No Content, Some Links
I realize my blog has been pretty low on original content and commentary lately, probably due to the continuing effects of working as an attorney and having a six-month-old baby daughter, combined with the difficulty of writing about interesting legal/technological topics without touching on anything I’m actually working on in my job so as to preserve client confidentiality. I have a number of interesting issues to write about, I just haven’t figured out the right way to do it yet.
So, to continue with the “no original content” theme, here’s a great film about the President’s speechalist.
Entirely unrelatedly, I’ll put in a plug for Paris, Texas, the latest occupant of my “current favorite film” slot. I’ve enjoyed all of Wim Wenders films, but this one may take the cake.
Also, while I’m on an atypical blog entry, I’ll be in Chicago around Christmastime. I figured—what better place to take a vacation in the dead of winter than Chicago, where the temperature can stay below 0 for days on end and the wind sometimes blows you into the frozen lake?
Nathan Jan 28
Adam– Hey, just dropping in on your blog to see how things are going. Joanna and I saw Wender’s movie “Don’t Come Knockin” in Paris (they don’t dub the good movies). We both thoroughly enjoyed, especially some the wonderful style of dircection exemplified by such scenes as the “fight” between Sam Shephard and Jessica Lange, so emotional, so intense, and yet, staged in front of a store-front workout gym with someone on a treadmill and someone else on a stationary bicycle watching the whole thing. Or the time-lapse scene as Sam Shephard sits on that great couch in the middle of the street waiting for his daughter “Sky” to come back–wonderful image.
Joanna and I remarked on the similarity between this film and “Broken Flowers”–both a kind of filmography of Amerca underwritten by a narrative about existential crises. Joanna came out in favor of Wenders, but I came out in favor of Jarmusch, for exactly the same reason. Wenders hints at resolution, enlightenment and recovery whereas I think Jarmusch leaves the question much more open-ended.
Anyway, thought I’d drop you some thoughts. Hope you’re doing well.
Perhaps you’ll be pleased to know that I’ve picked up “I Knoe you Rider” and “Redemption Song” on the guitar. They will soon become standards, I’m sure.
BTW, sorry for the posting of a rather personal message into the public domain of the Blogosphere–maybe it’s a little like talking too loud on a cell phone on public transportation… not like it hasn’t been done before.