Eternal Sunshine of the Early Shows
I watched Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind today for the first time in a while. It's still a great movie, but I think I appreciate it for other reasons now. It occurred to me that it must have been a really fun movie to make - there's so much weird shit that happens while the movie follows Joel and his memories. They use the whole process of his memories getting erased as an excuse to do weird tricks with audio, lighting, distortion, scene transitions, and so on. My favorite is when he's starting to have regrets about erasing the memories after he relives the time when Clementine reveals how insecure she is about her prettiness, and you hear the Beck song that's in the movie a few times sort of fade in and out, like it's on a radio with poor reception. Other filmmakers do weird stuff like that too, but I like that there's more of a reason for them to do that here rather than doing it just for the sake of doing it (like the 'expectations/reality' scene in 500 Days of Summer - that was kind of a cool idea, but there's not really much point to doing it).
Unrelated: Now that I'm working a 9-5 (and recently it's been 8-5) job, I find that I have less desire to go to shows, mostly because they never end until after midnight. I guess music venues are probably going to keep doing what they're doing, but it'd be nice if there were more house shows with earlier hours for those who unfortunately have a more traditional work schedule. I learned from reading Our Band Could Be Your Life that The Minutemen helped organize shows like that in their hometown of San Pedro, specifically so people who have day jobs can enjoy art without being too tired for their job the next day.
I sometimes find I want to write stuff that wouldn't fit in my paper journal or on Facebook or whatever (and I want to stop broadcasting my thoughts on Facebook and Twitter and such). Maybe I will just post them here. Or I could just talk to a friend about them, I guess.
Unrelated: Now that I'm working a 9-5 (and recently it's been 8-5) job, I find that I have less desire to go to shows, mostly because they never end until after midnight. I guess music venues are probably going to keep doing what they're doing, but it'd be nice if there were more house shows with earlier hours for those who unfortunately have a more traditional work schedule. I learned from reading Our Band Could Be Your Life that The Minutemen helped organize shows like that in their hometown of San Pedro, specifically so people who have day jobs can enjoy art without being too tired for their job the next day.
I sometimes find I want to write stuff that wouldn't fit in my paper journal or on Facebook or whatever (and I want to stop broadcasting my thoughts on Facebook and Twitter and such). Maybe I will just post them here. Or I could just talk to a friend about them, I guess.