Advice for Spring: treat yourself to a Mubi subscription. You lot easily can [buy one for my birthday!]. I’d sup on that ‘nipple’ at least twice a month! Nothing else, you’ll prove more intelligent than those shmucks out there! Most these movies you won’t find anywhere else in America. Festival circuit over. Not even your local library [rights/distribution issues]. The BAFTA award winning How to Have Sex now online. Initially, oh no, cinema verily of ‘slags’, Ibiza, sex. The longer you watch the more empathic all is. The more one remembers one’s own ‘fabulous’ drunken youth slumped over a vitrine vomiting. Director Molly Manning Walker makes all seem effortless. So much so that the ending could pass as mere aside. Which it is on the Tara’s part. The pain, more melancholy inside so short, so long, pain palpable. Well, maybe next year.
ANDREW’s Weird Wednesday Movie.
Never have mentioned Bill Maher on this website. Totally nails everything all at once, nowadays. So much so, HBO seems reluctant to full release anything of this show new and free on the internet! [The YouTube app proffers better than the internet] Don’t make fun of ‘roofers’ Mr. Maher! I know for facts many roofers enjoy their chosen occupation! Get well paid. Screw up always a second chance. Just. Celebrity, long way to fall thru public eyes. Throwing potato salad at museum Monet for climate change: totally agree on that.
John Oliver continues to enlighten, educate and depress. Couldn’t the vegetables like break into song and dance like Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, John? My legume is available for hire! Or was that the Medicaid ep? Everything blurring, everything, everywhere, all at once.
Never thought 90min of Stormy Daniels would be riveting, fascinating worthy of our time. America!
Hacking away vines today, wish they could talk. Move over there and do whatever you want. Green climbers welcome. Stay here, I’m gonna have to kill ya! Now, at only 5ft high hidden away on the Thuja branches was an American Robin’s nest. What an architectural wonder. I felt like an invasive ornotho paparizzi! The ‘Almighty’s irony: the eggs totally matched my house’s color scheme. So maybe these chicks will grow up becoming interior designers, pecking at your wallet, spreading their wings. Thus the world turns. A bit disappointed my little photo looks almost the same as the one on the internet! Am I living in a ‘Truman Show’? Is nothing new anymore;(?! No, my life is better! Better ‘workmanship’.
ARBOR DAY [April 26, 2024]
The Salt of the Earth. Photographer Sebastião Salgado and his Instituto Terra of reforestation.
And of course the great Peter Wohlleben
Chekhov inspired a million amazing movie scripts. We wish. A few dozen, here and there. The unspoken. The hesitation. The lack of emancipation from daily ‘round. Vanya’s wilted spirit bouquet of flowers. Hard to see flowers ever again such respendent light.
American novelist Paul Auster has died at age 77. Those novels helped us deal with a world oft making no sense beneath which lurked Auster’s realms of intrigue and fascination. And our own. Today.
Paul was a fan of poet Fernando Pessoa so when I approached him with a project he graciously replied, “I may not be able to do what you want me to do but I’ll do my best.”
The Inner Life of Martin Frost [©2007 Paul Auster] © Picador
Interview with Paul Auster and Siri Hustvedt and how we know a novel is alive, why the novel will never die, and the importance of epigenetics: how stress doesn't change the DNA sequence but can radically effect cells' control of gene activity.
A very disturbing meticulously researched documentary. Law enforcement lessons were hoped to be learned but amongst many weren’t. Is it simply questions of a few bad apples in a barrel? Or is it education that not all 911 calls demand restraint? Seemingly a bottom line in America.
You’d swear Adam McKay and Armando Iannucci had made up this Rwanda immigrant deportation sketch it’s so farcical. Then shelved as too ridiculous. The U.K. government went shopping even asking Costa Rica if they’d do the deed. Without sounding like John Oliver sounding like Oliver:
Who will buy 6,000 immigrants/ Such a camp you never did see/ Who will tie them up with a ribbon/ And make it look good on TV?
She walks into a room and you know she's
uncommonly rare, very unique
peripatetic, poetic and chic
She walks into a room and you know from her
maddening poise, effortless whirl…
Dua: would you entertain the idea of marrying a dua cat approaching ’40 and death’? Well always be ‘feline buddies’…
She's the one!
