just got back from california.
i didn’t watch the oscars but i like that a french woman won best actress
and a spanish man won best actor.
see? we’re not too terribly provincial, right?
well, perhaps hollywood isn’t the best indicator of american provincialism.
and ralph nader has declared his candidacy for president.
he’s like an annoying bug at a picnic, or a recurring sinus infection.
is he so attention starved and narcissistic and bored that he has to once again
run for president?
what’s he going for this time, .01% of the vote?
what if we all said, en masse, ‘yes, ralph, we remember you, now will you go away and do whatever it is you do when you’re not launching pointless bids for president?’
what does he do in his free time, manage a quiznos? sell commemorative plates on ebay?
he’s like dryer lint but with less merit and substance.
and what does he really hope to accomplish by running for presidency?
yes, ralph nader helped to put seatbelts in cars. but that was FORTY YEARS AGO.
could some of his friends maybe run an intervention and maybe get him to finally stop
launching utterly pointless presidential bids?
oh, i just read that ‘no country for old men’ won best picture.
that’s good. it’s a genuinely complicated movie.
as it’s so odd i’m surprised:
a-that it was ever made
b-that anyone went to see it
c-that it won best picture
i liked it quite a lot, and
i’m guessing that it’s the least conventional film to ever win an academy award.
the oscars this year almost seem like a european independent film awards show.
do you think that the u.s will ever join the e.u?
maybe build a subway tunnel from cape cod to calais?
with magnets the subway could go really fast.
that would be nice.
as a complete aside, here are my favorite movies of the last 10 years:
1-‘inland empire’ david lynch
2-‘starship troopers’ paul verhoeven
3-‘into great silence’ philip groening
4-‘the south park movie’ the guys who make south park
5-‘dead man walking’ tim robbins
6-‘fireworks’ takeshi kitano
7-‘brown bunny’ vincent gallo
8-‘meet the robinsons’ whoever made ‘meet the robinsons’
9-‘lost highway’ david lynch
10-‘nightwatch’ the russian guy who made ‘nightwatch’
yup, i’m, uh, kind of schizophrenic in my movie tastes.
i really did like ‘brown bunny’. if you watch it to the very end it makes perfect
sense, it’s heartbreaking, and i think it’s a really courageous movie. plus vinnie used to live around
the corner from me and he was always really entertaining.
ok, goodnight.
moby