"I have always believed that there is a need for life-affirming films." Anthony Minghella
I don’t want to write about who died. However, the older you get, the more people who’s art you care for are going to die.
Yesterday, it was Anthony Minghella.
It’s difficulty to succinctly express respect for a film director, without writing pages and pages; about films that the reader may not have seen. I’ll say this:
Anthony Minghella made essential pictures. He brought career bests out of several big movie stars. He ensured that all aspects of his project were exquisite. I can’t say that about many people who make movies. Great directors who earn great respect can get caught up in their own hype and clouded by expectations, and pay for their self-conciousness in craftsmanship. Minghella only cared about moving us with beautiful and impressive filmmaking. His work deserved to be show on the biggest possible screens and hooked into the clearest possible speakers.
His last film released, Breaking and Entering, was a complicated, stirring and heart wrenching urban drama about one thing: Theft and the future and right and wrong and good and evil and crime and bad and the heart and the head, and as I learned this morning…his exit.
Is that more than one thing? Ok.
"Too many modern films let the audience be passive, as if they were saying, We're going to rock you and thrill you. We'll do everything for you." -Anthony Minghella
Tech buster and smooth brocoder Badman zapped this to me today.
I remember seeing Terminator 2: Judgement Day for the first time, in the Polo Park theatre, for Petey's 11th Birthday party (Shout out to Big LP for taking a gang of adolescents to an R Rated movie).
As if I needed to get more excited for Be Kind Rewind.
The last time Mos Def worked with Michel Gondry it was in this UNMISSABLE MASTERPIECE.
Dave Chappelle's Block Party is a modern day Last Waltz. For Real.
My bredren Aaron made a short documentary about reggae poetry in Toronto. Mad positivity. That's him in the photo above, killer shirt, HOW DARE YOU QUESTION HIS TRENDSETTING!
Nice to see one of my dogs (you know like dawgz, like friends) pissing on the walls of Babylon.
Shout out Aunt Bea for knowing how fast paced comedy goes down around here.
Made me think of these:
California group Sublime have a version of Bad Religion's "We're Only Gonna Die."
"The worst thing about the band Sublime is that they didn't make anything truly sublime." -TJ Pelican (Paraphrased)
Tom Waits is a crack shot at fast talking narratives. This is the one I wanted most after the Carlin (starts at 1:30).
Sublime
1 a: lofty, grand, or exalted in thought, expression, or manner b: of outstanding spiritual, intellectual, or moral worth c: tending to inspire awe usually because of elevated quality (as of beauty, nobility, or grandeur) or transcendent excellence.
That's sublime.
Salvador Dali "The Sublime Moment"
Lemon is a poor sub for lime!
CHOW
BBQ
PS: In the event that you find yourself trying ot find an archive of the covers of Young & Modern magazine...you may find...
Q: "Is it safe to give oral sex? Can you get pregnant that way?" A: "No, you cannot get pregnant from oral sex. In order for an egg to be fertilized, sperm needs to enter the vagina..."
EARMUFFS!!!
Oh...hello...young lady...would you like to see my archive of RTF format Young & Modern magazines? At my bachelor pad?
She said no.
I always forget to lead with bachelor pad and follow with collection of archived magazines.
(Bachelor Pad meaning: disused recreational vehicle.)
I don't know about you, but I'm going to Fiskars myspace to hear his shredevilingly heartattackular remix of Pete Townsend's "Let My Love Open the Door"
Pete Townsend>>>alleged internet child porn researcher>>>excuse to post this:
Cripes gang! I started this post just to get the R Kelly giggles out. Who knew that R Kelly and Pete Townsend would lead to animated potential lechery.
I'm getting out of here faster than Garfield finds lasagna. Sorry Mom, for taking the fun we had to the crotch of a student wizard.
Most of the Justice album can't be rescued from meh-diocrity by drinking a whole bottle of cough syrup or eating rotten corn, but this video. Oh la la.
