"There's a woman I long to touch, and I'm missin' her so much
But she's drifting like a satellite" (Dylan, 'Where Are You Tonight?')
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"There's a woman I long to touch, and I'm missin' her so much
But she's drifting like a satellite" (Dylan, 'Where Are You Tonight?')
Read it in a couple of days. Hard to put down. His sentences are generally ten words or less and there's a modicum of description, yet he creates full, vibrant imagery. Good work.
"Yes," I said. "Isn't it pretty to think so?"
Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises
Henry Mancini, Lujon
if you go to the link, check out the comments
youtu.be/RjsG3i6L9vw?...
Eddie Fisher, My Favorite Things
heard on Elsbeth
youtu.be/J15_cmZYnHM?...
"In the wilds of Borneo
And the vineyards of Bordeaux..."
G's favorite Ian Dury song.
Wild Side West
Bernal Heights, 1978
youtu.be/2iwMFdmcows?...
Bad Girl and That Guy from "Frankenstein Meets the Space Monster" (from 2024) #ThrowbackThursday
BTW, the guy who played Nadir played the Assman on Seinfeld! He comes in near the end of the clip:
youtu.be/tujqM2u-BVo?...
Nadir and Princess Marcuzan!!
Drifting into the comic tediousness of my 70s, I'm beginning to ID with Keir Dullea in that room at the end of 2001.
Promises from 2025
Now reading. Pleasantly surprised to find the author writing in the voice of a young woman.
Sadly, 100 pages in and there's little reason for me to go on. Ponderous.
Rick Wright originally composed the chord progression in Us and Them when Pink Floyd were recording the soundtrack to Zabriskie Point, specifically to contrast the film's explosion scene. Antonioni nixed it. "Eet's too sad," Antonioni reportedly said. "Eet sounds like church."
"Some folks are born silver spoon in hand
Lord, don't they help themselves..."
Jean-Claude Brialy, Le Fantôme de la liberté
Jean-Claude Brialy, Le Genou de Claire
that line didn't work for me
Michel Legrand, Orson's Theme (F for Fake)
youtu.be/scpgDdGJQTA?...
Agnès Varda, Les glaneurs et la glaneuse
About 50 pages in and I will say Mary can certainly stitch together a sentence.
I'm just starting, so no verdict yet. The two introductions in the 2024 Penguin edition are enlightening, though.
Now reading Mary Shelley's THE LAST MAN. Published in 1826, a couple of years after FRANKENSTEIN. It's set in the late 21st Century when a pandemic and climate change wipe out humanity.
