San Fran
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Well, I am here in my favorite American city again. End day one of trip. I feel back where I belong, doing what I am best at. Driving. Travelling. Being Spartan. I am at my mates place, Chip & Chase & Ann's...got here in only 6 hours...filled up once...not too shabby!
Wanna warn you all about something...a little movie called Tomb Raider...stay far far away from this. It had such promise, such hope...the games had some fine stories and scenes...the movie did not accomplish this easy task. It did not even accomplish being an understandable movie. It was so very confused and confusing. And note to SHERAHI...the filming in Cambodia was so short and worthless (the temple scene looks like the one in Mortal Kombat...why did they bother), that they shouldn't even have bothered filming there. I don't EVEN know what they were thinking for the end section of the film. I have never witnessed such schlock...even Highlander: the Gathering was a work of art in comparison.
I think I am going to send Baz Lurhman to Leslie's house just to explain Moulin ROuge as it seems to have completely gone over her head. I have heard him on KCRW twice now explaining it. The whole point of the modern songs being sung was to allow the audience to fully grasp what a wild, debaucherous, cutting-edge movement the whole Bohemian thing was. You play traditional can-can music and there is no emotional impact. It seems rather unexciting and tired...but the emotional response today's audience has to the modern songs is what it felt like for people of that time to hear their songs. And since it is a musical, of course people are going to burst out into song...he wanted a very Bollywood/Austin Powers feel to it (hence the use of actual Bollywood song and the Indian play). Baz was also very specific about making sure the audience knew everything that would happen in the beginning. It is a rough retelling of Orpheus staged against the social revolution of the Bohemians in France. It was like a live-action cartoon. ANd he wanted it to be hyper-emotional...hyper-energetic...hyper-alive. ANd without a trace of irony or cynicism, which it seems far too many people have and allow to get in the way of simple fun entertainment.
There be my rant, for all you negative close-minded folk out there...ta!
Tomorrow I head north...further and further north! Sadly, without my back-up battery to the MD player...what will happen if I have to listen to a tape twice. Chaos!! Chaos!!
Last Plug: See Invader Zim on Nickelodeon. One of the most creative and funny shows on TV, by the guy who wrote Johnny the Homocidal Maniac. Genius!
Well, I am here in my favorite American city again. End day one of trip. I feel back where I belong, doing what I am best at. Driving. Travelling. Being Spartan. I am at my mates place, Chip & Chase & Ann's...got here in only 6 hours...filled up once...not too shabby!
Wanna warn you all about something...a little movie called Tomb Raider...stay far far away from this. It had such promise, such hope...the games had some fine stories and scenes...the movie did not accomplish this easy task. It did not even accomplish being an understandable movie. It was so very confused and confusing. And note to SHERAHI...the filming in Cambodia was so short and worthless (the temple scene looks like the one in Mortal Kombat...why did they bother), that they shouldn't even have bothered filming there. I don't EVEN know what they were thinking for the end section of the film. I have never witnessed such schlock...even Highlander: the Gathering was a work of art in comparison.
I think I am going to send Baz Lurhman to Leslie's house just to explain Moulin ROuge as it seems to have completely gone over her head. I have heard him on KCRW twice now explaining it. The whole point of the modern songs being sung was to allow the audience to fully grasp what a wild, debaucherous, cutting-edge movement the whole Bohemian thing was. You play traditional can-can music and there is no emotional impact. It seems rather unexciting and tired...but the emotional response today's audience has to the modern songs is what it felt like for people of that time to hear their songs. And since it is a musical, of course people are going to burst out into song...he wanted a very Bollywood/Austin Powers feel to it (hence the use of actual Bollywood song and the Indian play). Baz was also very specific about making sure the audience knew everything that would happen in the beginning. It is a rough retelling of Orpheus staged against the social revolution of the Bohemians in France. It was like a live-action cartoon. ANd he wanted it to be hyper-emotional...hyper-energetic...hyper-alive. ANd without a trace of irony or cynicism, which it seems far too many people have and allow to get in the way of simple fun entertainment.
There be my rant, for all you negative close-minded folk out there...ta!
Tomorrow I head north...further and further north! Sadly, without my back-up battery to the MD player...what will happen if I have to listen to a tape twice. Chaos!! Chaos!!
Last Plug: See Invader Zim on Nickelodeon. One of the most creative and funny shows on TV, by the guy who wrote Johnny the Homocidal Maniac. Genius!