Hello,
Thank you for looking at this right now
but
remember to embrace the “real world”
and
don’t get lost in this one please.
Enjoy.
This week I have had the opportunity to explore many different forms of media including but not limited to; records, movies, magazines and novels. Here is a list and some thoughts…
MEDULLA by Bjork
If you haven’t heard this record you should give it a listen. If you’ve heard it, give it another listen. Wintertime is the perfect time to listen to Bjork. She might just be the goddess of snow, an angel sent by jack frost to sing us to sleep on nights when we find ourselves squeezing legs to chest in bed, attempting to beat the chill of the winter wind knocking at our doors and howling through the trees at our windows. Or perhaps she is from the future. Here now, in our time to be enjoyed on public transportation, aiding us to obliterate the disconnected feeling one can get while on a bus/train full of people (all looking at their shoes). She is my warm blanket. Listen to this record on headphones and enjoy the “sphere” of sound the pure tones create around your head. Oh and by the way, this record was made only with vocals (with some computer help). Yes, it’s true.
LOOK
DEAD MAN (film) by Jim Jarmusch
I found myself get that feeling watching this movie again this past week. The feeling over takes me, rendering me speechless. This “feeling” comes when I witness something (in this case an artists piece) that is so overwhelmingly “perfect,” to me. It is everything a movie should be. I thought to myself, “this is my favorite movie I’ve ever seen.” I have a hard time describing this feeling and the way this movie makes me feel so please see it for yourself and let me know what you think. AND remember that’s Neil Young doing the soundtrack. Trust me on this one.
THE WORLD DOESN’T END by Charles Simic (poetry/prose)
My good friend Christina Spinelli gave me this collection for the holidays.
“The stone mirror which works poorly.
Nothing in it but dimness. Your dimness or it’s dim-
ness, who’s to say? In the hush your heart sounds
like a black cricket.”
POST PARTUM by The Watery Graves of Portland and/et Geneviève (song)
Listen here
AND A VIDEO
For you.
It IS sideways
So turn your computer or don’t.
(the road is Rt.44 in Mass. The song is Diane Cluck-”The turnaround road.”)
Click Click
Yours,
gb
Dead Man is such a good film. It’s funny, the way you feel when watching Dead Man, that’s the way I feel when watching McCabe & Mrs. Miller, another non-traditional “anti-western”.
I like your style. Very loose and free-flowing. It’s interesting and enjoyable to read.
I haven’t seen that film, but I will be sure to check it out.
and
thank you very much.
I found myself watching ‘Dead Man’ a couple weeks ago! i really appreciate the slow pace of the movie, something not too common in movies nowadays. Jarmusch has this fascination with travel and trains as a metaphor self discovery. I wonder if one can think of that new Wes Anderson flick - Darjeeling Limited - as a non traditional western…hahaha. Maybe, maybe not. Interesting idea to mull over.
Also, i picked up this neat Japanese/French comic that I think you’d like. We’ll have to do another trade. Deal?
why do my words have to be ‘pithy’?