For decades I’ve had this thing about big silver-looking coins jingling around in my pocket. JFK half dollars, Eisenhower “silver” dollars. For a couple of years in the late ‘90s a couple of actual silver dollars from the 1920s had joined the party. (Then I lost them.) The sound of them, how they feel, the weight…these relatively meaningless coins make me feel the alpha. Probably because they’re remnants of the past. Yeah, that’s it.
Or is that a bad idea because the Bumblefucks don’t care for Warren, and never have? I’d feel pretty good about this ticket — she’s obviously been more assertive than Biden about pushing for basic re-orderings of how things work. But what voters really want isn’t so much Bernie Lite as a return to decency.
I’ve always loved the ring of McCoy Tyner. It conveyed a certain fierceness or down-low intensity that always made me sit up and pay attention. If not a jazz pianist he would (or should) have been a baseball player. (A pitcher, I’m thinking.). Or a novelist. Or a Zane Grey gunslinger from the late 1890s. Great name.
I’m down with Home Before Dark because it stars The Florida Project‘s Brooklyn Prince. Logline: “A plucky, highly intelligent nine-year-old girl follows in her father’s footsteps by becoming a dogged crime reporter as she goes to work on a long-buried cold case.” The Apple streaming series (debuting on 4.3) is written and executive produced by Russel Friend and Garrett Lerner alongside showrunners Dana Fox and Dara Resnik. Jon Chu (Crazy Rich Asians, In The Heights) directed the first episode.
Olive drab plus bright orange…the outdoor color combo from hell. For roughly 20 years Stanley Kubrick wore this same awful, warm-weather, bundle-up hoodie, all through Barry Lyndon, The Shining, Full Metal Jacket and Eyes Wide Shut.
Apparel-wise Kubrick never seemed to give a damn. He always dressed with a minimum of fuss and a general aversion to fashion or even style (except perhaps “workaholic nerd style”). From the late ’50s to early ’70s he wore the same dark blue suit and white shirt. And then, sometime after A Clockwork Orange, came the olive-drab hoodie.
I’ ve hated the sight of this damn jacket for decades, and I just wanted to finally say it out loud. You could almost say (i.e., not really) that on a certain level I’ve never forgiven Kubrick for this aesthetic offense. If he had worn a dark blue windreaker with wolf fur, I would have been fine with that.
There’s nothing to prevent the one-time-only SXSW Streaming Film Festival from happening. It would be difficult but not impossible to set everything up in less than a week, and certainly worth a try. One of the major streamers needs to step up to the plate and say “let’s do this, Janet and John Pierson…let’s make it happen.”
