Saturday, April 28, 2018

something about "Portraits and Observations: The Essays of Truman Capote"


This provided some relaxing nighttime reading. The two parts I enjoyed most: first, from Observations, the entry on Humphrey Bogart, which includes this:
Never mind that he might play poker until dawn and swallow a brandy for breakfast; he was always on time on the set, in make-up and letter-perfect in his part (forever the same part, to be sure, still there is nothing more difficult to interestingly sustain than repetition).
Second, "A Lamp in the Window," a wonderfully wrought short that suddenly sweeps the ground out from under you at the end.

Friday, April 20, 2018

(posts) "Cowboy Dan," song (minus video) by Modest Mouse




Note: "And I want out desperately / Can't do it, not even if sober! / Can't get that engine turned over!"



Saturday, April 14, 2018