Despite the crisis in the creative fields in general, mass-distributed entertainment is in a boom cycle. (Movies, because they cost consumers less than most live entertainment, is typically counter-cyclical.)
— Scott Timberg, “No Sympathy for the Creative Class”, Salon, 22 Apr 2012
Posted May 24, 2012 at 10:42am in Abbas Kiarostami Jafar Panahi Kate Winslet Nargis Scott Timberg cinema stills screencaps
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… Nine hundred miles away and a month sooner, at his mansion in Isleworth, FL, Shaquille Rashaun O’Neal announces to the press his retirement from professional basketball. His beat-up knees make getting up and down the court at the necessary pace an impossibility. The last time I see him try to run in a game, he looks like a man using 80% of his strength to keep from crapping his pants. He’s 39. It’s worse (more alien) than Christopher Reeve in a wheelchair. After the press conference he goes upstairs into the master bathroom, unfurls his penis, and urinates into a Japanese electronic toilet. The disturbance of the water’s surface triggers the toilet to play Beyoncé’s “I Care”. Shaq tweets with one hand, aims his mighty stream with the other.
“I’m old only compared to Young Shaq,” he thinks. “College Shaq. Bringing Down the Backboard Shaq. Compared to Old Shaq — Grandchildren Playing Soccer Shaq, Fat as Fat Marlon Brando Shaq, Hard of Hearing Shaq, Dead Shaq — compared to them, I am Young Shaq.” He shakes the last drips of piss off and visualizes a future in which a thousand cloned versions of him dominate a growth sector of a world economy that is dependent upon genial humour combined with astonishing acts of strength and grace.
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Bill Simmons in conversation w/ Phil Jackson:
And how much did Kevin Garnett have left? I mentioned my theory that, even when Garnett stops being effective, he’ll keep playing because he’s something of a basketball machine: For 365 days a year, his life revolves around playing basketball or preparing his body for basketball. He doesn’t have many hobbies or a swollen entourage. He never goes out. He spends his summers in Malibu with his family, running on the beach, lifting weights and shooting jumpers. That’s it. He’s a man of routine.
I predicted that Garnett would keep playing well past his prime, maybe into his early 40s, simply because he wouldn’t know what else to do. I thought Kobe might be like that, too.
“He’s definitely like that,” Jackson said.
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Beat Girl (Edmond T. Gréville, 1959, 6.5 stars out of 10)
Didn’t recognize young Christopher Lee
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Keane (Lodge Kerrigan, 2004)
I understand why people eat fast “food” for comfort
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Keane (Lodge Kerrigan, 2004)
John Waters called Lodge Kerrigan “a maestro of feel-bad movies that make me feel good”. Ah’m not sure how that works, exactly — mebbe because you will never lose as much as th guy in this picture; mebbe because even if you do fall that far down, somebody like Lodge Kerrigan would still love you
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Il Posto (Ermanno Olmi, 1961) — a movie about how hot girls have no idea what kind of havoc they wreak w/ ectomorphic squidboys …
New Year’s Eve party, alone but about to break into that bottle of wine — th one scene I liked
