January 18, 2006
I saw Winterbottom's Tristram Shandy this morning, but I'll get to that in a moment.
Right on schedule, Joe has put up the new site for LOL. Even better than that, however, is the beautiful new trailer, edited by Kevin Bewersdorf. It accomplishes the rare feat of completely capturing the essence of the film without giving a single detail away (the backbone of the clip is one of my favorite sequences from the film, but it's been recontextualized in such a way that I almost didn't recognize it). Kevin's score for the film is also gradually being released on the website (only one track is up so far, but the rest are coming soon). I can't wait to get the piece that plays during the title sequence. Also in the realm of free music - Brad just released a new EP on his online label from an Argentinian artist named Pablo Cepeda. It's of the viola-and-drum-machine variety, and it's very much worth a download (particularly the first track), especially if - wait! A Variety article has at this very moment appeared before my eyes; almost a year after it was first semi-announced, Paul Thomas Anderson is finally making a new film. The project, of course, There Will Be Blood, a loose adaptation of Upton Sinclair's novel Oil. And he's making it in Texas (at least partially)! In other industry-related news, I'm pleased to hear that Matthew Barney's new film, Drawing Restraint 9, won't be as hard to see as The Cremaster Cycle: IFC will be releasing it in the spring. Moving right along (I watched The Muppet Movie last night, and incidentally, or perhaps not, Elliot Gould rules), we're waiting on our one-light. The reason we're waiting is that, considering the discount we're getting on everything at the lab, we're sorta low priority. End of the week is what I'm thinking. In the meantime, I'm headed back to the university tomorrow morning (adding psychology and philosophy to the already established core of history and literature), for what will probably be the last term of this brief return to the academic life. As late as last week, I was deciding whether or not I should end my tenure in Dallas now or hold off until the summer; dear prudence suggested I should wait, and so here I am, staying up way too late on a school night. As always. Four hours of sleep, here I come.
So speaking of Tristram Shandy...
Posted by David Lowery at January 18, 2006 01:25 AM
Comments
What courses are you doing specifically?
Also, I get it.
Posted by: Matt at January 18, 2006 05:40 PM
i totally don't get it.
thanks for the music mention too!
Posted by: brad at January 18, 2006 06:22 PM
Show of hands - who gets it?
Matt, I'm taking Foundation Of Human Sciences, Philosophy and Ethics, American History (II) and Literary Tradition (IV). The latter of which is the one I'm most excited about (we're reading Moby Dick, Crime & Punishment - both of which I'm looking forward to revisiting - Mansfield Park and Go Down Moses), especially since I found out today that, in lieu of an exam, we have to write some short fiction. Applied education - just my style.
Posted by: Ghostboy at January 18, 2006 10:50 PM
Oh, man, that sounds great. What and who do you look at in the other courses?
Posted by: Matt at January 18, 2006 11:22 PM
Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, Plato (selected works), Jung (selected works), The Education Of Henry Adams, Kennan's American Diplomacy - and then all the other books I still have to buy on Friday.
Posted by: Ghostboy at January 18, 2006 11:29 PM
Sounds fantastic, though I'd hope Philosophy and Ethics takes off from the Greeks and goes a little further. I don't doubt it will.
Posted by: Matt at January 19, 2006 12:01 AM
Yeah, just a little bit further. My sister took the course and made it through Nietzsche.
Posted by: Ghostboy at January 19, 2006 02:13 AM
Hope you're getting back on the day schedule, David. I'm having trouble. I became my usual nightly self over break, and am now suffering sleep deprivation because I have to get up so early (and actually be alert) in the morning.
Posted by: girish at January 19, 2006 07:09 AM
I'm a night owl too. Sleep is about to once again become a significantly marginalized factor in my schedule...
Posted by: Ghostboy at January 19, 2006 12:52 PM