"Is it starve a cold or feed a fever?"-- Johnny Carson
Sinuses run amok may be a relief next to end stage renal disease, or a suspect non aggressive lung mass which is felt during an eruption, but upon waking I was near suffocation, nearly ready to vomit, damning these Southern European cavities. The Wild Wild West fascinated spastic as une jeanne fille. Even without training, it was different, and is related to absurdist aspects of Commedia del Arte. Just as every American action film is a western in disguise, I am learning that most westerns, as a genre, are something else. A young Wayne slaughtering a Mongolian ? stand in for an Apache was manifest destiny. It may have been Stagecoach, or a recycled version of the star emblem's success: brutal righteousness, though progressive sympathy is also come along early in these films, by the forties. Unless Decades does me a favor, I am going to stream the Conrad serial. Clear now but off to ache in Niggerland psychopathy. Poor quad may never heal.
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Thursday, January 5, 2017
Tuesday, January 7, 2014
Nostalgia Continuums
"But I'm mean."-- Scarlett Johansson
How often has Ron Howard been asked what it was like to work with Wayne on that last film. I do not think The Shootist is particularly good. The script is timed to Wayne's gravelly cadence, orchestrated, rather, as if we're getting a Pilgrim's Progress lecture, but it's tolerable because we all know the dynamic of what is going on beneath the surface, the inside irony of the American archetype which was wormwood from the beginning, even the no nonsense approach to profiteering on dead celebrity. There is a certain laziness in consistency as well, as the tension in the movie hinges on the obligation to the terminally ill that did not have to exist between a widow of good standing and a self-justified killer who wants his death to be his own while capitalizing on its occurrence as a spectacle, though granted Wayne was offering up his own approach to a stardom unlike any other. One we'll never see again. It is almost more triptych than motion picture, with Stewart, Bacall, Howard framing the three panels to be spoon fed as an allegory.
I am tired of my life as a quadriplegic. I really am, timing my vulnerability to stultifying fecal discharges and low grade fevers. I know I do not have a great deal of quality time in the remainder, and that my anger at what I've been inflicted with, passively taking it without any pleasurable experiences in the breach to balance, has kept me going, but even if I land a few scores, I will never be strong enough for anything other than an itinerant caretaker's wage. It isn't fair.
How often has Ron Howard been asked what it was like to work with Wayne on that last film. I do not think The Shootist is particularly good. The script is timed to Wayne's gravelly cadence, orchestrated, rather, as if we're getting a Pilgrim's Progress lecture, but it's tolerable because we all know the dynamic of what is going on beneath the surface, the inside irony of the American archetype which was wormwood from the beginning, even the no nonsense approach to profiteering on dead celebrity. There is a certain laziness in consistency as well, as the tension in the movie hinges on the obligation to the terminally ill that did not have to exist between a widow of good standing and a self-justified killer who wants his death to be his own while capitalizing on its occurrence as a spectacle, though granted Wayne was offering up his own approach to a stardom unlike any other. One we'll never see again. It is almost more triptych than motion picture, with Stewart, Bacall, Howard framing the three panels to be spoon fed as an allegory.
I am tired of my life as a quadriplegic. I really am, timing my vulnerability to stultifying fecal discharges and low grade fevers. I know I do not have a great deal of quality time in the remainder, and that my anger at what I've been inflicted with, passively taking it without any pleasurable experiences in the breach to balance, has kept me going, but even if I land a few scores, I will never be strong enough for anything other than an itinerant caretaker's wage. It isn't fair.
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