perpetuation and multiplication of life as ultimate ends.". Notes on The Waste Land, from T.S. Eliot, edited by Hugh Kenner.

Sadly, that is all life is. That's it. We breed and maintain. The sad element isn't that this is all that remains of value in life. the sad part is that this isn't enough to make life worth living for most people.
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Friday Life #2

Friday morning!  Trivia night #3, here we go.  The Billage People?  Yes.

Need to see Woody's To Rome With Love this weekend, do a bunch of cleaning and laundry Saturday morning.  :)  That's all that is on the list.

Film #3: 7/17/12

I am eking my way through Alain Resnais' Muriel.  It's incredibly good but very tough to follow.  :)

A Look at the Week Ahead #1

Cliff notes version:

Work.  New schedule lets me in at 1130 so it should be that much easier :)  New Film Quarterly to peruse on lunch and I have to take care of some Board of Pharmacy stuff.  Here we go!

Saturday Life #1

Ok, it's really Sunday morning, 3am, but I need to get this shit going, so here I go!

Going to meet a new lady for coffee at 9am.  Then I'm having breakfast with my friend Amy@The Vintage.  I need to crash, so that's what I'm going to do.

Music #1

Trying to make it a point to commit the discography of certain artists to my memory.  Here's a brief, hastily drawn list --

The Beatles

Beethoven

Bach

Bad Brains

Black Flag

Black Sabbath

Bob Dylan

The Clash

David Bowie

Frank Zappa

John Coltrane

Joy Division

King Crimson

Led Zeppelin

Louis Armstrong

Miles Davis

Minor Threat

Mozart

My Bloody Valentine

Neil Young

Nirvana

Ornette Coleman

Pink Floyd

Radiohead

The Rolling Stones

The Roots

Rush

The Velvet Underground

Film #2: 6/5/12

This is a bit older and should have been published, but here you go :)  I need to get caught up.
Last films viewed:

1. Cross of Iron, Peckinpah, 1977, 10.0

What more can be said? This film used high-tech editing and cutting before the ADHD generation snorted crushed-up oxycontin to it. James Coburn is amazing. It's hilarious, brutal, and masterful. It's the best war movie this humble movie reviewer has ever seen.

2. Breaking the Waves, von Trier, 1996, 7.6/10
Dark, obsessive, von Trier in so many ways.  I don't want to ruin anything about this film, but I highly recommend it to daring viewers.  The twisted positions that put us in a twisted mindset.

3. Suspiria, Argento, 1977, 6.2/10
Corny and over-the-top, complete with pre-80s music (I love the Goblin soundtrack actually), and neon blood.  

4. Fanny & Alexander, Bergman, 1982, 9.0/10
What to say?  For bringing us into a world which we will and could never know - especially in 21st century USA, we truly become enmeshed in this film.  The priest is chilling and the scene with him and the two brothers is after one viewing one of my favorite scenes in all of cinema.