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December 08, 2008

The Essence

Lots of musical ridiculousness on this blog.  Songs.  Quotes from songs.  Thoughts on what songs mean.  Questions they raise.

According to Mark Haynes at McSweeney's, I'm overcomplicating things.

Thank you Andrew Sullivan for telling John Gordon about this, and thank you, John, for sharing it with me.
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November 15, 2008

One Thing Led to Another

Back from DC.

Opened Google Reader.

Skimmed a few articles.

Saw that Fred Wilson had written something new.

He saw Slumdog Millionaire last night, loved it, and posted the trailer.

As I started watching, I realized it was the same movie I'd heard Danny Boyle talk about on NPR the other day.  India.  Destiny.  The land of spirit contradictions.  The land of joy and love and beggars that maim themselves because a blind kid fills the coin cup faster than one that can see.

Doyle said he wouldn't have had the courage to make the movie had he known anything substantial about India before he arrived.

I wondered what made him make Trainspotting.

And what made Ewan McGregor make Trainspotting.

And then I thought of Brassed Off, a movie I watched in fast forward, in Culver City, CA, on the Sony lot, working in casting on The Patriot.  We were looking for a love interest for Mel Gibson.  Tara Fitzgerald was an option.  My job was to find all scenes in all movies she'd made in which she either acted well or looked especially beautiful.

One of those scenes I'll never forget.  Ewan and Tara are musicians.  They have romantic history.  It's ancient.  But she's recently back in town, and they've been playing together and then out hanging with a barful of other musicians.  Ewan walks her home.  And they get to her door...

(Imagine amazingly thick non-Parliamentary British accents.)

Tara: Do you want to come up for some coffee?
Ewan: I don't drink coffee.
Tara: I don't either.

Brilliant.
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November 12, 2008

Poetry in the '90s

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