Today (and Tuesday and Monday) I've been listening to Erasure in the car, especially the song "Take a Chance on Me" over and over and over again. And I'm filled with a free, deep-seeded joy like I have not known since the comps reading list was available.
So, some of the movies I've been watching with my new found time and in, hopeful, preperation for a paper in my British Romantic poetry class: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner: Samuel Taylor Coleridge Poet and Drug Addict and Gothic. Both are directed by Ken Russell and are rather interesting. I've also rewatched from my collection Pandaemonium which I know is not very accurate, but I love it anyway.
For Art Cinema, I watched Blow-Up, which I loved. The main character looks exactly like James Spader, and he's a swinging Londoner photographer. A man takes a picture and keeps enlarging small portions of it to maybe discover a murder, but in trying to determine the 'truth' the pictures become grainier and more abstract, as the narrative simultaneously is skewed and becomes committed to a sort of "non-reality." Brilliant.
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