Joe Rogan Podcast with Dr. Rhonda Patrick (from 2017)

sunday afternoon (february)

Saturday (February)

Ben Affleck

"People with compulsive behavior, and I am one, have this kind of basic discomfort all the time that they're trying to make go away. You're trying to make yourself feel better with eating or drinking or sex or gambling or shopping or whatever. But that ends up making your life worse. Then you do more of it to make that discomfort go away. Then the real pain starts. It becomes a vicious cycle you can't break. That's at least what happened to me."

Charles Portis (and thinking of Ronald, Andy's Cousin)

I'm really looking forward to reading this and knowing that it exists, The Dog of the South (1979)

From The New Yorker "What Charles Portis Taught Us" by Wells Tower postscript

In part, I love Portis because I feel less mean when I read him. It's not just that his novels are gentle and funny; it's that Portis's books have a way of conscripting the reader into their governing virtues - punctuality, automotive maintenance, straight talk, emotional continence. Puny virtues, as Portis himself once put it, yet it is a great and comforting gift (in these days especially) to offer readers escape into a place where such virtues reign.
It's hard to know whether Portis's work ushered much comfort into his own life. My sense is that he was lonely. I imagine he had a fair bit in common with Jimmy Burns, described in 'Gringos' as a "hard worker," "solitary as a snake," and, yes, "punctual." Portis never married and had no children. He never published another novel after 'Gringos,' from 1991.

Thelma Schoonmaker on The Irishman (Podcast)

Marty spoke to me early on that he wanted it to be a leisurely pace, not quick cutting, and that long slow push into Bob at the beginning of the movie is in some ways slowing you down and letting you know...

Meet the Nominees 2020

No better way to celebrate Oscar morning than listening to the nuts & bolts of the craft with a cup of coffee.

Paul Fortune's Fake Club (Lily Anolik)

This would make a good film. Does anyone remember laughter?

Can a Person Change? (Scorsese on The Irishman)

The opening shot of Irishman, in a sense, played itself out by listening to..."In the Still of the Night." And when I heard the song, I just knew we had to be floating down the hall at this assisted living facility and wind up on this old man sitting in a chair. I get it.

I knew that...it would be compared to the long take in Copacabana in Goodfellas. But it didn't matter, because ultimately, it's been 20 years, and so I've spent a lot of time in these places and hospitals and emergency rooms and assisted living places...[with] people having difficult times in their lives and also people at the end of their lives. I know the routines. I know what it's like in the middle of night in the hospital while you're waiting because a patient is very close to you. What do you do? You just sit there. Nurses go by. The light changes. Lives go by. Beds go floating by. And all these lives, we know nothing about them. They just become old and gone. And it's a whole life has gone by, in a way.

But it's the mood and tone of those places that I spent a lot of time in.

P-H-A-R-O-A-H (New Yorker interview)

aka take me back to Jazz Fest '07

What do you listen to these days?

I haven't been listening to anybody...I listen to things that maybe some guys don't. I listen to the waves of the water. Train coming down. Or I listen to an airplane taking off.

beast speaks sense

Greta, what is cinema?

Also, on the importance of writing & stories from vanity fair.

"life seems long...until it's short"  captures the irishman

CATS/Star Wars: Rise of Skywalker (Landmark Glendale)

double feature

advice/wisdom

don't mistake the stakes for the challenge. you've got this!

Little Women (Keystone Landmark)

My Mom's two favorite genres are: 1) The Sound of Music, and 2) Little Women

...so every twenty-five years (when Little Women is re-made) it's a movie date.

*Still love Gillian Armstrong's '94 version. Winona Ryder as Jo still glows. And so does Saorise Ronan.
*Mr. Laurence (Chris Cooper) and Beth's quiet connection is a nice addition from Gerwig.

Dunkirk

A re-appreciation with QT. Definitely a film that warrants multiple viewings. First time, I remember vividly a numbness and distance from the film.

Todd Haynes on Carol (visual storytelling/style)

"You'll see in 'Carol' a lot of shots shot through windows and glass, with interruptions between where we are and where object is. I hope that that conjures the whole act of looking as a predicament, as something that is never easy and completely attainable."