Friday, 17 August 2012

Bukowski - If you try it...

If you’re going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don’t even start. This could mean losing girlfriends, wives, relatives and maybe even your mind. It could mean not eating for three or four days. It could mean freezing on a park bench. It could mean jail. It could mean derision. It could mean mockery — isolation. Isolation is the gift. All the others are a test of your endurance, of how much you really want to do it. And, you’ll do it, despite rejection and the worst odds. And it will be better than anything else you can imagine. If you’re going to try, go all the way. There is no other feeling like that. You will be alone with the gods, and the nights will flame with fire. You will ride life straight to perfect laughter. It’s the only good fight there is.

Thursday, 16 August 2012

Marianne Faithfull - "Summer Nights"

Nice old song, to be played on a warm dusky evening, reminiscing.

Wednesday, 15 August 2012

Moonrise Kingdom

Lovely film by Wes Anderson about a very young teenage love story... or rather, what can happen when children and parents switch roles.

For the adults in this film seem as simpleminded (focused) as children, as dificult to see through more complex situations as a teenager might... Yet the young kids behave like adults; wise, smart, computing...

Small island, small community. A scout runs away, with a "very troubled" girl from a local family.

Bill Muray, Tilda Swanson, Bruce Willis, Edwart Norton.

Breaking Bad (series, season 1)

Interesting, though not every episode is as strong.

Only 7. Sometimes there are scenes that make you wonder why they took the trouble.

Particularly the first episode, with the van driving off like crazy into the dessert, is pretty impressive.

Probably gonna watch this in season-split installments.